High grade Batman run...comiclink focused auction

[Timulty]

I would like to know what happend to those 1900 Crowley copies they talked about in the newsletter.

[lou_fine]

I am 100% positive several of the Batman's have been pressed. Look at the 50 at the top and bottom spine, also if memory serves me one of the 53s is also pressed.

 

Yes, this ongoing situation facilitated by CGC makes it virtually impossible to bid on any slabbed books with all of this uncertainty in the marketplace. I can also understand the dealers' unwillingness to declare up front whether their books have been pressed or not.

 

After all, for the 10% of the marketplace who is aware of this situation and will step in and bid if the dealers do disclose upfront; they are probably afraid they'll lose the 90% of the market who is not aware of this situation and will suddenly have their eyes opened by this upfront disclosure.

[EJR]

Well I plan on bidding on some of those pressed books, so the more people that stay away from those kind of books the better for me!

[esquirecomics]

Well I plan on bidding on some of those pressed books, so the more people that stay away from those kind of books the better for me!

 

All yours!!! If anyone wants some HG Batmans that are note pressed, come to my site!

[Aman619]

musical Batmans? "note" pressed sounds cool!

[batman_fan]

Does anyone know if they can be returned if they are shown to have been pressed?

[nearmint]

Have you called Josh and asked him if particular books have been pressed? I have no idea if he'd tell you or not, but it's worth a phone call.

[lou_fine]

Have you called Josh and asked him if particular books have been pressed? I have no idea if he'd tell you or not, but it's worth a phone call.

 

Yes, this would be very interesting to know since I believe we have never heard anything from Josh with respect to this issue of pressing.

 

Since his site does always does have some of the nicest books around, I have always assumed that there must be undisclosed pressing on some of his books. Since I am not sure which ones could have been improved to their FULL POTENTIAL with CGC's blessing, I simply stay away from his site since I hate to make uninformed purchasing decisions.

 

Yes, somebody should ask him and post his response here for everybody else. You never know, depending upon his answer, he could end up gaining quite a few more customers.

[EJR]

Hey if a book can be improved without restoration then I am all for it! CGC doesn't consider pressing to be restoration. I think the Batman #50 is a beautiful book and I hope it can be had for a very reasonable price!

[Aman619]

many of the original auctioned Batman run have a high probability of having been pressed. Lautercach has often been associated with comics potential releasement

[batman_fan]

My concern is that the spine looks bolwn out at the top and bottom, so maybe the rest is weakened. Without the book in hand, it is really hard to tell. Good luck on it.

[nearmint]

And the bidding has begun...

[Point Five]

Hey if a book can be improved without restoration then I am all for it! CGC doesn't consider pressing to be restoration. I think the Batman #50 is a beautiful book and I hope it can be had for a very reasonable price!

 

Regardless of CGC's position, a book CAN'T be "improved" without some form of restoration. That's kind of the problem we've been having these days.

[EJR]

CGC doesn't consider pressing to be restoration and I can go along with that. If pressing bothers you stay away from books that you suspect of being pressed. The Batman #50 CGC 9.4 is doing pretty good in this auction, so I guess there are others who feel the same way I do.

[Point Five]

CGC doesn't consider pressing to be restoration and I can go along with that. If pressing bothers you stay away from books that you suspect of being pressed.

 

Fair enough, and if you are bidding on something here I wish you luck, sincerely. I wasn't trashing the books...all of them are stunning and I'd be elated to take any of them home whether they were pressed or not (and I won't be, at the prices they're going to finish at). I only wish, as I think many of us do here, for there to be full disclosure of any work done to a book, from CGC and from any seller.

 

The book in question is advertised as the "highest graded", which is great...but if I were buying it, I would certainly want to know whether it's been a 9.4 for all its life, or whether it just "got that way" in the last few months...

 

The Batman #50 CGC 9.4 is doing pretty good in this auction, so I guess there are others who feel the same way I do.

 

...except that there's no disclosure of any work done here, so...

[action1kid]

Darn Right!

[batman_fan]

I am also surprised by the Batman 50 price, I am still watching a few books to see where they end up. The real bidding doesn't start until the last few minutes of the auction so I am guessing no book is close to the final price it will hit.

[nearmint]

My concern is that the spine looks bolwn out at the top and bottom, so maybe the rest is weakened.

 

I'd be surprised. CGC doesn't consider pressing to be resto, but they DO downgrade if pressing results in damage to the book.

[batman_fan]

Look at the top and bottom spine, not a bindery chip, and the corner bow out. Also, I had a Green Hornet 1 with the entire spine cracked through so you could see the underlying paper and yet still an 8.5? (which is why I sold it). I would have to have the book in hand to decide if something had been done to it.

[nearmint]

I see what may be a tiny, perhaps 1/16th of an inch spine split at the top spine, and a minor scuff on the bottom of the spine. I have no idea if the book's been pressed or not, but those are certainly defects that I've seen in books that were not pressed.