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Is that the only place you have the discoloration?

Removing a book from the poly bag is a rather straightforward process. You need to be patient and use a sharp blade or scissor. Have a replacement bag and board at the ready once the book has been taken out of the poly bag. Before re-bagging the book look it over carefully for indents from the poly bag seal.

The scratch coming down from the surfers arm is more of a concern.

Or an electron microscope.

What are you looking for as far as trade bait.

Is that dirt or foxing on the back cover? This book will clean up nicely if it is only dirt. With the exception of the small color breaks to the open edge of the book the stacking curls and indents will all press out.

My small haul.

Have them evaluated first.

Dale Roberts Graham Cracker Comics High Grade Comics Daves Comics out of Georgia Harley Yee Lots of good books at the show, but I am still not used to the new values on books so I was still in shock, but quickly adjusted and did some buying late in the day.

Show isn’t that bad, but attendance seems to be down. The time I have spent in the booth with some dealers. It appears that books are moving, and fast.

This. I got rid of two large customers this year expecting my workload to reduce considerably. Nope. I am busier than I have ever been. I get submissions now that are 2-4 short boxes at a time. Absolutely crazy.

Wonder how many PM's he's gotten so far.

Could be foreign objects pressed into the cover.

You don’t. That was a handling issue. Gorilla hands by the look of it.

I have metrics on CPR universal labels, but not restored books.

The inner well can cause waves like that.

If done properly, pressing wont cause any additional damage to the book. As others have said, what you see on the cover is not from dirt, but some liquid and cannot be reversed without receiving a green or purple label.

I have walk-thru that were dropped off on 6/28 still sitting in QC. Appears I have 3 more weeks to wait based on your submission. I think CGC needs to rename the tiers, as walk-thru is no longer accurate.

Depends on tier of service, but SFG is where your books will spend the bulk of their time. It is misleading as they are really in the verification stage with grading happening towards the end of the wait. CGC used to have different stages that gave a little more detail as to where the books where in the process. Received. Still the same. Verified. Now SFG, with some invoices showing the books as pending...instead of the books title and issue number. Books can sit here a long time. Grading/Encapsulation/Imaging. Book is graded and waiting to be entombed. Grading/Quality Control. Pretty much waiting to be mailed out. Shipped/Safe if you are picking them up. Shipped. This is when you can see the grades on-line. Please correct me if I am wrong on any of these steps.

Keep in mind they have to change their setup when they encapsulate magazines, that's why it takes longer. This was explained to me a long time ago and creates an issues, as the magazine blanks are different in size and they wait to do a bunch of magazines at a time..

Two months? You got a few more to go, depending on tier selected.

Whatever it is, it is "bleaching" the surrounding inks. Latex or acrylic based paint drops are less likely to do this, so it could be an oil or solvent based paint or ink. Almost impossible to really tell without actually having the book in hand.

Could be insect droppings.

8.0 range.

Upon press and resub...it may come back lower. That's a lot of color breaks and rub for a 9.6.