Signature on back?

[redneckley]

Why does CGC care which side someone wants to face out? The customer has no choice in this? There is a Marvel Project comic that has the blank on the back cover, so CGC will tell me what cover that will put on the front? Why does that not sound right, have they made a policy for this?

[devilsrain]

Yea the policy is its their way or the highway

[Mayor006]

Jetpack comics did a Rocketeer variant where the blank is actually on the back of the book and the front cover is a Dave Stevens page. The blank still looks good you just have to turn the book around to see the grade.

[JasonDaTwit]

i would never do it under any circumstances. Worse than writer/artist signing a book with celebrity sigs on it.

 

Huge pet peeve of mine...

 

Why is this a pet peeve? Just curious.

 

At NYCC 2013, I got my IRON FIST #14 (1st App of Sabretooth) signed by Chris Claremont, Dan Greene and Tyler Mane. I thought it was a great opportunity to get all those sigs on my book. I'm sure people would love to get a Hugh Jackman signed INCREDIBLE HULK #181 (1st App of Wolverine). Some people add Stan Lee's sig on New Mutants #98 (1st App of Deadpool) even though he did absolutely nothing in that book (be it write it or create the characters) and that annoys me. Others don't mind. Guess it's all subjective.

 

As for siging on the back of a comic cover, I think its acceptable in a few instances.

 

1) Sigs on the back of a blank cover an artist custom drew.

 

2) A blank on which many creators worked on a particular book i.e. (NEW 52) BATMAN: BLACK & WHITE #1. Justified if there's custom art on the front cover that you don't want cluttered with sigs.

 

3) If an artist did a particular back cover like they did with the old MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS issues, then it's fine.

 

If you're adding sigs on the back of a cover simply to get more sigs like AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700 than that's ridiculous especially considering that particular book has an ad on the back.

 

 

[miraclemet]

I'm doing a set of signatures on a book, and will be getting signatures on the back.

 

Plenty of room on the back

 

mostly cause the front is already signed (though no SS).

 

Wanted the cover to be all Gil, but have a book with signatures from as many GL artists as possible.

[seanfingh]

I'm doing a set of signatures on a book, and will be getting signatures on the back.

 

Plenty of room on the back

 

mostly cause the front is already signed (though no SS).

 

Wanted the cover to be all Gil, but have a book with signatures from as many GL artists as possible.

 

That is an awesome project.

[porky]

get a comic signed on the back? only a crazy person would do that!

 

 

[MedicAR]

get a comic signed on the back? only a crazy person would do that!

 

 

 

Wow. I see you were left out of the loop. The Tick has been declared uncool by collectors everywhere and I have been made responsible for collecting and destroying all Tick books. Please send them to me along with $5 per book to cover recycling fees.

[porky]

get a comic signed on the back? only a crazy person would do that!

 

 

 

Wow. I see you were left out of the loop. The Tick has been declared uncool by collectors everywhere and I have been made responsible for collecting and destroying all Tick books. Please send them to me along with $5 per book to cover recycling fees.

 

[MedicAR]

It was worth a shot!

[Goldeneye]

Has anyone had a signature placed on the back cover of their book? Is it acceptable or a bad idea. I was thinking about it to spare the front cover art. Only on a blank with nothing on the back or maybe some minimal art.

It just depends on the cover for me. Sometimes there is just no go spot to have someone autograph the front without taking too much away from the comic. Sometimes it depends on the signer as well, for instance the one that comes to mind for me is Nichelle Nicols very nice person, but she has a tendency to sign her autograph across the entire length of a comic or material given. Usually I would want the signature on front if possible.

[MetalPSI]

get a comic signed on the back? only a crazy person would do that!

 

 

 

Dear sweet Jeebus...

 

[porky]

get a comic signed on the back? only a crazy person would do that!

 

 

 

Dear sweet Jeebus...

 

[MetalPSI]

I meant to say, AWESOME!!

 

[silverweb]

This is my SOB (Signed on back) baby

Spider-Man 1 Platinum

Sorry about the spots. I got rid of that scanner!

[LloydJBailey]

Here is a book of mine that I had signed on the back cover:

 

Sorry for the bad pictures, I don't have any better ones yet.

 

 

I think this is a good example of one that worked well.

[philsbackpack]

One of my supreme violations

 

Mixed my celebs w/ my creators on the front cover

&

...just to make matters worse had the back cover sketched by Robert Atkins

 

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[MedicAR]

One of my supreme violations

 

Mixed my celebs w/ my creators on the front cover

&

...just to make matters worse had the back cover sketched by Robert Atkins

 

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Something that gets lost in these discussions is that it is all a matter of preference and personal choice. If you like the book and you are happy with it, then who cares? It's not my cup of tea, but obviously you thought it was a good idea. It's in your collection, enjoy it!

 

[worldsbestcomics]

 

I was at the CGC table in Chicago 4 or 5 years ago when a dude was FLIPPING OUT about the way they were going to slab his WD/Chew flip book. He wanted Chew on the front, and CGC wasn't having any of it.

 

Awkward.

 

I must admit I did the same thing when they refused to slab the Harbinger side of the X-O/ Harbinger blank on the front.

 

Ok maybe I didnt freak out but cmon.

 

Ha! It could be worse. You could pay $5 books to get imaging when you get this graded...

 

 

...and then get this image

 

 

I laughed when I saw it and remembered this thread.

[Mayor006]