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Big fish to big fish (and mislabeled)

Subby in a weird machine to Subby outside a weird machine

Tommy gun to tommy gun

Only graded copy (although I think @sagii has a raw copy). Kind of surprising for a WWII cover in a long-running title.

Black Hood to Black Hood

It could be a whole new marketing campaign: "CGC state of the art slabs...Now with 1 % additional material."

My most recent auction win from the last Heritage Signature Auction arrived yesterday after a weird journey through the FedEx system. All due to a smeared and illegible barcode on the label. It was interesting watching the tracking information as a 5-figure comic went from "on truck for delivery" to "attempted delivery: wrong address" to "return to delivery hub" to "barcode illegible" to "on truck for delivery" to "delivered." Now I get to deal with the issue of there being an extra plastic shard inside the slab. Since CGC doesn't provide a free reholder on this problem (even though they created the problem), I'm reaching out to HA and will see if they can offer some help.

Last issue of a Standard Comics title to the same (although not noted on the label)

Thank you, Mike. As a long-time collector yourself, I'm sure this decision doesn't sit very well with you, but as an employee of CGC, I understand that you can only do what you can given the decisions made by upper management. I will reach out to Heritage about either retuning the comic to Heritage as "defective" and requesting a refund or seeing if they will pay the fees for reholdering the comic. Since this was a somewhat expensive comic, those fees will not be insignificant.

Thank you, @CGC Mike. I'm sure others have expressed their concerns on this matter, but I would suggest that you discuss this policy again with the management team at CGC. When a defect is created during a manufacturing process, reputable companies will stand behind their product regardless of who currently owns the product.

@CGC Mike Just want to make sure I understand CGC's policy on contamination and foreign material trapped in the holder. Today I received a comic that I won in the latest Heritage signature auction. It has one of the plastic shards inside the slab. If I understand correctly, since I won the book at auction, I cannot have the comic reholdered as an ME submission because I was not the original submitter. My only options are to see if Heritage will accept it as a return or to have it reholdered at my expense. Is this correct?

A mixed bag of things that recently returned from CGC:

Just got a batch of 25 GA books that I subbed to CGC. A few highlights: I have always wanted a Cookeville with Leroy Mackie's signature on the cover. Another Cookeville that came from late in the brothers' collecting lives. Leroy entered the Army in 1950 and the collecting stopped. I don't recall having seen many crime comics in the collection. A few other comics that came back:

Big hero to big hero

"Hit. You sank my battleship." to same

Underwater cutting torch to same

Bad doctor to bad doctor

Comedy Comics to Comedy Comics

Ace to Ace

Train to train

I'll add this one for a little comic relief. A long time ago, an amateur restorer decided to "work" on this book. Pieces were added, it was trimmed, cleaned, and a load of other stuff was done, but he drew the line at color touch.