rgtichy

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3/25/2021 Topic: Graded 9.8 vs 9.6 Do you think the market? rgtichy	IMHO though when your grading scale is both anal but you allow exceptions and qualified grades your grading scale is pretty much compromised. Yup.
3/26/2021 Topic: How to send member a direct Message rgtichy	You have to do it from the "other" part of the site, not in the forums. go back to home search up a member in the community feature look to the top right but under the black bar where it'll have a small profile summary and a blue button says "Message Me"
3/27/2021 Topic: Defiant1's Random & Odd Comic Art Collection rgtichy	These are pretty cool! The Brunner cover art is awesome. I don't think I know anything about Defiant Comics, though. I assume your profile indicates some kind of ties?
3/28/2021 Topic: Comic Book Pressing and Cleaning rgtichy	Ronbatman wrote: Here's a closeup with a before and after picture. Some dirt cannot be removed but there is a dramatic difference with the right tools. This specific book used 4 different methods for cleaning. edited by ronbatman on 3/18/2021 Hey, Ron, I have a question about whites that have yellowed over time. Do any of the cleaning processes help restore the whiteness if the cover has yellowed a little? Thor 337 has a lot of white on the cover (and the cover paper is really thin, too!)
3/31/2021 Topic: Batman #255 rgtichy	pukie2122 wrote: 100 pagers are getting harder and harder to find in better grade. When they surface in high grade, I see them selling for high prices. Yeah those glue bindings from the mid 1970's are really difficult to keep nice. Spine roll is really difficult and the 'wear factor' is very high on the glue binding, on top of the original state not being super accurate to begin with. The staple bindings had a higher degree of accuracy than the glue bindings, it seems to me. I just picked up a 9.4 Batman Family #6 (with Duella Dent, aka (at that time) The Joker's Daughter) and it was not cheap. But I had one as a kid and thought it'd be nice to have a really good copy now, so....
3/31/2021 Topic: Batman #255 rgtichy	Is a glue binding a good candidate for cleaning and pressing, Ron? That "9.0" could look a lot better if it were cleaner. The chips will be there, still, but I wonder if pressing might exacerbate the glue messiness I think I see on the white in the back?
4/1/2021 Topic: Flash #140, Volume 1 rgtichy	Yeah, that makes very little sense. There is a cost to getting something graded, and that grade once it is done and paid for stands as a "third party" opinion for the condition of the book on any future transaction. That alone is worth "Something." For a lot of modern books, though, the CGC grade is correctly worth "Not Much" since there is potentially (still) a large population of books in great condition that are ungraded.
4/3/2021 Topic: Feature request - Sales and want lists addition rgtichy	I was just perusing the for sale offerings of one member (he has a good amount of the DC mystery/horror/occult title) and I found myself rather annoyed at the prospect of reaching out over single issues, when I'd be more interested in assembling a pile of books to discuss/"haggle" over. I'd like to see a way to search a seller's listings and assemble something like a shopping cart, but call it a "stack of books" and then place a bulk offer on that. The whole thing should be driven to allow for a back and forth before a deal is completed. Other things I noticed: Individual Books for sale do not link through to the cpg entry for the book. I'd prefer that 9.4 rated books for sale are required to supply a photo, because of the default value for collection entry being 9.4 The paging function for sellers' books for sale is very strange. it claims to show 50 entries but almost never does, the "next" tag nearly always returns no results even when paging from the seller's books with no alphabetic filter applied. The phone app(s) could be a great way for sellers to add photos of their books for sale. Let them authorize the app to use a dropbox account (or similar) take the photos store them immediately in the cloud and then use the link for the listing.
4/5/2021 Topic: Captain America #275 & 276 rgtichy	Is the first appearance of Jason Todd noted as the first appearance of the Red Hood?! Jason Todd debuted in Batman #357 (March 1983) and made his first full appearance in Detective Comics #525 (April 1983), but it wasn't until later that year when he would appear in costume as Robin in Batman #366 (Dec 1983) when he showed up towards the end of the story to help Batman fight the Joker. Red Hood appears in Batman #625, as a character whose identity is Jason Todd.
