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I sent in a book with minor color touch to have it removed once...14 different areas scrapped off. It looked like bugs got at it.

In the description. There has been some restoration work on this book including edges trimmed, page 10 married and small amount of color touch on cover.

3.5 max.

IIRC, didn’t Bob help a friend who was also sick sell off his collection many years ago? I cannot remember the name of the collection, but it was a pretty big deal at the time.

Well said Greg. We all knew how Bob felt about pressing early on, and we would have some emotionally charged conversations about it at shows. Bob would never let anything get to him as we had many of these conversations on how we each felt, but would break bread later on that day as if nothing had ever happened. Very sad day as we have lost another irreplaceable person/friend/collector and voice in the hobby.

Barton's been busy. Nice pickups brother.

Take. This book may be the new wolverine 35.

What does the back look like?

Take

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If still available

I wasn't wondering, I was mostly disagreeing with DS Comics.

Thank you for explaining your definition. I do agree with you in some cases.

Imprinting whatever is on a dirty platen is not pebbling. It's just bad workmanship. To be honest, I cannot see pebbling happen in both examples unless the book or platen would be covered in sand.

What do you do for a living?

Pretty sure you answered your own question.

There was one time I picked up books from CGC’s facility, maybe 8 years ago. This was when you could sit in one of the rooms and go through your books as customer service checked books you are dropping off. I had submitted a few copies of Incredible Hulk 197. I looked all the books over noticed one looked under graded and one looked over graded. The CS rep asked what was wrong and I explained it to her. She went be I get a grader for me. Paul Litch came out to take a peek at them and said he would be right back. After 15 minutes or so he had one book with a bump (where it should have been) and the second book had its grade dropped by .4, again, where it should have been. There was no way I could have sold the over graded book as it was. The book that got the bump is still in my personal collection.

For some, maybe. For those that know what they are doing...not even close.

Let’s see that wrath in action.

I would imagine this was just thrown into a press. Doesn't look like a detailed dry cleaning was done, or any other work that was really needed to get this book as good as it could be. It also looks like most of the paper around the staple is present, which could have been fixed to increase the overall appearance of the defect.

Doesnt look like any manipulation of the staple. Could have been a storage issue.

Wonder if the staple was removed and then re-inserted? That would account for the wear that appears to be where a staple once sat.

This was already pressed? Staples with an indent like this, while not common, do happen from time to time. If it were damaged during pressing I am not sure how it could have happened.

At that point the label states its a 9.8, but in reality the book sustained damage after the fact. From a pure technical standpoint the book is no longer a 9.8. If you wanted to get more technical, some books in 9.8 slabs aren't 9.8's without sustaining post encapsulation damage.

No surprises here.