Great video! Love learning about non-USA comics

@StillOnly35c

2 ай бұрын

Non-USA comics are like hidden treasures waiting to be discovered. Glad you enjoyed the journey!

Thank you for sharing your experience with submitting these books. Interesting to learn that these are too big to get graded. Just found your channel and subscribed. Looking forward to watching more of your videos.

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

I appreciate your support youtube.com/@MoneyballComics. I'm glad you found the book submission experience interesting and useful. Hopefully my mistake helps others submitting 2000AD books.

Some pretty cool books in there, disappointing to not be able to encapsulate the larger books. We did meet at Baltimore CC at the Bronze & Modern Gods booth. Hope you have better success in future submissions!

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thanks Jim @bronzevillecomics2581, I really enjoyed your recent video with the collection you purchased as well, there was some awesome hidden gems in there. I remember us meeting at Baltimore although I wasn't YouTubing at that point. Hopefully we'll catchup again soon at another show.

Usually when CGC grades books you'll get a favorable grade. Thanks for sharing, overall a nice set of books.

@StillOnly35c

2 ай бұрын

I appreciate your kind words about this set of books Brian; usually, I do ok, but this for this one I really messed up.

I, too, am too big to be authenticated by CGC. Great video and gorgeous books!

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Haha, nice one, maybe we should start a "Too Big for CGC" club!😄 Appreciate the support youtube.com/@LettuceComics!

Tough lesson learned but it still sucks that it happened.

@StillOnly35c

2 ай бұрын

I totally understand, sometimes the hardest lessons are the ones that stick with us the most.

Very excited when 2000AD came out originally, nearest thing to the American Comics I enjoyed at the time. I remember buying 10 copies of each from #1 to #10 (I did work in a newsagent at the time, week-end job) over the years I sold them, didn't get that much for them in comparison to now, wish I had kept a couple of #2's, lol! I believe I did collect them up to issue #700, can't remember why I stopped, probably space along with my other numerous collections!

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thanks youtube.com/@Deadman-rt8dq, Sounds like you had quite the collection with 2000AD! It's always fun to look back on our collecting days and even reminisce about the treasures we let go.

@Deadman1957TEB

Ай бұрын

@@StillOnly35c I still remember the day in July 1984 when I sold (gave away really, with the prices today, 😥) my collection that went back to 1957. One of many books in that collection sells for more than I got for the entire collection! But it did give me a deposit on a flat and a car, so a silver lining of sorts!

New subscriber, just found your channel after your live today at heroes con. Great to see some UK comics on the channel. Always stayed away from 2000 AD, but i learnt a lot from this video. I'm UK based myself. I understand your from Australia but I thought for sure you were british!!! Great channel, keep it up.

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Nice to have you onboard youtube.com/@MJComix and thanks for the feedback. I'm an Australian now, but you are correct, I'm originally British; thus I'm glad you enjoy the coverage on the UK books, there is plenty more UK focused content coming.

What cool books. Judd dread is a neat character

@StillOnly35c

2 ай бұрын

I appreciate your positive feedback! It's always great to connect with fellow fans of cool books and awesome characters like Judge Dredd.

Good evening David. Nowq indeed you know all you need to know about submitting 2000ad to CGC. I am guessing low demand will preclude them intoducing new case sizes. The moulds would be too expensive to produce. Great show anyway. Cheers Al The Goldkeyfourcolorkidownunda

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment, Al (youtube.com/@alancarr7718), it's always great to hear from you. I'm still holding out hope that one day they will find a way, but for now it's informing my switch from grading everything and keeping my books RAW in the collection.

I found this vid really interesting. Im UK based and have been in conversation with CGC about UK issue comics for years. They have assured me that they now take into account the inferior paper quality used in the UK , that they will also take into consideration that the vast majority of issues had newsagents delivery notes i.e. an address somewhere on the front of back cover and that a comic missing its free gift will still get a blue label but will have " distributed with xxxxxx not included" somewhere on the blue label. They will not slab comics with hard gifts, such as badges , toys etc so wouldnt punish the comic if those had been removed in order to get a grade. At the moment CGC will not budge on tape used to affix a free gift to the cover but I am arguing that as it was placed on the comic at source by the publisher it should be considered a publishing defect rather than the comic being downgraded . Also shameless plug Im selling the only graded copy of Starlord #3 CGC 9.2 with free gift. The series was the forerunner to 2000AD .

