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JasonBogdanyi

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    C2E2 Variant Drama

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    On 8/9/2022 at 2:07 PM, CGC Mike said:

    Here is the official response from CGC regarding how we graded the books.

     

    We apologize for the short response yesterday and wanted to follow up with an explanation of our thought process behind the grade assignments. We treated them as we would any other variant cover that's attached with an extra set of staples after the book was printed, and at times these books included the original cover as well.

     

    There is a precedent for acetate covers being attached to a printed book, and then graded by CGC. An example is Stray Dogs #1 from last year. An acetate variant cover was attached with an extra set of staples, to which CGC assigned a Universal grade and a notation of “acetate cover” on the label. The extra set of staples were part of the manufacturing process of attaching the acetate cover, and not considered a defect.

     

    I just want to Clarify something for the community around this response.

    Stray Dogs 1 Acetate Variant was built and released at the same time as Cover A. The idea from Image was dropped at all of the same time for release day.

    This book was also not a store exclusive but a one per store publicly distributed variant. 

    What Black flag has done was: Used old books they had laying around (Over Stock / Dead Stock) and Printed Acetate Covers and added them on after the fact to help liquidate said Overstock.

    What CGC is stating by this is that if a store has deadstock of 500 books - They can slap a acetate cover and resell it as new and improved and still receive a universal label?

    @CGC Mike Is this correct?