Get Marwood & I

Yes, it's fun plotting the stamp / sticker types and seeing how they match up. I've studied what I call the 'second' T&P phase for Charlton in this respect - example below - and the use of branded and unbranded stamps, and also stickers, is quite consistent across the titles during the 72~77 five year window: The use of stickers to reprice already dual UK/US priced books stands out quite clearly here too. All good fun

Nay, and thrice nay! Join! (I've added you)

Morning all We're up to 68 participants so far with 82 places left to fill. Here is the current competitor list in alphabetical order (if your name isn't down, give me a shout): Participants in Alphabetical Order ADAMANTIUM AJD aszumilo Axelrod batcollector Batman Fett bighairjer Black_Adam BlackOut21 Cat Cerebus3000 CJ Design Comics4All Cushing Fan davidtere divad Doctor Dositheus EastEnd1 Electron F For Fake fastballspecial FFB flashlites frozentundraguy Get Marwood & I goldust40 GreatCaesarsGhost Grendel72 grendelbo jas1vans jcjames John R JohnH19 JollyComics JustJimN Kramerica Krismusic KryptoMayor Mars76 Math Teacher MBFan Mister Scary Motor City Rob musicmeta Nsschenks pastandpresentcomics Pitboss Point Five sagii Sandflea scburdet silverseeker skypinkblu sledgehammer s-man SpideyFein Stefan_W Superman2006 TC33 thehumantorch timfinz topofthetotem toro universal soldier WilliamLunt Wipple Withering Wind zzutak CGC have donated a whopping $4,750 in grading credits since CGC Mike started these competitions last year. Here's the list of previous winners: 2023 CGC Grading Contest Season 2 Winter Edition (#5) - 115 participants 1st place @TC33 won $500 2nd place @TheGeneral won $250 3rd place @silverseeker won $100 2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Fall Edition (#4) - 104 participants 1st place @Yorick won $500 2nd place @WilliamLunt won $250 3rd place @TheGeneral won $100 2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Summer Edition (#3) - 137 participants 1st place @TheGeneral won $500 2nd place @Electron won $250 3rd place @comicginger1789 won $100 2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Spring Edition (#2) - 154 participants 1st place @jbpez won $500 2nd place @Mr. Zipper won $250 3rd place @Superman2006 won $100 2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Winter Edition (#1) - 354 participants 1st place @Squirrel Guy won $500 If TheGeneral keeps this success rate up he'll be able to retire in a few years We all know that grading from scanned images isn't ideal, but we're all in the same boat and with such comparatively small numbers it's a great chance to win some money off of your next submission and have a bit of a laugh. I like to have a bit of laugh every time I finish above the King of Australia, @AJD (which, incidentally, is every time) but Yozzer @Yorick is off my Christmas card list now following his outrageous 'Fall' in 2022 for which he will never be forgiven. Never! So, why not give it a go, if you're reading this? What have you got to lose apart from your dignity and reputation? And you could win 500 dead presidents (see - I may be from Englandville but I know my Americanisms) Let's be 'aving ya!

Ta. I've got a new theory about the 71 PV's which I think will sit better on the distribution thread (with a link here), but I think I can add something about the 78 PV's which you will like (though it's a bit fuzzy). Found it! I started an exercise a while back to track the final 'T&P' stamped cents copies and used my original UKPV spreadsheet to capture the results. Extract here: I plotted the stamps as branded (B) and unbranded (U) - not sure how the results fit in with your observations posted earlier. As you can see, it was a work in progress.... ...and I haven't done it for all titles yet. This kind of thing is quite time consuming - gathering stamped images, filing them and then plotting them - and time is something I seem to have less and less of lately. Well, to potter on comics anyway. Looking forward to seeing who you think solicited the 71 pence copies and why. I can't look back on it, as you haven't posted it yet....

Richard, thehumantorch has 'tagged' CGC Mike as he works for CGC and, as well as managing the forum here, he often helps members with issues like the one you have described above. He's on holiday for a week now though so won't respond for at least that period. You clearly have already spoken to CGC agents on the phone so the only other thing I can suggest is that you post your question again in the 'Ask CGC' forum which you will find here: https://boards.cgccomics.com/forum/23-ask-cgc/ CGC customer service staff like @MattM CS and @NickiO CS review that forum and they may be able to help you there, if indeed they don't respond directly to the tags I've just made here. Good luck.

And plucking your eyebrows....

