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Post by Trevor on Nov 22, 2015 14:02:19 GMT -5
Um, you could just get it slabbed again after you read it. Yep...if you want to take the risk of handling a premium book yourself...then turnaround time re-submitting it, possible risk of getting a lower grade...go ahead... I wouldn't get a book graded if my life depended on it. Comics are for reading. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 14:07:14 GMT -5
I wouldn't get a book graded if my life depended on it. Comics are for reading. That's why I always also have a reading copy.  If I've got a 9.6 in a slab and an 8.0 in a regular bag and board, or a (full) reprint in HC, I don't see the need to break open a slab. But...we all have our choices with these things. |
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 22, 2015 14:19:37 GMT -5
I wouldn't get a book graded if my life depended on it. Comics are for reading. That's why I always also have a reading copy. If I've got a 9.6 in a slab and an 8.0 in a regular bag and board, or a (full) reprint in HC, I don't see the need to break open a slab. But...we all have our choices with these things. Absolutely agree. Slabbing comics is an abomination. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 14:27:53 GMT -5
Absolutely agree. Slabbing comics is an abomination. Don't agree with that bit...but this topic always gets heated. I'd think the majority on the board endorse your view though. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 22, 2015 14:44:00 GMT -5
Um, you could just get it slabbed again after you read it. Yep...if you want to take the risk of handling a premium book yourself...then turnaround time re-submitting it, possible risk of getting a lower grade...go ahead... Even in a worst-case scenario, I think it unlikely you'd be out hundreds of thousands of dollars. If I had a slabbed copy of Action Comics #1 (let's say it was willed to me by a heretofore unknown great-uncle), I would totally crack it open and read it and pretend it was a fine day in the spring of 1938 and I had earned a dime from a neighbor by painting over some anti-Semitic graffiti on the wall of the tenement. And I have already read it because I have the Millennium Edition reprint! I think I'd rather have a slabbed copy of Flash Comics #2 because I've always wanted to know how that story about the ventriloquist who talked to his dummy turned out. They were in prison because the ventriloquist was falsely accused of murder! And the dummy kept torturing him with non-stop talk of revenge! And years later the authorities found out he was innocent and let him out, with the dummy still talking of revenge ... REVENGE! ... REVENGE!
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 22, 2015 15:03:26 GMT -5
The only slabbed comic I've ever bought was a copy of Eclipse's Miracleman #24, because I was never able to find it when it came out or to find a back issue that wasn't slabbed. I cracked it open and read it immediately, and it was worth it.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 22, 2015 15:37:06 GMT -5
I'm not an advocate of slabbing, but in the case of a copy of Action #1- Are you guys crazy? Of course it gets slabbed (and immediately sold, but that's me). You want to read it-there many reprints out there dirt cheap. And re-slabbing would be very expensive. What-You're going to mail the item to their Florida location and rest at nights without worrying? Plus I've heard for ultra-expensive items like this they charge a much higher rate, partially to cover insurance
Action Comics #1 is an exception to the rule.
By the way, I've told the tale either here or at our old home that my long time buddy had bought a very nice copy back in the early 1970s and finally sold it 2 1/2 years ago. Held it in my hand before it got slabbed. Told the story how he left it by his door in a bag and forgot to take it in his apartment and freaked out the next morning when it was missing from the hallway. I told you that story, didn't I? |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 22, 2015 16:06:00 GMT -5
Ah slabbing. I bought a slabbed comic once and I got it and was like umm...I can't read it. And this was why I never bought another. I feel comics should be read. At the same time, I get slabbing a super rare or valuable book to preserve it for future generations to enjoy. While I will never slab my books, I am glad there are people who do.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 22, 2015 16:06:07 GMT -5
I'm not an advocate of slabbing, but in the case of a copy of Action #1- Are you guys crazy? Of course it gets slabbed (and immediately sold, but that's me). You want to read it-there many reprints out there dirt cheap. And re-slabbing would be very expensive. What-You're going to mail the item to their Florida location and rest at nights without worrying? Plus I've heard for ultra-expensive items like this they charge a much higher rate, partially to cover insurance
Action Comics #1 is an exception to the rule.
