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I just pulled the image down from the web as example of his sig - I don't have anything even remotely in that class of book.

Frazetta's is pretty sharp, too. Though a lot more expensive, from what I've heard.

Gave my copies of Thanos Quest to a friend flying home to NY, and considered buying these to replace - but they're Second Editions, and it would be silly to crack these out to read (waste of all the money given to CGC to slab them) so decided not to bid - here's the e-receipt for my matching 20.

Cleaned and pressed by CGC-owned CCS?

6.0, mostly because the tiny chip top right corner and discolored bottom staple at centerfold.

Second printings, bummer! I'll match the donation of selling price.

A while ago there was a pair of threads in the PGM section with a couple of very early FF issues (I'll dig them up and post links). The comics in the OPs were around 3.0 (nearly every guesstimate maxed out at 3.0) but after CCS it got a 4. Pics are gone now, but I remember the 4.0 distinctly because I thought it was a gift grade, and speculated the gift grade [1.0 over the 'true' grade] was because he used CCS first. FF2 looked like around 3.5, again with moisture stains (although the replies had less of a consensus, 3.5 seemed the average). Later in the thread, the guy posted pics showing it got 4.5 after CCS. Since then I've seen other examples, though these two stood out in my memory (being Fantastic Four 1 & 2 with stains posted on same day) and rightly or wrongly, I've come to expect that using CCS before slabbing a comic at CGC gives submitters a real good chance at receiving back 'overgraded' stabs by around 1.0. [insert obligatory - grading is subjective yada yada small sample size unfair yada]

I'll take these 4 please: Deadpool the Duck NM $ 2.00 Captain America special # 1 VF $ 2.00 Avengers Kree Skrull War 1-2 VF $ 3.00 Love those special editions of classics reprinted.

1500 last time.

^I thought your idea was to quantify the same thing the Dow was designed to quantify - risk inherent in the market system (aka diversifiable) risk. As contrasted with the risk of owning that you can't avoid - i.e. the risk of owning any particular, specific, stock (or comic or coin, in our case). If so then your last point is what kills the idea - there is little correlation between the price movements of individual comics - they go up or down depending on the current demand for each issue - there's no point in quantifying whether & how much the market is going up or down (which everyone can pretty easily see, anyway). But I'd disagree that buying a "basket" of comics is a bad idea, since it would lessen the impact of any one or two books dying off (but then it'd also lessen your reward if you've a knack for picking the winners).

^Yeah, for one thing it would almost certainly be required to register as a RIC (Registered Investment Company), just like any other mutual fund. For balancing purposes, if you ran with @01TheDude's idea of market based "index", and calculate a market capitalization for each of the 30 'dow' component comics, presumably just like the stock indices you'd multiply the $FMV for each included grading-increment, times the quantity in the census. But would you also need to add a multiplier for the estimated amount of raw comics outstanding (in similar grades for that issue) if you trying to truly reflect the market cap outstanding? In some cases the o/s raw books might equal or even exceed the quantity that was slabbed, and in other cases perhaps the ratio of raw:slabbed might even be reversed, from the impression I've got reading these boards the past year and a half.

I'd have no problem buying it a 4.0 if it, say, had sat under an large encyclopedia for a few weeks. ; )

I'd guess 4.5 to 5.0. If you'd sent to CGC's presser, good chance at 5.5 from them afterwards, they seem much more generous when you their pressing/cleaning service too.

I'm not particularly current on the past 2 decades, though I am aware of the popularity of e.g. Deadpool and Harley Quinn. Even have a copy of NM98. What stands out to me, is most of the characters who became 'big' following the flagship superhero characters of the 60s have been anti-heroes. Wolverine, and Punisher stand out, possibly because the tendency for a pendulum swing -- from goody-goody Superman, and boy scout Captain America, to tame bad goodguys like Batman or DareDevil in the 70s, to genuine bad guys like Wolvie and Punisher who became very popular a decade later. The popularity of Ledger's Joker (2008) as a psychopath instead of the tamer Jack Nicholson version (1989) was another example. Not sure if pendulum would ever swing back on this and lead to resurgence of popular new character from the true-blue side of the hero spectrum. Was Spidergwen or Gwenpool ever popular, or just a short-lived fad? So my guess is on the anti-heros mentioned at top as the 'easy' guesses.

I could give you an answer based on guess/common sense, but not on actual knowledge: that USPS 'hold for pickup' sites you mentioned don't apply in Canadia-land because USPS doesn't have operations there. It's conceivable, but not likely, that Canada Post and USPS have a joint agreement that addresses this topic, in which case it would apply to participating CP locations (as mentioned, don't think it likely, given the nature of gubmint bureaucracy).

My guess, conservative grade starts at 5.0. Doubt it would get a FN (top edge wear and micro tears/pre chips), but certainly that's conceivable if they ignore the tanning. Top staple at spine looks slightly discolored but that could easily be the lighting (and both staples at centerfold are clean and shiny).

I'm not expert, but I don't see a hint of spine being sealed either, curious about that too. Imo, bottom grade is 3.0 assuming that the crinkling is not from water damage. Maybe on a good day it's a 3.5?

Sansa was standing right there when it happened. [TV show]

Got tired of waiting for someone to post a high grade copy.

Many sales threads on the boards are "wham, bam" and done (i.e. sales thread closed, all books sold, maybe a few stragglers moved to feebay). Depends on pricing, mostly.

I guess I should've done my own research on that "Bradbury story" questions, but I got impatient. Next time I'll figure it out myself, thanks for all the help. David has been pretty diligent about updating books as "SOLD", and looks like maybe Jimmers didn't end up buying it. I'll assume that means you "take it", but if not, I wanna :takeit:. I'm ok either way, got a few nice ones.

Rock on, David, thank you! I'm down for 3 books so far (I think) including this one.

Ouch, on that Nick #6, that's what I get for buying a few others. ; )

I'm interested in this one if the story is the Ray Bradbury A Sound of Thunder, (the cover seems like it depicts/reminded me of, his old sci fi tale). Take it, if so.

Take this one too, please.