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On 4/6/2024 at 10:27 PM, tth2 said:

On 4/6/2024 at 6:25 PM, Bigphatpaulie said:

Some Recent Duck Sales from Heritage:

Four Color #386:  https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/cartoon-character/four-color-386-uncle-scrooge-dell-1952-cgc-nm-92-white-pages/a/7369-93082.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115

This was shockingly low.  I don't know if it was the writing on the cover that put people off or what, but the consignor must've been pretty disappointed.

I agree, very low.  If I was looking for a high grade copy, that writing is fairly distracting and I would guess was a contributing factor.  It sold at basically 25-50% off other 9.2s in the last 2 years.  Compared to other recent 9.4s, it's a whopping 65-75% discount.  9.2s are not overly abundant in the census (top graded is 9.6) so I view it as a bad auction and not a market indicator.  

On 2/11/2024 at 7:52 PM, Hap Hazard said:

Recent pick-up from my LCS.

Pic of Carl Barks with signature from 1993 Diamond Re-Sellers  Seminar.

I was there, young and stupid.  Didn't make time during the event to go to the Barks exhibit.  But did have a lovely, low-key chat with Stan Lee and Clive Barker while we waited for some hall to open.  Rode roller coasters with Neil Gaiman that same dealers con.  

Lexx?!?

On 2/1/2024 at 7:41 PM, thirdgreenham said:

IBTL!  

On 2/1/2024 at 3:17 PM, blazingbob said:

For me I've had issue with "Consultants" who come in and grade and also sell books.    

Whoo boy.  People haven't talked about that one in awhile.  For those who don't know.  The ban on employees selling books they have graded is just that, a ban on employees doing it (and maybe, IIRC, just a ban on doing it in a commercial endeavor, not limited selling of your collection).  It does not affect the limited time (but often very frequent - i.e., multiple times during a year or multi year period) "consultants" they hired during busy times or for whatever reason, i.e., Mark Haspel https://www.cgccomics.com/news/article/3974/consultants/.  There were more than just the two I linked.  Those consultants (not saying anyone in particular) would be grading for CGC but going around cons buying up raw books and then subbing them and selling during the time they were "consulting."  

2 employees. 1 grader and his wife (in ebay verification for cards) allegedly in scheme where they stole submitted books and subbed them for their own account and then sold them.  

My immediate thought too: Give me a Biscuits' show!

Echo is not, first and foremost, a superhero show.  Get that notion out of your head.  Think of it more as a show set in the MCU.  It has more similarities to the Netflix MCU shows, no big surprise.  I enjoyed it and recommend others watch as well.  It has a good bit of action and earns the mature label, if you step back and see what happens to people in the fight scenes.  It was great to see lots of actors from one of my favorite TV shows of the past few years: Reservation Dogs.  

Echo isn't perfect and they took a good detour to finally setup her main supernatural/human power.  Overall though, I think it's well paced and a good story.  

Just a heads up.  Both Wal-Mart and BestBuy have the Xbox Series X 1TB console at $349.99.  

On 11/22/2023 at 11:21 AM, szav said:

All the NFT/collectibles/stimulus related insanity going on in the covid era aside, it still blows my mind how much money people spent on these not really knowing how many copies of pristine unsold/unopened of all these games are out there.  Early 90s a friend of mine's family owned a computer store that sold a lot of PC and console games and they always had crates of unsold games sitting in the back of the store.  I think we are still a long long way away from knowing where prices will really settle.  I grew up during the golden age of gaming but I won't touch these as collectibles for another 10 or 20 years if ever.

I'd add to that: distrust of whether some of the "record sales" were real to begin with.  

On 9/14/2023 at 4:43 AM, Ken Aldred said:

Never played an Assassin’s Creed game, but by reputation it’s supposed to be one of the best, before the developers starting bloating the games and blanketing the map with repetitive fetch quests.

I've enjoyed the ones I've played.  AC Valhalla was really good.  There are elements of lots of fetch quests, but I'm not an OCD 100% completionist usually. 

Look, people.  I don't want to get sucked into whiling away countless hours on this game yet.  For some weird reason, I'm sucked into Assassin's Creed Black Flag, a 10 year old game.   So I need you nerds to give me your impressions.  

Will @MrBedrock be set up at his own con?  'Cause I feel that's kind of like wearing the t-shirt to the concert.  

Anyone started playing yet?

What a great thread to bump.

On 8/10/2023 at 8:05 PM, MAR1979 said:

As for the seller, I will be searching eBay to find out who it was to add them to my own private seller avoid at all cost list which given nature of Comics Seller is rather long

You want to avoid a seller who, even though they said no returns on slabs, is allowing a return and full refund? 

On 8/4/2023 at 3:17 PM, MrBedrock said:

On 8/4/2023 at 3:00 PM, Randall Dowling said:

This looks like an "Ask CGC" question.  @CGC Mike Can you help and relocate this thread to help out the OP?

A+

I'd heard you were going through a loose grading period. 

On 7/5/2023 at 9:12 AM, tth2 said:

On 7/5/2023 at 6:52 AM, Bronty said:

Are we going to be preserving Thomas Kinkade’s toilet in a few years?

They're preserving his art, so preserving his toilet would seem to be appropriate.

The Venn diagram of the two is a circle. 

On 5/11/2023 at 2:19 PM, Transplant said:

Might play Miles Morales or the LOU remaster after I get tired of GoW side quests.

On 5/11/2023 at 5:33 PM, Ken Aldred said:

Have fun with the Valkyries, especially the leader.

I did knock out all the Valkyries, but haven't dedicated myself to beating the queen yet.  

Instead, I did very quickly blaze through the LOU remaster on an easy setting.  Also, completed the story in Miles Morales.  It was fun. 

Decided to take a shot at something different and played through the story in The Quarrry.  It is basically a motion captured movie that is pick your own adventure style.  Decisions impact how the story ends and are supposedly lots and lots of different endings, although I think most of that is just whether some certain characters die or not.  I don't know if I will bother going back into the chapters and making different decisions or not.  

On 5/11/2023 at 5:41 PM, Ken Aldred said:

Probably won’t ever play it, but a lot of the gameplay footage I’ve seen suggests there’s a lot of hiking around as a cross-country courier, baiting suggestions that “there’s a lot more to it than that”. Point is, I can find exploring, heading in a random direction in an RPG relaxing and an interesting diversion, so it really only seems a variation on that. (Unless I encounter something 50 levels above me and get annihilated, of course.)

I'd say there is 2-3 hours of gameplay before you are hooked.  The secret sauce is that you actually contribute to and benefit from the progress of other players you never see.  The story is the driver, not the action per se.  

On 6/3/2023 at 2:29 PM, path4play said:

Take

Black Goliath 8.5 all yours. 

On 5/30/2023 at 2:18 PM, FlyingDonut said:

For those who may have missed it, Ian's collection is now going to be sold by PBA Galleries, starting sometime this fall. Was posted on Facebook today.

Way to dodge entirely the complete apex of the comic market. Brilliant timing.