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Gary Arndt
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Multiple Covers Same Issue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Gary Arndt 7 hours ago.

Grading Service Population Reports
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Melvin L. De Vilbiss on Sunday.

Comic Book bags and boards
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Daniel Eckert Jan 29.

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Gary Arndt replied to Gary Arndt's discussion Multiple Covers Same Issue
"This is fantastic. Thank you!"
7 hours ago
Melvin L. De Vilbiss replied to Gary Arndt's discussion Multiple Covers Same Issue
"Added a comment to the original post: re October 1917: standard issue, waterproof issue and waterproof issue sent to the armed forces with no writing on the binding. Mel"
10 hours ago
George Thomas Wilson replied to Gary Arndt's discussion Multiple Covers Same Issue
"Gary, Besides the April 2016 "Photo Ark" covers, May 2013 "This Baby Will Live to Be 120" has 4 covers and January 2022 "2021 The Year in Pictures" has 4 covers. There are many years that have two covers, either with…"
10 hours ago
Gary Arndt replied to Garrad's discussion Selling some of my duplicate early original National Geographic magazines
"I am interested"
15 hours ago
Gary Arndt posted a discussion

Multiple Covers Same Issue

Catching. up on things...I just realized that the April 2016 issue had 10 different covers. Are there any other issues where they did this?See More
15 hours ago
Larry Moffett and Gary Arndt are now friends
Sunday
Melvin L. De Vilbiss replied to Gary Arndt's discussion Grading Service Population Reports
"I have assessed five collections in the last ten years. Of these, three were complete individual issues from Oct 1888 through the date of my assessment. Two of these collections (my personal collection being one of them) I officially appraised for…"
Sunday
Gary Arndt posted a discussion

Grading Service Population Reports

If you are curious....Major grading services for trading cards and comic books will also grade magazines. They publish population reports on the number of items they have graded. These are the National Geographic population reports for PSA and CGC, the two biggest grading services. As you can see, very few National Geographics have been graded to date. …See More
Feb 5

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Hometown (If US city & state; Others city, province, country):
Wisconsin
Why do you wish to join this community?
To meet other collectors
About Me: (If none, make no entry):
I have an extensive collection of National Geographic books and Magazines including an original, unbound Vol. 1, No. 1 from 1888
Personal Website (If none, make no entry):
http://https://everything-everywhere.com/
Favorite travel destination: (If none, make no entry):
Palau

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At 5:47pm on April 14, 2008, Scott T. Shier said…
Hello Gary!

Wow you do have some adventures it sounds like. I like the Easter Island profile picture you're in. There was one of the special publications from the 70's called "ancient mysteries" I believe, with those heads on the dustjacket cover.

So I saw a comment you posted that NG Legal shut down a site you made for collectors? What were there reasons? What harm in a collector's page I can't fathom.

Have a great week!

- Scott T. Shier
At 5:48pm on April 14, 2008, Scott T. Shier said…
*** their (not 'there') : )
At 10:36pm on April 14, 2008, Scott T. Shier said…
Geeze!

I don't know about that....they should have taken into consideration the "intent" and the context of your using it. Plus, when you say "nasty", I wonder how nasty it was indeed. I truly feel from the bottom of my heart that this flies in the face of the spirit of the N.G.S. as conceived by Gardiner Hubbard, Alexander G. Bell, and probably Melville Bell Grosvenor.

I am very very displeased w/ the unfortunate transformation the NGS went through inthe 1990's and into the 2000's. It became to corporate, too much of a "brand" thing. I can say alot more, but I'll hold my tongue for the moment.

They should have been happy that such devoted people support them to begin with (collector's & long-standing "members"). Nowadays all I feel like is a customer ID #.

Very sad. And to think Gilbert M. Grosvenor wrote in a 1980's column that he wanted to reinforce the aura of membership, family, home, close-nit values.

Tsk tsk tsk.

~ Scott S.
At 2:56am on April 15, 2008, Gary Arndt said…
Here is what I was able to salvage of the page from archive.org

http://gary.arndt.com/ngcollector

Remember, this was years ago. I don't think I'd have the site look so bad now. The fake text I added after I recovered it.
At 1:10pm on January 26, 2026, Scott T. Shier said…

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