Cman429

Seems like just yesterday I was laughing at my dad for not understanding texting and now these kids keep coming out with new ways to make me feel old. Yes if you have a very very valuable book and submit it as simply vintage, cgc will let you know you need to pay them more money. Anyway that CGC taking a year thing is old news. That was during the pandemic checks when people were submitting every dollar bin comic in their collection. The times you see on site are accurate in my experience. I just submitted a bunch of books at Megacon early Feb and had them all pressed and back to me in less than month

You’ve covered all bases except if you have a specific pen color you want used. Guys usually have the basic black and blue sharpie but don’t always count on more than that. Some guys come with a whole bucket of pens, some bring just those two. If you aren’t fussy then it’s ok but I like certain colors bc it looks better.

It's amazing to me that on the VERY day Iger wins his proxy fight from a bunch of guys trying to save Disney from themselves, they go and drop the Surfer news. And just like that they take one of their few potential new franchises and turn it into the next Eternals by driving away the very audience they're trying to win back.

When the accusations surfaced, the mods of the comic books Reddit literally posted “anybody giving Ed even the slightest benefit of doubt will be banned.” If that isn’t an indictment on the state of internet culture, I don’t know what is. I don’t care to litigate what Ed did or didn’t do, what I do know is if you or someone you love has never done/said something stupid then, uh, congratulations. The rest of us imperfect people need to look at Ed and hope we aren’t judged by our worst moment. Because if this isn’t a cautionary tale, then I don’t know if we’ll ever learn to be better.

I will once again try to bring glory and honor to my ancestors

Yes, I always window bag my own books, I’m very specific about placement and color used. The placement doesn’t bother me, it’s the fact they used a DEAD pen. Trust me, the picture makes it look much better than it is - in person you can barely see the sig it’s so faint. For $400 you’d think there’s some quality control. I don’t care about money, I spent years traveling cons to get these sigs and it just makes me sick to see it ruined by careless facilitators. I’d NEVER recommend Twin Cities to anyone after this experience. I probably won’t sell it but looking at it upsets me so much I can’t display it anymore so it seems like a waste to keep in a box in my attic. Oh well, live and learn.

I’m happy your book turned out so well. I sent mine to the same signing and got this back. $400 and they can’t even be bothered to make sure Sir Patrick is signing with a pen that works. I spent 3 years going to cons collecting these sigs & it makes me so sick to look at I’ll probably end up selling. I’d never recommend anyone use Twin Cities for any book they care about bc they clearly don’t.

The reason for not announcing new cases is fairly obvious. With the insanely high OCD level of comic collectors, a bunch of people receiving an order back with the old cases would flood CGC with complaints wanting the “new tamper proof case” and “why is CGC out to get me” and all sorts of complaints. They’re just trying to save themselves work, $$$ and headaches. Mostly $$$

I’ve used JSA at wrestling cons and card shows that aren’t comic-centric. I’ll be very interested how JSA’s “just bring your signed items to our table over in a remote corner and we’ll slap stickers on it” standards will mesh with CGC’s “unless you have a middle aged man in a red shirt follow you every step of the con your sig IS UNVERIFIED!” policy

First autograph from the first artist at the first comicon I ever attended was Byrne. He was holding court with 4-5 guys just talking about his run at marvel and how they were undoing it (this was during the 90s just before Image boom) when I got to his table. I was crippling shy so I just got my autos & left but I always remember flipping through the stack of original art pages he had on the table & thinking “gosh, $50? $150!?!? Comicons aren’t for poor high school kids like me!” Little did I know if I had saved my paper money & bought 1-2 of those pages I’d probably be able to buy a new car today

I’m not one to nitpick grades since I realize they’re somewhat subjective but I recently sent in a IDW Transformers variant metal cover. And when I say metal I’m not talking thin foil cover, this cover was solid METAL like a dvd steel book. I got 9.8. Now if a cover that can probably stop a bullet can’t rate a 10, I just don’t know what would. feel like there’s just graders who have it in their heads that 9.8 = flawless and 10 doesn’t exist which is just preposterous & disqualifying

Stuff in slabs can be hard to see. I get notes like “light stain” or “finger bends” in my notes all the time and you can’t see any of it in the slab, you’ll either have to crack it out or trust cgc knows what they’re doing

It’s on D+ and yea it’s fun. Watch it there and spare yourself the virus & browser hijacking

Maybe it’s because I deal in trading cards where people calling things “rookie cards” that aren’t or bragging about “low pops” bc it’s such a worthless common card nobody else would bother submitting it is so common that this sort of thing seeping into comic books doesn’t bother me. Everyone has their hustle and it’s unfortunately on the buyer to beware. Besides if I messaged every person on eBay with a tick and bend filled “NEAR MINT! PERFECT CONDITION!” or “RARE!” when there’s two pages of hits I’d feel like Lucy making pies

Step 1: Look up graded examples of your comic up on eBay. Step 2: if it’s worth more than about $100, it’s worth getting slabbed as long as you’ve never read your comics ever. Step 3: ????? Step 4: Profit.