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+1 New comic book day was Wednesdays back east by the mid sixties, but I see that 8/8 and 8/15 of '61 were indeed Tuesdays. Strangely enough my books are dated on Tuesdays as well. You're onto something.

I'm quite sure the books were stamped by the newsstand right before they were put up for sale.

I just checked another book I had two copies of and they had date stamps 7 days apart.

Thank you my friend. Cool knowing the stamp was punched 1 week after hitting news stands! It's possible they hit various newsstands at different times depending on proximity to the publisher. For example, West coast copies might go on the stands later than East cost copies.

That does work but you have to apply enough pressure to actually affect the inner well (where the glare is actually happening) but if you press too hard you run the risk of cracking the outer holder and potentially moving the book inside the holder. Chance of damage is unlikely but I do believe it is there. Just wanted to put that out there.

Sometimes flipping the book in the scanner might help. I use an 8250 and sometimes there is nothng you can do. Still much better than a blurry scan. Thanks! I'll give that a try. Applying light pressure to the back of the slab while scanning can also help. But with thick slabs, it's tough to avoid at least some glare. Thanks. I'll try that as well. I'm also noticing a faint white line going up the left side of all my scans. Its harder to see on the lighter covers. On my previous scan, you can see it to the left of the large pink heart going all the way up the page. Should I be concerned? Is it a used scanner? If so it's probably just wear on the inside of the scanner glass.

Glad to see I'm not the only one with an 8250 that's possessed. When it starts grinding my dogs start howling and the wife yells at me... If I keep scanning one slab after another I have zero issues and like thunsicker said, if you take a break it's guaranteed to annoy everyone in the house. I thought that may be the issue. I scanned two in a row but then took a break to tinker with settings and the next one went into grinding mode. In the many years I've had my 8250 I've never heard it grind. I just use the microsoft software.

Sometimes flipping the book in the scanner might help. I use an 8250 and sometimes there is nothng you can do. Still much better than a blurry scan.

I'm not sure if you're talking about me or not. I'm just assuming you might be because of the last discussion. If it is, this is what I said: And while I hadn't thought about it, I agree with you. I wish a lot of things too.

No kidding. I feel like a lightening rod for all types.

Wally should change the title of this thread.

But how would that help? The issue isn't making sure the label aligns with the outer slab, it's making sure the label aligns with the comic. Easy to access grading notes sounds like an excellent theft deterrent. Probably the best one.

Atta boy. Jaybuck=Team Player Good work How many point will the grader knock down for lite top interior tanning. Say I have a NM/MT book but it has top lite interior tanning. Will it come back as a 9.8 or 9.6? Depends on the amount of tanning, how deep it goes through the paper, what the rest of the book looks like, etc. Impossible to answer. 8.5 is top grade for any book with interior tanning. Again, that's not patently true. It all depends on the type of tanning, how dark it is, how the pages are, what the rest of the book is like, etc. Myriad of factors. If you're talking about Light Tan to Off White pages, generally 8.5 is the limit although there have been the rare 9.0 example. If you're talking about interior cover tanning, it all depends on degree, and I've seen interior cover tanning in varying degrees on books from 9.8 down to low grades.

You could easily have those three defects on any copy under NM, though.

Atta boy. Jaybuck=Team Player Good work How many point will the grader knock down for lite top interior tanning. Say I have a NM/MT book but it has top lite interior tanning. Will it come back as a 9.8 or 9.6? Depends on the amount of tanning, how deep it goes through the paper, what the rest of the book looks like, etc. Impossible to answer.

The book is clearly not a VF. The only question that remains now was if it was an honest mistake on the part of CGC (either hitting the wrong key, printing the wrong label, and QC missing it) or whether someone swapped out a book or a label.

The notes are never exhaustive.

George specifically told me they stopped a few years ago. I don't know if that has changed or if those lists are people that they have advertisement agreements with or if they actually collect data from all of them.

Only way to tell is by having the book in hand. I suspect this will go back to CGC. In the past CGC has gotten law enforcement involved in cases like this. Has anyone notified MCS?

This really is it in a nutshell. I wasn't some one-trick pony quoting a GPA high and asking a GPA high like often happens around here (and I constantly in their general direction when it does). I quoted an established trend and then priced my book right in the middle of that trend and well below the GPA highs. Obviously based on his posts, Peter thought it was thread krapping in RickyBobby's thread but then did a 180 and didn't think it was in mine. So the question is, when does it become thread krapping?

GPA scrapes Heritage and eBay and also other sites like Comic Connect (selective) and also takes data from dealers who submit (like Greg Reece, NewForceComics and a few others). Where else, you'll have to ask George. GPA doesn't scrape anything - they have direct access to the eBay data through the eBay API, and receive all sales data direct from the various auction sites (Heritage, ComicConnect, Pedigree, Lone Star, etc). As you mention, they also receive sales info from a bunch of the large dealers. The main reason they don't include Comiclink data is because Comiclink wanted it to be selective - as far as I know, that's not the case for ComicConnect. There's a list of the sites that provide them with data on the GPA homepage: http://comics.gpanalysis.com/ Sorry about the 'scraping'. I'm not a techie. I believe they stopped accepting Pedigree data years ago because of Doug's reputation. I also believe they take or receive selective data from Comic Connect. That's just from a personal observation of mine seeing some sales appear and others not appear. It could very well be that those sales I was looking for were not completed though.

No, this is not the consensus. I was being sarcastic to try to make my point.

Seems pretty clear to me. So Peter even considered it thread krapping in someone else's thread but not when he did it in mine? Sorry if I