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So when the book arrives for pressing and there are no flaws to press, is the book pressed anyway or do they not press it and charge you the fee?

CBCS returned my Deathmate Orange Previews with 9.8 grade for all six of the copies.

I saw that a GOTG #25 Direct edition from 1992 with no silver foil sold for $999.99 on ebay. The slab was a Qualified (green label) 9.4 from CGC stating "manufactured without etched prism foil on cover", This slab sold on Feb 12th and has an older serial number. On ebay currently there is a CGC 9.6 with a newer serial number that has the blue label of this book listed at $528.98 with nothing mention about an error on the label. There is also a CBCS slab in 9.6 on ebay listed for $639.99 that mentions the "manufacturing error". CGC census just shows the Collectors edition and a standard edition. Cover Price (my go to people), say there are three (Collectors, Newsstand, and a Variant (the direct without prism foil). I did see a Newsstand edition without the prism foil. So I believe there are 4 variants to this book. Signed Befuddled

The first pic is two glued Orange variants that were expertly extracted from the Previews Magazine by a friend of mine (notice the edge tearing and trimming at the side and top of the books). The second pic is one of an unglued copy that I obtained at the Diamond Distributors Retail Sale in the Summer of 1993. Let's be clear, these are the same exact book just one was put in the Previews and the other was rescued from that horrible fate. All three books have been counted on the census as the same book (Deathmate Preview #nn Orange Variant). Can anyone explain to me why these two books graded the same?

How about holograms. I have a nice ASM 365 UPC that has a 1 inch semi circle dent to the hologram. So you got a card stock book with a hologram, able to be pressed?

My submission went to Grading/Encap on March 25th and they were shipped March 28th. They were at CGC on December 1st.

I was shocked to see a CBCS graded Orange Variant in 9.8 with the spine torn up and trimmed. This book is currently on ebay and from the CBCS census there are five more 9.8's from the same submission (there are also several Oranges in different grades also on ebay from the same submitter). If I was the grader, this book would never receive anything over a 6.0 FN and it would clearly state "trimmed" on the label. I can only assume that Mr Borock (President of CBCS) believes that ALL Orange variants were glued into the previews magazine and therefore the spine gets a pass and he grades the rest of the book. Any Thoughts??? I currently have a PGX graded 9.8 unglued copy on ebay so that you can compare the books and I have included a pic of my CGC copy that was sold earlier this month, see last pic. I have sold 10 CGC 9.8's on ebay that were all unglued and stand alones. I also have a copy at CBCS ready for grading (received Dec 8th), so should be interesting to see what that book is graded at. Do you think CBCS has painted themselves into a corner and must give my copy a 9.9 to keep things even, or will they "dupe" me and give me a 9.8 and let things go? I will post again when I receive my CBCS copies.

Thanks for the English lesson. LOL

I am advocating for a new 9.7 grade to the comic book grading industry and her is why. Too many times I have examined my books and said this is a strong 9.6 but maybe on a good day I can squeak out a 9.8 from a grader at CGC (or maybe vice versa, I know a book is 9.8 but what if that grader is having a bad day and gives me a 9.6). I then look up the book on ebay in the "sold" category and notice that a 9.8 sold for say $400 and a 9.6 sold for $125. So now my profit margin is effected big time by this process. But if we had a 9.7 grade maybe the book is worth $275. It cannot be that the industry does not like odd numbers as they have a 9.9 (which who knows what that means or how they get to that grade, I myself have only gotten one 9.9 in all these years). I am not in favor of a 9.5, 9.3 etc in that it does not effect the value/price of the book as much as a 9.7 grade would. So join with me in telling the industry to incorporate the new 9.7 grade. Look forward to reading the replies!!

I had a 10 book submission received on Oct 29th, 2021. I checked on it a week later and it said "shipping". I thought I did something wrong and they were sending the books back to me, as I have never had CGC act so quickly. But no, they were done and I had the 10 books in hand on Nov 9th, 2021. I will say that all 10 books were the same book and got the same grade and page color. SO not sure how long they took on the books or if they were "cookie cuttered", meaning looked at one and the rest looked the same so they gave it all the same grade, slabbed it and sent it out.