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This one's clever re Tec38

There's actually many non-GA Tec38 hommage covers!

Here's another Archie swipe. This one is of Detective Comics 38, like the one above.

Actually, not sure about this one. I like the front cover a lot, too.

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I collect, therefore I am. Should suffice until proof emerges that we are not alone in the universe.

A heretofore unknown 10.0 graded copy of the 1841, London 1st edition of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck! There was a fire that destroyed a significant portion of Tilt & Bogue's stock in 1841, so it's widely recognized as the scarcest of all editions of OO. A man can dream, right?

But if the OP takes the book out himself, CGC is also not responsible. So the real question is who should remove the book from the slab? If you are not confortable doing that and fear you might damage the book, at least CGC can be presumed to have experience removing books from competitor's slabs.

Pennsylvania, where I went to college for four years, met the woman I've been with for almost 36 years, and gave us the single-highest graded of an uncommon Centaur: World Famous Heroes Magazine #1 in 9.0, Denver pedigree. The label says OW, which is fine with me for this uncommon oldie, but what they say about undergrading of page quality with these older slabs (graded April 2002) might be apparent here. I compared the look of my interior pages all around to my many slabbed GA books circa 1940 with OW/W and W page quality, and this Denver is at least OW/W interior pages based on that. Note: I am not a ped collector, just happened to obtain a few, so just commenting on the particular issue of this ped that I own. That's my

now $300 shipped for the lot.

Rules: NO Probation List or Hall of Shame members, or other unsavory sorts! "I'll take it" in a thread will trump any negotiations in PM, emails, etc. Payment: PayPal, check or money order, please. Will ship after payment clears. Shipping: free via USPS to continental USA. Return Policy: No returns on CGC graded books. These books do not appear to have been pressed. Nice John Romita, Sr. and Frank Miller run books. Amazing Spider-Man #117 (Marvel, 1973). CGC 9.2 OW/W (old slab 2003) #0051815015 Amazing Spider-Man #118 (Marvel, 1973). CGC 9.2 OW/W (old slab 2003) #0051815016 Amazing Spider-Man #219 (Marvel, 1981). CGC 9.6 W (old-ish slab 2015) #0960953007 $325 $300 shipped for the lot.

I guess I'm just disagreeing that Marvel's foreign price variants should be classified as Foreign Editions, which typically refer to versions printed in another country, in a foreign language, years later, and with many differences to the cover and/or interior. Due to their unique place in Marvel's history, the foreign price variants (UK, CAN, AUST) are fraternal twins of their cents counterparts. Why not include them in the regular registry? The fairness point seems to be overblown? Those who are lucky enough to hunt down the Marvel price variants (they are exceedingly uncommon) will earn additional registry points, sure. But those who don't hunt down the pence variants and instead use their funds to obtain higher graded cents books will earn additional registry points that way, so it evens out. In other words, there is no good reason to keep excluding these misunderstood price variants from the main Marvel registry sets (by pegging them Foreign Editions or otherwise). It would be a heck of an accomplishment for someone to complete an early Spidey run 1-100 run that includes both cents/pence for all to see on the same registry! That would be just WOW! Even accomplishing that in low grade would be unprecedented (as far as I know) and a herculean task. One day, should I have a PC with enough depth to try the registry, I hope cents and price variants can be listed as part of the same regular (i.e., non-custom) registry for the Silver Age, Bronze Age and Copper Age Marvel issues that have those variants. That's all I'm saying. A man can dream, right?

Hi. Not looking for a rumble here on this fine Saturday morning, but the Marvel price variants of the Silver, Bronze and Copper Ages are NOT foreign editions for purposes of your "i.e.," phrase above. When the cents version of Incredible Hulk #1 was printed in 1962, it was along with the pence version as part of the same run, the same day, on the same printer, while attaching covers to the same awaiting pile of interiors. That is how these Marvel books entered the world: as fraternal twins, cents/pence in the case of the UK price variants, for example. Your point about versions NOT created at the exact same time and place, like the "reprints, books from other runs, cover homages, foreign editions" is sensible, but the UK, Canadian, and Australian price variants, like the experimental price variants (e.g., 35c v. 30c) are NOT those types of later-issued versions.

I recall this being mentioned long ago but not whether it was bounced around enough or addressed by CGC (thread got so long). If CGC has scans beyond what it has made available for free for books slabbed as of July 2023, it should make them ALL available now, ideally going back to 2000 when CGC opened its doors. Prior to summer 2023, the hi-res scans were a paid service to be selected at time of submission (like $5?). But if CGC has been scanning the slabs by default for years regardless of the submitter paying extra to receive the hi-res scan, then now is the time to make them available at the cert verification page. I understand it would be a bummer for those who paid up for the scans prior to summer 2023, but I think everyone, including those submitters, acknowledge that we have extenuating circumstances. Also, it needs to be CGC making its hi-res scans available now. Sure, we have seen good scans for books slabbed pre-summer 2023 that were made by submitters after receiving their books or by a subsequent owner or even by vendors (like Heritage) that have been useful in sorting out the reholder mess. But the scans were taken after, sometimes long after, the slabbing. So it would be ideal to have access to the CGC scans to remove any doubt about the book in slab from day one. The huge advantage is that would enable anyone in the community to do their own sleuthing by checking the cert verification page. Up until now, the community has needed to rely on the commendable efforts of boardies who had the commitment, skill, time and/or resources to do the impressive but time-consuming investigations for this thread. I'm grateful for them, but CGC should empower each one of us with the ability to perform our own due diligence via a simple visit to the cert verification page (instead of having to scour the internet for any available, adequate images), especially as we wait for the fruits of whatever else CGC suggested it has or will do to address the scam. In fact, no matter what changes CGC makes to its slabbing or review process, providing free access to ALL of CGC's hi-res scans at the cert verification page (not just those since July 2023) is a no-brainer. It would be the most reliable way for the community to check all of their books, including older slabs and whether or not implicated in a known scam. Looking at a big book? Go to CGC and confirm for yourself that the books match. Why the heck not? So access to scans should be implemented by CGC as soon as practicable, like yesterday. @CGC Mike Could we know whether CGC has scans of all its slabs, or at least all of its slabs going back to some year, or maybe just slabs of books meeting a value threshold? The point being, however many additional scans CGC has, ideally they would be made available at the cert verification page. My apologies if you already answered this question somewhere in this fiendishly-long thread. Anyway, it's never too late to do the right thing.

This came out when he was just a kid.

If you could provide close-up scans of the front, back and some interior, you might as well post in the "Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?" thread, especially since I suspect any hit for rust could depend on the grade the book would otherwise get. https://boards.cgccomics.com/forum/42-hey-buddy-can-you-spare-a-grade/ Take a look at some posts there for the kinds of pix that are helpful.

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