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From what I've been able to research its Charlton Comics The Flintstones featuring the Great Gazoo #13 cover date November 1975. If you look at the barcode since its a test, of sorts, the bar code numbers are just 0123456789

I'm gathering that according to CGC page Quality hits a book's grade pretty hard. I've seen two examples of a HOS #92 that were both 2.5's and one looks like its been through the ringer. pieces missing from the cover, abrasions. Just overall beat up book. But in has "Off-White" pages. The other is complete with multiple heavy stress lines on the spine, BUT Cream pages. You would think the complete book would grade higher, but it didn't.

This info includes Concert Posters up to 23x30 too. 🤔So... Well, it may not be able to get encapsulated in a traditional hard plastic case, I'd think they could still cut to size the plastic holder for the posters for this page. Yes? 😬

I'm trying to figure out the largest size case CGC has, and if it would accommodate a large page removed form a book. I'm trying to get a single page from a book encapsulated. The page in question measures approximately 12 ¼ by 9 ¼ inches. In 1936 a German cigarette company published a book and had photo cards you could mail away for to insert into the book like a scrap book. These cards had Olympic athletes including Jesse Owens. Many consider these cards as his rookie card. They have been graded by Beckett and PSA. The problem is that once they've been glued into to book, its impossible to remove them without damaging them. So I'm looking to see if CGC can encapsulate a page with Jesse Owens on it, like they have done with pages from Amazing Fantasy #15 and Batman #1. Am I out of luck? Is the page too big?

One more to throw at you. How about a Famous First Edition Action Comics #1 Hard Cover?

There are supposed to be ONLY 10,000 of them. Yet, just today I saw a copy a CGC copy on eBay with a serial number 10115. So...who really know how many there are.

just fould a few Archies in my LCS's dollar bin. all from 1972. nice lingerie ads too.

Do they scan all the books or do they just use the naked eye? I have an ungraded ASM #129 up for auction on eBay right now. I put in the scanner at the highest rating of 2400. OMG!! it saw everything. I would have graded a 3 with what I saw compared to a 6.5 that I graded with the naked eye. I couldn't upload a 2400 DPI scan onto eBay even if I wanted to. Had to settle with 200. I would think with modern technology it would all be computerized at this point and we wouldn't have to be worried about who's desk and who's eye's were grading my book. If that's the case, I guess perhaps the computer did see something I can't and that's why the grades may be drastically different. Furthermore. Bomber-Bob, I may be a dope, but where would the notes be? All I got back in the mail with the books was the original submission form I gave them when I turned them in at the convention.

This is my exact opinion too. Back in the day, it was customary to have the talent sign on the inside first page at the bottom just above all the publishing information. basically because back then it was frowned upon to "Ruin" the cover with a signature. Oh, how times have changed. It was even worse for sportcards back then too. For most people a signature pretty much made the card worthless to collectors. What I did was I just bought two copies of Fantastic Four Annual #5. Stan Lee Wrote it. One was a CGC 9.2, and the other was a 7.0 signed by Stan Lee. The signed copy I bought on eBay for $200. So here's another caveat. for how much it's going to cost to buy the book you want, and then pay the exorbitant fee from Comicon to stand in line to have him sign it, and then pay a third time to have CGC grade it. Your best bet is probably do what I did and buy one already certified by CGC on eBay. I can almost guarantee, even if the person who sold this to me already owned the comic book, the price to pay to have Stan sign it, and the Price to pay to have CGC certify it probably costed more that what I paid for it.

This is a complaint of sorts that I have been seeing with the books I have sent in for grading and the lack of grading notes to show how CGC has arrived at a grade. I have several silver age books that I have submitted myself or purchased of eBay. It seems like I will have two 8.5's that look entirely different in regards to condition. both are black along the spine so creases will be more visible and one will have several stress lines around the staples and the other won't and they will grade the same. As far as I can tell the one with no stress lines has no other significant blemish to offset nice spine compared to the other comic. I even have comics with stress lines along the spine that have graded higher than another book with no stress lines. Now don't get me started on Spectacular Spider-Man #1. I have over 50 copies ranging from 6.5 to 9.8 and the grading is so off the chart. there are 8.5 that are in better condition than 9.2's it seems it just whomever happens to get thew comic across their desk that does the grading. Is the grading been standardized at all? Do they use computer scans to get a better grade or is it all human and subjective?