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Memorex

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About Memorex

  • Birthday 12/20/1959

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  • Comic Collecting Interests
    Silver Age
  • Occupation
    Retiered Industrial Engineer
  • Location
    Peru South America

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  1. Ok, now I took Madame Hydra from CAPTAIN AMERICA #110, mirrored her image and added something different.
  2. ¿Why create cut-ins (fast track) and not just charge more for Grading? First of all, charging more would enable CGC Comics to afford more personnel to maintain turn around times, on schedule. "Fast Track" seems to be an other name for "Black Market" and this has turned out to become the main stream of CGC's actual operation bias. So, us unluckly ones that trusted that the system was still the same, find ourselves in a pit hole, worst of all, those of us that don't mind affording the Fast Track Fee if we would have been worned about it in time and not after waiting 10 months. It's great that you raised your profits with this new system (I really wish you were in the stock market so I could make money as well), but it's bad for us that are stuck in the final phase of the old system.
  3. It would be nice to see an approximate moth/year in our submission tracking, instead of the actual status: "SCHEDULE FOR GRADING" just because newly senders basically cut in line, knowing it's the only reasonable way "TODAY". This modality, which seems more like a whirlpool of customers spiraling in front of the rest, unabeling the long-past senders to get their books back. I sent 5 books back in 3/8/22 and expected a 10 month wait time. Does this mean that, now it's extended to 16 months? If this is true and using our logic, I would expect more extentions in the future, like maybe 24 months! Keep in mind that I have to travel from South America to pick my books at an address in the US.
  4. Nothing! . . . . . There can always be a crash down. But let's considered it a way to keep you money safe, in a different basket.
  5. I apprerciate all the DC info, for I'm not well informed in that matter. . . . . . . . . Thanks a lot!
  6. My pics right now would be: Tale of suspense #39 CGC 4.0 (Go Collect $6,250) Journey Into Mystery # 83 CGC 4.0 (Go Collect $6,250) Hulk #1 CGC CGC 1.0 (Go Collect $5,250) Tales to Astonish #27 CGC 6.5 (Go Collect $6,000) Fantastic Four #5 CGC 5.0 (Go Collect $5,500)
  7. I Know. My mistake. Let's leave aside appearance and focus on whether the price will rise better if it's a less important book, but in a much better Grade. For example AF #15 CGC 0.5 vs. Avengers # 1 CGC 7.0 What would be your preference? A very low grade "Huge Book" or a Top 25% Grade on a lesser book that actually cost the same right now.
  8. I think your picks are great! . . . . . My only doubt, because I'm not an expert, is whether it's better a CGC 0.5 Amazing Fantasy #15 ($8,000) or, for example, a CGC 6.5 Fantastic Four #5 ($7,750). My question here is: Will they both cost around the same in 10 years? The difficulty of this question is, that it's hard to find on line, what they both cost 10 years ago, in those same grades. You would have to go to a Library and search at The Overstreet Guide N° 40
  9. If you were hired to be a Comic Book investment consultant and your client wants 5 key books between 4k-6k, which would be your picks? . . . Considering they will surelly go up in a decade!
  10. Nice BOO_S! . . . . . No reference to the footwear! LoL!
  11. Thanks to this topic and the Covid-19 Pandemia, I decided to do a brand new artwork. Next saturday is a High School friend's 60th Birthday (we are a group of 15 couples that bonded together for more than the last decade). We didn't hang out earlier, we just re-met atround 45 years of age and kept going from there, so they don't know me at all as an artist. Anyway, I was commitioned to organize this social distancy present (every time we switch organizers). So what started as a drawing for a Happy Birthday Card, soon became my personal present for the birthday guy. He, among other things was a professional fastrack racer and participated in NASSCAR and more recently, in Dakar 2012 were he made most of the rally but, at the end of a prime (peruvian-Chilean border), he had a car crash that didn't affect the vehicle, but due to the strict health rules (he had a mild body concussion), he was disqualified to participate afterward. His name is Juan Dibos. Well I suspect that, Dakar 2012 was his greatest racing experience. So I've drawn a trubute to it!
  12. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=40415
  13. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=40415
  14. I found this on the Internet! Sombody has this cover art! (Edit 1) THIS IS THE LINK: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=40415
  15. You are very talented! I wish my parents would have encouraged me into going to Art school back when I was a teenager, they did the contrary with the excuse that, here in Peru, artist don't earn enough to make a living (Something I rectified with my stepson and now he's an artist). In my case, instead I became an Industrial Engineer. At least now I enjoy watching my stepson's artistic progress. His name is Iosu Aramburu and despite what my parents thought in the past, he's doing fine, financially. This is one of his latest works.