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[Dark Knight]

So why bother adding tape then if cleaning would bump up the grade?  I see major improvement on the spine area too especially at the bottom staple area and less white with the new grade.  

[batman_fan]

5 minutes ago, Dark Knight said:

So why bother adding tape then if cleaning would bump up the grade?  I see major improvement on the spine area too especially at the bottom staple area and less white with the new grade.  

I would assume the person who added the tape has a father-in-law with a tape factory

[lou_fine]

4 hours ago, batman_fan said:

i still maintain tape should be called restoration. Archival tape is professional. Non archival is amateur. 

Not sure about now, but it used to be that the safe archival tape resulted in a PLOD because it was done with obvious intent. 

The damaging inflicting non-archival tape was considered to be Universal because nobody would intentionally try to upgrade a book using this kind of "bad" tape.  

[RareHighGrade]

5 hours ago, drbanner said:

Yep, book was obviously cleaned and the color chips at the top left of the cover above "No." seem to have moved. 

It looks to me like they rolled the front cover to the left so that many of the front cover defects around the spine were moved to the back cover.  I recall there being a big uproar over this technique on the boards a while back.  Although some of the defects near the spine have been hidden, it looks like new chips and other defects occurred to the right edge during the process.

Edited January 23, 2020 by RareHighGrade

[Crowzilla]

7 hours ago, Gotham Kid said:

near the Monk as well

And what was inside the "D" in Detective?

 

[tth2]

11 hours ago, RareHighGrade said:

It looks to me like they rolled the front cover to the left so that many of the front cover defects around the spine were moved to the back cover.  I recall there being a big uproar over this technique on the boards a while back.  Although some of the defects near the spine have been hidden, it looks like new chips and other defects occurred to the right edge during the process.

Man I love this hobby! 

[batman_fan]

48 minutes ago, tth2 said:

Man I love this hobby! 

 and with that, this thread can be closed

[Gotham Kid]

On 1/21/2020 at 7:14 PM, Gotham Kid said:

Suspense 3 5.0 (R)

correction

[comicjack]

12 minutes ago, Gotham Kid said:

correction

Big Big Bucks 

[Mmehdy]

On 1/22/2020 at 6:18 PM, RareHighGrade said:

It looks to me like they rolled the front cover to the left so that many of the front cover defects around the spine were moved to the back cover.  I recall there being a big uproar over this technique on the boards a while back.  Although some of the defects near the spine have been hidden, it looks like new chips and other defects occurred to the right edge during the process.

WOW..amazing what can be done

[Gotham Kid]

16 minutes ago, Mmehdy said:

On 1/23/2020 at 2:18 AM, RareHighGrade said:

It looks to me like they rolled the front cover to the left so that many of the front cover defects around the spine were moved to the back cover.  I recall there being a big uproar over this technique on the boards a while back.  Although some of the defects near the spine have been hidden, it looks like new chips and other defects occurred to the right edge during the process.

WOW..amazing what can be done

'amazing' is the last adjective I'd use

Edited February 1, 2020 by Gotham Kid

[Mmehdy]

4 minutes ago, Gotham Kid said:

'amazing' isn't the adjective I'd use

Still whatever magic is being done...the grade is what is...on 
Feb 1, 2020.....

I would think knowing this the grade manipulation  would impact my desire to own the book, but we have to accept and respect what the grade is today....its called "reality"

[comicjack]

9 minutes ago, szav said:

Odd looking blemish in the top left area...is that a color touch scrape?  Looks bad,

Costly tape pull 

[batman_fan]

7 minutes ago, comicjack said:

Costly tape pull 

that would be my guess too

[mstrange]

32 minutes ago, szav said:

Odd looking blemish in the top left area...is that a color touch scrape?  Looks bad,

Colors look amazing.

[batman_fan]

1 minute ago, mstrange said:

Colors look amazing.

 its a heritage scan

[mstrange]

25 minutes ago, batman_fan said:

 its a heritage scan

What are the colors enhanced in the scan??  Is that not a true representation of the book?  I would be pissed if I bid on this and it did not look like what was represented in the auction. 

[batman_fan]

4 minutes ago, mstrange said:

What are the colors enhanced in the scan??  Is that not a true representation of the book?  I would be pissed if I bid on this and it did not look like what was represented in the auction. 

There was a cluster of post a while back showing scan versus what you actually got.

[Cat-Man_America]

1 hour ago, Mmehdy said:

Still whatever magic is being done...the grade is what is...on 
Feb 1, 2020.....

I would think knowing this the grade manipulation  would impact my desire to own the book, but we have to accept and respect what the grade is today....its called "reality"

I think the word you’re looking for is “gaslighting” ...It’s a term associated with the manipulation of facts to create an alternative reality.

[batman_fan]

8 minutes ago, Cat-Man_America said:

I think the word you’re looking for is “gaslighting” ...It’s a term associated with the manipulation of facts to create an alternative reality.

I always thought "gaslighting" was what comic geeks did after a night of Mexican food and margaritas?