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On 8/24/2023 at 8:25 AM, ygogolak said:
461 on the census. No differentiation for newsstand though.
6 sales in the last 3 years. 2 for about $260, the other 4 roughly in the $700-750 range
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On 8/24/2023 at 8:08 AM, godzilla43 said:
That has to be really though in 9.8. Otherwise bin price seems to be like 10-20$. That cover is used in NES videogame.
The videogame art is a copy/swipe of this though, I think. Or else the same pencils but different inks? (I don't remember exactly, but this discussion popped up somewhere else at some point, maybe in the cover swipes thread?).
I think it's just that it's a popular Jim Lee cover, along with it being a 9.8 Newsstand, in a period when Newsstands were on the decline.
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On 8/23/2023 at 11:05 AM, Dr. Balls said:
Yeah, I dunno - they have a CGC Marketing Manager and CGC Graphic Designer, and allude to a "Marketing Team" in this article. I do know that if you only have one person handling all the different marketing and graphic support materials, and then you throw a branding project at them that requires some in-depth studying, research and development time - corners are going to be cut somewhere. One person can do the work, but the quality goes down exponentially because there is zero time left for critical thinking about each project - you basically have to just shoot from the hip, design something and move on to the next project. If that's the case, I feel for them - I have had friends who worked in corporate art departments, and their laments are all the same: too much work, not enough time for development of the message.
But, if they hired an outside firm like you were suggesting - I don't know what to think about that. Those should have more cohesiveness. It's not unheard of for a brand to develop individual identities for different services, but those companies generally have a subtextual style to tie them together.
I work for a small design studio, and we have some clients that are large corporations with an in-house marketing department, but they don't handle all of their artwork needs in-house. They do some, but I think the nature of the work is that you get periods where there is a lot of creative needs, and periods where there's very little. And companies don't like to pay for people to sit around when there is very little. So they deal with outside studios on a project basis.
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On 8/22/2023 at 3:53 PM, Dr. Balls said:
I don't think corporations take advantage of "boutique" designers - they have an in-house department that handles this stuff, but I've always felt the problem with in-house design is that they are so close to their own product, it's hard to step back and view their brand from a different perspective.
I would really love it for Jay Z to answer "Who did your branding?" with:
"Some dude named Dr. Balls."
I doubt they have enough design needs to have an in-house team. They probably work with a design studio that has CGC as one of a number of clients.
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On 8/22/2023 at 4:20 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
At the foot of most CCG (CCG, not CGC) pages you will find these standard links:
It's annoying AF that the PMG and CSG logos each use a different typeface than all of the others.
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On 8/22/2023 at 9:33 AM, Dr. Balls said:
No consistency among the primary name logo. If you're going to break away from house branding, focus on some consistency, hierarchy and visual importance to the main company mark, especially when you're doing individually designed sub brands. Some logos have small CGC, some have large. Some logos are centered. Some are force justified. Some are right justified. Some have keylines. Some are reversed. Everyone of them have different x-heights and there isn't a single stylistic element to tie any of them together either through size or appearance. There's a lot going on in this new effort, not sure if it's going to work out well for them in terms of branding.
Yup. Their design is all over the place.
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On 8/20/2023 at 11:44 AM, Ride the Tiger said:
According to the sites meet the graders page, they have 16.
I assumed that page were basically the leaders of various teams of graders, not all of the graders.
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On 8/21/2023 at 8:42 AM, Sigur Ros said:
I've been in that tiny failure rate group too often. Which obviously makes me question how tiny it really is.
Yeah, it's been a while since I've had a shipment that hasn't included a slab that had to be sent back for ME. And that includes shipments that were already sent back for ME. I just sent 8 or so books back from a shipment of 14 ME books. Most of those 14 were from a single shipment of 25 that initially came back.
- RockMyAmadeus and BlowUpTheMoon
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On 8/18/2023 at 9:18 PM, grendelbo said:
High grade.
Assuming this book is by the same seller as the VF- ASM books, I'm guessing that the seller simply isn't aware of how much stains and/or staple rust brings down a book. Probably thinks that creasing is the main factor bringing down the grade (as the books look to be relatively crease-free). But yeah, still way over-graded.
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On 8/19/2023 at 12:04 PM, valiantman said:
Alice Pilch AKA Angela
The guy whose real name is Al Simmons likes to say he's the real world basis for Spawn. My guess is that Alice Pilch does the same thing (apologies if not).
Value is very, very low, unless I'm mistaken. (Remember how Kramer on Seinfeld claimed to be the "real J. Peterman"?)
My guess is that she may have been a cosplayer/"booth babe" for the Spawn tour
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On 8/17/2023 at 9:28 PM, Bart Allen said:
Just $28
That's more like it.
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arturoescobar84
Another non-paying bidder. Feedback shows he's done it to others as well.
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On 8/11/2023 at 8:19 AM, Domo Arigato said:
If you were the winner of his Ebay listing for that book.....which he then backed out of......you can now nominate him for the Probation List here on the forums if you wish.
