mschmidt

4 minutes ago, Navymr said:

Yup they noted they were damaged in transit. 

That sucks - hopefully you'll be able to work out some sort of reimbursement plan with your LCS.

1 minute ago, Navymr said:

There are no notes on either books I called cgc 

So CGC told you that the books showed up damaged?

1 hour ago, Jimmy Linguini said:

No. Cgc's website says they only do that for green labels.
https://www.cgccomics.com/grading/label_description.asp

I believe they only do that for blue labels when the signature is on the first page.

Also can you post more pictures of the corner? Maybe a picture of the back cover? The damaged corner appears in the stock picture of the actual books so I'm pretty sure its in the printed art and not actual damage to the book.
Thanks

No, if there's an unverified signature anywhere on the book it will *always* be noted on the label. Doesn't matter whether the books end up in a blue or green label slab.

What's "NM-VF"? Do you mean VF/NM as the general condition of these books?

There are a couple of different options:

Comic Mounts:
http://www.comicmount.com/

These can be wall mounted, but I prefer using them just standing.

Frame it again, Sam:
http://www.frameitagainsam.com/

This guy has been making wood frames for CGC books forever - a ton of boardies use his frames to display their books.

Comic book pods:
http://www.gradecomstore.com/

Another option for wall-mounting - these are a bit sleeker than the Frame it again, Sam frames.

Great seeing all the boardies that swung by the CGC booth and said hi - but, yeah, this was the weakest WW Chicago I've ever attended.

On 8/26/2017 at 2:04 PM, KAMassey said:

Is it possible to have a comic signed at a convention without CGC being present and still have it graded as a signature series? 

 

Yes, through a 3rd party facilitator that has an agreement in place with CGC.

On 8/11/2017 at 2:53 PM, Hat Trick66 said:

Restoration includes..."cover cleaned." I thought getting a comic dry cleaned wasn't considered restoration? Unless this is a different type of cleaning? New to the forums, someone please kindly educate me on that.

Follow up question, what traces/ proof does a 'cleaning' leave on a cover that CGC can tell the cleaning has been done?

On 8/11/2017 at 2:58 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

I believe that cleaning has been done throughout the years, the only thing that I can think of is there is now an "approved" method, as opposed to a long time ago when there might have been harmful chemicals used.....

No, a "cover cleaned" designation means the book has been chemically cleaned (eg. "wet cleaned"). This always results in a restored label.

A book that's been dry cleaned won't get a restored label - and it won't be noted on the cover either (because it's impossible to detect if done correctly).

4 hours ago, locomat said:

I would like to know if I can submit comics to CGC at the LSCC without being a member? Hope that someone can help me

Yeah, you don't need to be a member to submit to CGC at shows.

On 8/18/2017 at 7:27 PM, ExNihilo said:

The issue is only persistent across the top right section of the book.  The top left (pictured below) doesn't appear to have a similar issue.  I bought the book on eBay so I can't speak for how the previous owner(s) handled it (ie if it is indeed a stacking issue).  Looking to get the book signed/graded soon and was just trying to figure out if it would drop the grade and if I should just save my money.

 

It's ink rub off from the issue that was on top when the books were in the Diamond box. It's very common for this issue and isn't treated as a production defect by CGC (eg. it does affect the grade just like any other defect).

1 hour ago, comxdlr said:

BCW has mylar 2mil bags too but dont carry the "fullback" / Mylites brand.. they do their own.. I think anyone can buy from them?? I have a dealer account mainly for our shop but.. if needed i can see what it would cost to drop ship if they dont.. but im pretty sure they do a 'free shipping' over $80 deal??   I really like their normal bags/boards etc.. havent ordered the mylar's yet but will probably end up with some for different stuff.   let me know if you have questions I can help answer.

www.bcwsupplies.com

 

BCW doesn't carry true acid-free backing boards - only the coated-on-one-side regular backing boards - so it doesn't make sense to use their backing boards with mylar bags.

On 8/17/2017 at 0:23 PM, darkstar said:

Issue 69 has a dark cover therefore its impossible to find in high grade.

There's nothing particular hard about finding this book in high grade.

4 hours ago, thirdgreenham said:

Can we count on your support this year? 

Yeah, I'll be at the CGC booth as always. It's just a shame because of how good this show used to be.

