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I got a book...its was "received" on 12/3/20 and hasn't moved from received yet.

It's getting a press and grade.

Is it normal for a book to sit in received for 4 months?

I need to choose which to keep.

One has some sort of surface spotting but is otherwise perfect.

The other has multiple color breaking spine lines.

Which would you keep?

Thanks

If you had #37 to #193 already, how would you go about completing the run?

Keep in kind that your wife already  threatened to cut off your privates for buying too many comics in the last 6 months.

Would you go hardcover?

Reprint?

Thanks!

Just curious if this is normal...

Do you use current bags for modern books or do you like a bigger bag so the book has room to move around?

I like a snug fitting bag myself but I've bought a few expensive, raw books and when I received em I noticed they were usually in bags too big for the book.

Cut off should have been whenever they switched to glossy pages.

I can't be the only person who hates them.

Whoa...wow.

Is it normal for a book to sit in "received"  for 2 months?

It's getting a pressing and grading.

17 hours ago, Lazyboy said:

I certainly don't disagree with you about CGC's ability to detect trimming, but it's the only way, since measuring absolutely does not work.

I've been stressing over a run of New Mutant books I purchased recently because they are not all the same size.

It's the Liefeld run minus the 2 big books (87 98) .

Is that actually normal?

Wow!

Thank you, sir, for the lesson.

I'm gonna wait patiently for the comic shop version.

I'm looking for this book in a 9.6 and I'm noticing that all the available 9.6s on Ebay are newsstand versions.

Isn't that bass ackwards?...or am I missing something here?

I'm under the impression that newsstand versions are harder to find in high grade.

I want the copy with the Spidey logo in the corner.

Teach!

Thanks for the info.

Is there any added value or is it just a cool thing to collect the diff covers?

Help me out. What exactly do I have here?

One is blue to light blue

One is green to yellowish green

10 hours ago, Angel of Death said:

It's 50/50 whether it'll come back the same or come back lower.

How about it falling multiple grades?

10 hours ago, Angel of Death said:

It's 50/50 whether it'll come back the same or come back lower.

8 hours ago, William-James88 said:

It's as risky as having unprotected sex in a thai whorehouse.

If you want a CGC 9.8, buy a CGC 9.8 and sell your version in the hopes that someone else thinks the gamble is worth it. 

Yeah...i was that someone. 

At the time, I really didn't know what I was doing as far as graded books were concerned.

Live and learn.

1 hour ago, Randall Dowling said:

Anything above a 9.6 is shaky territory.  My experience is that even if you crack open a CGC 9.8, and send it in for regrading, it's a coin toss if it will get the same grade.  And this due to a lot of factors.  It's just the nature of the beast.  I don't think another grading company is going to be any better.

I've only ever cracked a few 9.8s and I don't expect any of those books to get a 9.8 again (amazing what you can see on a book when it's out of the slab...).

Yeah and looking at this one through the case, I see a ding at the top corner of the spine.

Now, I have seen that exact thing on a few cgc 9.8s on Ebay so maybe its a factory defect common to Killing Joke. I don't know.

1 hour ago, Hamlet said:

Is it tough or expensive book?  I’m guessing that it would probably make more sense to buy a CGC 9.8 and then sell your book, rather than take the risk and expense of regrading.

That may not be feasible if the book is hard to find in 9.8 though.

It's Killing Joke so it's def easy to find in a cgc 9.8 on Ebay.

The problem would be selling this one. Nobody is gonna pay market value unless it's graded by cgc. I bought it for $100 just last year on Ebay. I watched it for like a month and it just sat there. I figured, screw it...for $100, even if the grade drops to a 9.6, that's still a decent deal.

The case is just very old looking, even in mylar.

Are there any stats available as far as grades going down?

I have a 9.8 in a very old looking cbcs case.

It doesn't pop like a sparkling new case will.

In your opinion...is it worth taking the chance that cgc downgrades the book.

I'm not planning on selling it anytime soon but it's the only cbcs case I own and it sticks out like a sore thumb among the cgc cases.

Thanks!

I'd love some input on these books I bought on Ebay recently.

I bought a Hulk run from 334 to 339 and something is off about most them.

First...a question.  Does a company like Marvel pull books if they have defects or do they just ship them regardless?

Now for the pics.

Each book has this very similar... one defect

 Other than this defect, these books are perfect...clean spines, smooth covers and sharp corners.

First book has it on the back cover

The next book

And the next book

And this one

The last book has what I think is a printers crease but I'm not sure

It's not me, right?

Somethings up with these books. Best case scenario to me would be someone having a hookup at the factory for defected books.

I'll leave the worst case scenario up to you guys.

Thanks for looking.

On 1/22/2021 at 3:17 PM, Jeffro. said:

Call them 1-877-NM-COMIC

Great job by CGC customer service. 

They got back to me in less than a day and will re-holder it for me for free.

I think it's best to look before... that way when you find out its a 5.5 with off white pages you can't throw it across the room.

On 1/22/2021 at 8:08 PM, William-James88 said:

If it's a book you really love and you can already afford 9.6, then just go for 9 8 instead.

I wish I could afford 9.8s but I'm a 9.6er for life unless I hit the loot.

It was Batman 423 first print. I ended up paying the extra to get WP. I do have some OW/W in my collection but they're books I already owned and had graded.

Will the always increasing population ever make modern age books valuable?

In 1995 there were 265 mill people in the US.

In 2021 there are 331 million.

I'm sure the Marvel movies must have created a new gen of buyers...no?

On 1/23/2021 at 10:12 AM, MatterEaterLad said:

Contact them. Send the photos. Ask if they'll reholder it.

They've always been good about reholdering books with loose plastic inside, hair inside, etc.

I feel bad for their customer service. Seems like this is happening a lot lately.

I'm gonna call em Monday. Here's a better pic.

Is it important to you that a book has white pages?

Would a 9.6 OW/W actually be the better looking book because it may have less visible defects?

Im trying to decide if it's worth paying $50 more just to have white pages on a book I really want.

Thanks