By the way, I've told the tale either here or at our old home that my long time buddy had bought a very nice copy back in the early 1970s and finally sold it 2 1/2 years ago. Held it in my hand before it got slabbed. Told the story how he left it by his door in a bag and forgot to take it in his apartment and freaked out the next morning when it was missing from the hallway. I told you that story, didn't I? I suspect we are crazy. Totally bonkers, driven insane by a steady diet of four-color fables of flying men, invisible airplanes, radio-active spiders, things that wouldn't die and an extra-dimensional imp that dresses up like Batman for some reason. Crazy, yes. But totally sincere. I don't remember ever hearing the story about Action Comics #1. I'm probably not the only one. Did he get his Action Comics #1 back? Or did the concierge dump it down the incinerator? I once held a Marvel Mystery Comics #5 in my hands. I was friends with a dealer and he knew I'd want to see it. So he let me look at it. I flipped through and read the entire Electro story. Totally crazy Golden Age crack. I loved it! That was all I read though. I got kind of nervous holding it. We were at a restaurant. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 22, 2015 16:06:46 GMT -5
Plus I've heard for ultra-expensive items like this they charge a much higher rate, partially to cover insurance.
This is true. High ticket books cost a percentage of market value to get slabbed. If you have a nice Action #1 my guess is it will probably be low-mid 5 digits to get it slabbed. CGC has in the past had to eat the costs of books when there was an issue with the slabbing process; for example, I know they had to buy a mid-grade Journey Into Mystery #83 from a collector after they messed up the slabbing. So they charge more for higher price books as a contingency. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 17:01:33 GMT -5
If I collected books in hopes to turn around and sell them for money, yes, I would slab that rare copy of Whatever from 1930-whatever.
But I don't collect like that. I collect to read.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 17:27:17 GMT -5
By the way, I've told the tale either here or at our old home that my long time buddy had bought a very nice copy back in the early 1970s and finally sold it 2 1/2 years ago. Held it in my hand before it got slabbed. Told the story how he left it by his door in a bag and forgot to take it in his apartment and freaked out the next morning when it was missing from the hallway. I told you that story, didn't I? I vaguely remember it on cbr I think, tell us again. And why oh why did you not take a selfie with it? I would...in my Batman leggings too. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 22, 2015 19:17:34 GMT -5
By the way, I've told the tale either here or at our old home that my long time buddy had bought a very nice copy back in the early 1970s and finally sold it 2 1/2 years ago. Held it in my hand before it got slabbed. Told the story how he left it by his door in a bag and forgot to take it in his apartment and freaked out the next morning when it was missing from the hallway. I told you that story, didn't I? I vaguely remember it on cbr I think, tell us again. And why oh why did you not take a selfie with it? I would...in my Batman leggings too. OK, the case of the missing Action #1 was on the CBR board a few yers back and now wiped out. So I'll tell it again very soon. To do it justice it needs to be broken into several short chapters and I'll spread them out a bit to build suspense,. Thrills, chills, heartbreak, salvation, character building, irony and shock ending-Its a good one. Coming soon to a new thread. Names will be changed to protect...me. |
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 23, 2015 2:31:01 GMT -5
Ah slabbing. I bought a slabbed comic once and I got it and was like umm...I can't read it. And this was why I never bought another. I feel comics should be read. At the same time, I get slabbing a super rare or valuable book to preserve it for future generations to enjoy. While I will never slab my books, I am glad there are people who do. How are those future generations going to enjoy it? They won't be able to read the thing, either! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2015 2:59:13 GMT -5
How are those future generations going to enjoy it? They won't be able to read the thing, either! That's a serious misconception. If they have to read it, they can simply crack open the slab, remove the book, open it and read it. The grade becomes nullified...but the price paid for being indifferent about the slab. Again, if I have a slabbed book and a normal bagged copy of the same book in perhaps a lower grade, why must I bust open the NM copy and get my cadbury stained fingers all over it? That's what the reading copy is for. |
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If I've got a 9.6 in a slab and an 8.0 in a regular bag and board, or a (full) reprint in HC, I don't see the need to break open a slab.
