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18 hours ago, Bumble Kitty said:

This just came in today.  I tried to sell it raw at SDCC this year and I had no takers.  I even received one disparaging remark about the book.  I had graded it as VG.

So I submitted it for grading (straight sub, no pressing) and I braced for a grade of 3.0 to 3.5, because CGC had been hard on my last few submits.  Plus I had no interest from others in the book.  So look what CGC thought...

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Nice!  Grade seems accurate to me, just judging by the front cover.  

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 To me, judging from the front cover scan, it presents like an easy 8.0 every day and twice on sunday.  Obviously something up with the book that's not obvious in a scan.  Or some serious bc stuff.

In other words, it looks like the poster child for a 4.5 in a face forward slab, which is all most care about anyway.  Not counting the miscut - which CGC won't but which a buyer might.

Good job, Roland!  Great eye, as always.   (thumbsu

 

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On 12/11/2018 at 2:27 PM, szavisca said:

Just finished off the Nightmare 13, AGS 14-16 set with this less than hundred dollar Baker that just got back from Sarasota

 

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Excellent.  You've done a great job of pulling together the non-romance books.

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6 minutes ago, szavisca said:

Got a new dress for my favorite lady.... mentioned a while back I'd convinced CGC to update a Baker cover attribution.  It only took sending them a polite email pointing out that Art of Glamour, OPG, GCD, and JVJ in a few articles attributed the PL 13 cover to Baker and they kindly agreed to update the label.  I'm  not sure if I'm in the minority or not, but I really really dislike the look of the old label holders so it was worth a few bucks to me to get my number 1 book into a new holder.

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:applause:Congrats!

Nice work!

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20 hours ago, szavisca said:

Got a new dress for my favorite lady.... mentioned a while back I'd convinced CGC to update a Baker cover attribution.  It only took sending them a polite email pointing out that Art of Glamour, OPG, GCD, and JVJ in a few articles attributed the PL 13 cover to Baker and they kindly agreed to update the label.  I'm  not sure if I'm in the minority or not, but I really really dislike the look of the old label holders so it was worth a few bucks to me to get my number 1 book into a new holder.

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Absolutely gorgeous!

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20 hours ago, szavisca said:

Got a new dress for my favorite lady.... mentioned a while back I'd convinced CGC to update a Baker cover attribution.  It only took sending them a polite email pointing out that Art of Glamour, OPG, GCD, and JVJ in a few articles attributed the PL 13 cover to Baker and they kindly agreed to update the label.  I'm  not sure if I'm in the minority or not, but I really really dislike the look of the old label holders so it was worth a few bucks to me to get my number 1 book into a new holder.

PL13cgc85newholder.jpg

Such a wonderful book!  Great that you got it properly labeled and in the new slab. 

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On 12/11/2018 at 12:27 PM, szavisca said:

Just finished off the Nightmare 13, AGS 14-16 set with this less than hundred dollar Baker that just got back from Sarasota

 

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Less than a hundred?  That tells me the seller had no clue it was Baker, or maybe even who Baker was...hm

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On 12/15/2018 at 8:08 PM, comicnoir said:

That DS 30 is nice. Looks better than the grade. Is there moisture damage and a tear on the bottom?

I can't quite remember.  I'll have to dig it out and take a look. 

I'm thinking there's (at least) a third giant girl cover from that period out there.  Can anybody think of one?

I can't think offhand of another cover where Baker was (apparently) doing a semi-swipe of another artist's cover. 

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