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Uh oh, got some books back. First thing I noticed is that most of my books don't have that nice little "melted crater" on the upper left side area anymore (assume where the outer slab pieces are injection molded?), but now they have a "snapped-off appearance" and superior to that area, most have another inch or more of cracking viewable from multiple angles. Normal? Something to message support about? Thanks for looking:
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Thanks all for the input! Always good to see the varying opinions on it.
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Hey all, I'm relatively new to the grading scene. I've been collecting comics since the late 1990s, keeping almost all of my books bagged and board since my middle school days. My collection has somehow survived and followed me all over the country and for that I'm grateful. I didn't start looking into comic grading until last year when I realized that some things I paid $1-3 for almost 25 years ago, now go for quite a bit more. I decided to start preserving some books that are sentimental to me and that I want to keep forever, but also some that I may put up for sale.
I've sent in five lots for grading to CGC over the past year, and I'll say that I'm generally pretty pleased with the grades they've received overall. My most recent submission had a TAT of four days, which seems crazy. Anyway, now to the meat and potatoes:
Of the grading notes I've gotten back, a lot of high 8's to low-mid 9s have a common theme: "light finger bends on cover, light spine stress lines, light indent to back cover" etc. These are things I'm now looking carefully for before I submit, but I'll be honest I have sent a couple books in where I couldn't spot these defects myself beforehand.
So my question to the masses: Of those who send books in for grading with some frequency, how often do you press every book in your submission (be it self-pressing or through a service)?
Maybe my eye will get better at spotting candidates for pressing prior to submission, but I just wonder who takes an "always press" approach. Thanks for the input.
Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???
in Comics General
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My thesis (I'll revisit this post in ~20 years
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Bronze age books and prior will be the mainstay stores of value due to being harder to come by in better conditions. Copper/Modern age books will have more nostalgia factors going for them with future collectors (are many 75-90 year olds buying Golden age books based on nostalgia?), than say Golden/Silver age books, but we'll never really see anything like the ultra-high prices of the Golden/Silver age come about in Modern comic books. The scarcity just isn't going to be there for anything post-1980s. Print run numbers increased, direct sales, variant crazes, etc. On top that, at least to my understanding, it was around the Bronze age era that we saw the rise of common preservation techniques (bags, then boards) and collectors' really started thinking about future value. I surmise most Golden age, and to a large extent, Silver age books at the time of sale were seen as something to cram in a desk after reading, toss away or use to kindle the fireplace wood. That makes them scarce along with general loss d/t the passage of time. I don't see that happening with most Moderns, even in another 30 years. Too many are museum quality preserved from the start.