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Got my book from @mytastebud in the mail the other day. Upon opening it, he even threw in a few extra goodies for me, thank Dave! Can't wait to put this up on the wall in my cave Happy New Year everybody!

Thanks @The Sledder, appreciate all your efforts on this (and the elves as well). Always enjoy doing this, Happy holidays everybody!

How about Lot #50, Megadeth CGC book

Has Lot #5 been taken?

It was picked @skypinkblu .... sadly before my time to choose

it clearly states in the rules you must declare yourself as such if you claim that prize (PS: good pick!)

I see I missed the cutoff by a short period of time. @The Sledder if you will accept my tardy submission it will be as follows. If not, no worries, I understand.

I am in! Always love doing this! I will update with pictures tonight but it will be a Spider-Man magazine focused lot

Terrible news. Enjoyed many of his posts here over the years ... R.I.P.

Throw this on my stack too please

I'll take this one.

Ill take this one.

Hey Stuart! I will take this one please.

I'll take these. Please add them to my pile.

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I asked this question a while back (i.e does CGC use any type of A.I. in the grading process) but never got a concrete answer. IMO, It is the only way to really scale rapidly and in a cost effective way. As the volume increases and the demand for "humans" goes up to keep T.A.T.s somewhat reasonable, consistency becomes a big issue. Come to think of it, so do cost and talent availability (only so many graders / those interested in becoming one, training time, training cosr, etc.). With A.I. books can be graded anyplace, anytime. The training process is always ongoing and scaling is a much different scenario. Instead of being bound by how many human graders you have, it quickly becomes how many photos can you provide the A.I. with a day to score, etc. I can see how Computer Vision could also be beneficial in the Q.A. procedure. It could quickly check centering in the encapsulation, maybe look for newton rings (hard to see on camera though), labeling issues, etc. There are all kinds of arguments for and against A.I. that are probably more geared for the water cooler but speaking strictly from a business perspective I can see how an operation like CGC would be investing heavily in A.I. and computer vision to streamline / scale their operations. I would love to hear more about if / what / thoughts on AI / CV from the CGC team but not sure how likely that is to happen. (FWIW, I just submitted another batch of books last week)

Buy what you like and can afford. Many books I would otherwise not have in my collection were acquired with purple / green labels. As a matter of fact, I love finding collectors who have the "PLOD" mentality and some books to sell. Quite often a good deal to be had IMO

I had not heard myself until the just the other day. I was really saddened to hear, he was such a great guy. I always enjoyed chatting with him at the shows and looked forward to seeing what kind of esoteric goodness I could find buried in his boxes to bring home with me. He always had some book that seemed to call to me I found so many cool books in his boxes and he had a story for each one (if it wasn't about the book it was about the story or artist inside). @Robot Man I think I have a few of the Atlas war and western proofs you are referring to. I was not collecting when he was selling them originally but I acquired a few here on the boards later (either from you or @catrick339 if I had to guess). My first copy of Atlas War #11 was from one of his boxes amongst many other 1950s Atlas war and GGA titles. Always sucks when one of the good ones leaves us.

I have one in low grade condition. It will be a feet if the cover stays on it for the next owner. Great deal for somebody, the 5.0 looks nice

I'll take this one.