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the detailed comment youtube.com/@richardwaddington2038, glad you found the video valuable and thanks for sharing your insights on CGC and UK issue comics! It's fascinating to hear about the considerations they take into account; appreciate your own feedback on some of these books and how CGC treat them. Given I've submitted and will be submitting more UK books, I'm certainly planning more videos like this to help out fellow collectors on how CGC handles UK books and free gifts to keep UK interested/based collectors updated. Additionally, I think you, I and youtube.com/@bronzeandmoderngods are on a CGC forum thread discussing this very topic in the hope to get some better clarity on how these books are considered by CGC. Oh, and good luck with selling that Starlord #3 (although worth noting 2000AD came first - Starlord was May 1978; 2000AD hit stands over a year beforehand in Feb 1977)

@richardwaddington2038

Ай бұрын

@@StillOnly35c Hi and thanks for the info , always good to update my knowledge , I wonder why I was convinced StarLord came first ? My memory isnt what it was. Also I think I am correct in saying that a comic with tape on the cover currently cant get higher than an 8.0 but happy to be proved wrong in that.

@richardwaddington2038

16 күн бұрын

@@StillOnly35c Hi Again , I have recently submitted 40 UK comics to CGC for grading. Many with "flat" free gifts . If its of interest I will let you know how they come back . All Marvel UK tho.

Glad you had a win overall David. I've never submitted comics for grading although I will drop a few off at our Aussie grader, HALO, when I'm in Qld. later this year. Considering that CGC will grade and encapsulate concert posters, you'd think they could source slabs for 2000AD suitable for both the original dimensions and the new measurements from #129 on.

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thanks youtube.com/@charliedogg7683, it was certainly a mixed bag this submission, but lesson learned. I'm a CGC or CBCS guy myself, but good luck with the Halo submission. Let's hope someday, CGC increase the size of the magazine slabs to be able to grade those later 2000ADs.

Wonderful 2000AD lot. Did you find out what "paper lift" meant in the Grader's notes? Thanks!

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thanks Phil youtube.com/@philcamacho127. Found details on Paper Lift defiition in the The Official CGC Guide to Grading Comics (www.cgccomics.com/news/article/10586/cgc-guide-grading-comics-nelson/). According to the book, It is "the loss of paper and ink from a top surface of a cover, occuring whne the cover has stuck to anothersurface and pulled appart, or when a foriegn substance has stuck to the cover and was mechanically removed. Extensive paper lift most often occurs when a stack of comics is exposed to moisture, causing the covers to stick to each other. Localised paper lift usually involves the removal of a substance, a sticker, or glue remnants. Paper lift occuring from tape is classified as tape pull." Seems that the tape removal lead to the paper lift designation.

I am the law!!

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and supporting www.youtube.com/@tysonlafrance9203!

I had one order that was intended for clean & press and that work wasn't done. I had to send them back in (at CGC's cost, they can tell if it went through the right systems) and they covered the costs. Btw, I love the UK books, have a decent collection of them for an American ;)

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that youtube.com/@oldmankaens, I've had similar experiences with CGC cleaning and pressing; good news is that they at least will try to address the issues at their expense usually.

What a great submission! Good advice about understanding the size of the comics/magazines we send in. Nice that you still got grader notes on the submissions they weren’t able to slab. I assume they charged you a rejection fee and didn’t assign a grade?

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thanks kzread.info, I'm glad you found the advice helpful! It's always good to share experiences, good or bad as it helps inform others. On the rejected books, they obviously charged the cleaning and pressing, but they didn't charge me for the grading or a rejection fee in this case because unlike a pre-screen there is no information on sizes before submitting. And yes, there was no grade, just the grading notes.

Just wondering how issue 1 gets a blue label without the space spinner? Do you send it in, and they send it back ? Also, shouldn't tape on the front be a manufacturers defect? Very informative video, unfortunately my 2000AD collection (I brought it from the very beginning as a Sci-Fi obsessed 11 year old) has vanished over the years, apart from a box of about 25 very low grade issues. 🙄

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Hi youtube.com/@2ndbestbob28, thanks for the comment. On the 2000AD Prog 1, yes, in my experience, they send back the space spinner seperated from the book and grade with tape as a defect. There is an ongoing discussion on the forums where we are asking CGC's position on tape is these instances as they were part of the manufactruring process (boards.cgccomics.com/topic/535495-real-ghostbusters-1-marvel-uk-manufactured-with-tape-on-cover-question/#comment-13195602).

I made a worse mistake I collected almost all of those and left them at my parents who gave them away . Do I win?

@MetalBum

2 ай бұрын

Same exact thing happened to me. They gave my “magazine cartoons” away 🤦‍♂️

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story www.youtube.com/@Chris-ty7fw; sadly I think we both lost in this instance. At least it's comforting to know we're not alone in both our mishaps.

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

I can't believe that happened to you too www.youtube.com/@MetalBum!

So they're too big for magazine size?

@StillOnly35c

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment. Yes, 2000AD Prog 129 onwards are even too big for CGC's Magazine slabs. Prior to those Progs, you can safely submit books without them getting rejected.

Great comics

@StillOnly35c

Ай бұрын

Thank you kindly www.youtube.com/@MetalBum!