thewritestuff

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    499

  • Joined

  • Last visited

2 Followers

About thewritestuff

  • Boards Title
    Collectosaurus Rex

Personal Information

  • Comic Collecting Interests
    Golden Age
    Silver Age
  • Hobbies
    comic-booking

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

  1.    Randall Dowling reacted to a post in a topic: WTB HIGH GRADE L.B. Cole comics and other Pre-Code Crime and Horror
  2.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: WTB HIGH GRADE L.B. Cole comics and other Pre-Code Crime and Horror
  3. thewritestuff
    It was already checked off my list! 😎
  4. thewritestuff
    Bump
  5.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: GA With Less Than Ten Copies in the CGC Census
  6.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: GA With Less Than Ten Copies in the CGC Census
  7.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: GA With Less Than Ten Copies in the CGC Census
  8.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: GA With Less Than Ten Copies in the CGC Census
  9.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  10.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  11.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: Recent Pre-Code Purchases
  12.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  13.    thewritestuff reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  14.    ThothAmon reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  15.    djzombi reacted to a post in a topic: Post grade damage on another of my submissions
  16. thewritestuff
  17. thewritestuff
    In essence, one could theoretically take an otherwise sharp modern book with a top corner ding, take a pair of tweezers, make a small incision and--abracadabra--you've got yourself a bindery tear and score a higher grade than you would with the corner ding?
  18.    Legion of Goom reacted to a post in a topic: Bone Appreciation Thread
  19.    comicnoir reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  20. thewritestuff
  21.    Hutch88 reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  22.    adamstrange reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  23.    catman76 reacted to a post in a topic: L.B. Cole cover thread! Post your favorites by the master!
  24.    comicjack reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  25.    C. Spaulding reacted to a post in a topic: It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
  26. thewritestuff
  27. thewritestuff
    Again, considering this exact same copy was deemed a 9.6 with lesser page quality only a month or two ago, you be the judge.
  28. thewritestuff
    It’s to say it looked better than a 9.6, but either they missed the press damage or the damage didn’t show up until after (regression).
  29. thewritestuff
    So... this 9.8 was a 9.6 with a CVA sticker only a couple months ago. I was the high bidder but I ended up nixing the purchase after it was confirmed that there were bad ripples/bends on the lower right side of the cover. The assessment was that this comic had a "bad" press that caused water damage in the form of ripples, and it is *believed* that the regression did not show up until after the comic had been slabbed and given the CVA designation. Otherwise, that would be mighty embarrassing to think a comic with such obvious damage could possibly receive the CVA designation at a 9.6. It appear
  30. thewritestuff
    Bump
  31. thewritestuff
    Does the OP have any photos of the comic prior to submitting? it looks like there’s a little pieces of paper or other artifacts caught in the inner well to the left of the corner tear in the magnified photo...if so this would support the damage was done during slabbing. Early CGC books received purple labels on miscut comics, which is a factory error. If you send just about any comic with a chip that size already missing, they’d normally nail you on the grade. It would be better for the integrity of the company to admit the mistake and make good with the OP rather than
  32. thewritestuff
    Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
  33. thewritestuff
    I’ll take another look but I don’t recall anything in the way of stains on the inside cover.
  34. thewritestuff
    Bump
  35. thewritestuff
    Thanks for the feedback. I’ll have to break out the magnifying glass but I never noticed any ct🤔