joeypost

4.0 ish

Looks like teeth marks.

Do you have scans of the book in the old 9.6 holder?

Possible 4.5 with a press. 4.0 as is. 3.0 to 3.5 if you press yourself.

Pressing will removed waviness and puckering from water damage, not any tide lines or stains. CGC will grade the tape as if it wasn’t there. It will grade the book as if it had a large tear on the back cover with no tape.

After reviewing the scans very carefully I would grade this book a 2+2.

That appears to be a hard crease with little to no color break. I see them from time to time. They can be greatly reduced and in some cases almost eliminated while leaving a faint reminder they were once there.

Nope.

They would need to be handled very carefully. In most cases damage is done, not by the pressing process, but the dry cleaning process. If the pages are thin or brittle, you have to approach the work very gingerly, but they can be improved.

Solid 8.0

Universal or blue label.

I was looking to upgrade my 114. I already have a 9.2, otherwise I would have been all over this copy.

They still interlock if stored spine down. The only reason I mentioned storing books spine down is based off of the many books I get in to CPR. I see many (not all) with very slight to moderate indentations from the inner well as the weight of the comic pushes it against the bottom edge of the well. I see this more in the thicker cases where the comic may have more wiggle room and are not held as tightly by the inner well. I couldn't find storage for my slabs as most cabinets aren't as deep as a slab stored horizontally, so I had custom cabinets made for my books. The bonus to storing the books this way is I can easily read the top label and figure out the location of a book, even if I don't store them numerically by issue number. In the end everyone needs to do what's good for them.

Yes it will.

Now that the house is behind me, I can start building a new picture frame set.

I am never in a hurry.

114?

I think ( and this is just an opinion of mine) that things like that are discovered during the restoration check.

I get in a lot of books stored this way. While most of them exhibit little to no damage, I occasionally see stress to the staples on some (especially older books) where there are slight tears at the staples.

Try a black light. Sometimes discolorations, water damage and foreign objects are easier to see under this type of light.

I'll post some scans of recent 9.4's and 9.6's I got back. I cant find a thing wrong with the books, yet the graders notes all say the same thing, which I know is not 100% accurate.

It helps, but it doesn't build confidence.

Especially if it includes a few of the interior wraps. Under the right conditions I could see a 2.5, but most likely a 2.0.

Cool books or board etiquette. Lets see who triumphs.

That is an affect produced from the inner and outer wells. There are many threads about this (Newtonian effect), it is not moisture and will not affect the book, but is unsightly.