DougC

Facilitator fee's are now an industry standard as CGC outsourced their Signature Verification to "authorized facilitators" years ago. You will be charged; I would advise to find a facilitator you trust and build a relationship with them to handle your books. Some facilitators charge a premium, some have a standard fee it just depends on their business practices and something how much they can get away with.

Your maxed declared value is all they will reimburse so if you maxed out modern it would be $400 ea. You should also ask to be reimbursed the full invoice which includes original payment, handling fee, and shipping. It is very likely CGC will try and get you to accept system credit instead of a refund, I would advice against this unless they offer a lot more as it is just free money to CGC. In a bit more of a snarky response you are actually lucky to get reimbursement as the standard SOP has been to blame the customer, deny any fault, and only then reluctantly offer some type of compensation. I am sorry for your loss; here is a sticker:

I moonlight as a Z list movie producer and one of my recent highlights is making Adrian Paul mad at a private event....

Something a bit different... These are Sealed Space Ship miniatures made by Eisenwerk Miniatures from 1977-79 for their proprietary SpaceTek battle system (comparable with Starfleet Battles). Pretty much nothing about the miniatures or company exist on the internet except a couple references and one reddit picture similar to mine asking what they were. All-in-all they are probably worthless due to being obscure, from the late 70's, and no fan base.... But they are pretty neat hunks of pure lead.

Anyone who had books out for the Terry Austin/Claremont signing due by March 1st, I just got an alert that my book (Austin only remarq) just moved to GEI (4/14).

Because you cannot honestly expect CGC to be held accountable for their own mistakes. That sounds like some kind of expectation of quality control and responsibility when we all know it is the customer that is in the wrong for "finding" these errors in the first place. Seriously though it is morally bankrupt business economics; CGC puts out so many of these that it is not cost effective to fix them all. So they limit a customers ability to return damaged product and save the money while ignoring any social outcry until it becomes a PR problem. Then they can roll back the return policy and pretend they are doing it in the best interest of the customer and be the hero. If it helps I have a sticker I hand out for cases just like this:

Maybe.... this is just a personal dig by the CGC graders directed at you for being poor and they believe it is a really pressing mater? Tell me how is your relationship with your press...

Can you tell us who pressed the books? I am all for taking a shot at CGC for their terrible high heat quick press but this seems to be a case of over hydration where the book "reverted" after pressing. Even I doubt this would be done by them (your book is more likely to be burnt). I had a copy of defenders #65 in this condition where the book wrinkled after being slabbed, another press fixed the issue and it retained the 9.8 (thanks Rich).

Depending on how much the JSA authentication, grading fee's, and shipping it is very possible that you can buy one that has already been graded for a cheaper price. "IF" you do send this book in (after the announcement) it will only reflect that it was signed not any notation about 1 of 100. There have been thousands of this book signed over the last 30 years so the CoA stating your book is 21 or 100 (signed at that store only) will not add value.

In addition to the above it is very possible that it would be cheaper to purchase one in a similar or better condition that is already slabbed with a yellow label.

I am so mad at myself for not grabbing one of the Tottleben remarks (especially one of the swamp things) when they were all over ebay. In other news, a total solar eclipse... but a second print.

This as always is terrible news; I own a number of sketch covers from Scott. Both brothers have had nothing but a terrible time medically for the last 20 years, Garrett is currently fighting his own battle and this will be a very tough time.

Just a couple notes... JSA currently offers both third party authentication and in person witnessed signature authentication. Secondly CGC signature series is a niche inside a niche that many people still do not understand and learn the hard way after getting a book signed. The 100% claim is industry puffery as there has been instances in the past of bad actors and shenanigans; CGC currently allows artists to take books home to finish so there is always a chance of another Kirby/Dynamic Forces. More so on the topic at hand; I have backed off the position they will be yellow labels with JSA notations... slightly. What I do think will happen is that a new color label will be announced for 2024 then in 2026 they will announce merging the labels into a single yellow label going forward to "help with customer confusion", offer a 30 day discount to get your old labels changed over, and never look back.

