or If I gotta come in here again, I'm cracking slabs.

I wanted to get some slabs cracked for signatures. I asked Gemma about it and she told me that I had to crack the slabs myself. WHAT? I had to trust myself to crack open a 9.8 and gingerly carry it to the NYCC for signatures. I was terrified. Every other year they did it, not to mention what happens if it's a show that I won't be attending. Can I give them the book slabbed and hope they will crack it or do I have to crack it first. Chances are if I am sending the books to then in Florida they will crack it at their offices before taking it to a show. Please note, do not crack any Signature Series books.

I asked someone at the show who works for CGC and he explained to me that the reason they instituted that policy was because it takes away from the time they can get signatures, sounds plausible. They also mentioned the trash issue also sounds plausible. My opinion is that it is most likely customer complaint. I wonder how many times did they blamed for dinging a book, probably just as many times I got blamed for scratching a car when I ran car washes.

I went to my current job for a large table space and food. Yes, I know it's a pretty stupid combination. Don't worry, I separated the two, it wasn't like I was in high school and had my bowl of lucky charms almost directly over the comic book. Don't judge, I like Lucky Charms. I still have yet to send that particular book in and hope they might tell me of the stain on the notes. I feel sorry though for anyone grading a particularly old playboy in a well used condition, just saying.

I once watched CGC cut open a book for me and sometimes confidence causes carelessness. The slab was opened brusquely and I feared the book would drop a grade. Sure, they might do it all the time but this was my book. I watched others crack open slabs too, so I witnessed it but feared doing it myself. I once contemplated the notion of purchasing horrible graded books to learn, or maybe get a few of my books graded for the experience, but that would just be a waste of money.

I took three New Mutants books after originally choosing five, the other two were replaced with two raw books. I eventually hope to have a 9.8 Signature Series of books for this series and to do that I need the books. I have even bought doubles so I can still retain my 9.8 collection in the worst case scenario that the grade drops. I will say I was successful with the cracking and I will say by the third one I cracked the case without breaking the plastic. I felt better about doing it myself when the job was finished and I think being careful, hesitant, and fearful caused me to make sure nothing happened to my books, at least not by me.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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