newshane

My thoughts exactly. I have zero sympathy here.

Besides the robot covers, I think that number 2 is probably my favorite issue in the run. The colors are incredible.

Hello everyone: Many of you may know me from other forums, but please allow a quick introduction. Even though I've been collecting comics for 25 years, I've only recently fallen in love with Golden and Atomic Age comics. As you know, there are many considerations that must be made when collecting or grading older books, and many of these simply don't apply for moderns. I'm learning how to navigate these issues, and I have a question: I came across THIS COPY OF SPIRIT 22 ON EBAY. The following description from the auction does a pretty good job describing the issue with this particular book, so I will quote it here: The bottom edge of the book has purple coloring, originally applied to signify that this comic cannot be returned to the distributor for credit. This bleeds into the back cover a bit (see photos) and onto some pages, slightly. Color matches the front cover and does not really show. Hard to grade, beautiful book, with this flaw on the bottom edge. My questions: 1. Was this a common practice back in the day? 2. Who applied these sorts of marks? The distributor? 3. Most importantly, how will the mark affect the grade? Will it get a blue label? Would it count as color touch? How would you go about deducting points, if any, from a book marked in this fashion? Thank you in advance for your responses. I look forward to learning more.

Sounds like Weyoun from Deep Space Nine...or poor Duncan from Dune: God Emperor... each time they are killed, a new clone fills the vacancy.

COA? On an AF15? Color me confused.

That was the last nail in the coffin.

Never heard of him.

Action 434 Sorry about double post. Didn't want to edit.

+1

Better call Saul.

I would have. Theft is a serious accusation that I couldn't help but take personally.

This week I've been adding a TON of folks to my AVOID AT ALL COST list.

I'm just amazed that people have the time or the will to worry about such trivial things. Shows how good we have it in this country... half the world still has to worry about where they are going to get their next meal.

That is absolutely absurd! Wow. I suppose, technically, he may be correct. One shipment = one box. When you double box, you're basically getting "free" packing material from the government. BUT...come on guy. I can't believe you're getting lectured on that.

These are all good points as well.

I thought the same thing BUT... with all the available free porn these days, who cares? ...unless you're just reading the articles.

I totally agree with your views on pressing, but that's a whole 'nother bag of worms.

That would be a big negatory good buddy! They charge you for "imaging" service. If they took the time to scan and store images of every single slab, then the turn-around times would be 4 or 5 years.

Some of the damage can be fixed by pressing. If I were you, I'd ask if they could include those services as part of your compensation package.

Drop some F-bombs yo!

Agreed. The pictures where he had his thumb jammed in the side of the case, while simultaneously pushing down on the inner slab, certainly doesn't help his case. I'm afraid his posts will end up doing him more harm than good in the long run. I

How can you be sure they are not? Besides, we mentioned a boardie here who did, indeed, have issues with the magazine holders.

That's very likely. I don't think the CGC is in the business of intentionally ruining books. That would be an unwise and very expensive policy. For the rest of the board, we can learn a few things from this: 1. Read the service user agreement. 2. Make sure that you accurately state the value of your books when you send them in. As the policy states, you will only be covered UP TO the amount you declare. Lots of times, people will low-ball the declaration in order to save money on insurance/shipping costs. Bad idea if something goes south. Bruce, I doubt they did it on purpose. I just think the super-huge magazine slabs are garbage by design. I don't collect mags. Thankfully, I've had absolutely no issues with their comic cases over the years. Also, I've noticed that CGC (like Amazon!) has been going cheap on the packing lately. They used to sandwich the cases between cardboard. Now they just use a layer or two of bubble-wrap and call it a day. Bruce, I also suggest giving them some time to deal with the problem before going nuclear. From my experience, the CGC works pretty hard to resolve problems. Good luck. PS - starting multiple threads on the same topic is greatly frowned upon in these parts.

I agree.