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OJ Pimpson

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  1. Wow. This is bizarre. So I’ll put on my tin foil hat and theorize that because CGC estimates a 6 week turnaround after the signing takes place and they realize they cannot meet that time frame as they were probably bombarded with subs for a legend like Lee they are delaying the announcement that it occurred to buy a few extra weeks  

     

    or their IG guy has brain damage


     

    thanks for sharing

  2. On 9/24/2021 at 9:06 AM, J RANDALL said:

    Someone from your Instagram account had told me it had already happened in early September and it wasn't filmed.  

    Can you share a screen shot of this?

  3. On 9/13/2021 at 11:58 AM, rexinnih said:

    The 3 I sent in are still "Received at CCS" for pressing so don't believe the signing has happened yet. 

    That’s odd. I was always under the impression that the pressing took place after the signing in attempts to repair any pressable damages that may occur during the signing process

  4. On 9/1/2021 at 1:32 PM, Lightning55 said:

    You can't go by the notes.  The notes are just CGC internal grader-to-grader notes.  They are not meant to be all inclusive of any defects that a comic may have.  They could be meant to point out something that a grader observed that the next one might miss.

    If there was an obvious defect, like a 3 inch diagonal crease or a subscription crease, it might not even get noted.  Because you can't miss it.  The notes are not meant to be a full assessment of defects on a comic. 

    It wouldn't be hard to have the notes tell the whole story, probably could be somewhat automated, but CGC has yet to make a move in that direction.  Maybe they are purposely vague, so people don't have specific point to argue about with them.

    Your final sentence is the absolute truth. I recently received a book that’s was graded 9.6. Shockingly I received grader notes. However the notes almost certain reveal that the grader mistook elements of the cover art for damages. And upon inspection I’m 100% positive this was the case. Funny thing I strongly suspect this book was graded by someone who was new. First, because they obviously didn’t know to examine stock images of the cover art, but more so because they made notes available for a 9.6. Without the notes it’s all speculation as to the grade, possible within the guts of the book. 
     

    truth be told I don’t blame CGC for actively avoiding giving notes to the customer. 

  5. Not going to turn this into a I got robbed thread. As I haven’t even got the book back. It’s Darth Maul #2 1:25. The issue with this book and the notes I received is that cover art has white flecks all over the book. So when I see these notes and I look at this cover man I don’t know, guess we shall see.

     

     

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  6. On 8/26/2021 at 12:02 PM, Ed Hanes said:

    Indeed Mr Troll

    Sig series books are auto fast tracked. So they usually get them out quickly. And I’m not here white knighting for CGC, I’ve had an express book in limbo for over twice the TAT for that tier so I know it’s a mess show down there. However they tend to take care of business when it comes to sig series. The only thing about that is we all have zero idea when the books are to actually get signed so it doesn’t really matter because the 6 weeks doesn’t start ticking until the event takes place 

  7. I’m a bit surprised at the responses defending the widespread lack of graders notes. I personally think a sentence or two should be mandatory for every book under 9.8.  Especially with the influx of people making their first submissions and the inevitable disappointment of receiving a much lower grade than they likely anticipated. 
     

    just recently I received a 25 book prescreen submission. 5 were rejected and I received notes on 4 of them. I appreciated it so much, all of us can get better at identifying hard to spot defects. It occurred to me that the reason I may have been given these notes was because of implied expectation that a 9.8 prescreen has that I believe all of these books are 9.8 worthy.  All books should be treated as such IMO, assume the owner of the book believes the book is perfect and explain to them in a couple of short sentences why it isn’t. If for nothing else than the customer service. I was left very happy being told why these books came up short and that some had very fixable defects and others did not. 

  8. It would be cool if everyone could go to a single thread or something like that to see when a signing is scheduled to take place. When it is underway and when it has wrapped. I’ve done numerous SS books and I did send in a few for the Lee event. Some happen very quickly after the deadline, others seem to take a very long time. I’d love to be able to know the status of the event other than looking at my submissions page and noticing that it is being graded. 
     

    thanks 

  9. It’s Dark Knights 7. Here’s why, it is the money book because it came out slightly earlier and is less printed than FS Wonder Woman. And in order to justify it being the money book we call it the first appearance. Happens all the time. For example, Punchline, her appearance in Hell Arisen 3 is by any definition a cameo, but because it is much more rare than the over printed Batman 89 and 92 (92 is true first) HA three is the money book. To justify it being the money book it has been deemed the first appearance. 
     

    if Yara Flor amounts to anything the Dark Knights 7 1:100 will be the book to have. There is no doubt about it

  10. On 7/26/2021 at 9:24 PM, AlexG_art said:

    Just to give you an idea for a sketch cover...

    Image #1 Remarque $500
    Image#2 Profile Sketch $850-$1000
    Image#3 Head Sketch $2000-$3000 
    Image#4 Bust shot no background $4000  
    Image#4 Bust shot with background (wraparound) $8000  

    I asked Moy if Lee would recreate Hulk #181 or something similar with both characters....$10K+  (but he also said Lee would unlikely do the request) 

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    The City of Bane book recently sold for like 4K I believe and was graded at a 9.6. It’s unbelievably gorgeous

  11. Got a sketch at TorpedoCon from Lee. Was it worth it? Probably not, because he isn’t going to churn out true “Jim Lee” work in the 3-4 minutes he spends on it. However He’s an incredibly nice man, and I watched him do characters he has zero association with when asked, he just got on his phone and pulled up reference pictures and did it. I have no regrets, Jim Lee is the F’n goat and I’ll love this forever when I get it back from CGC in 18 months lol

     

     

     

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