Comic Book Collecting

Let me give you a little prelude to this story. I was searching ebay
a couple of weeks back and came across an X-Men comic that
caught my eye – and from the time I saw it I wanted to find me
a nice high-grade copy of it.
Oh, probably somewhere in the F-VF+ arena.
The cover on X-Men 88 [...]

Just wanted to show you a great example of how a comic book
can turn out after it has been prepped.
The comic in questions is a Giant Sized X-Men #1. Sent to me
by a customer who wanted some comic books cleaned and
pressed.
Here is an image of the back cover before prepping:

Take a close look at the [...]

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I typically try to not watch “trailers” and “sneak peaks” at new movies, whether comic book related or not. But this Iron Man movie looks really cool. So, before I give you a way to watch the trailer, download some cool things, I would like to put a “shameless” plug here.
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Although I do enjoy collecting comic books, there is another specialty that I do that I enjoy much more. But first allow me to ask this question:
How many of you, after buying a graded book or grading a book, cracked open the case it was enclosed in?

I’ll need to put a poll plugin (if anyone [...]