Here's 50 of them. You playing then, hotlips? Participants in Alphabetical Order ADAMANTIUM AJD aszumilo Axelrod batcollector bighairjer Black_Adam BlackOut21 Cat Cerebus3000 CJ Design Comics4All Cushing Fan Doctor Dositheus EastEnd1 Electron fastballspecial FFB frozentundraguy Get Marwood & I goldust40 GreatCaesarsGhost Grendel72 grendelbo jas1vans jcjames JohnH19 JollyComics Kramerica KryptoMayor Mars76 Math Teacher Mister Scary musicmeta Nsschenks Pitboss Point Five sagii Sandflea scburdet skypinkblu sledgehammer SpideyFein Stefan_W Superman2006 thehumantorch timfinz WilliamLunt Withering Wind zzutak

Let's see if we can get to 150 before Mike comes back from holiday

Did you know that an anagram of Norman Osborne is Norman Sore Nob? OK, carry on everyone

I can only do next Thursday Eric.

You're in And we're trending https://boards.cgccomics.com/trending/ Participants in Alphabetical Order ADAMANTIUM AJD aszumilo Axelrod batcollector bighairjer Black_Adam BlackOut21 Cat Cerebus3000 CJ Design Comics4All Cushing Fan Doctor Dositheus EastEnd1 fastballspecial FFB frozentundraguy Get Marwood & I goldust40 GreatCaesarsGhost Grendel72 grendelbo jcjames JohnH19 JollyComics Mars76 Math Teacher Mister Scary musicmeta Nsschenks Pitboss Point Five sagii Sandflea scburdet sledgehammer SpideyFein Stefan_W Superman2006 thehumantorch timfinz WilliamLunt Withering Wind zzutak

You're OK Sandflea, there's 106 places left

They want to keep us confused, so we don't know where to go and therefore see and impulse buy more items. It's deeply annoying. I think you just signed your own death warrant, Eric

Death to supermarket shelf rotation! And death to those who say there's a reason for it, and that it is to get us to buy more things!

...Part Three: @goldust40

I don't like change for change's sake, or change that makes things worse - as it all too often does - but this is an improvement in my book. It's not a very big book, mind. And it's a pence copy

.....Part Two: @kalanye @Kramerica @Krismusic @KryptoMayor @Larryw7 @makeminemarvel @Mark-Allen @Mars76 @MBFan @Morganmi @Motor City Rob @Msgarmar @musicmeta @Myparentsbasement @mysterymachine @mytastebud @ned @old_dano @Old Fashion PB and J @Panda2 @pastandpresentcomics @PeterPark @PINWHEEL @pmpknface @revat @Sandflea @scburdet @Scrooge @silverseeker @skypinkblu @sledgehammer @SNiPER @spidermanbeyond @Squirrel Guy @Stefan_W @Stormshdow @stynxno @TC33 @the1supaguy @TheGeneral @thingsofstuff @timfinz @topcat54 @topofthetotem @toro @TRex2024 @universal soldier @Warlord @Westy Steve @Wipple @Withering Wind @Yorick @youfoundjake @zzutak

Calling occupants, of last tour-na-ment class! (Part One) @01TheDude @ak47po @AlexH @ArAich @ArcherC @ashsaytr @aszumilo @batcollector @Batman Fett @BorderlineHoarder @boron @cabinboy @canickus @Cerebus3000 @Chief1332 @ChrispyC66 @CJ Design @comicginger1789 @Cor88b @Crose87420 @Cushing Fan @davidtere @divad @DougC @Electron @Every Day A Story @FFB @F For Fake @fastballspecial @flashlites @frozentundraguy @g-man @Gman65NJ @grendelbo @Hibou @Jackhartmann @jas1vans @jbpez @jcronin @JJ Speederman @John R @JohnH19 @JustJimN @JWKyle

Twenty two participants so far Participants in Alphabetical Order ADAMANTIUM AJD Axelrod Black_Adam Cat Comics4All Doctor Dositheus EastEnd1 Get Marwood & I GreatCaesarsGhost Grendel72 grendelbo jcjames JollyComics Mister Scary Pitboss Point Five sagii SpideyFein Superman2006 thehumantorch WilliamLunt

Agreed. But with an average of only 100 participants, it's entirely possible you could win $500 by throwing darts blindfold at a grading scale along with the rest of us

I really like the new image preview feature in the All Activity screen. I find I'm reading more posts because of it:

*I'm* in then

Has anyone ever been taken aforward, I wonder? I think I've posted this somewhere already Richmond. I'll see if I can find it