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yeah, I am so happy with how the books came back I am just gonna deal with it at this point I think.

For sure, I have them in my den which has very little natural light coming in. I display sports cards too so I am pretty cognizant of UV light issues. Kinda my thinking too...with my OCD I will obsess over something until I don't, then I will not obsess about it for weeks, then obsess again. I've gotten better but still not where I wish I was. Any chance anyone has a nice new clean slab they can take a close up pic of (with the flash on) and let me see how it looks? Thanks to people responding!

A friend of mine asked me to send him pictures of the silver surfer books we found in my father in laws office after he passed away. We found these books over a year ago and, since I have experience with grading cards, did some research and sent these books to cgc to be graded. I got them back and was very happy with the grades. My significant other and I decided to keep them instead of selling them (as a remembrance of his father). They have been on display in our den for about a year. When the friend asked me to send him some pics, I had the flash on and caught a few things I hadn't noticed before. In the first three pics you can see what looks to be like a white discoloration over the book (I assume its either on the slab and/or the inner sleeve) and over the one label (the 7 in the 7.5). In the other pics you can see very faint scratches on the slab. To be fair, I don't know if these are scratches or just the plastic of the slab reflecting off the light. I also know certain slab sleeves (at least with card slabs) can cause light scratches to slabs like this. I don't grade with CGC very often so I really don't have access to a lot of slabbed books, so I don't know if some of these things are just normal (how they came in from cgc) or something unusual (either from cgc or from me using a slab sleeve to, ironically, protect the slab from getting scratched). Full disclosure, I have diagnosed OCD so I tend to obsessive over things like this. If it is something I caused, how safe would you feel sending these back to cgc and paying to reholder them? These are old books and the thought of them being damaged in the process of being reholdered does worry me. One last point, just looking at the books (without the flash) you really cant see the scratches and you barely notice the discoloration so should I just deal with it? Thanks in advance to all the much more knowledgeable comic collectors out there.

agreed...im lucky that 12 year old me went to the newsstand to grab mine!

The spawn is a childhood book and the silver surfers we found in my father in laws office after he passed away (just laying in box unprotected with a stack of magazines lol)...I am weird, I can go weeks without it bothering me or spend weeks obsessing over it. If its just scrunched by the well, like others have suggested, it probably won't bother me as much. That said, I appreciate your situation...if these books didnt have sentimental value I totally would have done what you did haha

thats just the best picture I have...it goes all the way across the top of the comic (and a couple of the others I have) PS I Have serious OCD too

It's something you can see much better in person, under better light. It honestly probably is minor but still annoys me

did you have it pressed with CGC's presser?

Check the pic I just posted...was yours wavy like that? It sucks having to pay to have them reholdered then wait for them to come back! haha

This was the only one I could get a good-ish picture of...but this one, SS1 and SS4 are all like this. Weirdly SS3 doesnt seem to be.

I will definitely get some pics up tonight when I am home from the office. Thanks so much for being willing to help. I gotta say, my limited time looking at comic content on youtube and interacting with people about comics on threads it really does seem like a much nicer community than trading cards haha

Yeah, from the limited research I've done (aka googled things lol) it seems to be a pressing issue, which really sucks since its CGC's presser doing it. I wish I knew more about grading when I submitted them, but, with the exception of the spawn (which was in my collection from the 90s), they were all found in my late father-in-laws office with a pile of magazines so we just wanted to have them protected.

I will take some when I get home and post them.

I was rearranging my display the other day and noticed several comics I have in CGC slabs looked a little wavy. I usually keep the room dark but when doing the rearranging I had it pretty well lit and noticed them. All of the comics that were wavy were all clean/pressed by CGC's in house presser (CCS). When I found these comics I knew very little about the clean/pressing process (I am mostly a card collector) so I thought it made sense to use CGC's presser for that part of the process. Is this waviness something common? Is this something that can be fixed? Is this something that can permanently damage the book? I'm really not sure what to do because all of the comics are graded well (Silver Surfer 1 in a 5.5, Silver Surfer 3 in a 6.5, Silver Surfer 4 in a 7.5 and Spawn 1 Newsstand 9.6) but now that I've seen the waviness I can't unsee it. Some advice/knowledge from people who are much smarter about this than I am would be great! Thanks!

This thread has put my mind at ease a bit. I don't grade comics often but found a few silver surfer key issues in my father in laws office after he passed away. We sent them in to be pressed and graded and they came back pretty quickly. We looked at the grades and were pleased but I never took them out of the bags they came in from cgc. A couple of months later we decided to display them in our office and I got some superior fit bags to put them in. I didn't really look at them until after I put them in the bags and I noticed very small scuff marks. I was worried it may have been from the bags I used but considering the bag doesnt actually touch the front of the slab (since it is indented) that couldnt/shouldnt be the case. From the looks of it, CGC slabs sometimes just come with those small scratches/scuffs?