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Cal sent quick payment for a CGC 6.5 TOS 91. No problems. I hope you like it Cal and look forward to more deals with you!

Poor lighting at dubious facilities, paired with alcohol at 2am have led me to "grading" disasters before also!

Wow, you really hit the right trifecta of graders with this book! Incidentally, don't you hate it when sand gets in your crack? No wonder Mummex is PO'd

Not so many prowling as there used to be

JOHNNY FRIGGIN ROMITA

(thumbs u Congrats Greggy, Nice! UHMM headlights, patent leather boots, magic fingers and long straw slurpin'. Sabrina could press my 9.8 anytime

I don't think this book is possible in 9.8. There probably isn't a one. When the book was damaged in production, it had been printed, folded and assembled. From what I can tell, the damage happened when the book was being saddle stitched. (in bindery, as noted by several) Most saddle stitching machines from that era operated pretty much the same. The folded book travels spine-up along a rail or guide, it's stapled and then moved along the rail to be dropped down onto a table or conveyor to be put in boxes. From where the damage is at, it looks like as it was running through the machine the tolerances for the thickness weren't set properly and each book got damaged on the way through. The machines are designed to be adjusted to the thickness of the book being fed through. Whether it's a 32 page book or a 64-page book, someone has to set the machine how thick the book is to run it through. All it takes is an operator who didn't look carefully at the book when they set the machine up. He probably ran a couple dozen or so books to set it up, and then sat there at the front of the machine and loaded them, never looking to see how they came out. A bindery person is going to be careful that he doesn't damage the final product, but come on - everyone has a day that they just aren't paying attention. Who knows? The folding machine could have saddle stiched the book at the same time, damaging the book, too. Big printers have lots of automated machines that are set up once, and then not looked at unless there's a jam. I know that there's a lot of people who want to think that things like off-color holograms (left over make-readies), or altered color/out of register (overlooked by quality-control), or books with production flaws are "rare" - but the bottom line is that all those book are is testaments to human error, and there's nothing that special about it. "He probably ran a couple dozen or so books to set it up" and then gave them to his buddy Ryan Elliott over at PGX. ( Cue X-files music)

Nice book! Love all the "strap hanger types" watching from the windows and sidewalk. This cover has something that is incredibly rife in bronze age Spideys, but very rare on the covers. Who knows what it is? Prolly the Joni Mitchell classic: Listenin' late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi Took my girl away Now, don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Til its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot

Went quarter box fishun, came up with these: Not really SA but same purchases qualify don't they?

After this weekend's "operation", I hear daKen will now be called daBarbie jus sayin

I like to hear things like this SUUUWHEAT book!

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square-bound 9.8s . . . amazing! RED reds! Sparkling WHITES. Can somebody create a Tebowing icon please?

Thought we'd replay this drama since thread has been slow:

God of Thunder screaming and swinging Mjolnir seems to have desired effect on Charlie's aim. Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Great Treasury Editions I always liked these. They seemed......wait, they were bigger than life!

Back to the topic..... Besides the common miniscule stress in Cap logo box, anybody else notice something weird going on in the staple binding area on back. It looks unusually tight and gathered around there. Perhaps structurally creating a root cause for what's going on with this book. Comic assembly engineer gurus

Well she aint no Butt Gun Firing Asian Hooker chic....... my point exactly! Is there any real difference when there is subjectivity and POV and preferences?

Just in this forum topic header before last call.

No. Because what happens when a copy surfaces without the problem? Can we not be content to have 9.6 as the highest grade?Why would anyone want to have the grade less than accurate? NO So if all the books you've ever seen were produced with the cover ripped in half, you'd be content with CGC calling that a 9.8? Seriously? No sir. The smallest of unobtrusive stress caused in production should not preclude uber high grade on an otherwise flawless example. I don't know whether it's 9.9, 9.8, 9.6 or another number. But as in afforementioned ASM #300, the printing process is not an equal playing field in all books ever printed. We know that a single miniscule stressor will grade differently in a New Mutants 87 than it will in a Marvel Comics 1. Does a mole on Eva Mendes face make her any less than a 10?

Two larger than life icons slugging it out in foreground. Kirby goodness.

Maybe a Bobo re-enactment and the use of trailcams and thermal imaging can shed some light on why squatch stomped all over this print run. We have casts and scat all around the printer. I have one copy that is much cleaner than my others. It has a spider web size stress in a different place, lower than others. Whisper thin crack almost feels like a small printers crease. I posted in PGM. The copies I've seen with Black Cap box seem worse than the UPC ones. Should we consider this a printers defect and scale the grades higher on a curve?