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Nope. In the company's early years, a detached cover on an otherwise pristine book could be awarded a CGC Universal (Blue Label) Grade as high as 4.0. When the demand for CGC certification exploded, the company began to add more (and often less experienced graders). As a result, there began to be more certifications/encapsulations that deviated from the company's original grading standards. I've actually seen books with fully detached covers graded as high as CGC 6.5. However, I'm inclined to think of these anomalies as errors (or misapplications of CGC's grading standards that were not caught by Quality Control before going out). Unfortunately, your book's cover is not just detached -- it's detached and completely split along the spine, with large chunks out of both the front cover (3% MIA), the back cover (15% MIA), and the spine. It also has an interior cut-out (the missing coupon). On the plus side, the cover inks are still bright and the paper is still fresh, with no oxidation-related tanning. Are all 12 interior wraps still present (24 two-sided interior leaves or 48 interior pages)? If so, I'd guess there's a 75% chance the book gets certified as a CGC 0.5 PR and a 25% chance it gets certified as a CGC 1.0 FR (CGC has been known to sometimes be a bit more lenient with very valuable Golden Age mega-keys).

Anita Ekberg, International Screen Beauty, Dies at 83 Jan. 11, 2015 Ekberg in 2007

Picked this up cheap in a recent MCS order, coulda sworn it had Matt Baker inside but no dice Pretty nice copy tho and cheap refusal to satisfy her insane desire, you guys just aren't doing it right :I

Had the same prob. Copy the image link instead of copy image..

I tried CGC's pressing exactly once (for 10 or so books) and it changed absolutely nothing. It looked like they didn't even press the books. Either they didn't or each book reverted 100%. There was no improvement on any of them. Better to use an outside service if you're not going to press them yourself (I press my own usually, I just wanted to try theirs to see how it was)... As to the "quick question" poster before that, why would you clean and press books that already look perfect?

Having trouble with the artist signature for the issue above now that I've got the book in hand, any chance somebody has better eyes than I do here? Timely/Atlas artist late 38

I would accept two answers actually. If someone can get them both I would take $40 off.

So I'm wondering, what's the deal if I choose to have the slab signed instead of the book? Obv I wouldn't be selling, intent would be just keeping, trying to look at pros and cons here... Thoughts?

All great advice from boardies here as always... IMHO as a lifetime collector and ebay store seller, it boils down to what you want in return considering what you have in raw state. For example, I have approximately 15K comics in my "keep" collection. All purchased by me at cover or less and I have a continuous update strategy/plan in place to stay current in today's market. Grading/shipping maybe $25 at the most each book (for sake of argument) depending on your membership level with CGC. Of many examples most of us here could potentially give, I have maybe 100 (and some change) copies of Venom Lethal Protector #1 remaining as well as Spawn #1 in raw form. At this point in life so many years later, the purchase cost/loss of those books is really nil, though the current or updated investment would be to evaluate and then grade each one with the current grading/shipping costs in mind. If I have 20 that most likely will grade 9.6 or higher, then I stand to gain from my own needs/wants/expectations. The raw copies say at 9.2 below, I would consider selling raw to fund the grading of the higher graded copies. Again, many scenarios could unfold, so consider thinking through, realistically, not hopefully, what is most likely to transpire in your likely return financially vs. the time/energy/money in the unknown or guesstimate returns. Just another perspective to consider...similar to swing thoughts if you are a golf person. We know how that goes...

I thought it was starlog.

super special 16 released a few weeks beforehand?

YUP

Thanks everyone. I'm hoping to have a more golden age themed thread down the road a bit. But I think I'm going to wrap this one up. Make me an offer! Take $30 off any book(s) currently left if you can name the 1st magazine to spoil the big twist in Empire Strikes Back. Hint, it's before 1980.

Something must have changed in how to do that...

It's been so long since I posted here, how the heck do I insert a gif? Seems like I cannot do it now! UGH

per pm. Thank you!

A new one, reminds me of my wife. Absolutely stunning.

Added to your stack, and thank you!

However except this point its a beautiful copy on overall, nice catch I always loved this cover too

I do. I have most of them through 2015, but you'd need to order more than one as my min rolled order is $100 and most of the comics titles are 40-60 do you have a list of interest?

Unexpected 24 VG- $17.50

Defenders 9 NM $75

I wanted to work with this image since Eric showed his copy a little while back, thought I was getting slightly higher grade, but she'll do, captivating: