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22 hours ago, Chicago Boy said:

Was there a board consensus If the bottom front cover was trimmed ?

No consensus,in fact there was a tendency to try to brush this whole situation under a carpet..But a couple of very knowledgeable boardies know the whole story and that the Tec was trimmed. 

 

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15 hours ago, Hepcat said:

The now common "All I care about is the number and colour of the label" thinking.

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Y’all are funny. Do you think there are people out there with the means to buy that book who want one who said to themselves “I think I’ll wait for a better one to come along”.  I think they are just looking at it like it will be a long, long, long time before a better one comes to market.

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6 minutes ago, Moondog said:

I think it's cool that books I once owned have changed hands for a million (or close to a million) bucks (MC 1, Cap 1, Batman 1, etc.).  No sour apples/grapes here!

I was hoping you would come on and post here Gary. Great attitude about it. Who would have ever thought a comic would sell for a million bucks.(shrug)

At least you can say, you originally found it and owned it for a while. 

Do you still have any of the Windy City books that you just didn’t want to sell?

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1 hour ago, Westy Steve said:

Y’all are funny. Do you think there are people out there with the means to buy that book who want one who said to themselves “I think I’ll wait for a better one to come along”.  I think they are just looking at it like it will be a long, long, long time before a better one comes to market.

No. I think they simply don't care whether and how the comic has been cosmetically "enhanced" because they don't care about the comic, only the encased label.

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4 hours ago, Timely said:
On 11/21/2019 at 2:47 AM, Larryw7 said:

Reminds me of the Detective 27 purchased by Todd McDevitt that was supposedly in an attic but turned out to have been in the possession of one of the more interesting people involved in the hobby who had it for years.

Conspiracies! I'd sure like to know more about this.

As the pregrader on the book when I was working at cgc, I was the first person to see it. The book sure looked like an attic find as it had a thin layer of dirt and dust on the cover that I had to gently wipe off with a tissue. It had clearly been stored naked for years! No collector I know of would do that. It is possible that the book had been recently found and traded hands once or twice.

So it was cleaned? Why wasn't that disclosed?

And the fact that it was "naked for years" certainly points to some sort of flaw, possibly of character.

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53 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

So it was cleaned? Why wasn't that disclosed?

And the fact that it was "naked for years" certainly points to some sort of flaw, possibly of character.

Because dry-cleaning a comic book is even less invasive than washing a car. There is no need, what-so-ever, to have to disclose proper dry-cleaning.

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10 hours ago, Larryw7 said:
On 11/21/2019 at 12:49 AM, Chicago Boy said:

Was there a board consensus If the bottom front cover was trimmed ?

No consensus,in fact there was a tendency to try to brush this whole situation under a carpet..But a couple of very knowledgeable boardies know the whole story and that the Tec was trimmed. 

I remember that whole affair quite well. Allegedly, Daniel Dupcak, disguised in blond hair, walked into Greg Eide's shop in 2007 claiming to have found 71 Golden Age books in an attic. One of which happened to be a TEC#27.

Eide's spent approximately two hours or so examining, listing, and grading the books. He was convinced that many of the books were worked on, including the TEC#27, which appeared to have been trimmed.

In the end, Eide made an offer and the Dupcak character rejected it. The seller then went to Todd McDevitt's store and McDevitt, who reportedly wasn't a GA specialist, bought the Tec#27 outright and it became national news. The remainder of the books were shopped to Steve Geppi who scooped many of them up and quickly had them graded and then liquidated at Heritage.

The whole situation played out here on the boards, which quickly got heated. Several of the posters where banned a few days after appearing (supposedly Eide and Dupack themselves) and then it spilled over into the Comics Corral boards. Talk about fun!

Anyway, below is an image of the suspect seller and a scan of the TEC#27. (Love that mug shot! lol)

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1 hour ago, MrBedrock said:

So it was cleaned? Why wasn't that disclosed?

And the fact that it was "naked for years" certainly points to some sort of flaw, possibly of character.

Ya know Richard, when you open up a comic, you are altering it's natural original closed state. When you close the comic back up you are RESTORING it back to it's natural state.  So I guess any comic that has been opened has been "tampered" with & restored back to it's original state!   

Next, let's talk about how the oils in your finger tips chemically alter the comics original chemical composition!

My advice to you Richard is not to open your comics to read them, & certainly don't touch them with your NAKED skin as that certainly points to some sort of flaw, possibly of character.!

I love this stuff! (thumbsu

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10 minutes ago, Timely said:

Ya know Richard, when you open up a comic, you are altering it's natural original closed state. When you close the comic back up you are RESTORING it back to it's natural state.  So I guess any comic that has been opened has been "tampered" with & restored back to it's original state!   

Next, let's talk about how the oils in your finger tips chemically alter the comics original chemical composition!

My advice to you Richard is not to open your comics to read them, & certainly don't touch them with your NAKED skin as that certainly points to some sort of flaw, possibly of character.!

I love this stuff! (thumbsu

:idea:

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2 hours ago, Phill the Governor said:
3 hours ago, MrBedrock said:

So it was cleaned? Why wasn't that disclosed?

And the fact that it was "naked for years" certainly points to some sort of flaw, possibly of character.

Because dry-cleaning a comic book is even less invasive than washing a car. There is no need, what-so-ever, to have to disclose proper dry-cleaning.

Good to know. Thanks!

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40 minutes ago, Phill the Governor said:
1 hour ago, MrBedrock said:

Good to know. Thanks!

I just assumed that at this point there has been a majority acceptance that dry cleaning is undetectable. 

I have never seen one of Timely's dry cleaning jobs. For all I know he left big dust smears all over the cover.

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