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It worked!

Since someone spoiled the name rotation on the Water Cooler, I propose we move that idea to where all the unwanted ideas end up. The Cornfield! We should rename the library once a week

Would you rather be called a Big Mac?

https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=35444 I found the Inkwell Award's CAF page, if you look under their Inking Challenges galleries you can find a ton of pictures that compare different inks on the same piece.

I'm afraid it seems that this car has run out of gas. We'll have to walk the rest of the way if we want to reach any answers on that grading.

Grandnaw

@kav is it sentince if on purpuss?

Why bother? Just enroll them in the System and save the extra money to buy more comics!

The reason why people are mass submitting Moderns and chasing after Modern 9.8s has to more to do with the speculative market than it does with the world running out of Golden and Silver age books. The people mass submitting Moderns aren't the same people submitting GA and SA. You're making it sound like collectors are running out of GA and SA and are just submitting Moderns now because they have nothing else to do.

No, but it's not the answer to "Is that why there is a push for there comics and modern 9.8s!"

It was the answer I was hoping for, I like to believe people aren't hypocrites. Thanks

Just curious, do you use CGC? If not, would you ever consider using them?

https://graphicpolicy.com/2022/07/10/inkwell-awards-announces-the-mike-deodato-jr-event-ink-magic/ You can find individual scans of each one a few by looking through CAF https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1838729 https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1843592 and found one on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/165617580212

I don't think any grading company has a 0% loss rate when it comes to books, so I wouldn't be so quick to compare the two events of one lost book and 300+ lost books that were sent out of company HQ to a residential home. But to be fair, this is just whats public. Maybe there's a long history of CGC losing submissions that just haven't had such a public outcry. At the very least we can say CGC is not "publicly" as bad at losing stuff

How CGC would handle it is a moot issue since the printed replacements are immediately being sent to the competitor for grading, and they stated that if the original lost books are ever found they would be destroyed. I think this is a very special one-off case and shouldn't be used to generalize, that's why as you said no one has ever seen anything like this before. A major grading company has never lost so many submissions with exclusives that a vendor could actually reach out and get indistinguishable replacements for (The books in question are mostly those that have the edition # printed on them like 24/50, 25/50, etc, so they're reprinting the edition numbers that were lost by the competitor) But I guess just to go along with it, if they truly made it so its indistinguishable from the original print then what could they (CGC) do? It's like the pressing argument, even if pressing was considered purple-label restoration to CGC, its not detectable (if done correctly at least) unless its admitted to. The "2nd printing" would be undetectable unless someone told you it was the 2nd printing.

I think others are supposed to drop dead by looking at them Xpreshuns?

If anyone is having trouble with their grades...hmu (Yeah I don't care I just made this same joke in another thread It's funny everytime)

wurds?

Not that it makes things much better but I believe Crain's infinity (and other kind of variant signatures) signature predated his private signing events with CGC, he would do them at cons and people kept asking for it so he started charging (and then charging more) for it. But I have no idea if this is actually true, just what I've heard through word of mouth