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4/10/2016 Topic: Slabbed Books Oxbladder	PGX's inner sleeve is Barex (a polyester film) CGC uses Mylar and CBCS uses another polyester film. Mylar used for comics and other paper is type D. Not all polyester films meet the archival storage needs. For CGC the reason they suggest reholdering books every 7-10 years is that the micro chamber paper will no longer be absorbing any gases past that period of time. edited by Oxbladder on 4/10/2016
4/10/2016 Topic: Slabbed Books Oxbladder	Well, there is nothing wrong with cracking books out of slabs. Plenty of people do it. It is a preference and while there are decent reasons to keep books in the slab there really is nothing wrong with taking them out either. Since you are storing them in Mylar they are still well protected (providing that you are not using a regular board). Though I don't know for sure I would say that the fact that an unslabbed book may breath easier they might be slightly better off than staying in the slab.
4/12/2016 Topic: Slabbed Books Oxbladder	Perfect! You are good to go! You shouldn't have to worry about bags and boards for those puppies for the rest of your lifetime!
4/12/2016 Topic: Oxbladder's stuff 3.0 Oxbladder	Gilgandra wrote: Your a comic book purchasing machine Ox! What did you think of Tokyo Ghost ? Adventure Time Vol.8 (Damn) i need to get some of those. Just buying the odd book or what ever i can afford at the time, Although i am buying the Ice king series at the moment. I like your All New X-Men #4 green cover, reminds me of UXM #50. Thanks Gil! The weeks add up quickly. I have been getting a ton of stuff lately. It was a very buy two months for me. In two week I got 10 trades or hard covers alone! I haven't had a chance to read Tokyo Ghost. It got added to my rather large to read pile They just recently solicited the ninth trade so you better catch up! Yeah I like that ANXM #4 cover too! Bagley runs hot and cold for me, but he nailed that cover. Very dramatic.
4/12/2016 Topic: Slabbed Books Oxbladder	BburgDaddy-o wrote: May be a dumb question, but does cracking the slab in any way affect the CGC grade or lessen potential value if sold with slab having been cracked open at some time? As mentioned in the previous post it will affect the value. If you plan on selling a slab down the road it is best to keep it in the slab. If it is staying in your collection then having it slabbed is not necessary. Though it could facilitate your heir best market value should you pass on (or you should you wish to sell before your demise). There are pluses and minuses both ways and thus it is completely up to each collector what they do. Heck who's to say that slabbed books will continue to command a premium? The foundations all the companies stand upon are fairly shaky.
4/12/2016 Topic: The Jungle Book Oxbladder	Thanks for the opinion! I think it looks pretty darn good. I laughed when I saw the first trailer but it eventually won me over to the point where I will see it when I get the chance to.
4/12/2016 Topic: Epic Auction find! Oxbladder	Sounds like a neat pick-up. There were several options for remaindering books. The most common was to tear the title bar off and return those to the distributor. And, yes, the rest of the book was to be destroyed. One could definitely not sell the leftover book.. however, there are no laws, that I know of, preventing the worker/owner from keeping the leftover to read. I kept a few remaindered paperbacks when I worked in a bookstore. (It was a painful thing to have to rip covers off ) edited by Oxbladder on 4/12/2016
4/14/2016 Topic: Missing Variant Issues... Oxbladder	Perhaps the person or persons responsible have been too busy with other issues/duties? This should have been posed in the Missing Issues forum or CPG questions.
4/15/2016 Topic: Comic Book Eras Oxbladder	Scrap all era names. They have run their course.
