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@dbcn Thanks for checking. I got lucky, TCC had just 1 available in stock for CGC.

Any chance CGC could reopen submissions  for Hugh Jackman since the signing may not happen until sometime in 2024?

On 4/11/2020 at 6:47 AM, joeypost said:

Are you talking about a book that has an actual spine roll that is being reversed, or a book that is being doctored so that small spine issues have been "shifted" so they are no longer visible on he front cover? 

I have seen some golden/silver age books with staples 1/4 inch into the back cover. No manipulation took place, it was a manufacturing issue. 

Joey,

Sorry for the late reply. I did not have "Notify me of replies" turned on and I have not checked CGC forums until this week. This would be a spine alignment. The staples would move about 1/4 inch to the back cover. Would you recommend this adjustment? I am not looking to flip this book. I had it CGCed in 2011 (No notes). I think visually it would look better with the spine adjusted. The book also needs a cleaning and tac iron corner crunch adjustment.

My apologies if this has been asked before. I did a search but did not find any topics related.

With Spine Roll Realignment pressing. The staples are now clearly located 1/4inch in on the back cover. The Front cover is more visually appealing. If the book were perfect except for the staple location on the back cover. What is the best possible grade?

No pics, this is a general question as the books have not had the spine realigned yet.

 

Bump..

Any other grade thoughts?

Additional Photos have been added to https://www.flickr.com/photos/185555874@N02/
Click the link, Select a photo and zoom in. You can move your mouse around to see the edges of the zoom.

Thank you for taking the time to look over the book. Hopefully others can also weigh-in.

On 11/18/2019 at 8:39 AM, marvelmaniac said:

I cannot tell what is going on with the top right corner, are all of the  pages cut like that or only the front cover?

The book presents very well, all I see other than the miscut top right corner are the numerous spine creases w/color break.

IMO I do not think the book will make a FN/VF 7.0 but should be at least a FN+ 6.5.

The fraying of the to right corner cover is limited to the back cover only in that spot, not the interior pages. I have seen this before with books for this era.
There are several spine ticks with color breaks, I wish there were less. The light refractions makes some of those ticks appear to be color breaks.
There are also several bends that are hard to see in the images. Hopefully those will press out.

On 11/18/2019 at 12:42 PM, Deadpoolica said:

NG

Could you please provide more info around your NG. What is leading this as a NG for you.

On 11/20/2019 at 4:14 PM, 1950's war comics said:

photo provided shows trimmed real bat on the bottom half right edge....

There is fraying/wear on the bottom right corner. I am not saying it was not trimmed as I am definitely not an expert on identify trimming. Could you please provide more details on your thoughts for the book being trimmed.
I do not see any visible color variation on the internal page edges. Books of this era tend to be miss aligned, miss wrapped and miss cut at the press and have other various production flaws. The corner looks very similar to several other CGC Blue and Yellow labels I have.

All the Images are located in the above Link. You can click on each image to get a larger view.

I was thinking about having the book pressed for Blue label.

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