ironpuppy Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Canadian comics vs Canadian Editions I don't have a lot of CGC books, and I haven't joined the registry (I'm private that way) but I have been trying to increase my Canadian White collection and many have been CGC'd. This is great, as the condition is clear, but my concern is how they are described. Everything published by Anglo American and Bell Features I have seen say "Canadian Edition" on them, but this is, by definition, incorrect. To be a Canadian edition supposes that there is another edition, like a reprint of an American title, like Captain Marvel, which did happen. Howevermany titles, titles like Triumph, Commando, Freelance, Three Aces Dime Comics and more were completely Canadian, with original characters, stories and art. This does not make them "Canadian editions", but simply Canadian comics. These books were not reprinted by another publisher either, so there was only the one edition. Is there a way the label going forward could change to reflect that? Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I guess we have to complain louder. We've kicked this around before. CGCs labelling of whites is embarrassing. Perhaps we can help them. They generally list no artist info, no date, no character appearances first or otherwise, and then as you say the clear misnomer on the word edition . There's a thread somewhere where we can give them input isn't there? They literally put nothing on the label besides title issue publisher and the incorrect 'edition' notation. It's like they are publicly saying 'we don't know what the eff these are but maybe you do' thehumantorch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mijael.Levy Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 (edited) CGC labeling on foreign comics is disastrous . They dont have the minimun interest or knowledge about geography . language and culture to do the right job. Editor Information is always missing and worse ; for example i saw once a Spanish book (from Spain) labeled as Italian. Thet are even slabbing facsimiles books as originals like a brazilian ASM 1 , so the seller is taking advantage to scam people at ebay. Edited April 21, 2017 by Mijael.Levy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot6 Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 I already lost the armor/armour battle, so good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecgt Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 It gets even worse for late run Anglo-American books. Ivan Kocmarek pointed this out to me a couple of years ago: some of the coloured issues of books like Freelance and Grand Slam were also printed in the USA. Such books should be labelled as "American Editions" but are not. Without seeing the indicia, someone looking for these books slabbed is buying blind and CGC is no help. The cynic in me thinks that CGC is aware of this problem, but does not want to eat the costs of having people resubmitting them if they take responsibility for the error. They should be described as Canadian Comics or not at all. This seems to be a problem that is exclusive to the Canadian Whites, as comics like Cerebus (of which there are many slabbed) and the few examples of slabbed Canadian undergrounds from the 1960s/70s don't mention the Canadian origin at all. Here's a CGC'ed Dave Geary book as an example: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
