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That's wonderful I hope it keeps up.

April-June 2016.

If there's bad enough tanning on the cover interiors it can mess with the grade. I doubt there's any in there, but worth a check since it's happening on the outside 🤷‍♂️ Or don't worry about it since you're slabbing it anyway 😀

How in the?? I hope you get priority on the pressing too!

I guess a person could try doing 'spot the difference' with a real copy online using Heritage or MCS solds. The problem is in not knowing what you're looking for. I think that ultimately you just have to know what you're looking at or holding, and that's why scams work. If you know in advance that your local government doesn't issue warrants for missed jury duty dates, then you won't end up buying gift cards for strangers.

Have they all been through best offers or have any been full price?

Thanks for the information. I will always agree with @Lightning55 in that if you want to return something then you should try to return something! I found your comic in the Bay solds and it seems like the seller wants to keep their feedback at 100% and encourages you to contact them. The listing says "no returns", but lots of sellers put that even though it's to their detriment. Contact the seller with your explanation and see what they say. State your case that the item is not as advertised. If the item WERE as advertised, then you'd be a happy customer and wouldn't be returning it; this is not a case of buyer's remorse. Then explain why it's not as advertised. These are crops of the listing images. I can understand why you wouldn't have seen a corner break or tear if it's on the turn of the spine, though it does appear that the corner has some kind of problem: Ultimately, you can always return things to Bay through their money-back guarantee program, but they encourage contacting the seller first. It is in the seller's best interest to let you return the item, even if they don't agree with your reasoning. If they feel you're abusing the system then they can always report you, but that doesn't seem to do much unless you're some kind of serial false returner. If you take this route please let us know how it goes. Good luck!

Press. This. Comic. 🙏

@zzutak examination plz; how would you categorize?

I agree that demand exists, but I'd argue that only the 60's reprint books are low enough in supply to have any value, not to mention how far later book stray from the original. I'd also argue that collectors find GRRs unique in non-reprint ways that might justify their value.

They probably reholdered it, but shot it back out the door; remember these MEs aren't making them money and one time is usually enough to satisfy. If you'd like to show full pics of the slabs we could do a "spot the difference", but based on the rings it appears you were reholdered.

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What'd they charge you for it?

It's a great feature! What has your strategy been, fixed or auction, and about how long did you have to wait per issue? What was the time range of the last one you sold, and do you forsee any hurdles due to the market change that began in June?

This is the truest post ever and I am sincerely laughing and can't stop 😀

Do you mean that you avoided rings for two years or that they always fixed it?

Can you blame them for avoiding such nasty upstream whiffs? 💩 🤮

I'll take the other side! Here's my monopoly money 💰 and here's my argument for... OP can't tell us if a book he bought was pressed, but the appearance of that spine corner betrays it. Why? Because the color break doesn't have a corresponding crease. Apart from the little tear at the top, the spine integrity seems fine. You can't have a color-breaking crease without a crease, and a pressed comic book will still show color breaks even after the creases that cause them have been removed. If you've ever seen a flat comic with white lines on the cover, then the comic once had severe creases and that's where they were. The white lines on the above Spotlight betray that this paper was originally crumpled hard enough and for long enough to break color in myriad ways. The paper has since been flattened, in this case without professional assistance, but the breaks remain and betray the paper's original damaged state. If this damage were fresh, the comic would appear bent-up like recently crumpled paper. The circumstances necessary to perform the 9.8's corner impact after the fact would have likely destroyed the case. Fresh breaks, even in forty year-old paper, require origami-style creasing. The corner would then have needed to somehow self-expand back into a flat and solid spine. As to "the damage had to occur afterwards because this couldn't have received a 9.8." If you remove the mental image of a comic being damaged and consider only what you're seeing, then you're facing a purely aesthetic consideration: a white line on a cover like any other line we've seen on any other 9.8. Pressing serves the above-mentioned purpose of removing damage so that only aesthetic grading considerations remain. The fact that pressing can't solve everything illustrates an important truth about the process: comic wounds can be healed, but their scars are forever! ::dramatic musical crescendos, etc:: (eager to hear other perspectives; I would love for this comic to actually be loose and slamming around just to shut this grandiosity down 🥳)

Via internalization of the The Real Thing, exactly the experience a mark will lack.

Your book is safe! The front of the outer case is pressed up against the front of the sleeve your book is in. It's possible that the front of the outer case just kind of sunk. If you happen to have a suction cup, you can attach it to the front of your slab and gently tug in various ways and at various places. That might help adjust or reduce the appearance of the oily effect. Good luck!

There's always the Ask CGC forum, they respond in a day usually.

1900 was just a heck of a year. Thanks for all you do! Sorry that I keep unintentionally bringing up stuff related to your software; it's an extremely helpful website and I have no complaints! 😀

Chuck is an animated person, always moving, very salesman style. I made the gif for a different thread in response to Shadroch's description of Old Chuck vs. New Chuck (edit: the description I read was strictly in terms of Chuck's going from a straitlaced appearance to a stereotypical New-Agey one; I was not aware of any other personal circumstances at the time of this post.) To me, Chuck's appearance in that video illustrates the New Age vibe perfectly, and Chuck's animated nature was clearly meant for a Fleischer short. 😀

I may have asked before, but have you used the slab quick submission form? I don't know if it speeds up anything in-house, but it definitely saves the time you'd have to wait for approvals. And I don't think Este's gone anywhere. Finding out that Steve's hiring didn't affect her was a relief and I think she got a cooler title.