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You bought a variant cover meant for obtaining sketches. Manufacturer puts tissue on top to protect, then CGC removes when you submit. (you can do whatever you want with this tissue really)

Was each acquired at a different place on a different date?

A challenger appears? https://www.beckettvault.com/

It's probably a toss-up, honestly.

I hope it all goes well, good luck!

Thanks for the explanation. Rust is weird. I'm glad you quit because if they detect removal you could get a Restored label, and then it doesn't matter what the grade would be

Ok. Did they start out entirely rusty?

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I never got a response, but I was trying to say that your book PROBABLY has been pressed, so the staples MAY have been cleaned. Rust can occur in silly ways, so who knows really, and I don't know what criteria CGC uses to determine rust removal, but it's perhaps something to consider given how they look. edit: caveats

Dearest Steve, Unlike some of us (me) who are excruciatingly verbose and reek of pretension, you are... SO GOOD

Congrats!!

Ok. Does this comic shop do or advertise any in-house pressing/cleaning?

Please let us know; I hope they just meant "centerfold loose at the staples".

::replying to follow topic because I don't know how else to do it::

Is this your comic and if so where/when did you acquire it?

yeah, it's correct for the issue.

It could be anything 🤷‍♂️ If this were mine, I would quarantine it and try to sell it asap; that's just because I don't like risking the rest of my stuff or my health if something proves to be inactive mold and somehow re-activates. Whatever it is, it's on a lot of the back cover. That could potentially make it feel weird, though I imagine that'd be more from the drying. I used phone filters here just to show how large the affected area appears to be; this is definitely not spectrometry or something: There's definitely some kind of material attached to the cover and next wrap. I don't know if it's trimmed fill from casting or whatever, but I'm sure a conservationist could elucidate! I doubt it's a facsimile cover. Please don't inhale any of these images 🤮 And a quick retrieval hopefully

I believe it is...#11! 😀 How does the front cover feel in comparison? Also, does the cover feel like air-dried paper and do those waves go through the entire book? Also, is the mold throughout the book? Also, Is it possible the entire book was split and that there is filler on each wrap? Also, where did you get this and when?

Agree, it's a huge downside to stacking. I imagine the drawers of your wood cabinets are usually closed (you showed them in another thread); have you noticed any obvious long-term effect on the contents? Due to off-gassing I guess?

Pressing is mandatory on this one, you'll come out great!

Vault is similar to how MCS stores your inventory once you consign it with them, and then ships it for you when it sells. MCS also allows you to reconsign consignable items without taking physical possession; any eligible comic becomes a tradable asset and MCS becomes the floor. The host loves this because they get to earn consignment fees and buyer premiums over and over on the same comic, avoiding the need to acquire and ship additional consignment items in order to achieve the same result. Vault realizes the ultimate destiny of slabbing, which was to commodify the slabbed product so it could be treated and traded as fungible. Vault becomes the trading floor. This is intended to serve speculators playing in a fussy market, as waiting on a shipment only to relist the item may cause the flipper to miss the flip. The vault is in Delaware. Bay collects an instant transfer fee of 3% from the buyer when there's a sale, but sales tax is deferred to the withdrawing sale. There's also a withdrawal fee based on the selling price. There are no selling fees or final value fees when you keep the item in the vault. There will be a monthly storage fee, but it's waived for 2022. (did my best to summarize, this information may change or may have changed, please verify at Bay and all that...)

This is the perfect candidate for a cleaning!

Perfectly-placed defects; this would be an excellent value if purchased as a slab 🥳

It's cool to know the result with the yellow stain. I don't know if the clean helped but the pressed definitely would have addressed the masthead indentations. Thanks for the follow up!

It's true that I was making a general statement about shows, not addressing NYCC in particular. I have not attended NYCC and should have paid more attention to the OP's post pre-rant. That was my bad and I apologize to both JayBuck34 and OP. Sticky finger hyperbole aside, there are some important caveats in your post, like the ability to have one's books stolen or lost with impunity, and the fact that the last proper NYCC was in 2019. Recently, someone posted that no CGC receipt was provided at a non-NYCC show. While the comics did show up in his account, I imagine it was a needlessly scary time. For a first-time submitter with valuable books and without collectibles insurance, I still believe it's safest and smartest to eliminate all the variables you can by using a shipping service with insurance.