Kevin76

I love all comics, from GA to Moderns, Marvel and DC. I don't know Tim's humor because I don't know Tim Thanks for the explanation though

Yup, untrimmed pages

People who do think like that aren't investing in comics, they are marvel fanboys who want to crack open a 100k slab so they can read it. haha

DC is much harder to find and less desirable but the demand is with Marvel, thanks to all the movies. However, if a book is getting expensive that was cheap before any kind of movie/TV show (SME 15 as an example) That's a huge red flag to run away from that book since it's not sustainable in the long term. I have more faith in a BB 28 long term since people wanted that book, regardless of any movie hype attached to it. We live in a throw away society, So "that movie was terrible, time to sell my SME 15" attitude comes into play, If you're still invested in SA DC's, try and buy the highest grade you can afford or make upgrades later. Some DC's are super expensive in any grade like an Action 242, Showcase 22 or an Adventure 247, so buying an 8.0+ is out of reach for most collectors.

As long as everyone has a stockpile of toilet paper, we're all safe

I don't blame you for not wanting to work on the press for the rest of your life, I didn't either, 12 hour shifts on nights for 20 years, sometimes doing 5 or 6 nights in a row when it's busy, digging ink under neath the press then lifting 200 pound rubber rollers that are 80 inches long, trying to put them in and out of the press on your knees. I'm glad that I'm able to apply my printing knowledge to comics though, makes grading easier and I'm able to shut down collectors when they think they know what they are looking at...Hahaha. I actually live about 20 minutes away from the original Eastern Color where they 1st started printing comics, It's still there, It's in Waterbury, CT windows boarded up and abandoned, but I do believe it's on the registry of historical places.

Front cover wasn't cut to the correct size when it was printed, only to be corrected later, if CGC were to say it's been trimmed, I don't believe it was and they have been wrong before about trimmed books

Action 15, 17,19 , 108

It's very time consuming to scan back covers, the time it takes scanning the back cover could be time spent scanning another book. I can understand wanting to see if there is a wrap on the back cover, if so, how bad is it? But if you are bidding on a 9.6 silver age book, and you're wanting to see the back cover because you're afraid of the coupon on the back cover missing, then the 9.6 grade will tell you there's nothing majorly wrong with the back cover. I even get people asking for back cover scans for 9.8 modern age books, like I'm trying to hide something..

91 to 93 in HS on the AB and then 1998 to 2019 on the other presses. From 98 to 06 I worked at Retail Printing which was bought out by World Color, which is now Quad Graphics them I moved to CT in late 2006 to work for Pro Line Printing which used to be Eastern Color, then they got bought out by R.R. Donnelley, Which they turned into LSC Communications which they then sold to Tread Printing which is what they are now...for how long? Who knows? They've been struggling to get work in that place for awhile now, wouldn't surprise me if they shut it down soon. Glad I'm out.

So you'd be paying $250 for a book from 2014 you can get for less than a $1

I worked on offset heatset web presses, Goss C-700's, Goss C-500's and Harris 954's. Worked on AB presses in high school. I can see forgetting about running out of ink on a sheet fed press especially if the fountains are filled by hand. We had automatic ink levelers on our presses but sometimes the sensors would get dirty and the fountain would run dry. Low ink coverage doesn't always mean the ink is empty, Sometimes the books would get saved too early from a start up and the ink hasn't been brought up yet and they'd end up on the skid and out the door. We printed the Sunday flyer inserts Home Depot, Lowes, Macy's, Aldi ect..

How do you know that the plate is fine? Were you there when the press was running? The pressman doesn't forget to add ink while it's running, you can only adjust one color at a time while it's running and the person stacking the books could be saving them when they shouldn't be.

A presser can only do so much and not every book's paper behaves the same way. Pressing is just a tool. Nothing more.

Last one went for 9995 in January

I remember buying a JIM 85 9.0 W from a seller on eBay offline for 2500...Sold it on comiclink for about what I paid for it around 2006 and bought artwork which turned out to be the better investment in the end but I do miss the JIM 85 occasionally now that I'm back into comics

$8600 is crazy! Then again, you rarely see this being offered anything above an 8.0 which is why it went for huge $$ Book would have tanked if it was on an eBay auction haha

Just store the pictures in dropbox instead, it's free.

I got so sick of it and quit

I reread your post. Ink is transferred to the rollers, then to the plate, then to the blanket and paper. You have to maintain an ink and water balance in order to print a clean image. Too much water and the color is washed out. If it's too little water then you have too much ink is on the image...No water will cause what happened to the current Batman 89 issue. The water is mixed with an Etch solution, which cleans up the plate as it's running and will make only the images on the plate recieve ink and the water washes away anything outside of the image. This what you're looking for?

It's hard to get what you're saying since you aren't describing it well enough. As far as the science goes, really isn't much other than lots of electricity and engineering.

Why are all your pics blurry?

Sure there was a find, Doesn't mean all those copies found are still in thier NM state after all this time.

The wrap has no effect on the grade, won't be a 9.9/10 though

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