Or, Nope, not back yet.

Back in June I decided to have Neal Adams sign a comic book. For the best grade I had it go through CCS. The book is from April of 1972. I wrote on the CGC invoice, October. I thought the book would be marked shipped/safe by now and be on it's way back to me. It's only marked graded.

I figured five months would be enough between the two companies to get it back to me. If I'm not mistaken that's 97 business days (61 days at CGC). And even though it falls within their 40-75 days estimated to current turnaround times, it is a bit overwhelming. As I've said before, I'm patient. I can wait, the book is for my personal collection after all, but isn't the turn around times supposed to be getting shorter with various alternative competition?

On eBay, I see CGC graded comic books in record time. Sometimes I think they got them fast tracked, but are they? Do dealers get books quicker? Are the fans relegated to the nose-bleeder seats? Are we a second thought? Or is it because the book is from 1972 that it's taking longer than a book that came out three months ago?

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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