4/17/2016 Topic: Comic Book Eras Oxbladder	If I am not mistaken Showcase #4, not 96 is the launch of the silver age. IMHO the problem with having named eras is that it is going to become harder and harder to do as time goes on because the start and cut-off points become more and more problematic. Not to mention it drives the community to do more and more silly things to market books rather than selling on the book's own merits. For example, the need now to reassign when silver-age hero times began. Wonder Woman was one hero that never stopped publishing but her "first" silver-age appearance is now supposedly #98 and not #85. It is argued that her origin was slightly tweaked at this time give credence to this redefinition of the first SA appearance. It should be noted that her origin was tweaked before and a few times after. Anyone who has ever put any concerted effort into collecting WW from this time period and before knows that 98 is a key and very hard to find in any condition. It really isn't the first SA WW. That designation justly belongs to #85. To be perfectly honest it cannot be applied to WW at all as the character never stopped being published from inception in the 40's. The naming of the eras also fails to acknowledge anything other than the big two which is so very wrong. Never mind the fact that it over shadows so many other thing which collectors should consider when buying books. OH and size of books have overlap. Golden age books were larger in the 30's and early 40's. Then they start taking on the sizes more common to the silver age. However, there were some books, such as Dells that were large than their other 50's counterparts. DCs had 3 different sizes in the silver age Atlas/Marvel 2. Bronze had two. edited by Oxbladder on 4/17/2016
4/17/2016 Topic: Comic Book Eras Oxbladder	The books are never over produced. Yes publishers will milk ANY AND ALL trends but they will never ever produce more than the market demands. The crash of the 90's had little to do with "gimmicks" and everything to do with what was happening in the hobby at that time. If anyone has not noticed the gimmicks are still very much here and very much supported by the collector and are producing a large number of excess books and poor publishing and retailing habits. Habits that had devastating consequences for the hobby in the 90's. The quality of writing took a dip in the 90's but that was sadly supported by virtually all collectors that were wowed by the glitz of the new art styles that were taking shape through the 90's. Style took priority over substance. However, this would not play a factor in the 90's crash either. This played a roll later in the 90's.
4/17/2016 Topic: Confirmation Needed: Major Force Oxbladder	The Annual is the first appearance. I don't have the books so it may be that it is only a brief appearance in the annual while Captain Atom is the first full story with MF. (Kinda like the Wolverine appearance in Hulk 180/181
4/19/2016 Topic: 2nd printing values Oxbladder	benpartain12 wrote: what about The Dark Knight Returns? where does it say 2nd print if it is? The UPC may be the source here. If it ends in a 2 then it is a second print.
4/20/2016 Topic: Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice Variant Polybag Oxbladder	The UPC can tell you. Refer to the last section on this web page (this holds true for most publishers btw): http://comicbase.com/ComicBase_Confidential/2013-8/August_2013_Confidential.html
4/20/2016 Topic: Mis-print pricing Oxbladder	They were printed at the same printer. An error like this would likely not increase the value on the book except in very rare cases. There are no values for misprints because they are scarce and who would consider them more valuable and how much is going to vary widely. It is completely subjective. The only misprints that often have more value are multiple covers and recalls. The rest are more often than not going to hurt the value.
5/1/2016 Topic: Marketplace Transactions Oxbladder	Wow. This thread is still going?
5/3/2016 Topic: Unrealistic pricing on books for sale Oxbladder	lealew7 wrote: That is why i like to verify my prices for any comic i own or plan to buy, just so i am not getting ripped off and i am not asking some stupidly ridiculous price. i am not aiming to sell anything i have at the moment, but if i am lucky, they will still continue to grow in some ways; especially when the quality of comics are starting to falter as they continue to be mass produced so regularly. i miss the old paper pages and vintage hand drawn art and processing; now its all digital and you can buy them online as e-comics now like the e-books. i love owning my collection and searching for actual comic books. there is no value with those stupid e-comics and if you loose all your back up or data, then what; or a crash on a server; or even a hacker. no thanks, i will stick to what i do best, collect actual items, not imaginary You can lose your paper collection very easily, too. Ever hear of fire or theft? BTW if you legally purchase your ebooks or e-comics they are also available from the source again if you "lose" them. Also, it isn't about the collecting if you are buying digital it is about the READING. You also do not have open or handle the paper version thus not risking any damage.
5/16/2016 Topic: Question about printing flaw Oxbladder	In theory production damage does not hurt the grade as much as post production. However, I do not subscribe to this line of thinking because most books will come off the line with maybe a minor alignment issue to nothing at all. In this case the blades used in trimming this book were not sharp and that is what has caused the damage. There appears to be an associated tear as well. I would grade the book first like it had been trimmed with sharp blades then drop the grade two from there. If the bad trimming and misaligned cut have further affect the insides in some way, intruding into panels to disrupt the story then I would drop it down even further depending. I can forgive misaligned cuts/wraps and some other production defects only so much and this book is an example where I would not be so forgiving. Ultimately this book should never have made it out of the printer's.
5/16/2016 Topic: Captain America: Civil War Oxbladder	It was okay. I wasn't as wowed as I expected to be. Dare I say that Marvel movies are becoming a bit routine?
5/27/2016 Topic: DC Rebirth Oxbladder	Ugh.