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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 6:47:58 GMT -5
If I can find the posts (yeah that'll happen) I might be able to reverse engineer how to do it by looking at it in edit/BBCode mode instead of the normal reading mode, but it might take me a week to track down the posts as it was quite some time ago... -M There's a button called Insert User Link that might do it? I've inserted some here just to test it. @coldwater coke & comics @mrp Also, I think grading is inevitable for any kind of collectible. It's just human nature. I mean, high grade Magic the Gathering cards command a premium even though it doesn't matter what condition the card is when you're playing the game. Yessssss! Thank you.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 6:49:45 GMT -5
But being able to tag people would be less stalker-like.  There is a way to tag people. Jez tagged me a few times and it showed up in my notifications, but I don't actually know how to do it... -M Yeah, I wanted to get Adam's attention yesterday in the "What are you listening to now?" thread, but I had to quote him so that he'd get a notification. But Crimebuster just showed how to tag people. YAY. |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 25, 2016 7:22:04 GMT -5
If I can find the posts (yeah that'll happen) I might be able to reverse engineer how to do it by looking at it in edit/BBCode mode instead of the normal reading mode, but it might take me a week to track down the posts as it was quite some time ago... -M There's a button called Insert User Link that might do it? I've inserted some here just to test it. @coldwater coke & comics@mrp Also, I think grading is inevitable for any kind of collectible. It's just human nature. I mean, high grade Magic the Gathering cards command a premium even though it doesn't matter what condition the card is when you're playing the game. I love getting schooled on site functions. Thanks for this! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 7:54:01 GMT -5
I am totally. sucked. into. your. story. I cannot stop reading it! And I have so many things to do this morning which are being put off, obviously, so that I can read this story! Phil just left his Action #1 outside his door (LORD, WHHHHYYYY?). |
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Post by Trevor on Jan 25, 2016 8:26:43 GMT -5
And if your child comes home with a report card full of D and F grades, are you going to march into the principal's office and ask "Why. When and How did this horrid practice of grading begin?" That's a bit apples and oranges don't you think? |
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Post by marvelmaniac on Jan 25, 2016 8:49:59 GMT -5
I just spent 7 month's (July- January) grading, cataloging and photographing 2400 of our 3600 books for Insurance Reasons Only.
Should something happen (God Forbid) I would want to be reimbursed somewhat for the last 36 years of collecting.
I am still collecting although these days it is more to complete my runs (Pre-Hero Hero and Western) than to read and have no plans on selling any at any time, however...
My heirs will probably feel differently and maybe the grading will help them.
As far as CGC...
I own two slabbed books(TTA #1 and Transformers 80) only because I needed them to complete runs and the price was right at the time.
Some people enjoy just looking at the covers which I still do to this day so IMO sealed in plastic or in a Mylite, 6 of one, half dozen of the other.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 25, 2016 12:14:39 GMT -5
This again? There is nothing wrong with someone having a book slabbed. You can agree or disagree. It is their personal preference. You may not agree but then so what? If it's a book from the Golden Age and there aren't many copies in that condition than yeah I would totally have it slabbed. I can always read it in another form. I don't understand it when people get all upset and must make ANOTHER thread dealing with stabbing. It's that's person's choice and I don't see how it's any of your concern what they do with the book. The way I see it "comic collecting" covers two hobbies: collecting comics "for content" and collecting comics "as objects," for lack of better terms. There has always been some overlap, but they're growing farther apart due to much easier access to older comic stories on the one side, and practices like stricter grading, stabbing, and price inflation on the other. Slabbing or not slabbing, doesn't matter to me either way, it's the individual's choice. But I have to take a stand against this apparently new practice of " stabbing". Please, please do not stab your comics. Or your relatives. This can only lead to problems in the future. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 12:19:14 GMT -5
I love the stabbing typos.
They are the best.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 12:54:23 GMT -5
This again? There is nothing wrong with someone having a book slabbed. You can agree or disagree. It is their personal preference. You may not agree but then so what? If it's a book from the Golden Age and there aren't many copies in that condition than yeah I would totally have it slabbed. I can always read it in another form. I don't understand it when people get all upset and must make ANOTHER thread dealing with stabbing. It's that's person's choice and I don't see how it's any of your concern what they do with the book. The way I see it "comic collecting" covers two hobbies: collecting comics "for content" and collecting comics "as objects," for lack of better terms. There has always been some overlap, but they're growing farther apart due to much easier access to older comic stories on the one side, and practices like stricter grading, stabbing, and price inflation on the other. Slabbing or not slabbing, doesn't matter to me either way, it's the individual's choice. But I have to take a stand against this apparently new practice of " stabbing". Please, please do not stab your comics. Or your relatives. This can only lead to problems in the future.  * BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH...I DO NOT CONDONE STABBING OF ANY KIND * |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 25, 2016 13:10:05 GMT -5
And if your child comes home with a report card full of D and F grades, are you going to march into the principal's office and ask "Why. When and How did this horrid practice of grading begin?" That's a bit apples and oranges don't you think? Yes, I'm sure apples and oranges get graded. I know the USDA grades meat and eggs too. Little children get graded, restaurants you visit get graded, publically traded stocks on Wall St. are graded.. everything of general interest and value gets graded with comparable values. Yet comics should not be graded because...why? |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 25, 2016 19:16:34 GMT -5
I read something recently about the intricacies of evaluating shea butter. The genetics of the trees and the climate in which they're grown create an incredible variety of characteristics.
The book was called Fifty Grades of Shea.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 25, 2016 20:17:27 GMT -5
I read something recently about the intricacies of evaluating shea butter. The genetics of the trees and the climate in which they're grown create an incredible variety of characteristics. The book was called Fifty Grades of Shea. Besides a like button we need a "groan" button as well |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 25, 2016 20:29:42 GMT -5
I couldn't begin to guess at the psychology behind it - A comic is either readable or not, and obsessing over minute differences between different copies seems like.... well, a waste of time even by the standards of fandom in general.
And the POINT of fandom (as I see it) is caring about really, really stupid $%^&.
So, yeah, I think it's stupid.
But it's probably driven prices on lower grade but still perfectly readable copies down, so it indirectly benefits me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 20:54:06 GMT -5
I read something recently about the intricacies of evaluating shea butter. The genetics of the trees and the climate in which they're grown create an incredible variety of characteristics. The book was called Fifty Grades of Shea. Besides a like button we need a "groan" button as well Sometimes (though, rare), I think i'd love a "stfu" button. That could come in handy. Am I the only one? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 20:59:36 GMT -5
I need to go back and re-read the golden age stuff, but I'm pretty sure Namor didn't get temper-tantrum-pissed under Everett, like he does now, the bronze age, and the silver age. Everett's Namor always struck me as going straight for the target, and then taking care of business without saying AS much. Silver age Namor was when we started seeing him acting out when he got angry, I *think*. That's when Namor would break his own toys AND everyone else's. I love both takes on the character, but I love Everett's art the best. His Namor made most sense. I've only read a handful of those Golden Age stories, but I do recall Namor being temperamental even then.  Okay, you are right. I just reread his second story, and he got startled by some humans and tripped on a live wire, he then got pissed and ripped a steel bar and threw it at the crowd below. I still love him, though. And he is not nearly as wordy or arrogant. |
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