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I am in agreement with all on this issue. It is a very in depth discussion and use what I stated as a quick reference. I deal in many collectables and I need to be able to identify things of this nature.

I've yet to come across a AMS 129 or a Hulk 181 or Xmen 94 that vary in size dimensions. Each of those issues measured against other exact issues will have the same size. I've come across trimmed issues of those that when matched against issues of the same print run clearly show the issue trimmed.

All I will say is that it doesn't retain heat which is a key point in the process, Extreme heat is needed for this to work and metals that don' retain heat are crucial to the process.

However, the pressed issue is accepted and does not get the qualified or restored tag. That is a monster difference in the grading industry. I got burned by cheating sellers and got restored comics many moons ago that I was not aware that they were restored. From there, I educated myself on the subject. In theory I could even get the ink from the issue that is "being restored" by getting ink to a liquid state and spreading the ink next to the color break to cover the color break. In that scenario I am adding no outside source and using the ink from the issue itself to fix color break. You need knowledge of using tantalum, molyebdenum, tantalum carbibe and have access to it to get to this level of fixing color breaks.

I never heard of that dude, thus I will google them now!

It is a very technical process that is my own. I can tell you it can be done and I can point the restoration micro color breaks where and you would not be able to detect it, the books I did it with were worthless, thus if I screwed up it was pennies lost. Have not attempted in on a book of value but eventually in a year or so (probably two) I will. Once this is done you have to wait months for desire effect to work (think wet paint touch up when you have to wait months for the color to match). People use to argue with me all the time 15 years ago that pressing and dry cleaning a comic was "restoration" and now if you claimed that you would mostly get laughed at. So far it seems there is little interest in a field for paying to has this done to bump a 9.2 to 9.8 (with the only problem being color breaks). Also, it would take brass balls to fix a color break on a Hulk 181 9.4 to get it to 9.8

I disagree with you but respect your opinion. A color break is the lost of ink on the cover. There is a process that I am still working the kinks out on (lots of variables involved) that is applying the same ink exact ink that was used to make the comic from the same printing press. I am adding the same ink from the same press. Just like there is trial and error with pressing which took me awhile to nail 100% of the time. Older books is MUCH HARDER to pull it off and I am only working on blank ink, need to perfect that first.

Trimming never done or attempted. I always find a book that is trimmed quickly. All I do to spot that if I have any doubts is to measure it against a issue that I know is legit, size should be a perfect match.

Do you guys think a color break fix process that would not be seen as restoration have a big call for? It is a time consuming process to fix a color break involving using heat, transferring ink (have to be perfect matches), bonding, etc The goal is to make it undetectable. It is the process of removing ink from from one issue (example: a beat version of a Marvel Comic in 1968 that I just need the cover ink from, getting a few pin dots of ink from that cover and transferring it to the color break on another Marvel Comics in 1968 that is way more valuable).

WHy Why wouldn't this be a green label? Any issue I sent in that was signed got the Green Label, thus I now send signed issues to CBCS.

Almost all of the comics I have graded have been 1987 and earlier. I noticed that certain marvel titles that used the higher quality paper in the early 90's (Wolverine as a example) printing technique for the covers leave the spine edges flayed. I will use Wolverine 9 as a example, when examining the spine there is no color breaks on the color but a side view of it shows lots of white on the spine. This is inherent in all those comics that I own from that era in that specific printing format. How does CGC grade these? Are these a inherent flaw? I have personally seen two copes of Wolverine 8 9.8 CGC graded with the same issue my comics has........any advice is appreciated.

Easy way to tell if a book is trimmed is to find a book from same year and roughly same month and compare the sizes. I do this all the time and about 2 out of 3 harder to find books that are big money issues I see trimming on.