Darkwing7869

I picked up an ASM 14 a while back as part of a collection. As I was looking at it, I noticed some smudging on the stalagtite near spider-man's arm. I held a black light to it and didn't notice any streaks or signs of marker. There's no bleed-through and the streak is all in 1-direction. Could this have occurred during printing or do you guys think that this is an attempt at color-touch that got smudged? Thanks.

Its not so much about grade improvements. Its more about grader notes and what a pressing is expected to achieve. The grader notes on my 9.4s simply say "spine stress lines" none of which are color-breaking and this was AFTER getting it pressed by CCS. I always figured that one of the things that a pressing is supposed to achieve is eliminating non-colorbreaking stress lines. Thats why people get things pressed. Is it not?

I submitted about a dozen of older but still modern books to CGC with a stop off at CCS for a pressing. No 9.8s and the 9.6s I got had no grader notes but what was interesting were the 9.4 grader notes. For two of them, the only note that was said was "spine stress line spine". Would that not be something a pressing is designed to eliminate? No indication it was color-breaking or anything else. Just that single note. Anyone else feeling underwhelmed with CCS'S results?

Ya I sent in 7 Standards and was willing to pay the extra $20 per book to fast track them but CCS came back and told me they no longer do fast tracking for Standard. However, they haven't updated their website in seemingly quite a while so hopefully it won't take the full 10-12 weeks.

So since the Standard tier no longer offers Fast Track at CCS, does that mean that TATs are automatically lower similar to CGC's Standard tier TATs? It would seem kinda odd that you can get a modern book fast tracked pressed and have it be finished quicker than a Standard tier book where there is no longer an option to fast track.