On my Spidy comic it says "comes with free tattoo", printed on the cover. Its long gone by now, but would that affect the grading? Between having & not having the tattoo still inside the comic.

Depends, is the insert still there? Amazing Spider-man #238 is one of those that constantly pops up, if the tattoo is missing but the insert is still there you will get a blue label, I think the grade will be hit but it's an up and down thing some people have reported no loss in grade and others have received a penalty for the missing tattoo there is no definitive answer from what I can see. If the insert is missing though then you will get a qualified green label indicating the book is incomplete, you will not get this if only the tattoo has been cut out.

However in the market without the tattoo people will view it as an incomplete book.

Was pretty lucky to find a copy of this



Also sent my Vampirella #2 Artgerm virgin cover in for grading, thinking it will come back a 9.4/9.6

If you guys are looking for older comics, FB & BoB are your friends
Scored some nice comics again, should arrive next week
Saw first appearance of Gambit on auction, starting at R1950.

The problem is they are usually in very poor condition and you get charged as if they are NM, you can buy a first appearance of Gambit 9.4 CGC from ebay for R1600 with shipping, why anyone would pay that much for an ungraded copy is beyond me. I have yet to see one good deal in the months I have been looking on FB and BoB as you can always get it for cheaper and better condition on ebay.

Picked up these today

BoB is decent because you can put in an offer without having to buy it, I've got most of the items I bought from BoB for 50% off because I just direct them to last ebay sold listings and current listing and tell them I'll go that route instead then they usually send me the offer. Even got one from R4800 to R2800 so nice big saving.

The problem with Facebook is those guys don't know a thing about grading comics and over value their items. At least with BoB you get a chance to return the item if it isn't in good condition, on these Facebook groups you can't even say anything because they will threaten to ban you as they want people to remain ignorant to their over priced books.

But yeah if you only buying stuff for R100 or less then there isn't really anything of value there so you can't get burned as badly, people spend that on lunch everyday so it's not breaking the bank but when you get to the high hundreds and low thousands like some of these auction places it increases the risk. Always have to laugh when they post pictures and say this is a 9.2 and it's actually a 6.5/7 at best

Saw a Lenticular issue of the one below, DAMN!!!!

Always check sold listings on ebay and never what people are asking there is usually a 50% difference between what people are asking and what they actually sell for. R1000 isn't bad dependings on condition, the book sells raw for around R500-600 on ebay factor in the R199 shipping and it's quite close. Don't care about Taskmaster so not a book I'd ever buy

Got these ones...



& thought I would just post these ones below as well. As I'm on a Hobgoblin/Demogoblin run at the moment. Traded for them back in the day then I was still in high school for the set

Always enjoyed how Tom Lyle drew Spider-man, especially his face.

Stopped past the LCS on the way home, they were having a buy 4 get the cheapest free and at R70 a piece it was hard to pass up these ones.

Heres that other Tom Lyle cover I was talking about.
Unfortunately, when you bought your comics from the CNA back in the day. It came with one or two price tags on the cover