Chasing_keys

Thanks Matt... I did scour ebay and have found atleast 2 copies in a cgc 9.6 with this defect

I have 4 copies of Predator 1 all have this marking on it... Is it a known print error or will it effect grade

On 8/12/2022 at 3:41 PM, bc said:

Can you press an acetate cover? Asking for a friend....

-bc

Sure can. But I think that's called laminating

On 8/12/2022 at 3:29 PM, bc said:

I think we all know the answer to this.

I can't believe they'd need much discussion other than Black Flag saying "we want 1 10.0, 3 9.9's and 6 9.8's for each title" and CGC saying "ok".

It's crazy CGC would go through all this for what 20 or 30 total slabbed copies?

-bc

Well they will possibly get alot of the other copies from people chasing the 10 grade. 

On 8/9/2022 at 7:58 PM, Skwerl said:

I would respect this if not for the fact that this acetate cover wasn't sanctioned by Marvel, i.e. it's a bootleg. And there are bootlegs of far higher quality (and even some with comparable "print" runs) that categorically get a green label because they're hack jobs. So no, you didn't treat this as you would any other variant, you treated it as you would any other official variant, and that's what's at issue. The Stray Dogs #1 acetate variant was done by Image, not some random dingbat goofballs. If I, as a comic book retailer no different in nature from Black Flag, decided to slap custom covers I came up with and printed at Sir Speedy onto a stack of Marvel comics without Marvel's knowledge, let alone their sanction, would those comics get a blue label from CGC? If so, then this is a huge change in policy for bootlegs, but either way, this isn't following precedent. It was an honest mistake, perhaps. But not in line with precedent. Anything added post-manufacturing by an entity that isn't the manufacturer/publisher is a hacked item. You can choose to not consider it a "defect," but if so, then it should be graded with qualification, as it is, by definition, a post-manufacture modification. "Manufacturing" need not be strictly defined as mechanical printing and binding; an extra cover manually attached, be it an acetate cover or paper cover or goat skin, or a rubber stamp, or a sticker, or handwritten scribbles or whatever else could theoretically be considered part of the "manufacturing process" if it's done/sanctioned by the publisher (or explicitly encouraged, as is the case with FCBD books with a huge area for retailer stamps), but no way if it's done by an unsanctioned third party. Because that could literally be anyone, doing anything.

I hate that I'm writing so much about such an ugly book, but whatever.

But they said why they did it... It's their company... We don't own it...They can do what they want... We don't have to give them the business tho. 

On 8/8/2022 at 12:43 PM, CGC Mike said:

CGC is fully aware of what we graded and stand behind them.

 

So we can submit those museum edition spiderman and walking deads now... 

Book is sold

Selling this Xmen #1 for $600 obo. Book is complete minus the cover obviously... Staples are not rusted. PayPal or venmo accepted. Shipping is free will include insurance and signature confirmation. Will send more pics if you request them.