Topnotchman

Lower front cover has what looks like chipping. I would not recommend pressing or dry cleaning.

That corner is easily fixable with pressing.

From memory it was a spot or dot of glue. It’s possible that it falls off with age. I have one with a lot of glue as it’s welded in pretty good.

Absolutely keep the mask with the comic as it came glued in. Otherwise it’s a qualified grade green label if it’s missing.

I would look for pieces or chips that have already fallen off, or any type of spine splitting that is present, that would be an indicator to how stable the paper is. This particular book is very brown in color, yet I do not see any chipping or splitting yet.

Looks to maybe be a production grabber or roller mark, I could see this still being a 9.6.

Although this is the first time I've seen ink in this proportion on a Spidy 300. With late silver and bronze age comics, CGC can be wildly inconsistent with distributor ink and how much of a deduction goes into the final grade. If you have time and funds, its worth a resubmit.

If CGC doesn't mark an order as being shipped, it will cause all the books on that order to not go on the census which says they do not exist. Yes calling CGC should give them the notice to fulfill the order as being shipped.

Reckless

Interior page grading, if someone is tearing pieces out, cutting pieces out, that would make a book incomplete. Writing someones name, signing on page one, coloring on a pin up page,on a book below fine, it has minimal effect on grade as long as its disclosed. Scribbling on the front cover is bad, scribbling and making smily faces or defacing characters on interior pages is bad. Neatly coloring a pin up page, not that big of deal if its below fine and disclosed information.

The likely problem is the cover is glued to fix a spine split, or the corner has glue smeared into it. Definitely try to get this removed from an increased value point with a certified book. The visual impact is likely minimal compared to an increase in value. Color touch removal is where a lot of ugly problems happen and they often do not recommend color touch removal for C-1.

Levitation pressing

Historically cgc did not grade this because it’s black and white contents were difficult to authenticate from a counterfeit.

The whole book is pancaked flat and crushed the spine to an anvil, incompetent pressing.

Unless they are dented to the cover, doubtful of any impact on grade for pages.

Very rarely on my books.

Great way to start your bronze X-Men collection.

Some call this a Maverick cut, just fold it in and don't worry about it.

Submit under express tier value of $3,000.00.

Heating and electrical are the second and third leading causes of house fires. There is danger involved by bringing these machines into the house especially multiple machines. Pressing should be left to professionals. Oh and when you get good at this you don’t need a heat press for high quality results.

Yes

The only tiers that are getting worse are Modern and Economy. The other tiers, including fast track Modern and fast track Economy aren't really any different than 2020, 2019, 2018 etc. down the line in history. If your sending in low value books in the slow tiers than be prepared to wait. If you don't like the option of paying up for fast track than be prepared to wait. I'm surprised they make much of any profit on the Modern and Economy tiers for the amount of hours that are put into the orders.

Its common for Ms. Marvel #'1's to have the lower staple detached, I've pre screened stacks of uncirculated copies "over 100 copies" and the lower staple was popped cleanly on a significant portion of all copies I viewed.

It depends on the experience of presser as any era of book does have potential to get damaged during pressing, newer high grade white page books are safer to press than low grade vintage with poor paper quality.

I’ve had quite a few copies and pressing can smooth out this flaw in many cases, getting 9.8’s.