Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues

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1. How do you account for fading on one region of the cover when grading?

   By rlextherobot, February 21
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   • ThothAmon
   • April 11

2. Clean and Press results

   By makeminemarvel, February 17
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   • joeypost
   • April 11

3. Small amount of glue and not a blue label ??

   By Terry E. Gibbs, February 16
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   • Paul Kosnik
   • April 11

4. ASM #16 - Factory Printing ERROR - INK Transfer?

   By iae21, February 27
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   • Paul Kosnik
   • April 11

5. How rare is missing production staple-bronze age book?

   By NickEG, February 29
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   • Paul Kosnik
   • April 11

6. Spiderman 11 worth cleaning and pressing before re-holdering?

   By TomElson, April 10   

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   • KCOComics
   • April 11

7. Spawn 350 Signed Thank You Edition Gets Blue Label??

   By Mgc015, April 10
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   • Mgc015
   • April 11

8. Detachment not mentioned in grading notes

   By Tom789, December 2, 2023
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   • The Lions Den
   • April 11

9. Universal Book (Blue) Came Back Restored (Purple)

   By Cnight, April 10
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   • Cnight
   • April 10

10. Disappointed by the Comic Grading: Seeking Answers

    By AleLuque, March 7
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    • Tec-Tac-Toe
    • April 9

11. Restored or blue label note? (Amateur glue to GA book)

    By miraclemet, March 30
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    • Paul Kosnik
    • April 6

12. Stains on back cover

    By skully58, April 3
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    • LowGradeBronze
    • April 6

13. Advice on buying a book with color touch

    By CPaige, March 31
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    • Vintage_Paper
    • April 5

14. SMALL SCUFF ON THE CORNER

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    By Darthvader23, March 2
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    • Darthvader23
    • April 3

15. Dirt on inside of the slab

    By Tubthumper82, April 3
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    • Lightning55
    • April 3

16. Grading Books With 3-D Glasses

    By comicginger1789, October 25, 2023
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    • T.Grant
    • March 31

17. Staple wear question

    By N e r V, March 21
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    • Randall Dowling
    • March 31

18. Pulp pressing

    By Vegabomb, March 28
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    • Topnotchman
    • March 30

19. Very light spine stress lines

    By Chudders, March 27
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    • marvelmaniac
    • March 27

20. Batman 89' Movie Foil Cover

    By forbiddenwon, March 24
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    • forbiddenwon
    • March 25

21. Small tear on comic

    By Nick R1, March 24
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    • marvelmaniac
    • March 24

22. Downside of sending all books in with a $400 stated value question

    By chadsdsmith, March 22
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    • DougC
    • March 24

23. CGC "No barcode" Modern Marvel Comics

    By Dex25, May 31, 2022
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    • AnthonyTheAbyss
    • March 24

24. Help - How to grade a complete spine split?

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    By elibowman, March 22, 2017
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    • zzutak
    • March 23

25. Is This a Grading Anomaly ?

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    By Colin Nash, October 22, 2023
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    • shadroch
    • March 23

26. Cleaning/removing tape residue

    By frank4713, March 20
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    • frank4713
    • March 22

27. X Men 1 1963 6.0 Qualified Grade Missing Page 12 - I replaced the missing page and CGC Re- Graded it 5.0 Qualified 5th Wrap Married

    By sabretooth, January 24, 2023
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    • Topnotchman
    • March 22

28. Question about how CGC defines the Title of a graded comic book

    By Kortoga, March 18
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    • Paul Kosnik
    • March 22

29. Trying to figure out if this FF #5 will come back as restored or blue with "LOTS AND LOTS OF TAPE" annotation

    By Corvonie, March 20
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    • Semicentennial
    • March 21

30. 9.9 and 10

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    By whyaduck38, August 24, 2019
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    • newshane
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