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Greetings, I've found myself in a collector's niche recently, focusing on Topps Comics. Topps began publishing and distributing comics in the early 1990s, the decade I grew up in, some of my first comics were Topps Comics, specifically issues of the Jurassic Park (1993) adaptation. I've googled Topps Comics a few times and have found some interesting odds and ends in various dollar bins over the last few years. Topps Comics is the epitome on 90s comics, many of them came sealed in polybags with posters or trading cards (Bram Stoker's Dracula), many of their titles were television or movie adaptations (X-Files, Zena: Warrior Princess) and there were also plenty of #0's and foil logo editions. I've also discovered a few other series like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and various titles from industry legend Jack Kirby. I've also seen a few familiar names on various Topps books like writer Roy Thomas, artists Adam Hughes (Zorro) Gil Kane, Todd McFarlane and Mike Mignola. From ComicVine: https://comicvine.gamespot.com/topps-comics/4010-519/ "Topps Company Incorporated announced the formation of Topps Comics in March 1992. The company produced books until 1998 taking advantage of a short comics industry boom that attracted many investors and around 9 other new companies were formed in the same time period. The market experienced an increase in comic book market speculation that created inflated sales and the market eventually collapsed taking Topps Comics down with it in 1998. The company's president was Jim Salicrup (born: May 29, 1957) who started his career at Marvel where he started out as a messenger. In twenty years he worked his way up to editor and in 1992 he became the editor-in-chief of the newly formed Topps Comics until it's demise in 1998." Let's see your Topps Comics!
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5 Simple Rules (Please, please read) 1st wins; tie/indeterminate goes to the thread. Payment is Check or Money Order (yeah, yeah I know I'm a dinosaur, troglodyte, luddite, mennonite, hermaphrodite etc. - I just don't have or want e-payments.) Shipping: $8 U.S. priority legal flat rate envelope or $15 if the stack requires a medium priority box. Don't be listy including the little one in my head. Returns: Sure, just notify me within three days of receipt and get it back to me in the same shape, on your dime. (Kudos thread linked under my avatar.)
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OK so I got a 2. it's a keeper card in my collection, so I'm not complaining, I think it looks great in the slab. I expected low grade... The card does have some color missing off the back bottom corner and a small weird non ripply type defect on the center right of the front (no dents, just a slight raised type line you can see if you hold it right) So just for sake of research I punch OPC MARIO LEMIEUX CSG 2 into eBay and low and behold there's another graded a 2!! I look at it, and omg, it looks like it was stored in someones back pocket for a day or 2 before ending up on the laundry room floor face down until mom stepped on it and put it back in little Timmys shoe box. I guess I was just surprised at the visual discrepency of the same grade especialy the corners being so rounded and dented on the other card, as well as the massive surface damage that is visible. So my question is... is a grade of 2 just a number that you pretty much can get to pretty easily, but it will only go 1 if there is like a tear or something? I have never graded cards before, and overall I have been very happy to see a lot of the grades on my older personal collection of vintage cards, and again they look great in these CSG slabs. I honestly can't wait to display in my office and man cave. I can always cover the numerical grade with a happy face sticker =) Here is my card: https://www.csgcards.com/certlookup/1010213012/ Here is the ebay graded 2: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185214800374 Mine is on the left, whatcha think? I think it's a dang nice 2, lol... Have a great holiday! Oh here's another funny thing from my submission: I sent in my seperated Bird/Magic rookie thinking it would look great in a slab, I had it all put together with a note to please keep it together in the correct order and that I figured it would be a CSG 1 or lower if possible since it was in 3 pieces. I have seen other slabs with the the pieces in there arranged tight and it looks great (im not a condition sensitive collector) when I got my grades back I saw extra charges and more cards on the invoice than I submitted... so upon further investigation...Boom - a 3 for 1- hahah, Im not even mad, this is hilarious, cost me an extra 2 submission fees, but I think it's gonna look interesting on the wall! The other Bird I submitted had excrutiating centering, but I pulled that card out of a pack at a card show at the Fashion Center in San Francisco in early 90's so it has centimental value. I opened two 86 Fleer packs at that same show (I think they were like $50 ea) and pulled a Barkley and an Olajuwon sticker which I sent in as well. My submission was basically a bunch of cards I pulled back in the day including my 52 Topps Mantle.... see below! Fun stuff, thanks CSG! 52 Mantle??? HAHAHA .. made you look... But this 1996 case insert will still look great for my office display. A bunch of my other fav cards from my first submission: THANKS CSG & Happy Holidays to all!
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I sent in my first four cards for grading, ever, and decided to go with CSG. I love the look and feel of their slabs. Overall, I was quite pleased with the grades I received. Here are three that I recently had graded.
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Hello, I want to submit some 2018 Topps baseball cards for grading but I can't find the cards I want on the submission form. They are all from the 700 card box set, Update Series, but when I select Update Series the card numbers don't come up. I've gotten lucky with some of the Rookie Image Variations but no such luck with the Series 1 and 2 cards. An example being Shohei Ohtani Series 2 Card Number 700.
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Is this still happening? I would love to know the status on where this stands. Any information would be helpful, thanks.
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Greetings, I have two slabs for sale. Please see photos for condition and feel free to ask any questions. All books will be well packed. The Terms Please no hall of shamers or probies. Payment I will only ship to mainland U.S. only and I only accept Pay Pal (USD). $14.00 for priority mail shipping, $2 per additional book. First timestamped gets it. Feel free to ask any question before submitting the smilie. Thank you for looking! Brandon
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Gandalf Balrog: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223695053688?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Arwen: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223695058373?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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