Monsterous Recycling Idea! Ha!

[bigbud]

Hep...have you seen or know where to buy the Mylars with the beaded/non sharp opening?

[Hepcat]

No. I use Arklites and Mylites, but I'll keep an eye open for them when I'm perusing websites and visiting comic shops.

[Most Horrible]

Thanks bigbud for your reply. Yes I too would be concerned about handling with bare hands. Even if my hands were clean I'd be concerned about leaving a mark on the paper.  Cotton gloves would be helpful. I never thought about the ink.

-mh

[bigbud]

Right-o! It was cotton gloves I sent the wife out with. Even with the precautions I was sweating it out....wanted to be there personally for the photo shoot but couldn't get away....

[jimm]

Precarious to let stuff out of your sight at times. I recall as a kid finishing off a car model only to have a friend knock it off a shelf and burst in to laughter....don't associate with him any more...wonder why....people don't care about your stuff, that's the way you gotta approach it!

[bigbud]

Think I related the story of my experience at a Kansas City Comic Club meeting.....allowed my mint Fantastic Four #4 to be passed around and had a near heart attack to see a member passing it to the next person while holding it at the bottom with the spine bending at the center. My bad for not at that time having a backing board in the Mylar...his bad for being a total idiot. When graded it became a 9.2 cause of the spine crease. Only a several thousand dollar boo-boo.

[Hepcat]

The underlying problem is that it's gotten really silly with collectors/speculators being willing to pay ridiculous nosebleed prices for comics with the label "highest graded copy", especially since a disinterested observer would see no appreciable difference between a comic graded 9.2 and one graded 9.6 or even 9.8, particularly so in moderns. I have no sympathy whatsoever for the investor/speculators who pay silly prices for the "highest graded copy" and then discover the comic they bought has lost half its "value" because two or three "better" ones have now been graded. I just laugh.

[horrorhunter]

The underlying problem is that it's gotten really silly with collectors/speculators being willing to pay ridiculous nosebleed prices for comics with the label "highest graded copy", especially since a disinterested observer would see no appreciable difference between a comic graded 9.2 and one graded 9.6 or even 9.8 particularly so in moderns. I have no sympathy whatsoever for the investor/speculators who pay silly prices for the "highest graded copy" and then discover the comic they bought has lost half its "value" because two or three "better" ones have now been graded. I just laugh.

I agree. The high grade mania with CGC has gotten silly. I love comics. I love high grade comics. But I would just as well have a VF-NM (9.0) copy of a book as a NM+ (9.6) copy of a book. When I look at both books I think "that's a pretty book", and I'm not afraid of devaluing the 9.0 copy if I actually *gasp* read it! I'm just not into slabbing. I want to touch, read, and smell that book. The only way I would have a comic slabbed is if I were going to sell it and I was confident I could sell it for more of a difference than the slabbing cost. Then I'd sell the thing to someone who agonizes over minuscule differences in grade and would let it languish in the CGC "tomb" so they could brag about what a great copy it is but never actually read it. Comic grading and slabbed values have gotten extremely silly.

[bigbud]

I agree with you guys....in fact if I were still an avid collector an 8.5 comic would still satisfy me as being in really great condition....