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 I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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| I wanted to take advantage of the September CBCS promotion that offered a discount on all comics with Spider-Man in their titles. So I waited to the last day of the promo and sent 10 comics to CBCS on September 30th. I also sent off 5 comics to their Florida office the same day to try out their pressing service (using the discount to make that service a little less expensive). Well I got the 10 back today, so the TAT's without pressing are incredible right now (I don't expect to see the other 5 for a while). For the 10 comics I selected 5 Expanded tier and 5 Modern tier. Three of the Expanded tier comics had been in my personal collection for 35+ years, and I had purchased 4 of the Modern tier comics when they were released. Most of these aren't anything special, but I sent them in anyway. Now that they are back, I wish I would have sent in another 10 or 20. So here's what was in the box. |
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Here's the oldest comic I submitted. I won it in an eBay auction several months ago. It was listed as a 6.5 and that's what I was expecting. I was very pleasantly surprised with the grade (even with the checkmark). |
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I have owned this one forever, and I was somewhat disappointed in the grade. I thought this one was an 8.0, so I blew it on this one. |
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I bought this book at a convention in CT over a year ago. The convention was ending, and somehow I still had a few $20 bills in my pocket. I remember talking the seller into taking $20 off on his price so I could get it. I thought it was in the 8.5 to 9.0 range. |
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| Those are all great books, Ed! | ||
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I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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The next two are from my personal collection and I had them both in the 8.5 to 9.0 range. |
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 It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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| @esaravo great books!! having that image issue again. |
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I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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I had been going through a stack of BA ASM's looking for doubles for another forum member when I noticed several that looked like potential 9.8 candidates. No biggies, but I decided to test my grading skills and sent three of them in with this order. How did I do? |
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I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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I also flipped through a few short boxes of books that I consider to be potential or borderline candidates for grading and pulled out this Web of Spider-Man minor key (although the first appearance of Eddie Brock is not noted on the CBCS label). Because of the black cover, I thought that this comic had a better chance of getting a 9.6 than a 9.8. |
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I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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And lastly here's a comic that owes its existence to Spider-Man, but doesn't have Spider-Man in its title. I submitted it anyway. I had picked this up recently in a deal with another forum user and expected an 8.5 (newer books with any spine ticks or defects are graded more harshly in my opinion). |
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I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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| That's All (for now) Folks! | ||
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| Ed I wouldn't call Mary Jane's 1st full appearance "Nothing Special" I think your being a little too modest here with the Spidey Books  Something going on with your photos I can only see the first two books. |
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| @BigRedOne1944 - John, the site had the same problem yesterday. If you click on the little picture, a new window with the scan will open. Hope they fix it soon. | ||
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| @esaravo GREAT books! | ||
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| @esaravo it's like a parade of sexy when you post books, Ed! Great books! | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by esaravo Great books my friend! I was surprised this one got a 9.8. I can see a couple spine ticks in the black. I think you're 9.6 estimate is more accurate than the grade given. Either way, congrats! |
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I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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| Thanks to everyone who posted comments! | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by esaravoI agree this should have gotten a lower score due to the prominent spine ticks, but since it didn't you scored! Great book to get graded |
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 Pictures? We don't need no stinking pictures.
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| Nice comics...I love classic Spider-Man! | ||
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| Very nice! I have something like half a dozen of those Web 18 issues - keep waiting for them to get hot! | ||
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It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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| @esaravo awesome books!!!! | ||
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| I think the really amazing part in all this is that you got your books/grades back ->TWO WEEKS<- after submission. That's an awesome TAT. I submitted #'s 8,11,12,13,15,16,17,18,20,23,25,28x3,30,37,39,40,41,50,59,300,301x3,316x4,344x2,361x4,Ann16x2,PPtheSS 1, and PPtheSS 64 Crossing my fingers! |
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Whoa, I'm going to assume these are all on the case? |
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