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Are conserved books more liked than restored books? Is there a difference in the discount one attributes compared to the guide price for a conserved book compared to said discount for a restored book?

Thanks, got confused between the strip and label itself. Though now that I check examples, I also see blue labels with purple strips for conserved.

CGC Confirmed that there is such a thing as a blue conserved label. That makes things rather confusing.

Thanks!

I thought that dry cleaning a comic, along with pressing it, would not count as restoration and still give you a blue label. However, I just noticed this comic (not mine) that ended up conserved due to the fact that the cover was cleaned. I do not know how it was cleaned, but this means that some cleaning practices can give you a result of a conserved comic. I am just wondering which kind of cleaning. Can a dry cleaned comic come back conserved as well? I was about to submit some books for dry cleaning/pressing and now I am having doubts.

Why did you resubmit the 9.4?

6.0

https://giphy.com/gifs/jOpLbiGmHR9S0 4.0

Pressing only helps creases, the spine split will remain after a press and still figure into the grading. Also cover appeal and freshness does not factor into the number grade when wear and tear is also involved. It just means its a good looking copy within the grade it lands in. Please let us know what it comes back as once you get it graded.

Meaning the only way to truly get ahead is to buy comics for less than they are worth now rather than hoping they go up in price later?

Yeah, like water stains.

In terms of investment and prices, inflation has gone up more in the past 15 years than the overstreet prices for most Fawcett books which also happen to be the superhero comics with the least amount of copies recorded on the cgc census.

If they were signed, then that means they were handled in some way (and 5 times for your case), so since a 9.8 is usually the best you get if no one touched it, the grades you got back make some sense. Also, not sure if pressing a book with a bunch of signatures is a good idea.

The staining is what brought it down that .5 notch. We all noticed the creases and such but not the staining (granted, hard to see when there's the extra glare). So a 6.5 without the staining, but a 6 with the staining, I can see the logic. They just determined there were too many imperfections for it to go beyond a 6.0 even though all the imperfections were slight. You can have them regrade it but you will lose that CVA sticker, it costs extra since its graded by another party, and you probably wont get a different result.

It's probable heritage is checking out these boards since they recently changed the description of their listing to the following: "Captain Marvel Adventures #146 (Fawcett Publications, 1953) Condition: FN/VF. Rusty staple, minor staining on back cover. Overstreet 2019 FN 6.0 value = $99; VF 8.0 value = $194.More Information: EDIT: Grade adjusted from VF+ to FN/VF; description updated to include condition description." While I am glad it has been rectified, it still worries me that someone there thought this could be an 8.5 (when all of us amateurs knew there'd be no way of that at first glance). And if the change is due to this post, or someone bringing it to their attention, I kind of worry of the other instances where there is such a discrepancy and it's not noticed or reported until the buyer receives it.

HAHAHAHA Man, you joke, but I hope there really is no truth to it. I have a nice high grade Sandman 1 (the neil gaiman one) from PGX. I bought it for cheap so it wont be a major loss no matter what, but it does make me wonder exactly how much lower it might be if graded by anyone else.

How about instead you check if you find a 7.0 with colour breaks, rounded corners, creases along the spine, folded corner and spine split at the bottom?

Yes, and yours has the same colour break issues, but in he green area. Showing me that pic further confirms that a 7.0 may be too optimistic. Definitely would not call it solid. Plus, yours has a spine split at the bottom, don't know if that spidey 14 has that too.

The truth is it's only a solid 7 if that's what CGC grades it as. We are talking half grades here, CGC could go either way.

Sure, between your 7.0 and another 7.0, someone might preffer yours so it could sell quicker (but not for more).

They are enjoyed because they are a fun variant that is cheaper than the cents version. The niche part of the market makes it fun. But of course, a niche market means less people, and thus a lower demand. So you get lower prices. So at least 20% cheaper is what you usually get.

You have colour breaks all along the spine and near it, along with creases in the corners and what appears to be a spine split at the bottom, something not as excusable for silver age books, and which cannot be improved upon with pressing. So a 6.5-7.0 would be my best bet. And I don't know about those prices listed by deadpoolica, I was pretty certain pence copies sold for less than US editions. Granted, I do not know the figures for this exact book so I may be wrong, but pence copies are usually sold at 80% of guide value as a rule of thumb when assessing worth (of course, there's the old adage of this being worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it). So in this case, the book in its raw state would be worth about 650 or somewhere around there.