Guardian Comics

That I remember, my wife’s birthday not so much!!!

At least twenty bucks....PayPal personal of course!!! Jim

It means your 121 is coming back Blue this time....they promise!!! (god I hope it was an ASM #121 or this joke totally failed) Jim

Doing some more checking on the Qualified "Universal Grade" ASM #3 3.5 graded January 27th/20 (serial # 2092994002) So it was sold for $1325 on May 24th and then was sold again on June 14th for $1350. In the second auction he adds in the description "Auction relisted because SSANTIQUES did not pay...add him to your block list" I would pay money to find out why SSAntiques didn't pay?

Thanks Lou...now I know. Jim

Seal/Alien fetish

So just did some homework and our esteemed dealer dujour seemed to find the custom label loophole. July 26th ASM #7 sells for $591 in a Universal Grade custom label 6.0 with the notes “top edge of cover trimmed” Plus the ASM #9 and #14 mentioned earlier. Like to see what the rest of the run of Spideys looks like. *** Oh yes let’s not forget the June 14th sale of ASM #3 sells for $1350 in a Universal Grade custom label 3.5 with the notes “Page 12 missing, does not affect story. Piece reattached to cover with tape. INCOMPLETE. When you input the serial number 2092994002 Grade category is Qualified. *** So he “gamed” the system on two separate occasions, six weeks apart. He liked what the “QUALIFIED” book sold for and then pushed his luck. It’s going to cost somebody $10,000 to make these buyers whole. If he’s still an Overstreet Advisor and is allowed to submit to CGC in the morning is still to be determined. Jim

Buzz..nope as alluded to in the “restored books in a character blue label” this is being done in attempts for blue labels. Again it was the non chalancy of the comments, like this was a okay and a generally accepted practice. Jim

Will he buy all our trimmed purple labels? He could always crack them out and make a fortune, seeing as trimming isn’t resto. “Mylars have no cracks or scratches” Jim

And more importantly are we okay with it? I honestly had no idea this was even happening, and thought it was frowned upon but in another thread a dealer stated in two separate posts so non-chalantly that he knows the book better than anyone because he saw it disassembled and CGC did not. Is this an acceptable practice (for restoration removal or pressing) and the times have just passed me by, because it certainly caught me off guard? Jim

I’d have to think so Christopher because he mentions also on page three of this very thread. “I and another party handled each of the books disassembled-CGC did not.”

No but then it wouldn’t have given you the same opportunity to be deceptive and/or evasive at best. And “at best” is being kind. Jim

Yes he is. Jim

I see Pokemon and Magic Cards!!!! Just did my research...PSA doesn't offer the 9.5 grade but their biggest competitor does Voldy/Beckett...wonder which market share CGC is going after 10 is "Pristine Mint" according to Voldy

Mine mostly too but mixed in a little bit of Queens Comics in the beaches area and being from Scarborough...Fantasm Comics at Markham Rd. and Eglinton was where I picked up my first real back issues...X-Men #27 and #29.

You should look at the sold listings on EBay for these things...sort from highest price paid, bet you'd be shocked.

Well your government is going to try and contain with the goal being 100,000 deaths. If only one percent are going to die according to your numbers that means 10,000,000 million cases total. You are only at 175,000 cases right now, so I don't think a summer convention season is looking promising. BTW what gets lost in all of this is that across the world if you get it, 81 percent are surviving and 19% are dying. That's with enough ventilators and care workers when this is still manageable, it's getting out of hand quickly so stop skewing the numbers to make your point or argument and wise the hell up, the world will never EVER be the same again and this is going to be a bloody catastrophe when this is all send and done. There is no one for America to save, they have to save themselves or we are all doomed.

We'll travel anywhere in the GTA in this crisis to get you the books that you want. Never thought I'd have to deliver books with surgeon gloves on. Jim

I appreciate everybody's optimism but I don't forsee a single show happening this summer at all, including FanExpo in August. They are talking that we will still be needing to social distancing in August at restaurants, where they will have to reduce seating by a half to three quarters to provide enough space between patrons. MLB has already resigned themselves to not having a season this year. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will not take place in 2020 and that's a 50 Billion Dollar property. This ain't good. I know this might not be the right thread, I just see a lot of guys I have a deep respect for in this thread and feel like we should be cautiously optimistic at best and I would pay money to be proven wrong.

We were out last night finishing up dinner and at about 9:15 we were like what time is BOP playing at the local theatre. Turns out the next show is at 9:45, perfect. Got there at 9:37 hoping they had tickets available, well to my shock and surprise only four seats had been sold to this showing and it’s one of the biggest theatres in the cineplex. I commented and the guy behind the cash register said that sales have been awful, yesterday and today. I had no idea what it was rated but was definitely not expecting the 50-100 eff bombs that were dropped. Not that it’s offensive to me but took some getting used to. Anyways it’s probably the silliest/worst movie I have ever seen, and I’ve seen Attack of the Clones (although Obi Wan was way better in that than whatever he was trying to do in this). This one might be a disaster for the WB.

So we are now in the label business and packaging business...does anyone know if they are still in the grading business? How long until I can get my business cards made by CGC? Or send my DNA to get a an ancestry profile done? Cuz CGC could stand for Cards/Graphics Company and Cool Genealogy Company at this rate of diversification!!!

Time to bring Double Corona Jim out of hiding!!!

I was pretty proud of how well you handled it....I was certainly expecting a lot worse.

Thank god for that...missing last year was freaking heartbreaking!!!

Although the boards have never been the same since...dontcha think?