What’s in the Box? Silver and Bronze Age edition.8211
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| I received my CBCS order that I submitted at Terrificon in August this week and I was too busy to open it until today. It took exactly 20 weeks, so turnaround times are slowly improving. Even though it took me a few days to open, I had already looked at the grades on-line. So what’s in the box?  |
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 I showed my wife and she was so happy for me she started to cry.
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| My guess is comic books | ||
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| Duh...duh...duhhhh....what’s in the box! Your creating some good drama with the anticipation of what you’ve got there! | ||
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| Both Neal Adams and Dennis O'Neil were at Terrificon. I thought about what to have them sign, and ended up picking two comics that I bought right off the spinner racks when I was a kid. I bought this ground-breaking issue just before I turned 10 years old. I figured it would grade in the 5.0 to 6.0 range. It earned that grade because I know I read the crap out of it.  |
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Here's my second choice, another issue that I greatly enjoyed. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by daywalker- A few years ago CBCS actually had a video contest called "What's in the box?" and they gave a monthly winner some free grading credit. This is just my lame, non-video version. |
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I showed my wife and she was so happy for me she started to cry.
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| That's so awesome still having books from when you were a kid | ||
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I almost had the next two books signed also, but decided to save the roughly $200 additional cost to actually purchase some comics at the convention. |
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| Love me some old Neal Adams! Especially my fav Batman! | ||
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What do you think, should I have had them signed too? |
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| I’m not a huge fan of signatures on the cover, I think it takes away from the visual of the cover. But that’s me. | ||
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As a kid, I would always buy DC off the racks. Then, when I was around 15 I started to like Marvel. So although I have owned the rest of the books for 35 or 40 years or more, I did not buy them new. I picked them up at comic book shows and stores in Rhode Island and Massachusetts back in the day. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by esaravo For high value items I would recommend having them signed. I know Neal Adams is expensive but that Batman 234 could have really used his signature on it. But I am partial to getting signatures on anything I am having slabbed for myself. |
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| Currently I have been focusing on my Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men collections. So I went through my boxes and picked out a few of the best of each series for this round of grading. I thought both of these Spideys were close in grade, with the #67 just slightly better than the #60. The #60 received a lower grade than I expected, but the #67 got a higher one than I thought it would. IMO that's why we pay the experts and that's also why you should buy the comic and not the grade.  |
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| Whew! Nice! | ||
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I showed my wife and she was so happy for me she started to cry.
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@daywalker I request to have the signatures at the bottom, like a piece of art (which it is)  |
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I showed my wife and she was so happy for me she started to cry.
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| @esaravo great books, congrats | ||
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 It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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| brilliant books!!!...both of you! | ||
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| @Batman66 - Thanks. If I get another book sighed by Adams, it will probably be my copy of Batman #227. Yours is a much nicer copy than mine, so congrats to you! | ||
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Now for the X-Men, a set that I will probably be working on forever. Now if only CBCS would get their Registry sorted out and start recognizing owner sets. |
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