1 hour ago, Thiago123 said:

I'm looking to convert the bulk of my collection to Mylar and half or full backs and had a question.  Is it ok to store Mylar bags AND poly in the same long box?  For example, if I have a run of x-men that I will switch to Mylar, can I keep them in the same box with a run of say, x-factor that I don't think merit the upgrade for a few years?  In other words, would the poly bags help degrade the Mylar bags in long term storage?  (Sort of a, 'one bad apple spoils the bunch' situation). Maybe just the ones that are actually touching and I should use a divider?

I know there are infinite topics on mylar VS poly, but I could not find any discussion on storing them TOGETHER, if that is a concern at all (hey, I'm no chemist!).  Sorry if this is the wrong spot to post this in.  New here, go easy on me lol!

EDIT: to clarify, since it's longer term storage I can definitely split them up in different boxes, I would just MUCH rather prefer to keep the whole collection's current sorting.

The poly bags won't have any effect on the mylar bags.

Pretty impressive how Wizard has managed to take their largest US show and give it a comic book line-up that wouldn't be out of place at a Saturday show at a Holiday Inn in Des Moines. And here I thought last years guestlist was weak 

46 minutes ago, GACollectibles said:

Batman #405 CGC 9.8 $950 Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli

 

Wow

10 hours ago, VintageComics said:

And, my post is hidden because I used the dreaded word and not Voldy.

This is what I wrote:

I've read bits and pieces of the discussion and as with all discussions, there is more than one side to it.

From what I've gathered the person who initially posted the video (and I assume made it) was someone who had a gripe with Voldy and some people chalked it up to sour grapes.

A con will try to game any system when there is money to be scammed from someone. Deal with people you trust and do your homework, especially when spending big money on books.

How is there more than one side to this?

What he's showing in the video isn't exactly news - I've cracked a ton of Voldemort slabs for customers who wanted their books CGC'ed instead and it's insanely easy to open up their case and put it back together again without it leaving any noticeable marks. It's always been one of the reasons I've stayed well clear of their books (well, that & the rampant over-grading straight out the gate when they launched).

The glue on the edge is from the sonic sealing process - it's totally normal.

"White pages" doesn't mean the pages are blindingly white - your book looks fine.

17 hours ago, wombat said:

Sorry to hijack the thread, but is there a thread somewhere that talks about how to submit books to CGC at a con? I'm going to do it for the first time (first time submitting any books) and want to make sure I don't it up. 

 

Thanks

There's nothing to it - go to the CGC booth, tell them you want to submit some books and they'll take it from there.

14 hours ago, mrc said:

Has the policy changed? On page 4 of ASK CGC there is a post from 2012 regarding reholdering which states,

"CGC does not accept ReHolder submissions at shows" and

"CGC does not accept ReHolder submissions at on-site grading events"

Yeah, the policy was changed a couple of years ago.

Friends & family paypal payment to some random dude on Facebook 

You can submit books for reholdering at any show that CGC attends. In general, they won't do the actual reholders on-site at the on-site grading shows, though.

13 hours ago, subash said:

Thanks for updating mschmidt.May I ask how many have Neil's sigs which are triple signed ?

 

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On 8/1/2017 at 6:00 AM, TheRealVenom said:

I may open a can of worms here.. hopefully not.

I completely disagree with this chasing method and cgc should not allow it.

Look, I understand most of these cgc official witnesses are trusted by the company but money talks. Who's to say one unscrupulous witness and a friend decided hey a leonardo dicaprio sig would be worth a lot of money! I can see someone faking it for greed purposes, which is why I asked previously to know the story behind the dicaprio sig here.

I think CGC should ONLY accept subs from events like conventions or where CGC  full time employed officials are in attendance to further guarantee any sig. Like how the old lables from circa 2005 were when it said Signed by so and so At Wiz World Philly on whatever date. There is too much grey area for me with these super rare sigs that it's enough for me to question the validity of them.

Now I know you're going to say well cgc can't be at every con! but there are trusted likes like Rich, Torrey and Dre who are and a simple check of the show program will show said celeb was in attendance.

Thoughts? I'm not calling cgc out here just saying money talks and all it takes is one person to do this to compromise everything cgc stands for.

CGC stopped allowing "chased" SS books years ago - the company on the other side of the street seems to have no problem with them, though.

12 hours ago, subash said:

Well I looked again--there are 14 CGC SSS with triple or above sigs--Neils sigs are on 11 of them.Since he wont sign at cons anymore these are rare I think---even allowing for the odd one out which doesnt exist in myslabbed.com.

I haven't updated my collection on myslabbedcomics.com in a while - I checked and I currently have 36 issues of Sandman that have 3 or more signatures. But, yeah, Gaiman signatures are very rare these days.