If you are not familiar with CGC submissions or where to find the Mechanical error selection it will be under: Submit (on the home page) >>Submission Forms (drop down menu) >>Online Form (like submitting a comic for grading) >>Start New Order >>Comic >>Regular Submission Grading (even if you have SS books) >>Mechanical Error/Return Then complete the form with the Certification Number of the comic being returned. As noted above a prepaid packaging label will be printed but you have to provide all packaging materials and labor. CGC will ONLY correct their mistakes if this is done within the first 10 business days (IIRC) after which you will be charged! They will not compensate you for their mistake nor for the book being out of your possession; I would highly recommend maxing out any "estimated insurance" on the form. May the odds be in your favor; good luck.

The same way JSA always has... If they (or PSA) cannot confirm a signature due to it being obscure; they will err on the side of caution and return it as "unable to verify signature". Which is what they currently do.

Much like comics the definition of "old" can be deceiving as well as what is "valuable". If you live close to any large city they will have a book shop that purchases books that can be found via google; but you should set expectations very low... like extremely low if they will purchase anything.

I sent an email to one of Jim Lee's reps on March 20th and it was replied to on the 25th and I am going to hopefully assume it was off the cuff. I contacted the SS@CGC email per below: and received the following reply 4/1 which doesn't exactly line up with the response from Jim's rep: Given how little CGC has chosen to communicate and just outright lied I have little faith the "next few weeks" statement is accurate or even came from Jim's team. Gas lighting is a step up from normal though...

After questioning the whole thing that is actually what confirmed it and I edited my post.

From what I remember Lyria is just a simple indexing site, there really isn't anything to purchase, even the underlying framework is cut and paste. I would be very interested in how CGC is participating in this destruction of OA covers. New Valiant already scammed their NFT "investors" a couple years ago and stopped paying their artists/writers (or any bill for that matter) scamming more money. Any cut-up original art needs to be authenticated and Shamdasan trying to use CGC to back it. I do not see a market for this at the price point being offered, the cheapest being 3K for a 1.87 inch piece that the website says only 13 remain.... I have doubts but this would be a miss step at best if CGC authenticates this.

Enjoyable collections of complete Drek you say? Behold my stuff! Also have a sealed case of trading cards (plus tons of boxes), the Dark Dominion's are the free "we are sorry for missing deadlines" with various signatures and apology letters. The letter in the bottom left is a missive from the Defiant offices to someone asking for a couple missing zero issue cards. The B&W add is a color guide preview for the eventual back cover advertisement, various pins, mailers, and such. all of this is completely worthless to pretty much everyone; so I generally pick up items super cheap when something new pops up.

It has been an industry secret for over 60 years now but I actually created the idea for CGC encapsulation when I laminated a comic back in 1963. Myself and old Willy B were reading the funny pages and wanted to find a way to protect them from the red menace. At the time we just wrote on top of the laminate what the condition of the book was, this changed in 68 when we met up with true paper gangster Spencer "man of" Silver and started using post it notes. Now that this is public, my representatives will be in contact with CGC so that I can be properly credited... Those on the forums who want to pay proper respects can do so by selling me things HERE.

There are a good number of them on ebay currently with a #1 in 4.5ish selling for $150 nothing else has sold the 4+ times listed in the $300 range. A #4 in CGC 5.5 only sold for $90, a raw #5 in similar condition sold for $50 and there are others in the same range. You should do your own research and settle on a price your are comfortable with listing them, maybe error on the high side and take a best available offer.

looking at past sales probably around $80. I would recommend doing your own research to better understand the market using 130point, GPA, or even just Ebay recent sales.

If you are asking if you can submit a graded slab, then yes. You will need to provide a window bag & board, CGC will remove it from the slab for signature, then regrade it (it may not keep the current grade). When you fill out the submission form you can type in the serial number for resubmission.

Give me my Millie the Model custom label! there are like probably 3 of us...who want it. all kidding aside a multi-use "golden age" custom label would be nice. It could be a collage of public domain characters or one with specific Marvel/Timely/Atlas