Lightning55

I nominate "Dark Age". Pollution will cut off the light from the Sun.

CGC will not authenticate a signature they don't personally witness. You can only get signature series at a convention or private signing. You bring the comic, a witness accompanies you to the artist, it's signed, and then immediately submitted.

I remember looking at comics that seemed "gradable" years ago, filing them away. Now I take them out and look them over and see minor defects right away that are certain to push them into the low 9's or below. That's ok for an expensive book, and BARELY ok at that, but for most modern comics it can be of questionable wisdom to invest more money in them. But if you do, at least they are preserved. I think I must have been wearing rose-colored glasses back in the day.

Excellent deduction, ADAMANTIUM. I would love to know what the graders saw to knock it down. Not to question their judgement, but just to know and understand. I suspect if you look long and hard enough at any specimen, there will be something. I used the verify tool, and it says there are no grader notes.

The only Venom I have is Lethal Protector, and maybe a couple of stray issues shortly after those. I had 2 Gold editions graded, 2 #1 Red Foil, and 2 Secret Wars 8.

Hello to everyone.....I'm Lightning55, brand new to CGC in general. Over the years, I would set aside comics now and then to get graded "when I got around to it", so of course they sat for a long time. Just made my first submission, Venom stuff. Happy with the grades, 4x 9.8 and a couple of 9.6's. Hope to learn a lot here about comics, and mostly how to participate on the boards. Never really got involved in posting, messaging, etc. on any boards or blogs, mostly lurking, if that term is still used. One of my early goals is to get some advice on what to do with a Spawn #1 that has no yellow ink at all on the front cover. Looks really odd. Not a result of fading, just never had any yellow applied. Maybe I can learn how to add pics soon - that would help. One step at a time, I guess. Glad to have the opportunity that this thread provides - a place to jump in and introduce myself.