mschmidt

JSC has an agreement in place with CGC where an authorized CGC witness is present whenever he's pre-signing books - this means that at shows, as long as another CGC witness accompanies you, you can go to the JSC booth, buy any of his pre-signed books and they will qualify for the CGC Signature Series label. This is only allowed because the chain of custody remains intact - the book goes from one CGC witness to the next then to the CGC booth where it gets mailed off. This is obviously not the case if you simply buy a signed book on eBay - hence the reason why those books don't qualify for the SS label.

The new slabs aren't airtight.

Too many! In all seriousness, both SDCC & NYCC have so much stuff happening at any given time that you'll miss out on stuff pretty much whatever you do. If you're only going there to buy comic books & related items, you can probably get away with spending just a couple of days at either show - if you're looking for the full pop-culture experience with panels, signings, screenings, giveaways, etc, you'll have to attend every single day *and* also have a plan in place for what you're wanting to do.

You can add your friend's name to the submission invoice - he'll then need to show the green receipt for pick-up.

That's not really going to be the case at Baltimore - with no onsite at WW Chicago, there are a lot of dealers with books they're taking to Baltimore for onsite grading instead.

The only guarantee for onsite grading is that the books will be ready for pick-up by the end of the show on Sunday. Now, in practice it's usually more of a 24 hour turnaround - eg. you drop off books first thing Friday morning, they're ready for pick-up Saturday morning. No matter what, I'd get to the CGC booth first thing if you want to do onsite grading.

I believe CFP Comics have the agreement in place as well - don't know about anyone else, though.

Nothing's changed - PGX is still a fantastic way for shady sellers to legitimize their over-graded & restored books.

Wow - that went cheap.

It's just a printing error - looks like the foil shifted when it was being applied which resulted in it being offset from the actual claws. It's a neat copy for people who enjoy printing errors, but there's no way for the seller to guarantee there aren't other copies with similar defects.

You should have seen some of the booths at WW Chicago this year. When PNC Bank and some local bathroom remodeling company sets up at a WW show, you know they're screwed.

My condolences, guys.

That's a terrible deal.

A Q 7.5 with a signature:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Incredible-Hulk-1999-2nd-Series-1DFGOLD-CGC-8-0-QUALIFIED-0309857002-/132307289131 Qualified 8.0 due to a signature and a small sketch on the cover. Now I'm curious as to what kind of grade a qualified book with a full cover sketch would get

Stay safe, buddy!

Considering the CGC graders have no clue where a pressed book came from - or whether the book was pressed at all - your expectation has zero basis in reality. I've gotten non-pressed books back from CGC that I personally thought were over-graded - I guess this means that people should start sending their books to me prior to slabbing to ensure they get higher grades

It's not - but if you have a dealer account, the minimum is waived for the quick press.

CGC won't grade books that feature penetration or explicit pornography on the cover - nudity, however, is fine. At WW Chicago, one guy tried to submit this book and was told they wouldn't slab it.

Yes, chased sigs are allowed by Voldy. So are self-witnessed signatures in general. And, apparently, based on the latest brouhaha over there, some random guy who needed a stack of books signed was told at a show to simply sign a piece of paper which then allowed him to witness all his own books Their signature program is a joke.

Calling that book an 8.0 is insane. And, from what I remember, prior to CGC it was 8.0 books being called 9.6s, not the other way around.

Like Bob said, there's no hard & fast rule - depends on the book, depends on the grade and depends on the severity of the flaw causing the book to end up in a qualified label slab. I've noticed that for low grade books the "green label stigma" seems far less pronounced than it is for mid & high grade books - for a mid/high grade book, most people stay well clear of books with missing pages, married pages, missing MV stamps, etc.

Green label. No different than getting a raw book from Dynamic Forces.

Express usually takes a full week - if they received it today, it'll most likely ship out Thursday next week (perhaps Friday due to Monday being a holiday).

That's crazy if it's true.