jcjames

Holy Aspergillus!!!

Weird that one grader gave it two grades (2.5-3.0) instead of being decisive and putting a single grade. Make up your mind!

In another thread, someone posted about using a Gerber halfback on top of a ComicPro 56pt board for supersolid support plus full acid-buffering.

So CGC is offering $16-$18/hr starting pay to people who handle who your collectible comics up to $##,### in value or more, including those skilled in the art of pressing (including "quality checks") as well as encaspulation, and even data-entry and submission verification. $17/hr... That's the minimum "living wage" in Sarasota Co Florida for a single adult with no kids. That's what CGC thinks of your precious collectibles. CGC puts their money into what they value, and it ain't in handling your stupid comics.

For me, the ending of Barry was a let down. The whole finale season was weak, with only a few sparse pieces of interest. It felt rushed and yet empty. Like last season of GOT. The last few episodes just had no gas left in them. As high points, the rise of Hank and killing of Cristobal and Fuchs "becoming" The Raven in prison were interesting, but nothing as riveting like prior seasons (Barry killing Janice, killing his friend Chris, going berserker mode in the monastery, Gene setting up Barry at Jim Moss' house, Sally's self-destruction on her show, so many great scenes and plot twists). A few sparse dark comedy pieces (the attempted hit on Barry in prison and Hank missing Fuchs with an errant missile) were too few and far between. This is the same show that dropped that whole "karate-kid" episode on us out of nowhere. The last season just had no gas from the start, and always seemed unsure where it wanted to go. YMMV.

Who looks at the back anyway?

Reminds me of Eeyore...

Add my own "Tales To Embarrass": Years ago I bought a raw midgrade SA moderate-key from a well-known/respected boardie at a con. I didn't inspect it at the con, very crowded and didn't want to bother asking for a space to open and page-through a SA key with all the hustle going on. I just bought it. Seller didn't mention anything about it. Brought it home at the end of the day. Went back the next day and did more shopping (accumulating mass-quantities). Once the con was over, I took out my SA key from the boardie and immediately noticed a small ad was cut out of the back cover. Con was over, and I didn't want to harass the boardie for my own lack of judgement in paying for a moderate-key book I didn't inspect on-sight or even later that day. Lesson learned - inspect what you buy ASAP.

The seller is partly liable for apparently selling you an incomplete book advertised as "complete". The buyer, you, are also partly liable for not doing any reasonable inspection of the book or it's condition in a reasonable amount of time (ebay's refund dates). Had you done your part, that would have immediately alleviated you of all responsibility and placed all responsibility on the seller. The seller has zero liability for you choosing to send an uninspected book that you own off to CGC. That's 100% on you. Woulda-coulda-shoulda... take the $100 and learn your lesson about buying and grading books.

So in the OP's situation, would the witness to the signatures (who did not witness the sketches themselves) also then verify the sketches too? Would the artist tell the witness "Yeah, I did those sketches a few weeks ago, and I'm signing it now for you to see" and everything gets verified? Would it get SS Yellow, or SS Yellow/green-stripe?

Okay. So you'll have a CGC facilitator witness the artist's signatures, and that should be last time you should see them until they're graded. The facilitator should take them from the artist at that time to send/bring to CGC. I would assume the facilitator will verify the sketches too, but I don't know how that works - when the artist sketches with no witness, then signs with a witness. As far as having CGC/CCS press and clean them after they're sketched and signed, again I'm not sure, but there's the slight risk of messing up the sketches and/or the book. Other much more experienced folks could chime in on pressing/cleaning sketched books, @joeypost and whether having CCS do it is the best course of action.

Assuming these are unwitnessed (by a CGC facilitator) sketches... The back cover won't affect the grade as much as the fact that it will be considered "writing on cover" and be heavily downgraded for that (if you request a Universal Blue Label), not so much for the back being dirty. Cleaning the back won't matter much in a Blue Label value-wise, except for personal aesthetics. If you go with the Qualified Green Label (along with having them cleaned), then the value will still be significantly affected by the unverified drawing on the cover, but the grade will not be so badly affected as a Universal Blue Label. btw, it looks like they're not signed either, so still very hard to even get the "other guys" to verify anything if you went that route. Cool cover art though!