For nomination purposes, as long as the deal in question was between two board members, it doesn't matter where the transaction (or failed transaction) took place.
Should it even matter, since the seller admitted what he did?
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On 8/8/2023 at 10:04 PM, smarkjobber said:
Doesn't come up as a valid username when trying to add to block list.
It's because of the capital letters.
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On 8/7/2023 at 11:45 PM, FlyingDonut said:
This is the top quality analysis I come here for.
I think we're all going to have different opinions on what's obvious and what isn't.
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On 8/6/2023 at 10:47 PM, fastballspecial said:
I sold another tonight. The book has legs I upped the prices on my last copies. I cant keep one for more then a few days. Funny at my last show last month at its hottest nobody asked about it on my rack when I had it at $20 now they are selling for $35.
Dan Slott did a signing in NYC the day the book came out. He posted on Twitter what is now his only slab; an SS-copy that he bought from the store, signed, and submitted. He has big plans for the character.
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Is there some obscure variant or error (Direct Edition; not a Newsstand) to Wolverine #1 (1988) that would make a 9.0 worth over $300?
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On 7/28/2023 at 6:17 PM, NerdTure said:
Hi All- I am new to CGC and recently sent my first submission in. I have a couple of questions as I am not familiar with the process. I know Modern comic book turnarounds are pretty good right now but I am a little lost when checking the "my submissions" status.
My books arrived at CGC on 7/18/2023 and there is no update yet, only that my shipment was received and they are safe in their facility. My books are going to CCS first for pressing. Is that why I am not seeing any status update? Or does it actually take a while for your package to be opened and processed? I know people go crazy checking their status but I would have thought the books would have been opened by now and the process started. Apologies as I am sure this has been beaten to death in these forums but I really don't understand how this process works and when I can expect to see a status update. Thanks for any clarity you can provide, I really appreciate how great the comic community is. Cheers.
Welcome to the boards!
Bookmark this: https://www.cgccomics.com/account/my-submissions/tracking/
When your submission is checked in, it will show up here as received. When they start pressing, it will show as "CCS in Process (or Progress)" as Lightning mentioned. When that's done and it goes to grading, it will show as received by CGC. And then updates again as it goes through the grading process.
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On 7/27/2023 at 4:17 PM, Bart Allen said:
Sweet. Key Collector is still calling this a cameo, but the sequence he's in is multiple pages, so I think it's fine to call it a full appearance. Ebon is teased in issue 6 of Season One, but it's basically just his voice in the shadows. Still a good pickup though, since I'm sure there are fewer of those than Shadows of Dakota #1.
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On 7/27/2023 at 8:46 AM, Bird said:
I don't think either JC or Main St is a great place to find things to flip. They ARE a great place to find hard to find modern comics. But you'll have to sit on them for a year to flip at a profit. But you have to find good books somewhere. I don't know if JC does sales, Main St does once or twice a year (FCBD IIRC) and that is a good time to hit the wall books if this is a side hustle.
If I was looking to flip, I wouldn't be picking out a lot of mid-run Milestones.
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On 7/26/2023 at 9:22 PM, Foolkiller said:
JC Comics is a separate store -- (it's the initials of the owner)
Main Street is extremely easy to deal with -- Mike generally doesn't price based on eBay and I can't imagine those wouldn't be dollar books -- I'll ask him about it.
To be fair, many of the books he had definitely weren't dollar bin books. He had a copy of Static 1 Platinum, 2 copies of Static 45, and other late-run books that tend to sell for a bit more. But many of those books weren't bagged and/or showed damage. But a lot of the books that I was interested in were earlier-run, non-key books, many of them not in top condition, that I wasn't expecting to be more than $2-3 each. Which I would have happily paid to have the books as placeholders until I found better copies.
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On 7/26/2023 at 8:36 PM, Foolkiller said:
Since the OP is looking for mostly vintage stuff, I'll make a couple notes. I'd avoid the Joker's Child. Over the years the inventory Len and Caren have offered has slowly diminished and the somewhat erratic grading, missed restoration, and books missing pages (all of which I've personally experienced at times over 25 years going there) make it tough to recommend. It used to be that the selection was pretty good and the store is well laid out, but this is no longer a place or destination spot for back issues, and I doubt many serious collectors would find it a good use of time.
Paradox is another store that I'll mention as sort of the 'B' tier in terms of back issues when you combine selection, price and grading accuracy. Again, solid place and I'm sure you can dig for some deals, but I've never found anything they're worth picking up. If you're on a limited window -- from New York -- it's really Zapp, Main Street and JC.
What is "JC" (I'm assuming not Joker's Child, since you said to avoid it)?
I did go to Main Street as well. I've mainly been hunting Milestone books, and they did have a longbox in storage which they let me flip through. They had a number of tough-to-find books, but they weren't in the best condition, and they did their pricing based on eBay asking prices. Even for common non-keys, they said the prices were going to be about 10/book (for books that are basically dollar-bin books).
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I had shipments like this a while back. I thought they were going to start using more packaging tape, but I guess that was temporary.