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The new slabs aren't airtight.
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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.
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17 hours ago, icp004 said:
If I drop off submissions on Friday can a friend pick them up Sunday for me or would I be the only one they would allow to pick up?
You can add your friend's name to the submission invoice - he'll then need to show the green receipt for pick-up.
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1 hour ago, 1Cool said:
Seems to be a lot easier to get books in for on-site in terms of the general public but I think that is mostly due to the increase in on-site grading cost and reduction in regular grading time from years ago.
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.
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17 hours ago, CKinTO said:
Noob question - but if you want to do onsite grading, do you HAVE to drop off on Fri and pick-up Sun? Could you drop off on Sat and pick-up on Sun? (ie. do they need the full 2 days) And do they only guarantee books are done grading by a certain time on Sun (ie. do you need to be willing to wait until the end of the show on Sun)?
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.
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On 9/11/2017 at 3:42 PM, seanfingh said:
I have done it both ways. Any of the pressers can do it, if it is pre-sig. But then you run the risk of there being pressable defects put on the book while it is being signed. Not much of a risk with the good facilitators. If you get it done post-signature, it has to be done by someone who has an SS agreement with CGC. I am not sure who can do it right now, other than CCS.
I believe CFP Comics have the agreement in place as well - don't know about anyone else, though.
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2 minutes ago, Mr. Zipper said:
I haven't been active in the hobby so much over the past few years, but was pretty immersed day-to-day in the 90s through 2012 or so.
I received an email from ComicConnect today and was shocked to see in the auction highlights a number of high-grade, high value books in PGX slabs.
It wasn't that long ago that they were not considered reputable by serious collectors and there were significant and valid concerns regarding insider grading and very "loose" restoration checking, including rampant trimmed books. In fact, I was a victim of a trimmed JIM 89 that was sold to me in a PGX unrestored slab. (It was also significantly overgraded and sold to me by a Eugene, Oregon seller who was later revealed to be a PGX "insider" who had the "keys" to the slabbing machine.)
Are these guys considered legit now? Or have they clung on long enough to outlast the core group of people who exposed and recall their questionable practices?
Nothing's changed - PGX is still a fantastic way for shady sellers to legitimize their over-graded & restored books.
- Mr. Zipper, Larryw7 and deadleg
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19 hours ago, fastballspecial said:
Wow - that went cheap.
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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.
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19 hours ago, mysterio said:
It is certainly possible that they changed that policy as their financial woes deepened. I remember several years ago at WW Austin they had two of the most nonsensical booths I had ever seen. One guy had giant Rubbermaid tubs of individual loose Lego bricks that he was selling, and another booth was full of incense at 25 cents a stick. You know that those booths either got a super steep discount, or had the worst business sense of anyone I have ever seen (maybe both).
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.
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My condolences, guys.
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That's a terrible deal.
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A Q 7.5 with a signature:
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43 minutes ago, Yorick said:
I think the policy is if a non-witnessed signature book is going to grade less than 9.0 (approximate range), then they don't grade it Green. The blue means they took the "writing" into account with the grade they gave it (maybe a grade point lower?). I suppose the test would be if you can find a green label "signature" book lower than 9.0.
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
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Stay safe, buddy!
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2 hours ago, grebal said:
A while ago there was a pair of threads in the PGM section with a couple of very early FF issues (I'll dig them up and post links). The comics in the OPs were around 3.0 (nearly every guesstimate maxed out at 3.0) but after CCS it got a 4. Pics are gone now, but I remember the 4.0 distinctly because I thought it was a gift grade, and speculated the gift grade [1.0 over the 'true' grade] was because he used CCS first.
FF2 looked like around 3.5, again with moisture stains (although the replies had less of a consensus, 3.5 seemed the average). Later in the thread, the guy posted pics showing it got 4.5 after CCS.
Since then I've seen other examples, though these two stood out in my memory (being Fantastic Four 1 & 2 with stains posted on same day) and rightly or wrongly, I've come to expect that using CCS before slabbing a comic at CGC gives submitters a real good chance at receiving back 'overgraded' stabs by around 1.0. [insert obligatory - grading is subjective yada yada small sample size unfair yada]
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
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On 9/3/2017 at 11:15 AM, Readcomix said:
I wonder if that's for onsite submissions only? I recently sent in a total of six books; four just for grade and two for quick press and grade.
It's not - but if you have a dealer account, the minimum is waived for the quick press.
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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.
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On 9/1/2017 at 9:44 AM, Buzzetta said:
So the people across the street have done that before with a sig witness? That is disgusting if true. Every now and then around NY and even more rare but it happens here on LI you will see a "celebrity". Most people leave them alone. I cannot imagine chasing them down for an autograph when they are on "their" time.
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.
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On 8/25/2017 at 7:23 PM, Terrapin said:
If I were selling that book raw I wouldn't feel comfortable giving it anything above 8.0. grading seems to have changed a lot over the last 20 years.
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.
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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.
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On 8/23/2017 at 10:47 PM, Konrad5288 said:
Lets say I order one of those Atlas Signature Series comics. If I CGC it will I get a Blue, Yellow, or Green label?
Green label. No different than getting a raw book from Dynamic Forces.
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On 8/24/2017 at 2:19 PM, comicsbygo said:
I am new to CGC grading and have sent my first book in for a 5 day express grading. I can see that the book was received at the CGC office this morning at 10:30am. How quickly will they get to it...Open the package, enter invoice information, email me that the book has arrived and the process has begun. Does it take a literal 5 days or might there be a chance the book gets through more quickly? I'm anxious and just trying to get a best guess on what is going on and when I can expect to see my book in their system etc...
Thanks for any help
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).
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That's crazy if it's true.
ARe Signed books with COA eligible for Signature Series?
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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.