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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".

"Because we want to cash in on re-holdering"

redacted due to excellent seller update.

Q/C issues aside what you have described is far more concerning as a cover-up was performed. In the firm I work for, mistakes usually slide without any future repercussions, but cover-ups are intentional malice and lead to immediate dismissal. .

technical grades; beauty and presentation do not factor in the score. For collectors, buy the book not the label applies

No. Sucks this happened but stay the course registered items are about as safe as shipping gets even if it takes a mess of detours.

Many Moon Knight appearances seemed to get levels they never should have. Then the show landed and Moon Knight barely appeared it was mostly Grant/Spector/etc.... Some episodes the hippo got more screen time than MK. If there is a Season 2, no reason to expect much different and smart folks won't let themselves be stung again which means smaller pool of buyers. Still plenty of room for WBN32 to drop, however it does have rather low 9.4 and higher population so I do expect it to bounce back but it could be decade before it approaches it's previous highs, longer for the higher pop mid grades.

really?? My post had nothing to with Silver Age! This thread is not limited to Silver Age nor Silver Age Key of Key stuff. If you re-read my post: it stated Modern/Copper/Bronze High Supply books

Regardless of Modern/Copper/Bronze High Supply books will be affected first and foremost - glut era will by far be hit hardest. Of course there will be outliers folks there always are, however they are not an indication of true market health. If you sell comics, I don't, specifically high population stuff you may look back 3-12 months from now and think selling in Sept 2022 as prices were in early stages of free-fall may not have been a bad idea. I again postulate that a whole bunch high pop stuff may very well fall below pre-pandemic levels. I think that type of correction+ is already underway with books like ASM361, MCP72, X-Men 1,4. McFarlane being super hot right now has postponed what will be one of the largest % falls from grace; Spawn 1. No book on the planet has more 9.8 copies and every census update seems to go up by a hundred or so... "The Wind's Of Thor Are Blowing Cold" - Jones/Page/Plant

6.0/6.5

If you paid by card open a dispute with the issuer ASAP! BTW no surprise on the dealer reaction. While I'm sure honest Comic Dealers and Comic Shop Owners exist, in all my years I've never met a single one.

Is the ink? marker? over the DC Bullet on the bag or the comic?

It's become very bad especially in and around Penn Station. Income from Tourism is easy clean money in bunches but it appears NYC leaders want to go back to the 1970's and 1980's when Manhattan was "No Man's Land". Please though, lets not veer off into politics.

If 9.8 perhaps Still except for hot stuff, FMV's are dropping. =========================== IMHO in long term Hulk 250 will offer higher ROI than 256. Also it will maintain it's value due to a number of factors such as a memorable Hulk Surfer battle #Hulk250isReal1stSabreAndArabianKnight

Truth!

Same here , since Oct 19 2021. 1 moved to SFG yesterday. BTW they arrived at CGC Sept 16 2021

IMHO Keep it raw. Given 1/3 of cover is missing the grading and shipping charges just aint worth it