4/13/2021 Topic: Moving Overseas rgtichy	That link is pretty good. I would say that one thing that worked very well for me was to use pallet wrap on the boxes. I didn't worry about the handles, but I wrapped each box very heavily. Another nice thing: the wrap sticks to itself, so once the boxes are placed inside a moving container, they all sort of "glue" into one big object instead of tipping or slipping. (But I never had to move by cargo ship, either.)
4/14/2021 Topic: Comic Age Question rgtichy	If it is open for discussion, I might suggest the modern age actually begins with something by Frank Miller, either Dark Knight Returns, or Ronin. If the Modern Age is to be characterized by the ascendancy of the roles of artists and storytellers as "Stars, in their own right" then that is close to where it begins.
4/14/2021 Topic: Gen: Lock #6 rgtichy	SO, I am sure this is the greatest thing, ever, and therefore UK variants of Issue #6 are highly prized and collectible?
5/1/2021 Topic: New Personalized Gains and Drops rgtichy	This is a Lesson, Ron: All new features are for Silver & Gold members and are merely touted to the free users, as valuable features they would have if they spent the price of 10 new comic books, yearly to manage their collection and stay appraised of its value. edited by rgtichy on 5/1/2021
5/3/2021 Topic: New Personalized Gains and Drops rgtichy	The feature is brand new, and they had little if any idea just how many "changes to value" would be normal for their members, in any two week period. So they set a limit on how many the free member would get to see, before realizing the free members were seeing all of their price changes. And if you were seeing all of your price changes, then there wasn't much reason to upgrade your account to get more of the feature. The error was at the beginning, when they gave the Bronze members too much, and then later took away some of that. You are right, that they took something from you, but if we only look at that new feature, they had nothing to give more of to Silver and Gold members, as you suggested. I wasn't being hostile to you as a Bronze member, per se. I was making the point that they would not have to take something away from Bronze members, if they gave it first to the Silver and Gold members, then learned what they want to give to Bronze members. Specifically to avoid the appearance of taking something away later. edited by rgtichy on 5/3/2021
5/3/2021 Topic: Daredevil #9 Values rgtichy	We call that "going parabolic" in the stock market. Seems pretty amazing for a book of so few years age, little loss due to age and high quality papers, and probably a high print run.
5/10/2021 Topic: Swamp Thing 25 NOT Constantine rgtichy	I don't see the character in the striped shirt as Sting or Constantine, in SotSW 25. I do think there is a possibility that the face in the DC Sampler is intended to be Constantine, but it doesn't look all that much like Sting, to be truthful about it.
5/10/2021 Topic: Ruk's list-Who has the best collection rgtichy	Well, let me just say "Happy Birthday!" and encourage you to stay active mentally; I've seen what happens when a person stops engaging, and it is not nice.
5/14/2021 Topic: Nitpicking words and numbers on a Friday night.... rgtichy	I looked at a guy's collection that is for sale. I was in his Comico publisher set, and Elementals said "41 issues" and I think I didn't remember the run being that long... I click into Elementals and can only find 28 "issues" but there's really only 6 issues with many copies or "comics". 1. The terminology seems muddled. 2. The counting mechanism seems wrong, too.
5/19/2021 Topic: Naming the Comic Book Ages rgtichy	The "Celluloid" age begins with movie adaptations galore? The Spider-Man trilogy, followed by Iron Man is in my mind, the moment when comics crossed over "forever" into a new age where recycling and refining the storylines for the movie medium took precedence. Going "52" and "Dark" everything was how DC brought itself into alignment with making movies from their characters, for real...
5/19/2021 Topic: Naming the Comic Book Ages rgtichy	Not surprisingly, I was logged out while I wrote a relatively short post!