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6. Darth has subbed like 30 or so by now. How many have you subbed, sonny...? You know the sad thing...? The TOTW 1/2 chromiums that I got, I got directly from Wizard, directly from the printer....so there's *probably* 5-10 more 10s in that batch of about 30 I got. I kid you not. The other funny thing is...there's some film on most of them that needs to be wiped off before subbing. Do you know how hard it is to wipe chromium without scratching the plastic...?

6. Darth has subbed like 30 or so by now. How many have you subbed, sonny...?

Press-to Minto!

About a 1/32" non-color breaking spine stress. A very strong 9.8 can have one. A 9.9 cannot. Easy, cheesy. Next question.

But pressing isn't "new" starting today. It's been going on for a while. You don't think people have been looking at Hulk 181s for the past few years? The reality is, pressing a book into a 9.9 isn't like just turning the press to "11" and watching the magic happen. Books that can grade out at 9.9/10 are FREAKS of preservation, to find a book with a slight, pressable flaw that could turn into a 9.9 is probably just as rare as finding a true 9.9, just because it's got to be an uncanny combination of issues. + infinity to the part in green. What normally gets perfectly preserved books a 9.8 instead of a mint grade is almost never pressable. Tiny bindery tears, tiny flecks of white at a corner, tiny, nearly imperceptible spine tics on otherwise perfect books. I would love to hear anyone post a "press to 9.9" story, because I don't think one exists except for people that are pressing moderns. The questions about pressing gloss over what seem to me to be somewhat bigger questions. One being that if a book is really as common in all grades as it would be if it were printed today, then how much can any copy be worth? And if 9.8s and 9.9s are subjective and virtually indistinguishable from one another (at least in terms of non-microscopic presentability), then the value depends on how much value buyers place, and will continue to place, on a difference that cannot really be seen. And, perhaps more importantly (given the slabbing process itself and "shaken comic syndrome") on whether that infinitessimal difference continues to exist forever except on the label itself. There are real, observable, albeit extremely subtle, differences between 9.8s, 9.9s, and 10s. Anyone who says they don't exist is ignorant or lying. But. For the vast majority of people,these flaws are meaningless because they require a certain type of focus that, frankly, most people don't have. And that's fine. For them, a 9.8 becomes the functionally highest grade they can, or should, care about, and that's perfectly fine for most people. But, again, that dosn't mean there isn't a difference. There is. And I'd be happy to point them out to anyone in person should they so request it.

Couple of issues, and you know I think you're la bomba, but.... New Mutants #98 in 9.9 is no longer a $10K+ book, and there are doubts as to whether it really was at the time it sold. The subsequent Sig Series 9.9 sold for a little more than half that amount, a little more than a year later (the funny "point" can be made that that's because it was signed by Rob Liefeld, but to the people who will shell out $6K or $12K for this book, it IS a premium.) Same with GL #76. Mid-2009, the only (at the time) 9.6 sells for $30K, then 5 more and the 9.8 shows up, and only manages a 22% gain in price over the 9.6, while a 9.6 sells for less than half its high. Yes, granted, 9.8s are not 9.9s, and moreover, sole 9.9s. That point cannot be overstated. But then, Hulk #181 isn't GL #76. Prices have plummeted for nearly everything across the board in Bronze the last year and a half, but this one book is immune? Even considering what it is? Probably not. Had there not been any SCS concerns...had this book been offered for sale in, say, mid-2008, I have no doubt that it would have been a $100K+ book. Those conditions simply do not exist any more. The owners waited too long. And, ultimately, this is merely a philosophical exercise because the reality is, NO genuine 9.9 copy exists in a slab at this moment in time, anyways.

Yes. 9.9s and 10s are, as I have been told, inspected IN the case to confirm that they'll go with the grade (and actually witnessed, as I watched grades come back for all my books...except the 9.9 and 10 on my last sub.)

Sweet miswrap. Innit though? At least it's straight up and down.

No, just misunderstanding. I'm on my phone posting at work. I was talking about the inner wells used for a modern 9.9 vs 9.8 Ah. Well, that makes more sense, then.

Green was joking...

The saddest part is, it survived for 26+ years in real 9.9 condition...and then it was slabbed, and because someone, somewhere didn't treat it like spun crystal, it (allegedly) was damaged. Shame.

Even as a 9.8 sitting in a 9.9 case, it still, tops, worth only abut $50,000, with the shrinking value of the 9.8s. But, hey, people can dream. I thought this was funny: "this singular example is definitively the most significant single comic book graded by CGC published in the last 35 years. " Someone better buy Comiclink a calendar....Hulk #181 was published 36+ years ago.

No.

One and only Sandman #1 in this grade signed by Kieth.

One of only two signed by Sam Kieth, lone top census.

it makes no difference...just have fun with it (thumbs u 40,000 posts I may not have a lot of posts, but I'll bet, word for word, I beat 'em all.... That's nothing to be happy about. Brevity is the source of wit. Pfffffft. Go get some sun, GZ. Albino jokes? Et tu, Amadeus? Moi? Why, I would never dream of such a thing.... Oh, and I've tried to call a couple of times...but I keep getting a "the number you're trying to call is not reachable" message....

it makes no difference...just have fun with it (thumbs u 40,000 posts I may not have a lot of posts, but I'll bet, word for word, I beat 'em all.... That's nothing to be happy about. Brevity is the source of wit. Pfffffft. Go get some sun, GZ.

it makes no difference...just have fun with it (thumbs u 40,000 posts I may not have a lot of posts, but I'll bet, word for word, I beat 'em all....

I have a very highgrade set of #50-#100..... Maybe now's the time to get them slabbed...

I think this board needs more RMA....

Trying to get to 10,000...?