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  2. I think now is the time to buy Silver Age UK comics before they reach silly Marvel US Silver Age prices. As I found I was only a few issues short of a full run this year I decided to locate a few Fantastics. It proved quite difficult to find issues that didn't have missing back covers. And a few eBay sellers didn't even mention the missing back cover in their ads. Perhaps they actually didn't notice/care? Of course collecting stuff from your youth is trying to recreate that feeling when you first saw/read that comic for the first time. A free Apollo Space Craft??? Here's MY 9d!!!!!!!
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  4. How many of your business associates have access to some or all of your email addresses? How many of your "business associates" use your account to make online forum IDs? I've layed off Flake, but there are enough red flags that everyone should be excersizing extreme caution. There has been 0 transparency. Just odd Business associates who apparently also love comics enough to send them in for restoration work.... I don't have a single coworker or business associate that cares at all about comics.... it seems so strange to me that two guys sharing the same email would have sent different comics to Hero. Maybe their business is comics???? But they haven't said that.... they haven't said anything. They haven't told us what books they sent in? What services they requested? How many books? Have the books been sold? They haven't explained their legal strategy, named their lawyers or even talked like real people... Every other victim has talked in a very natural way. Two haven't. Two with the same email address. And look, maybe he is real. And I have great empathy for anyone who was victimized by Mike. But let's not shame the community for questioning questionable behavior.
  5. If I'd read your post before the rise of the internet, I would've wholeheartedly agreed. Back in the day, dealers would sell at Guide or multiples thereof and buy at half of Guide (or less), to the extent they'd buy your comics at all, and price rises were incremental except for the hottest books. But post-internet, eBay, auction houses, CGC and GPA, transaction costs are around 10-20% at most and prices can move up very fast.
  6. I'd be willing to bet the 145 9.8 copies, 369 9.6 copies, 567 9.4 copies, 758 9.2 copies and 1033 9.0 copies of Incredible Hulk 181 in the census that comics are fungible and there is a deep market.
  7. Given that we've got a booming economy, full employment, wages rising faster than inflation, US and global stock markets at record highs, gold (the metal, not the age) at record highs, crypto at record highs, and real estate prices that remain very high, wouldn't that indicate that comic prices should be rising?
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  9. I would tend to agree with you here, especially if the CGC 9.9 pre-screen service that Matt was talking about in his interview actually gets implemented. As Matt had alluded to in his interview, with so many 9.8 copies of a particular book in the census, surely there should be some 9.9's in there. Although I believe he was referring to Modern books, any bets that it wouldn't stop the speculators from trying to pre-screen their BA or CA 9.8's for a possible higher grade given the dollars that we are probably talking about here. As for the value of a CGC 9.9 GSXM 1 if more copies come into the census and marketplace. Remember that CGC 9.8 graded copy of Iron Man 30 that was at the time the single highest graded copy and the "only 9.8 in the Universe" that CC was able to auction off for $15K back in 2016. Let's just say that unlike GA books when additional copies of a truly HTF rare book in any grade comes into the marketplace and usually supports the original price paid, as additional copies of Iron Man 30 in CGC 9.8 came into the marketplace, the price went downwards pretty quickly and now there are 6 copies of Iron Man 30 in CGC 9.8 and nowhere close to having anybody willing to pay 5-figures for one of them.
  10. I wasn't suggesting that Stan Lee was imitating those ideas. I was just saying that the idea of an intelligent gorilla had been done multiple times before.
  11. I think that was a joke someone made. I’ve never used the ‘service’ but it currently says they don’t do it for 9.9s or 10s. Sounds as though you guys missed that interview with Matt which they had buried somewhere in there on that monstrous ASM 252 swap scandal thread. Like others have posted on this samme topic in the General Forum, this sounds like the perfect marketing promotion for CGC and at a convenient time just as they are apparently on the verge of announcing their CGC 9.9 pre-screen service.
  12. Well who knows but I don't have a lot of faith where all the major players have their own auction houses. It's like playing Battleship and your opponent can see all your boats.
  13. There is no doubt that Bob had a lot of facts and stories rattling around his brain about comics, fandom, and their history. And some were really helpful. He and I had a long chat about Dave Wigransky a few years back. It was the only time I ever talked to him. He was pleasant and curious and we shared info. I will not forget his disappointment when I told him Wigransky had talked to Richard Kyle and Ron Graham back in the early 60s. He could not believe he didn’t know and he lamented that their knowledge of Wigransky was lost because no one connected the dots until after they had died. He knew both of them and it was clear he felt the loss of that opportunity. With that I can deeply sympathize.
  14. Occam’s razor also suggests that the most likely possibilities for the sequence of Action 14 adds in the first issue of Superman have now been enumerated. However, in the absence of percentages of issues with each not yet being determined, I’d like to propose an imaginative alternative. Suppose the first run erroneously did say Action 14 was on sale contemporaneously with Sup 1, and the press supervisor noticing that for whatever reason an error had been made said, “Stop the press” The offending red plate is altered reflecting the June 2nd date and the press run then continued. Now you would have two first prints, with one first state (the error) and one corrected second state. I know; highly unlikely.
  15. THIS ^ This is definitely a part of where I am…my focus is buying Batman pages & I have pages from several artists I really like & enjoy, but now I want more 70s & 80s & 90s pages.
  16. Great questions to ask myself when I’m ready to research & buy my next page Thank you for this…
  17. Thanks for your feedback and you are right, it’s a total block. I start getting the fever looking at so many pages I can afford & then I just buy one. i do buy about 4-6 pages a year. So to your point, I save up & buy maybe 2-3 pages a year.
  18. If you are asking if you can submit a graded slab, then yes. You will need to provide a window bag & board, CGC will remove it from the slab for signature, then regrade it (it may not keep the current grade). When you fill out the submission form you can type in the serial number for resubmission.
  19. Who knows. Would guess it’s owned by metro/CC because who would consign a book like that to them with the sorry state they’re in right now? Pure conjecture of course. I’d send it to HA if it was mine.
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