Pangolin

The comics section has a "Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?" forum.

Is there anything similar for the cards?

On 11/7/2022 at 5:02 PM, Pangolin said:

ME listed today in my submission.

Still waiting to get it back. I wrote to customers service today.

Since Troy.division received it last Friday, maybe I will get mine in the comings days.

On 11/13/2022 at 9:20 AM, BigLeagueCHEW said:

Can you tell if it was the same case on the original return?

I cannot tell, but this is possible.

I returned this comic as the same time that I submitted another one with a cracked case.

On 11/12/2022 at 5:19 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

...It's a Pennsylvania?

Nope. Pennsylvania contains books from the ‘40s only.

Metropolitan Comics has a Pennsylvania Dutch Copy pedigree, but this latter is not recognized by CGC.

On 11/1/2022 at 8:53 AM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

 

Pennsylvania

In 1981, Steve Geppi was told about a collection near Lancaster, Pennsylvania by a broker named Birney. Birney took him to an elderly woman's home where stacks of Golden Age comics were piled throughout a room. There were about 1,000 comics in the collection, primarily from the 1941-1944 period, and contained mostly superhero comics from numerous publishers. The bulk of the books resided in personal collections for over a decade before they began appearing on the market. Their grades are among the highest of the pedigree collections and the books are easily identifiable by a cursive "P" penciled on the front covers.

 

Incredible! The same thing happened to me ... two years ago.

I even returned it for a mechanical error (wrong label) and they sent it back to me with the same label.

I didn't bother to return it again.

On 11/5/2022 at 12:08 PM, Pangolin said:

And mine was received 10/18...

ME listed today in my submission.

On 11/5/2022 at 11:49 AM, MadGenius said:

FWIW -- Mine were received 10/24 and still haven't been entered.

And mine was received 10/18...

On 10/5/2022 at 11:37 AM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

On the black and silver edition, the bagged and unbagged covers look different. But for this edition, the cover looks the same, so CGC only notes on the slab that it is the polybagged version if they removed the book from the polybag themselves, and can therefore verify it was the polybagged version. (This is my understanding, anyway; I had been looking into the various versions a while back.)

I submitted this book as well as a few Silver and one Poly-Bagged Silver. I removed the poly-bag myself on the regular and the silver. CGC labeled the Silver as a variant (Poly-Bagged Silver Edition) with the following comments : "Poly-bag removed".

I will write to the customer service about it.

Thanks to all for your answer.

This is a Spider-Man 1 : Poly-Bagged Purple Webs Edition, right?

When I was a kid :

On 6/15/2022 at 10:34 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

Is the rest of the book razor sharp?

Well since you asked I took a closer look at the back cover and there is another one!

Damn!

oups...

Thanks to everyone for your precious pieces of advice. I will probably try to sell it with a small discount since there is a lot of MCP #72 with a 9.8 on eBay.

After a few weeks, I will give it a bigger discount, and after a few months, I will try to auction it using lostboys strategy.

On 6/15/2022 at 9:09 AM, comicginger1789 said:

I might be inclined to send a quick message just to make sure before I ship so that there is not a whole waste of time with me sending a book, them getting and hating, them sending back and so on).

I always do that when there is something wrong with the comic or the case. Last year, it was a hair between the case and the inner well.

On 6/15/2022 at 5:46 PM, Dr. Balls said:

What if that tick was the only thing keeping it from a 9.9? Crack that thing and press it!

I should have specified that the spine tick breaks colour. Unfortunately pressing wouldn't change anything.

On 6/14/2022 at 11:55 PM, Ed Hanes said:

You can take hi res pictures of it using a camera with polarizing ability (gets rid of glare) and post the pictures...color breaks should show up.

I put the slab under the light and give it the right angle and the spine tick show up. See for yourself (picture below).

Thanks to all of you who provided me with a detailed answer.

On 6/14/2022 at 11:23 PM, Lightning55 said:

I don't even know what this is referring to. 

"Misgraded" in the title is correct, but maybe it was edited from something earlier.  But it would be a misgraded instead of an misgraded.   Could be that it should be hyphenated, as in mis-graded.  Or it could say "incorrectly graded".

 

Do'h even as a French speaking guy I should have known better. I edited the title.

This topic is not about the subjectivity of grading, but about selling strategy.

Imagine that you received from CGC a freshly graded Marvel Comics Presents  #72 with a 9.8. However, you think that the book looks like a 9.6 because of one spine tick.

Any suggestion on how to advertise and sell it? I'll write in the description that the comics has a spine tick so I don't throw the can to another buyer. But I don't know yet if I should sell it the price of a 9,6, a 9,8 with some rebate or simply the FMV of a 9.8.

Thanks for your time,

Thanks to all of you for your comments.

I agree that it's difficult to explain how the spine tick on MCP 72 could have occured during encapsulation. So I'll drop this case...

However, for SST 37, I still feel that this tiny corner chip probably happened during the encapsulation because I don’t understand how it could have stayed there during the grading process. It almost looks like it's torn from the page and "floating around".

What do you think?

I received today a batch of slabs from CGC.

I now always check if the 9.8 were damaged during encapsulation. Since this problem happened to me once in the past.

I think that two slabs were damaged this time. They don’t look like 9.8 to me in their cases. So the problem probably occurred after the grading, during the encapsulation.

Before I submit the problem to CGC, I would like to have the opinion of some members with more experience than me. I might be wrong.

First comic is Marvel Comics Presents 72 and the second Saga of the Swamp Thing 37.

My goal is to sell them and I want to be fair to the potential buyers.

Thanks for your time.

On 2/23/2022 at 8:16 PM, gadzukes said:

Is this the rare George Seurat variant?

You made my day with this comment.

X-Men 33 (Vol.2)

Interior cover

Silver Surfer 50

The cover is cardboard and not paper

No problem with the inside-back cover

Would a press fix that problem? What about the interior pages? And the stain?

First comic

Marvel Tales 235

Back cover

On 2/10/2022 at 9:16 PM, CGC Mike said:

What does everyone think of the scans for this round?  Particularly when you click twice for the larger image.  

Great also like that they are side by side (on my large screen).