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Can anyone confirm dates that are coming back now since they opened up production again? Mine has been there since 1/18/22.

Turns out it wasn’t just the plastic holders holding up the books. They had to order new machinery, make sure everything was configured properly, and get operations going because the new slabs didn’t work with the old stuff. This was a tidbit of info I was unaware of until now. 

That video made is brutal but how did the presser not notice the missing stamp? I’d think it would be pretty obvious.

I will agree with others that the biggest frustration now is just not knowing where we stand in line. How long have they been stockpiling without communication? This is not a good look at all.

On 3/8/2023 at 2:53 PM, Famous Monsters Forryever said:

My economy magazines have been Scheduled for Grading since 2/3/2022.  266 Florida workdays.  Anyone earlier?

Alec

About the same for me as well. Received 1/18/22. Moved to scheduled for grading shortly after but then just stalled.

I guess the most frustrating thing about the whole situation is that they weren’t honest about the delays. Mine was sent in 1/18/22 with a turnaround of 140 days but every time I would be about to reach the return time it would magically extend a few more weeks. My books didn’t move  from scheduled for grading until I called several times in Feb. If they’re really doing them in order received I would think mine would be close to the top of the list but I’m not holding my breath.

I like how the completely ignored the question as to how all 3 covers received the same ration of the grades.

On 8/12/2022 at 2:33 PM, DrunkWooky said:

It doesn't make sense, though. The prefix already exists in the sentence as the first word "In." Trust can be an adjective, noun, or verb. Here it's a verb. "In" is an adverb, modifying "trust" so that trust operates on the object, "God" in the modified way "in" God. The prefix "In" or "En" is redundant on the suffix trust. 

I know Entrust and Intrust are both words, but they are not correct in this sentence. 

Well Crain may be an artist for a reason.

On 8/9/2022 at 8:24 PM, CGC Mike said:

Only 57 notifications in 4 hours?  I am disappointed.

Well that's definitely a response, I'll give you that.

I have another question regarding the book. How is a year old book that never even had a 9.9 before all of a sudden getting 9.9s and 10s when an acetate cover is added? Since when did CGC just start grading the cover of a book? 

The simple fact remains that they didn't have Marvels permission to do this which invalidates every argument for allowing it to be graded. 

The book was originally ok'd and published by Marvel for the retailer. They then took the book, added to it through another publisher without Marvels consent, and branded it as something new. Can you even consider it a Marvel book at that point. Even if its the original artist its still a bootleg because Marvel didn't ok it.

On 8/9/2022 at 2:07 PM, CGC Mike said:

Here is the official response from CGC regarding how we graded the books.

 

We apologize for the short response yesterday and wanted to follow up with an explanation of our thought process behind the grade assignments. We treated them as we would any other variant cover that's attached with an extra set of staples after the book was printed, and at times these books included the original cover as well.

 

There is a precedent for acetate covers being attached to a printed book, and then graded by CGC. An example is Stray Dogs #1 from last year. An acetate variant cover was attached with an extra set of staples, to which CGC assigned a Universal grade and a notation of “acetate cover” on the label. The extra set of staples were part of the manufacturing process of attaching the acetate cover, and not considered a defect.

 

Is this an officially licensed Marvel book?

On 8/9/2022 at 1:39 PM, stynxno said:

I like Danielle and I've always had an awesome professional encounter with her. In our sales, her grading is always on point and her packing/response rate is fantastic. When I came back to comics a couple of years ago, I stumbled into the little community she was building on instragram and whatnot. I appreciate what she's trying to do - expanding the diversity of the comicbook community while having to deal with the BS associated with simply being a woman in comics. The amount of energy she has to spend dealing with misogyny is ridiculous though, before this C2E2 stuff, her what not sales seemed like one for the few places where folks could just be themselves. The comic community is, in my experience, small but isn't tight-knit. Instead, it's full of different smaller communities and those who are fine just collecting/reading/etc. Danielle has been intentionally doing what folks do online now - moving beyond social media and into simply nurturing a community. I doubt there's anything she could say/type/share that would get everyone degrading her to stop. She's a woman in the comic community and, imo, some believe that gives them permission to attack/insult/etc.  The mere performance/presence of femininity isn't permission for folks to behave the way they have. It is totally possible for folks to critique the whole situation (aka why this not-a-variant exists in the first place, how variants at cons are sold, wtf cgc was doing giving this book a blue label) while, at the same time, reflecting on how we would be reacting if was a white-man with Danielle's length as a comic dealer tied up in this situation.  

I'm taking too long to write this - so hopefully CGC hasn't posted their update before I wrote this. To me, this wouldn't be the big deal it's become for the last few days online (youtube, whatnot, instagram, this website and others) if it wasn't for the fact that CGC gave these a universal label and that at least one very online woman was involved. 

My head hurts after seeing you try to make this about her gender. It has nothing to do with gender at all just shady business practices by all parties involved.

On 8/8/2022 at 7:43 PM, Sigur Ros said:

No. The Black Flag guy said they made sure not to include anything copyrighted. 

He bought the books last year. They were his to do what he wanted with. 

Not entirely how that works. You can't buy a comic, draw whatever you want, and sell it as an exclusive without approval from Marvel. They were ok'd to make the original but changing anything and trying to sell it as something new at a markup isn't going to fly.

Does this mean we can take any of the facsimile editions that have been produced recently, staple a plastic cover with some scribbles on it to the book, and sell it as an exclusive? I'm sure my 8 year old could come up with some cute designs.

Up for trade is a copy of X-Men 136 CGC 9.6. It is a Signature Series signed by Chris Claremont at the most recent signing. I'm putting the value at 160 shipped. I'm looking to trade for a X-Men 134 CGC 9.6 or X-Men 130 CGC 9.6. Would add cash on my end for the 130.

Here are additional pictures.

If it is staining how much does that impact the overall grade? Other than those spots the book is gorgeous.

On this copy of ASM 212 it there is a pink staining on the white part behind Spider-man and the and on the yellow building under his left leg. Is it possible this is a printing error or am I looking at evidence of a liquid spill?