Tony S

I asked a cosplayer friend. It's McCree from the online First Person Shooter Game Overwatch.

The costume itself isn't familiar - but my first thought is Wynonna Earp. The Cosplayer looks similar to Melanie Scrofano and the pose and smile are also close. Could be the cosplayers own interpretation of Wynoona or could be some character I've never seen. I think I'll run this by a few cosplayer friends and see what they think. As you say, she looks great whoever the character is.

You should repost this in the Signature Room forum. That's where signature facilitators and people looking for them post up. Welcome to the boards!

But didn't Steve_75 just join the boards and comment?

Thank you for joining - and joining in the discussion! Welcome to the boards!

Yes, you are the only one that lazy. If you aren't going to keep proper track of your comics, you should just give them to someone that will. Like me

All fun aside.... People will crack open slabbed books for a variety of reasons: 1) They don't like their comic books sealed in a plastic tomb for various reasons but they got the book at a great price so they want it freed and in a space saving bag and board 2) They want to get a creator or celebrity to sign the book 3) They dislike the grade and it makes them angry every time they look at it because it deserved a higher grade. 4) They are going to have the book cleaned, pressed and regraded in search of a higher grade. There are probably more reasons, but the above come immediately to mind. Welcome to the boards.

It's hard to answer your question because we don't know the particulars. Since you say it's the first 9.8 on the census, I'm inclined to think these books were coming from CGC. Which means that if the post office is doing the shipping, it is registered mail. However, if you bought these books on eBay then need to know what class of mail they were shipped under and how much insured for - and by whom. A lot of eBay shipments are done without insurance OR using eBay's private insurance. Each of those choices of shipping and insurance would follow a different claims procedures. Assuming it's CGC and Registerd mail, your claims process should be relatively straight forward. Since Registered mail is extremely secure and loss or damage is nearly unheard of (delays are common however) just filing a claim may well spur them along in finding the package. Your package shows out of delivery. RM has to be signed for. So it probably couldn't be delivered (no one to sign) came back and is locked up somewhere . Here is a link to filing a claim along with how long you have to wait https://www.usps.com/help/claims.htm?#domestic Here is a link to finding missing mail. If you haven't done this already, you should before filing a claim. https://www.usps.com/help/missing-mail.htm

Send it back to them and have them reholder it and then return to you. Reholdering actually ends up costing more - maybe a LOT more - than $15. CGC's cheapest shipping is UPS/FedEx. One book is $13 - but with only 100 insurance coverage. And there is the $5 invoice fee. So if your book is worth say $500 and you want it insured for such, you'd be paying $15 + $5 + $32. Fifty two dollars. The auction house probably has a couple of reasons for resisting a higher credit directly to the seller. 1Cool mentions one reason (false claims of damage). Then the auction houses costs of reholdering are probably a lot closer to $15. They probably send in multiple books at a time for reholdering, which means that the $5 invoice fee gets spread out across more books. And they without a doubt have their own private shipping insurance and have books returned to them from CGC under their own shipping account. 5-10 reholders coming back in one box under their own self insured FedEx shipping account might be costing them $2.50 - $5 a book for the shipping and invoice fees. So their total cost for reholdering could easily being coming in under $20 - versus your real cost of $33 - $52.

Been a while since I have listed anything for sale on eBay, but I believe as a seller you can prevent low feedback buyers from having the high bid on more than a certain number of items. Seller selected the number limit - but I do not recall the range that could be picked from. I do not recall it being a limit eBay imposed on all low feedback bidders for all auctions. But it could be and obviously would be if you were bidding on different sellers items

Cash, cash, cash.

What Kav said. But he was speaking to just the four issues you are getting graded. As to where there is always eBay. You can also sell here on the boards in the for sale section. You will find though boardies may want references since you just arrived. Keep in mind that the vast majority of your other issues may not be worth much especially if they are in the same sort of condition that you say the first four are in. You can look on eBay and see what previous sales (not asking prices) have been for issues you want to sell. Some issues may have only sold for a few dollars. o So the first four issues you are having graded would be best to sell separately. If you have other key issues like 42 and 68 you could sell them separately. But if you have a bunch of issues that only appear to be worth a few dollars each, those you might combine together in groups of five or ten Welcome to the boards!

Issue 4 is a no and issue 2 is unlikely. But I think issue 6 has potential to improve. We really need back cover scans as well as front. The pressing appeal of old label books is not that CGC was stricter grade wise. They are as Joeypost noted strict now. The appeal is that pressing was very, very uncommon when CGC opened in 2000 and for several years following. So old label books are unlikely to have been previously pressed.

This is a printing defect. Generally speaking, CGC is much more lenient on printing defects and focuses more on defects a result of handling. I doubt it would have any effect on the grade

The brown paper wrappers do not matter. CGC will remove them if sent to them still on. The Subscription card is an unknown. I will make the assumption all copies must have been printed with a subscription card, because the logical copies to leave out a subscription insert would be a subscription issue. My best, educated guess would come from looking at comic books where all copies had a card or insert of some type. The Marvel comics books that had a Tattooz sticker first comes to mind. When the Tattooz sticker is missing, CGC gives it a green, Qualified label. The book receives the same numeric grade it would if the Tattooz sticker was present, but labels it as a "Qualified" grade and notes the Tattooz sticker is missing. So most likely the missing subscription card will have no affect on the grade - but will get a green, qualified label.

