shaxper
CCF Site Custodian
Posts: 22,871
|
Post by shaxper on Nov 11, 2014 18:29:03 GMT -5
I think it might have been the same episode. Googlefu! Steve Allen's pog was in the episdoe "Round Springfield near the end of season six. Alf's pog was in Bart Sells His Soul near the start of season seven in 1995. Who'd have thought pogs survived more than half a season of the Simpsons? Then again, who'd have thought The Simpsons would survive 1989? |
|
|
|
Post by Randle-El on Nov 11, 2014 23:05:03 GMT -5
I think it's interesting how there were certain aspects of the sports card boom that were mirrored in the comics boom and vice versa. In the same way that comics publishers started experimenting with gimmicks to create what I call "manufactured collectibility" (holograms, foil stamping, etc), so too did the sports card manufacturers. You had companies like Upper Deck and Image Comics -- upstart newcomers challenging the established players in their respective markets with products that seemed "edgy" at the time. And both hobbies attracted speculators who weren't even interested in the central aspect of each -- folks who didn't care about sports, and folks who didn't even bother to read the stories printed in the comics.
|
|
shaxper
CCF Site Custodian
Posts: 22,871
|
Post by shaxper on Nov 11, 2014 23:59:05 GMT -5
Don't forget Sportflix, my favorite sports card gimmick of the 1980s   |
|
shaxper
CCF Site Custodian
Posts: 22,871
|
Post by shaxper on Nov 12, 2014 0:00:14 GMT -5
And really, can't we argue that CGC is yet another extension of comics borrowing from other collectible hobbies? Slabbing made a lot more sense for coins and sports cards than it did for comics where the main attraction was (presumably) the content within.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2014 0:50:48 GMT -5
I still think slabbing has a sensible purpose, but not on hot modern variant covers, all of which I suspect will be worth less than the plastic and hologram used in the slab in a decades time.
But people who buy a copy of Detective 27 haven't been doing so for the contents for a long time. It's a very expensive book, and even before CGC grade mattered. The more you handle it, the more likely you are to damage it, and you could lose tens of thousands of dollars on resale. So I think most high grade Action 1 owners would have been caring for them very carefully. Maybe flipping through it once just for the thrill, but never because they needed to know what the story was like. It's available all over in reprint format if you want to read it.
So with internet sales of these big books, an impartial grade is kind of like jewelery with an appraisal, guaranteeing the grade of diamond stuffed in the bracelet. For people who either can't inspect it first hand before bidding, or who do not possess the expertise to grade properly.
And even then, I think the price differences between a 9.6 and a 9.8 is stupid.
|
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Nov 12, 2014 14:47:08 GMT -5
And really, can't we argue that CGC is yet another extension of comics borrowing from other collectible hobbies? Slabbing made a lot more sense for coins and sports cards than it did for comics where the main attraction was (presumably) the content within. Yes. Yes we can. And even then, I think the price differences between a 9.6 and a 9.8 is stupid. Yes. Yes it is. |
|
