tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post3246234941752237081..comments2023-07-06T03:35:50.840-05:00Comments on Comics in Crisis: CGC Comics - Comics Under Glass?Brian Reaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086329859116256261noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post-752927532051457952009-10-11T05:37:40.693-05:002009-10-11T05:37:40.693-05:00I have never bought a cgc comic book. Mostly cause...I have never bought a cgc comic book. Mostly cause I can't affod it. If I ever did then you can be sure I would crack open that plastic and read it. If I can afford to buy it I can afford to send it back to be cgc again. <br />However, buying a cheaper readable version is good too.<br />I do think that to others who don't collect comic books we do look dumb to buy an expensive book that we can't read. To many we have looked dumb for keeping them after we read them the first time.Rick L. Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447083825248853313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post-34097144251749988852009-10-09T04:44:00.972-05:002009-10-09T04:44:00.972-05:00"Is a serious comic book collector one who sp..."Is a serious comic book collector one who spends hundreds of dollars on a comic he can never read?"<br /><br />Yes, a serious collector is that sort of guy. Although you can be both, a serious comic book lover <b>might not</b> be that sort of guy or girl.<br /><br />Would I? Very unlikely - one mint purchase or several purchases? Not a tough choice for me.OHarahttp://www.wastingwords.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post-3609829773070311082009-10-07T23:36:31.332-05:002009-10-07T23:36:31.332-05:00i'm generally against slabbed books as i agree...i'm generally against slabbed books as i agree that the best part about a comic is reading it (or at least flipping through the pages and smelling ink on newsprint). and i think it's even worse to pay extra for them. you might as well collect stamps.<br /><br />i will admit to owning two slabbed books, an 8.0 Flash 219, which i bought on ebay for the princely sum of $4.51 and a 7.5 copy of the holy grail of Silver Age DC, Flash 123 which i bought for quite a bit more. this was also off of eBay and having bought NM comics that looked like they had been folded in half with writing on them before, i wanted some assurance that the comic was in the condition described. i definitely would not have paid what seems to be the premium others are paying for a CGC graded book (the price seemed to be inline with what other non CGC'd copies were going for.lilbaggienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post-51086669809737342832009-10-07T06:55:21.226-05:002009-10-07T06:55:21.226-05:00I gave up on comics as an actual "hobby"...I gave up on comics as an actual "hobby" when P-G-VG-NM-M expanded to two dozen or so more variations. By the time we got to the CGC thing, it just made no sense to me anymore. I once owned the first 400 issues of FANTASTIC FOUR and I liked to take them out of their bags, sniff that lovely rotting pulp paper smell and roll around on the floor with them like Scrooge McDuck in his money bin! Then I would--gasp--read a bunch as I rebagged them for the rest of the afternoon. THAT to me is the reason to collect comics! BTW--I was in my thirties at the time!Bookstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088987141848715305.post-25741914459880392732009-10-05T13:48:40.111-05:002009-10-05T13:48:40.111-05:00Personally, I can't see myself ever buying a C...Personally, I can't see myself ever buying a CGC Graded comic, but I've always been way out on the "buy to read" side of this... to a point where there are some issues that might have been worth some money in my collection if I hadn't read them until the cover fell off! However, I DO own some issues in good condition that I bought just to own the special edition cover or something, and I've considered sending those variants of to be graded since I already own a reading copy. But part of the fun in that lies in the fact that I found something special at my local comic book store, and I want to showcase my find. Buying it already pre-graded... that, to me, seems more of a "look how much I was willing to spend!" mentality than "look what my dedicated comic book store visits have yielded!"Mike-Elnoreply@blogger.com