Who are you and how did you become a mod?
I'm saying, what's wrong with letting the guy think he's got mint copy of an old Spider-Man book? He clearly cherishes it, so where's this pretenious need to inform him that his comic book isn't as good as he thinks?
Um, you were actually saying something? I thought we were just joking around. Your suggestion that someone actually would have taken a comicbook from the printing presses in 1974 in gloved hands established that pretty well, just as my using a blood relative in a ridiculous sexual situation should have.
Why's it got to be pretentious? If someone walks around thinking they're Napoleon I should let them because it makes them happy? Sure, I might come to that conclusion after "a very special episode of..." but my first instinct is going to be to inform them they are not. Not rudely, just point it out. It's pretentious to point out someone is mistaken? That's a new one to me
As this is a forum for
discussing comics, a topic such as the common misuse/misunderstanding of the term "Mint" is not out of place to come up.
I didn't say the guy couldn't cherish it, I didn't tell him "your book is crap", I just made a comment about the misuse of the term "mint"
A Mint comic is something that really only a qualified grader can assess, someone who's worked with high grade comics for years, and will slap a seal of approval on a book. CGC grades books at mint at 9.9 and 10.0, and there's not a single copy of ASM 129 in their census in either grade.
So lighten up, PJ. I gots no bones to grind wich you