Or you got your chocolate in my peanut butter. No, you got your peanut butter innate chocolate.

Was Matt Nelson destined to be at CGC? His knowledge of the condition of comics is extraordinary and he brought something to CGC previously unattained by the grading industry giant, knowledge. Although pressing is majorly undetectable, if done right, it could also go wrong. CGC is making sure collectors know what those mistakes are over on http://www.cgccomics.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=3595&pressing-defects-cover-shrinkage which has nothing to do with George on Seinfeld.

What other possibilities could pressing cause? And what happens to the grade if caught. Will it be a lower grade and noted, a dreaded purple label, or maybe even a qualified green. I pressed a few books and under direction found it to be very easily done. I was explained the pitfalls of a mis-press and was careful to follow the instructions to the letter. I am sure the process I was shown was different then the process Matt uses, but what if under his watchful eye pressing eventually becomes restoration?

Then there is the issue of staining in older books http://www.cgccomics.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=3546& With so many different temperaments and paper and most recently lenticular 3D covers, which possibly are not able to press due to the heat?(Mr. Nelson...any experiments on these books yet?) Pressing is here to stay and I'm glad it is more in the limelight, but not because "everyone is doing it", but because it allows everyone to become aware of it.

Thanks for reading

Tnerb

The picture is of a book I want

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