Your pictures are coming up really small so it is hard to say 100% for certain. But this I believe is a Generation 2 slab WITHOUT the inner holder. With those slabs there is two sheets of mylar over the book and the book is held in place by the pressure of the outer holder These slabs without inner holders were much more prone to what is called Newton rings or the Prism effect. Where the two sheets of plastic touch, an oil on water visual effect happens. While unslighlty if extreme, this in no way hurts the book More of a concern is uneven pressure (the spine of a comic is slightly thicker than the outer edge) would often times cause waves in the book. The good news is CGC will reholder these for free. Link https://www.cgccomics.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=5383& The slab has not been tampered with. One of the biggest improvements to the new slab it is impossible to open it without it being obvious. The slab is welded together all along the edges and removing the book results in a outer slab that is broken into multiple pieces. Welcome to the boards.

WT#%#? That's about a bizarre as it gets. However, I'm not completely surprised. Just mostly surprised. Believe it or not, CGC was actually sending out some packages under my FedEx shipping account. Not MY packages, other peoples packages. A glitch of some sort. Despite several calls, it kept happening. CGC was crediting the money back, but it kept happening and I had to keep watching my FedEx statements. Finally I closed the FedEx account. Which you have to do by calling. You can create a shipping account online - but to close the account you have to call. Anyway, a few more shipments were made AFTER I closed the FedEx account. And FedEx sent me bills. Multiple bills. On a CLOSED account. I did one letter and just changed the date every time. Saying the account is closed and why would you let someone ship under a closed account? Meanwhile, a call to Customer Service service at CGC finally got to someone that was able to actually fix it and get the FedEx account info deleted from my account. Crazy but true story. This transpired over the course of a year.

Here in the States FedEx and UPS have both drop off boxes (you do your shipping label online & then if the box fits drop into the drop off box) and they partner with office supply stores like Office Depot. In Canada does FedEx have similar things? The delivery trucks can easily enough drop by a box or a office supply store to pick up packages.

The answer is more like "probably not". If it's a clear fingerprint - like the police would like to have - in an area with color then it's there and isn't leaving. The oil from fingertips has mixed with/softened the oil based printers ink and left a print. Smudges - as opposed to clear fingerprints - can sometimes be improved Fingerprints in white areas are more likely to be as much dirt as oil and can sometimes be removed.

The lawsuit that you refer to was - I'm fairly certain - over the numeric grades assigned to the restored books of the plaintiff. Not the ABC quality. You can have your own definition of words if you want but fine doesn't mean mediocre in the dictionary. Nor does a "B" grade in school indicate mediocre. And if someone says "she's so fine...." that doesn't mean she's mediocre. However, if other professional restoration services are observing the same thing you refer to, then there is reason to raise eyebrows.

Date stamps and store stamps were part of the distribution of comic books. Date stamps being extremely common for older books. Writing on the cover will sometimes get a qualified grade. Unwitnessed signatures by creators or notable people always get a qualified grade. My guess is that "complimentary" isn't considered a common distribution thing, so it was given a green label 9.2 rather than a much reduced grade for a large stamp on the cover. It would be seem consistent with CGC's policy of giving green label grades to books that have a (usually higher) price sticker placed over the actual cover price of the book. A practice common at places like airports, bus stations and hospital gift shops. You can send the book back in for regrading and specifically request a blue label grade. The stamp will then be judged as a defect, rather than ignored. The grade will be lower - probably substantially so. 7.0'ish most likely

Most books from bound volumes have other things done to them. Comic books vary in printed size from issue to issue , so most of the time the edges are trimmed so everything is nice and squared up and looks like a book. Staples are sometimes removed, especially if the spine was trimmed. If the comic book is in nice shape and nothing else was done to it other than the pinholes from being sewn in, most likely you'll get a qualified grade. The numeric grade will be the same as if no sewing holes were in the book - but it will have a green label. There is for instance an Amazing Fantasy 15 in Qualified, green label 9.4 that has three ring binder holes through the book

While I find your post interesting, it could be that you are confusing coincidence with causality. It would be more...enlightening to hear from Mike DeChellis or Susan Cicconi as to where books they have recently worked on fell on the CGC restoration grading scale. I would also point out that in one area, your post is factually incorrect. A "B" rating equals "fine". Not mediocre.

Prices of restored books can vary some, based on how much, the type and quality of the restoration. But for Hulk 181 in 8.0, it most likely going to land at around 1/2 of the unrestored price. Unrestored copies of Hulk 181 in 8.0 are averaging around $2100 Welcome to the boards!

This Comic books didn't mean much to me either after my divorce. Fast forward six years, I've remarried, happy and regret to this day all the stuff I got rid of. Just put it in boxes in a dark part of the closet and revisit this five years from now.