jimbo_7071

I've been collecting comics since 1984 myself. No one ever said that 9.8 was the norm; that isn't the issue. The issue is the staple on the Cap 46. I have seen many, many GA books myself because GA became my focus within 2 or 3 years of when I began collecting, and I have never seen a staple even approaching the staple on the Cap 46 on a book with virtually no other signs of handling wear. I would challenge you to show me an otherwise-NM GA book in an old-label holder with a staple that looks like that. On the off chance that you could find one, I would suspect pressing first and foremost—but I don't think you'll be able to find one, for the occasional pressing that was happening back then was not nearly as agressive as what's being done now.

I don't think you understand what I'm talking about, buttock. I'm not talking about slightly recessed staples with tiny adjacent tears. I'm talking about books like the Cap 46 where you can barely see the staple. That isn't normal. And Thoth's copy of the Archie book shows what looks to me like post-production damage—not necessarily from pressing but possibly from careless handling of a book that had weak paper around the staple due to what initially may have been a slightly impacted staple.

It may have happened in production on SA and newer books with their thinner cover stock. But how often have you seen an impacted staple on an otherwise high-grade 1940's book with the thicker cover stock that was in use then? I've never seen it.

GOLD(berg) to SILVER (Streak).

AAA AAA AA AA AA AA AA A A A A B B B B B B C D F

14 doubled to 28.

15 backwards to 14.

15 to 51.

Attractive redhead whom many guys would want to date in real life to homely redhead who would never get a date in real life.

If you had said yes, there would have been some arsenic in your next bowl of Fiber One.

Plastic capsule to Plastic Man.

Chemistry to chemistry.

Creepy guy looking dapper in a uniform to shabbily dressed creepy guy.

Creepy iron-clad guy carrying an unconscious blonde woman in a red dress to creepy hunchback carrying an unconscious blonde woman in a red dress.

Skull-like face to skull-like faces.

Do you know of another way in which the staple to the Cap 46 would become embedded in the book? I have been collecting since 1984 (GA since 1985), and I never saw that defect prior to the CPR craze. I saw plenty of covers detached from staples, but I never saw a staple that had sunken into a book.

If they wanted to have the books pressed, I think that it could have been done more judiciously. Is there a way to press a book without the risk of popping the staple? Can the staple be removed before pressing and then put back in after pressing without resulting in a PLOD? Maybe a book with a staple that is not aligned with the spine shouldn't even be a candidate for pressing. I would be willing to bet that the Cap 46 looked better before pressing, yet CGC's policy of ignoring pressing-related defects and awarding bonus points to books that look like pancakes has rigged the game.

Rabbit of enduring fame to rabbit of fleeting fame.

Members of the ostrich community do sell books from time to time, albeit not often. I've sold three slabbed books in the last nine years; none were pressed before I sold them. Does that mean that I "left money on the table?" Perhaps—but not enough to make me or break me, I'll warrant.

I guess it depends on who the bidder is. My max bid on a book is much higher if I believe that a book is unpressed. I paid $1500 for this book because it appeared to me to be unpressed (although who knows for sure). If it had been an obviously-pressed 9.0 or 9.2, I doubt that I would have bid on it, so it might well have sold for less.

Skeleton that can carry his bride over the threshold despite completely decayed muscles and connective tissues to skeleton that can shake hands despite the complete absence of muscles and connective tissues.

It would be a good experiment to buy some Promise books, crack them out, re-submit them as non-peds, and see what kind of grades they get. I don't think many of them would retain their grades. (I personally can't afford that sort of venture, but I encourage everyone else here to try it.)

I'm not opposed pressing mid-grade books that are practically bent in half because they spent 30 years draped over a rolling pin in some box in someone's attic, but it galls me that people will take books that are already high grade and then press them just get a higher number in the corner, knowing that the book could be damaged in the process.

Plant creature victimizing a woman to plant creature victimizing a woman.

That Cap 46 belongs in the same collection as the Cole Schave books and the Wilson face-jobbed books.