walclark

Police to Police

A couple of funny stories: In 1969, my family (father was in the USAF) was living in a suburb of Nashville while my dad was in Viet Nam. We would walk down to a local store to buy comics. My brother narrowed his choices down to collecting one of two titles and wanted the advice of his wise older brother. Should he collect Iron Man or Spider-man? Using my incomparable preteen logic, I told him, "Look, Peter Parker is going to get older and older and eventually will be too old to be Spider-man. But if Tony Stark gets too old to be Iron Man, they could just put anybody in the armor and that series will continue. Spider-man's already been around for a while so it probably won't go on for much longer." Same brother and I went to a comic con in a hotel ballroom in Nashville in 1983. For a little room, it had a great line-up of dealers. I was looking at a copy of Zip Comics #33 and pondering plunking down $25 for a mid-grade copy. My brother came over and said that I needed to come see something. Put the Zip back in the box and went over to Bill Ponsetti's (@ciorac) booth who was up from New Orleans and there was a nice Superman #1 in a glass case. First one I had ever seen and we went total fan boy on the comic. Drifted back over to the dealer with the Zip, but to my dismay, it was sold. Took me 3 decades to find another one that I wanted (and it was a bit more than $25 ). Wonder what attracted me to that Zip?

Cop to the Top Cop

Sticking with Blue Bolt

Star Spangled to same

A couple of other newly slabbed books. Thank you to @Straw-Man

Probably not technically a quality control issue, but it bothers me. Especially after waiting almost a year to get this back. I wasn't sure if this was an item that would be slabbed, but I checked the census and it has been graded before...once. There is a 1.5 listed in the census. This copy would have been the highest graded. It was graded (or at least there are grader's notes), but I guess when it hit the encapsulation room, someone there decided they couldn't slab the thing. Super frustrating to wait that long and get the comic back in its raw state. CGC sticker says "DO NOT ENCAPSULATE" and "TOO TALL/WIDE/THICK" as the justification. Well, I slipped it into an empty Golden Age case and as you can see from the scan, it isn't too tall, too wide, nor too thick.

Thank you for your reply. However, the answer doesn't seem to make sense. One copy of this comic has been graded and encapsulated in the past. The size of the comic hasn't changed since 1946. I don't think CGC slabs have become smaller. I placed the comic in an empty slab that I have from a Golden Age comic. Scans are below. As you can see, even in a bag with a board, the comic is not too tall nor too wide to fit in the slab. Even with a bag and board, it doesn't seem too thick to be slabbed. Again, I am puzzled as to why a previous copy of the comic fit in a slab and this copy was rejected. And if CGC will not grade this comic, why is it in the drop down menu on the submission page?

Occasionally I will develop temporary insanity and send comic books in to be graded. I had a small group of Golden Age books that had been misbehaving and I shipped them to a semester of boarding school in Sarasota. The headmaster (Mr. CGC) took one look at this bunch of delinquents and decided a semester wouldn't be long enough to set them on the straight and narrow. CGC finally released them on good behavior after almost a full year and they arrived back. The group arrived yesterday wearing their fancy new school uniforms (which are actually quite nice and very clear). Full disclosure, none were manipulated before they were shipped to Florida and I did not ask CCS to perform any services. I will share one comic that I submitted as a bit of an experiment. I have a fair number of Cookeville collection books that I bought or had graded before the collection was recognized as a pedigree. Since the markings that are associated with pedigrees are not supposed to be factored into the grading, I wanted to see how much CGC was deducting for the big SN on the Cookeville books. Cracked one, just a straight crack and resub with no manipulation. And the results are: Originallly: And the same book regraded and presumably ignoring the SN and date stamp: Ah, the consistency of professional third-party grading. Well, that was a failed experiment and the remainder of my blue label Cookevilles (and Salidas and other new pedigrees) will either stay in their blue labels or will just be sent in for a reholder to get the new label the next time I develop temporary insanity and want to feed the CGC money machine.

I checked the census prior to submitting this comic calendar. There was a low grade copy previously graded and slabbed. In addition, the comic shows on the submission drop down menu. When I submitted my copy, it was rejected with a sticker reading "too tall/wide/thick." The 1946 Comic Calendar is as tall and wide as a standard Golden Age comic. It is about the same thickness as titles like Gift Comics and early squarebound comics like World's Best. Why was my book rejected when there has been a copy previously graded and slabbed? Title The 1946 Comics Calendar Issue No. nn Issue Date 1945 Year 1945 Publisher True Comics Press Country Key Comments Manufactured with hole, through bottom edge. Art Comments Sam Glankoff cover

I am clueless regarding motorcycles. Perhaps it was based on the Rikuo Type 97 (minus the sidecar)?

Motorcycle to motorcycle

Don Winslow with binoculars to the same

Eagle to The Eagle

Spear to spear

3/12 submission shipped.

Underwater explosives to underwater explosives

Green Mask to Green Arrow

One kind of tombstone to a different kind of Tombstone

Amazing to Amazing-Man

January 1947 to January 1947

Oil to oil

Red Skull to Red Skull