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Rockblazer

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  1. Makes sense. They did email a couple of days ago and said they are working on an answer for me. Usually when they do revamp it drops my point total. A bunch.
  2. I emailed the registry about this shortly after this journal posting but so far no response. I'll let you know what they say when they do.
  3. I recently added a Thor 274 Multi-pack edition to my set. It's a nice 9.4 Universal. I noticed that I received 18 points for adding it. However, if it was just a Univeral copy I would have received 20 points for adding it. I looked at the different scores for issue 274, Universal and Multipack Universal. Some same grades had the identical point scores, but some did not. It was really haphazard. Does anyone know why some grades would get the same point total and others different for the same grade? Just wondering. I've got it and a Thor 228 Savannah shown that just got back from CGC.
  4. I have a raw TOA 93 and it always reminds me of my FF 48 when I see it. The TOA 93 is about to go in my CGC candidate box as it's risen quite a bit recently.
  5. Just got two CGC books from two different dealers. I'll mention the first one Colorado Comics as they used painter's tape and there was no problem. The second one from a large East coast dealer used standard wide shipping tape and needless to say the outer bag was destroyed in the unwrapping. Another large dealer from Texas does the same on raw and CGC books. I wrote them a few years ago but it had no effect.
  6. Don't make the mistake I did about five weeks ago. I sent a JIM 85 in and forgot to write the magic letters on the outside of the box. On Walkthrough you need to write WK on the outside of the box to speed things up. On Express it's EX on the outside of the box. I sent in 95% of my high dollar books years ago before they were high dollar books so not used to these tiers. Called CGC and they said they won't look for my box and it will get in the proper pipeline when they open it. Which right now will be at least another 5 weeks.
  7. Yes, my wife asked about the sword and I did a quick history of the Odin sword.
  8. I actually still want the 9.4 but there are 2 9.4's on Ebay right now and a 9.6. Worldwide has a raw nm Savannah pedigree on there site.
  9. I recently watched the Mile High II CGC 10 copy of Thor 156 sell for a staggering $37,200 on Heritage Auctions. I had been looking to upgrade my 9.4 to at least a 9.6 for some time. Thor 156 is common in high grades similar to Thor 132. Not that hard to find. Seeing that copy, it lit a fire under me to finally get an upgrade. I managed to find a 9.6 on a dealer site for $210 but he had a promotion so I got it for $158. I'd love to have the 10 but for 99% of collectors it's not going to happen.. Now while common in high grades the 10 is one of only two from the 1930's to 1974. An 8 page promotional comic is the other 10. So I'm happy the CGC 10 came up as it motivated me to get my upgrade.
  10. Lone Star aka My Comic Shop has not let me down yet. Nor has Mile High. If you look on dealers websites often the strict graders have very few Near Mint or better comics listed. Some shops and dealers are the same way. You look through their stock and their Fine or very fines would be near mint/mint in someone else’s box. John Haines of Comics and Friends near Cleveland is one such dealer. Mile High too .
  11. Two weeks ago my latest submission arrived. Four books bought raw from two large dealers. One was from Lone Star Comics. It is a Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery 11 John G. Fantucchio pedigree. It was listed as such but came with no documentation that it was from that collection. I called Lone Star and asked for documentation. They said it did not have any because they bought a large number of mid to upper mid grades of that collection and those do not have any documentation like the high grade copies. I asked if they thought CGC would recognize it from that collection. They stated they did not know. I did notice shortly after my phone call they changed their listings stating it had no documentation. I decided to submit it with a copy of the listing to see if it would help. It did come back with the Pedigree label. The other positive thing was they had it listed as 8.0 Very Fine. It came back 9.2 from CGC. WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY QUESTION TO MY FELLOW COLLECTORS- Whom have you had the most success with on grading from CGC when buying raw comics? Personally it's been Lone Star and Mile High Comics . The other three books which were Space Family Robinson's issues 36, 39 and 48 were from another dealer which all came back much lower than listed. The one closest to what it was listed was the 39 which they had at 9.2 to 9.4 came back 8.5. I do know that dealer used to be spot on with their grading but not much in the past few years. Just wondered about your experiences.
  12. You know you can get addicted to pedigrees. They're like that.
  13. RB , I called after 3 weeks recently and checked about an hour later. Presto! it was now in received status.
  14. As a very long time Thor collector you are right about 185, and 186 is not much easier in high grade.