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Paul © ® ⚽️💙™

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  1. Blimey!! I never even noticed that forum before!!! I'll ask Mike if he would be kind enough to move it over there possibly? @CGC Mike
  2. And this one is a pearler, with a very interesting back cover showing an idea of what a plane will look like 50 years in the future from 1938.
  3. I've always loved PULP covers but its always been in that shadowy unknown world of where is a pulp's place in the market? The Pulp genre has now been given a leg up in the collecting world in my view, with the advent of CGC deciding to grade them. This of course may inflate the market BUT I do believe it will give some assurance to potential collectors. I've always admired the risque and salacious covers, the horror element and let's face it...the downright superb artwork on some pulps. Now that there is some sort of benchmark on their condition I really feel enthusiastic on finally collecting them. I have no interest in cracking them because obviously it's basically all text within BUT I will enjoy collecting them purely for the cover artwork. Anyone else jumping on the Pulp bandwagon? Here is my first one.....
  4. Brundage bondage. That should have been noted on the label...nice ring to it.
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  6. Sorry Jon, I'm not buying that potential excuse or explanation. Even if what you say is correct, then... 1. Revise the encapsulation process. 2. How come a totally brittle cover was not factored into the grade? I honestly believe that any slab should be viewed as a Schroedinger's cat scenario. Or to paraphrase Forrest Hump... 'A slab is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna git'. I don't say this lightly. Years ago when I bought SA I stopped cracking because of the stuff I found within. I understand humans make mistakes, but this slabbing business has to be laid on trust, and personally I don't have any confidence in any slab I crack. It's a complete lottery. To be blunt, the graders...or a proportion of them couldn't grade a Sandwich. Sad, alarming...but true IMHO.
  7. This just in. Please refer to the KRACKEN thread to see my comments about the way this book has been graded. It's not good.
  8. I said at the beginning of this thread I would be cracking books and sharing some of the quirks found within. To date there hasn't been much to report in the way of that. I have to stress I love cracking books for reading material, as long as the price is right and logical for me. The majority of my small collection which are gems and which carry some value stay in the slab, and will remain there. I will also state FTR, I am not a CGC basher. I recognise the stability and the value they have brought to the hobby, and I think that resto detection is probably their biggest plus albeit there seems to be constant debate and inconsistency as to what actually constitutes a restored book within their criteria. I think CGC's greatest gift are these wonderful forums which empower community, knowledge and policing within the hobby. Having said all that this book is a doozy. The person who graded this book does not know how to grade, period. They either need to be re-assigned or retrained....simple as that. At best this book would be a 1.5. Personally I would give it a 1.0. Some would call it a 0.5. I would also add, and you'll have to take my word for it, I know how to crack a book efficiently, speedily and safely i.e. without causing damage or distress to the book. The cover of this book has wonderful colours, the gubbins or guts of the book is probably in the Fine range...however I do not expect a book assigned a 3.0 grade to have a detached and fully split cover. FULLY SPLIT!! Not attached to the book in any way. To add insult to injury, the cover of front and back is BRITTLE. Really astounding mis-grade. IMO Two whole grades out of whack.
  9. Just in. Bought for cracking out and reading. Interiors in Atlas & Kracken threads.
  10. This is not a flippant or facetious post. Trust me on that. TLOU and TLOU 2 represent a huge shift in values to my own family and family life. The Game particularly has brought life changing stuff in many ways to us, for which I will be forever grateful. The TV series was an added bonus....again which went better, and turned out better than hoped. I always thought Robert was a talent, although many hard core rappers would probably disagree. My view was that his take on rap was humorous, ironic and uplifting. Whether or not his huge hit was subliminal in what transpired in TLOU legacy I don't know but one line says it all. 0:42 on the vid Lost 0-3 to Leeds Lost 1-2 to Hull Lost 0-1 to Watford Lost 3-4 to Ipswich Lost 1-2 to QPR