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If anyone cares to see, here are some photos of it in the slab.

Delivered yesterday. Looks like they were able to get some of that black off, but not all.

On 2/8/2023 at 10:56 PM, JollyComics said:

Unpressed?

Nope, got it cleaned and pressed by CGC.

Just finished grading it. It is coming back as 0.5!

Apparently the centerfold is missing.

Did not have it pressed. Came back as a 2.5!

Did not have it pressed. Came back as a 3.0!

Hello. What are your thoughts on what this would grade as? Thanks!

Hello. What are your thoughts on what this would grade as? Not sure how much that top edge chip will affect it.Thanks!

Thanks for the help! I'll keep it as-is, then.

Thanks for the input!

Thanks for the input! I'll try to get a scan to you soon. This was just my phone camera.

On another note, one of the books from this batch was an Infinity Gauntlet 1 signed by Starlin, Perez and Rubinstein. First time around (when they forgot to press them) it received a green qualified 7.0.  Got it back today as a blue universal 7.0. Lol

Total of 3 of the 8 books kept the same grades (a 9.2, 9.4 and 7.0) with the exact same grader notes. Think they forgot to press some of them again?

Hello. What are your thoughts on what this would grade as? Thanks!

Hello. Picked up a stack of comics at a garage sale and this was in it. Any thoughts on grade? Thanks!

Hello. Picked up a stack of comics at a garage sale and this was in it. Any thoughts on grade? Would pressing help? Should I skip slabbing it altogether?

This one has a single Frank Frazetta page!

Obvious edge wear to the label. I think it may have been trimmed as well.

8.0, green (the label, not the banana)

Ok, mystery solved. CGC had a mix-up and none of my 8 books were pressed. The grading cost was close to my sign-up credit value so they are guessing that's why I didn't have any credit card charges other than the shipping.

Customer Service was very helpful and I'm sending them back in shortly for pressing and re-grading.

So now that you know the pre-pressed grade, feel free to submit your guesses for the post-pressed book! I'll post it here when I get it back.

On 3/26/2022 at 5:28 PM, Point Five said:

If you weren't charged for it it seems highly unlikely that they did it, right? Did you wait extra time for the books to be returned? I haven't used CCS in a long while, but it seems like a stop there adds months and months to the turnaround.

 

From what I can tell, I wasn't charged for anything. I had a $30 charge show up the week I got it back, so maybe that was for the shipping?

8 book lot and from what I can tell I wasn't charged for grading or pressing on any of it. Maybe a charge coming later? Seems extremely weird to me.

It went from "received at CCS" to "grading/encapsulating" seemingly overnight. So if it was indeed pressed then it had zero wait time for the actual grading. I used "modern" with no fast track.

Bumping this up. Did I over-estimate how effective a press would be or do you think this was not pressed?

Here is the slab. There are some creases, but not anything that breaks color. Am I crazy to think that a press should have taken care of this? The whole batch of 8 comics all have small, non-color breaking defects that (I thought) would be taken care of with pressing. Again, nothing about pressing on the receipt and no credit card charges for pressing. Think they just skipped it?

On 3/18/2022 at 8:35 AM, grendelbo said:

I had a What If? 10 that CGC graded 7.5 which was structurally in NM shape except for moderate non-color breaking creasing to the front cover. Handling creases and finger bends. Those often will not show on photos or in bags.

If CGC deemed your creasing to be heavy, then a FN grade may be appropriate. I also believe that pressing is the expectation before professionally grading nowadays. CGC may be tougher on books that have flaws that could have been improved though pressing.

I had it pressed by CGC, at least it was supposed to be.

On 3/17/2022 at 4:28 PM, AhsokaTano Jedi Apprentice said:

  Heavy Bends To Cover.....that doesn't sound good.....but how can that be your book  ?.....ya know they can also say the problem was on your end......like you didn't pack it right ...maybe it was damaged in shipping ? This can go so many different ways. The moderate spine stress lines ...could that be the slight spine roll ? It's not much of a roll and I've seen such books not even docked one bit for that.... and then sometimes they beat you over the head for it. Keep us posted as you go forward.

I followed CGC's packing guide and this was about the middle of the stack of 8. The rest had grades in the 9's so if something happened during shipping it only happened to this book.

On another note, the others came back at about the grade I thought they would be before pressing. So another point for them possibly skipping CCS for some reason.