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Speaking of ridiculous Robin panels, get a load of thos dialogue

I would stop messing with that new mutants 1. With a grade that low, the book is not worth what was already spent. Any additional money you put into it is just wasted, even if you get this to a 9.0 (that would cost you an additional $50! minimum). Just consider it a learning experience without having to spend more money. And yes, you can send CGC a slabbed signed book that they will then crack press and regrade.

Yeah, the verified sig program is definitely a draw. Also, fyi, CGC can and has lost books as well. That's why they ask for the insurance value and have different tiers based on it. All the best!

This will be my first ever SA superman book

Man, imagine if comics had subgrades...

If you don't mind my asking, why did you select CBCS in the first place? PS: If you want to join in on the fun here, we adress CBCS as Voldemort or Voldy for short, because it's the one who shall not be named.

Right, all great points and advice. Thanks for adding to my post!

want to share with us what you'll be sending in? Also, if you want to have some fun, you can post some comics in the Buddy Can You Spare a Grade forum and then we say what grade we think it will get. Then you'll show us how wrong/right we were when you get the comic back.

You said you shouldn't need this batch to get pressed after they were handled for a signing, why? A 9.8 is a delicate grade, CGC cracked it out of a holder, put it in a new bag, it was piled upon other books and someone held the comic and applied pressure to it to sign it. Why would you assume the grades would stay the same? I think you instead got rather lucky that they all stayed 9.8s. Also, I don't know why people keep sending CGC slabs for signings. Not only do you pay more with that extra fee (and shipping, since slabs are more expensive to ship out) but you are adding an array of extra handling steps by strangers. Why not just crack and prep the book in your own home, where you are more in control? As soon as its cracked, the grade it was in is no longer applicable and the comic must be regarded, so it doesn't matter who does the cracking. CGC won't feel compelled in any way to give you the same grade, there wont even be a record of the grade it came in when it comes time to regrade your comics. I just don't see any advantage to sending in slabbed books for a signing.

Not a joke, it's the before last page of this issue:

Kelley Jones is one of my all time favourite artists and he worked on my favourite characters, Morpheus and Batman. BUT, he probably gave us the most ridiculous looking image of robin I have ever seen.

Yes you can, just make sure you write as such in a note when you ship the comics to make sure that CGC puts it in a blue label. Of course, I am assuming you know and are ok with the fact that a missing page would come back either 0.5 or 1.0.

Nice books!

Here's a canadian price variant I just sent off to be cleaned/pressed/graded

Thank you so much for succinctly saying what I was trying to say in my first post. This is what I was getting at. So for instance, what we were discussing just now with a press removing water ripples. It will make for a nicer 4.0 but it won't make a water damaged book suddenly become a 7.0 because it falls flat like a 7.0.

The water rippling is tricky. Pressing would remove the ripples but CGC will still be just as rough on the fact that there is water damage. So you're basically pressing a 4.0 to get a nicer looking 4.0.

I have no problem with the bomb being yellow, I just find the execution of some random human on an alien planet painting it yellow to be a really odd way to do it. Would have been better if that bomb was just yellow.

Here's a follow up question. Did you pay the extra 20$ for a press?

There is one super weird part though that I wish wasn't in it. It's when John Stewart has to save a planet's core but it was painted yellow by an overweight bearded white guy.... who happens to live on this alien planet. that part is pretty darn distracting, overly comical, and just plain random. Turns out it was an inside joke between Mignola and the editor (or something of the sort, I don't perfectly remember what Mignola told me when I asked him about it) but none of us are aware of the joke. And this became something that stayed with John Stewart all this time.

That is my preferred pose as well. Overall, I don't find final crisis to be that great of a Darkseid story since he isn't great inside it. I actually quite liked Batman/Superman Apokalypse, though that's smaller scale.

It's the teen titans in a comic. No different than any other first appearance. It's the same as Brave and the Bold 200 and that's an established first appearance of a new team of characters too.

I know that due to COVID, this is no longer allowed.