Bronxwarrior

I've got a comic that is still sealed and inside a cardboard slipcase, would it be better to send it off as is (and have CGC open it up) or do it myself and avoid any extra handling? This maybe a silly question, but it's the first time I've sent a book like this off to be graded!

So I sent a batch of books off to be graded recently, among them was a double cover of droids #1 Pretty happy with the grades I got (two 9.8's in one batch!) however it seems as though CGC may have missed the double cover on my droids comic, because there's absolutely no mention of it on the label whatsoever! Has this happened to anyone else, and is it just as simple as sending it back for a regrade? And should I include a note to bring attention to error?

This is a book I bought back when I first started collecting, this one comes from a random book shop. Looking it over, it seems to be too good to be true, though I wonder if I'm missing anything. Your thoughts?

Had some books graded recently, and I've been really happy with the grades! Setting up the next batch for submission, I hope to include the following book among them. Sold to me as a near mint; is it possible this would get a 9.4 or up?

As you can guess, I really like my licensed marvel comics; today I bring you -- from the depths of mid 80's -- Defenders of the earth #1 The only glaring defect I can find right now, is a slight roll of the spine, seems like it could use pressing. Your thoughts?

The replies I've received from my precious posts have been very enlightening, and have helped me a great deal in finding certain defects, and what to look out for if I hope to get a certain grade, so I'd like to thank you for that! Today I bring to you Captain America Annual 8, another book I've been trying to track down for some time, what can I say? I'm a sucker for great wolverine covers, and marvel comics based off of flash in the pan cartoons from the 80's (see my ewoks #2 post on the latter) Apart from some minor spine ticks, and a miss cut of the book along the side, what else is wrong with this, and what range of the grading scale would this fall in? while not being a flawless copy it seems, I think it might fall either within VFN+ or VFN/NM at the most, but that's my very rough estimate What do you think?

Oh wow, this one disappointed me greatly - I'm not quite sure of this particular issue's publishing history, but it's a pain in the arse to get this if you're in the British isles, something tells me the exclusion of a UK price on the cover means that this wasn't distributed over here? Anyway, this is a great cover, and this is a book that I've been hoping to add to my collection for a while, but when I thought I finally tracked down a NM copy, I get this! So these are the defects I've noticed, on the front cover there seems to be some kind of staining that runs parallel to the spine, running all the way up to the price box, it is faint, and the scanner might have picked up on it, but I think it's most visible in the bottom corner. The back seems okay, but I stress the word "seems" and on the very first page you see some weird brown staining; I find it funny that campbell's soup is being advertised here, because it looks like someone has spilled some campbell's on the page! So, fine folks of the CGC forums, what is the verdict?

This was a great and detailed post, and helped me better understand the defects to look out for when buying comics. As for the seller, it's a name that -- I have come to realize -- has been thrown about this forum often, and it's Silver-Acre based in the UK. I've bought from him in the past, and in all fairness a lot of his books (seemed) to be in good condition, however I've had to re-evaluate a lot of the books I've bought from him, after my first CGC submission, when I realized a lot of his supposed Near mint books, ended up looking like my copy of Alf #4, which was graded an 8.0. Safe to say, I won't be buying from this chap anymore. It appears I'm not the only one, looks like Supes got the shaft as well!

Hello again! Here is a book that I thought about getting graded, it came from the same seller as my Ewoks #2, and just like that he claimed that this book was NM, again no specifics on that. most I'm hoping for is a VF+ Your thoughts?

Ouch, that's even lower than I expected! Thanks for the quick reply!

I've recently had the misfortune to get this through the mail this morning, it's not what you would call a key issue, but I like collecting books of this nature. This was sold to me as a near mint (Though he didn't actually specify either NM- NM or NM+) even though it obviously is not, I was wondering if you fine folks could tell me how far off this grading actually is. Don't pull any punches, how badly was I ripped off?