MAY1979

Better put away those Comico Primers and hope no one else decides to pick up an effort that apparently was such a steaming pile that Netflix said "yeah, we ain't going even upload those completed episode files to our servers"

For 1991-1993 how about Glut

Title by Title basis for me, but I consider all .40 Marvel and DC to be Bronze age.

Knowing Blackstone the DB is on a circa 2003 budget PC running XP Home located under the "tech dudes" desk

are you saying in 10 year - Disney will be making Fox X-men films? Using the X-Men sure, continuing Fox's X-men Film franchise will not happen.

What are the short, mid, and long term effects of this UV based process on the pages? Logically it is not good as renowned pressing expert Joeypost alluded to; "Bleaching agents and high intensity UV light exposure. What could go wrong." . UV damage (even if it's so-called desired damage) continues to some degree after the initial exposure(s) : Light is a very common cause of damage to collections. Many materials are particularly sensitive to light: paper, cloth, leather, photographs, and media (inks, colorants, dyes, and many other materials used to create objects and art). Aside from fading, there may be damage to the physical and chemical structure of materials. Light and ultraviolet radiation (UV) provides energy to fuel chemical reactions that lead to deterioration and while UV is blamed for most of this damage, visible light is also problematic. This could alter some sellers WP above all else business models (Hi Bob!) and some collector's preferences. IMHO unless a pre-2010 slab I would be very wary of any mid grade Silver or Golden Age book with WP. Was this type of process used prior to 2010? If so may mean only books in pre 2004 slabs are "safe" from the effects? My assumption is that for high grade Silver and Gold stuff those doing this UV process will not want to risk lowering a numerical grade with the handling the procedure requires. While on mid-grade books the risks are off-set by the premium some will pay for WP.

Correct that is why I mentioned Hulk 234 was April 1979 cover date (Jan 1979 on-sale date), June 1979 cover date (March 1979 on-sale date) was first month Marvel newsstand and direct-sale were differentiated 'round my parts June comes after after April - All in good fun man

If a USPS employees steal even a single piece of mail regardless of monetary value it is US Federal Felony. The old saying is you will serve more time in prison for stealing 25 letter than killing 25 people rings true. The Office of Inspector General at USPS enjoy hunting down bad apples. As for Fedex the worst that happen is job loss assuming they even bother to look into the situation to begin with. When I saw the Fedex memo from CGC it solidified that my days of submitting were done. All my remaining subs were prior to the cut-over thus will go USPS.

Hey, Hulk 234 was April 1979 cover date (Jan 1979 on-sale date), June 1979 cover date (March 1979 on-sale date) was first month Marvel newsstand and direct-sale were differentiated. June 1979 cover date first had line through UPC and Price area was same direct and newsstand. In July 1979 depending on book the narrow diamond price area and disembodied Spidey head in UPS rectangle was first used. So don't send the Hulk 234 in Re-holders in general scare me at current time. To risky IMHO to have a book damaged. Perhaps if and when Q/C is again performed with CGC?

Agreed but 10% is my personal limit and only for Marvel. Any book in which I'd deviate from 10% I probably already own. As for DC unlike Marvel where the Price area is different, with DC it's only the UPC rectangle. Thus 1980's newsstand DC's hold no additional interest for me. What I do find interesting as my collection scanning project continues, a lot of 1980-1987 DC CGC slabs I purchased from 2000-2020 are newsstands. Since I did not seek them out makes me think those numbers are not as low as some factions desire to believe. Please note in general I do not purchase 1990's or newer books. My comments refer to my pre-1990 collecting interests

At a perceived slightly below FMV price on some social media platform w/blurry cell phone pics, with copy that states "It's a Newsstand Baby" - only accepting a non-refundable payment method it will sell to some "buy the label" person. Never underestimate the vast supply of both rubes and unethical comic book sellers.

Recent sales have dropped to $4200 on the Direct Sale but I digress. The only determiner is how much more rubes will pay to have a barcode rather than a disembodied Spidey head. In my case for comics that I owned the newsstands as a child the amount is an additional 10%. Hmmm I think I just called myself a rube? Any higher than 10% and I go for the direct sale. As for Direct Sale books I had as a child, in the rare case that my copies from back then I do not feel are candidates for a grading submission, I go after a direct sale graded. I am "memory" based collector I seek what I remember, which is why CPV's are of rather low interest to me.

owner and they refused to resubmit it due to principal. Please explain what that principal is? The only one I can think of they lack morals and ethics and intend on selling it around FMV for a 9.6 newsstand via venue in which no returns are accepted. But yeah I agree CGC Q/C is pretty much non-existent and as long as they inundated with business that will not change. Truly strong competition with associated perception is the only way things will change but sadly none exists.

Might also show higher newsstand submissions than what was "estimated".... Chuck and others maybe getting scared as over next couple of years the numbers will probably skew higher than their swags???

If you (slabdata ) are able to scrape the new newsstand notation data then in a couple (? not sure how long) years time there should be a fair amount of data to model decent projections. Starting from the inception of the data. Please feel free to correct and expand on what I've said

Not wise for buyer. With the high census pop, as book drops non White Page slabs will take much bigger hits.

Nice. You must be very very close

I use photoshop primarily to crop and rotate images rather than have to get items perfect on scanner. I do have a photoshop --script/batch to adjust exposure just slightly although I could very well do that on the scanner end. That image which has a lot of plain white background was 7.5MB the average comic cover is 9-10MB. My opinion is disc is cheap, my time (spent on scanning) is not, so I save everything. I also have multiple redundant backups on and offsite.

Scanning utility has many options/settings but here is my raw untouched scan of the same book - note that I scan slabs in 600pi and the invision forum software will compress that quite bit in this post.

Same back cover with my a320e. I use the DocuAction bundled with the scanner and an version of Photoshop I've had since 2008.

IMHO the a320e is worth every cent it costs. I use it for slabs and art. I do have mine purposely set a bit on the "dull" side as I prefer it that way.

I do agree - although over the last year I've seen eBay and other venue sellers hoping to rope in a few rubes start to advertise many pre-June 1979 Bronze Age Marvel's as "Newsstand Editions" At cons and youtube carp I've heard the phrase "It's a Newsstand Baby" uttered by sellers for pre-June 1979 Bronze Age Marvel's...

yep

I totally agree no newsstand is rare at least not prior to 1986. Less populous in highest grades perhaps. but more rare certainly not. Still CGC wants to to cash in big time on re-holdering! Which is the only reason they are doing it.

I do like the notation "Marvel Multi-Pack Edition" much better than the false "Marvel Whitman".