Topnotchman

I would check for black color touch along the spine first.

A back cover scan would help, soiling can often be seen on the white back cover easily. Front is very nice for a 5.0 and Spidy 3 is a great book.

To low of grade to add value for the costs of pressing and grading. If your intent is selling the book they sell easily in upper mid grade with quality pictures.

Apparently they put a few grades early with reproduction cover. They since give a reproduction cover a NG from what I remember. Although there could be variables. It’s a cover less book.

Unless there is a secret handshake or code. Expecting something equivalent to a free fast track for CCS submissions while everyone else pays the $15.00 fee. I’m glad she said no.

I’ve owned a lot of these and have a high grade in my collection. From the images provided a 9.2 is within range. That top back corner has a small tear with color loss.

I have a fast track modern pre screen from 11/10 that’s been graded for two months sitting at GEI, while a slow track modern pre screen from my account from 12/14 ships on 1/4. I still have piles of slow track moderns from July August September October and November that sit.

This is from November 15th press release. All I know is I continue to have orders shipping out of order by months. I have three modern fast tracks from November and December 1st that haven’t moved. While others ship from January. What do you think two months later on the “every effort” ? Some customers have noticed that select submissions have been completed faster than CGC’s posted turnaround times. These submissions were put through the optimized workflow and, by December 2021, all operations will have fully transitioned to the optimized workflow. CGC apologizes that some submissions were completed faster than others received at earlier dates during the rollout of this optimized workflow. Our intent is to complete submissions on a first-in, first-out basis within each grading tier, and every effort will be made to do so going forward. Fast Track submissions will continue to be prioritized. While expanding and enhancing its operations, CGC remains fully focused on maintaining the quality and integrity of our services. While significant headway has been made, a lot more work remains. CGC will continue to be as transparent as possible with regards to how long it is taking to process submissions and where submissions are at in the process.

Many of the Church books still have a scent to them and the graders defiantly give it the smell test.

Someone smart needs to step in and fix these login problems. I don’t have problems on other web sites, and never had problems here until recently.

Out of curiosity and a quest for nuggets of knowledge I have read or listened to the previous posted books or videos. Unfortunately I found very little to nothing of substance. A lot of small talk to keep one interested for the next episode. There clearly is an agenda to try and self promote. The distance between professionals and amateurs is a wide road.

A few months ago friend of mine asked for my opinion on this guys techniques and cleaner. I kept myself entertained for hours watching multiple videos. My conclusion is this guy is a complete quack. He was unable to provide any close up after pictures of cleaned books. He’s just pushing his cleaning supplies and pressing boards as a side hustle. His techniques to me are barbaric and dangerous to a book causing irreversible damage. I found nothing of value.

They do, Creaming knocks a book down in ultra high grade, tanning does so also a mid grade to lower grade. Off white basically nothing.

When the book gets to the aging process of creaming pages, often interior and exterior cover tanning starts to take effect. Which definitely can downgrade a book.

The vast majority of my July submissions have been sitting at GEI for an extended amount of time. Since the beginning of October, they have shipped around one weeks of my orders. So a regression of about seven weeks in the past two months with moderns and economies. I can't see the horizon for any type of turnaround time improvements.

The startling increase in the number of books I've gotten back with cracks on the right edge of the holder, excessive scuffing, multiple books damaged between grading and encapsulation. Loss of my business income due to extended wait time between grading and the encapsulation process. If CGC doesn't have a full time Production Engineer dedicated to encapsulation. What are they waiting for? How many books do you accept back, how much is lost on return shipping costs, forward shipping costs, lost production time, damaged books compensated for, administrative costs with return orders. Why is it getting worse, when will it get better, when will things change? I'm sure many would like to know these answers.

I feel cgc allows flaws like stains and pieces missing a grade bump when it’s on the back cover.

The label would likely say margin pieces missing multiple pages, could easily see this landing as a 3.0 from CGC. If part of one of the story balloons was missing, the book would be considered incomplete and get hammered. You can have chunks missing from the cover and still be complete, but every word of the story has to be completely intact to stay complete.

The graders notes list has a lot of non pressable flaws. The impact corner on the book looks over graded at a 9.0. Maybe it’s a post grading defect?

I quit calling the customer service number a while back. Must be working remote from home, baby crying in the background with scripted answers. Total waste of my energy.

Finger prints are factored into the final grade by eye appeal. Lots of variables from the examples posted in this thread to less obvious like dark oil spots on the back cover of a spidy 300 or watchmen 1.

When it’s a C-1 it’s still iffy, probably on the staple areas. If it was a tear seal it would be simpler. I would leave it as is.

What I know is the word small in restoration does not really explain or identify much. If you have the label grade, degree of restoration, it could open up options.

I think I had a golden age book that was an apparent 9.4 with one rusty staple that migrated into paper and it finalized as an 8.5.

Cgc graded complete restored it would likely sell for the going rate of a 1.0 universal graded book. Raw would be less liquid and lower.