JeffJohn123

Honestly, I reckon if you send it for a press you should almost definitely get a 9.6 (maybe a 9.8 if you get lucky, but I wouldn't hold my breath)

8.5 imo, but possibly 9.2-9.4 material with a press

9.2-9.4 without seeing the interior

7.0-7.5

8.5, but maybe higher with a press

Yeah, I reckon 3.5 is spot on, maybe worth cracking and pressing though, might get a 4.0

Looks a solid 3.5, maybe a 4.0 with a press.

With that large corner crease, I'd have said 3.5. Also, is the top staple detached?

Atm it's a 2.5, but you should get a 3.0 with a press

9.4-9.6. Couple of really tiny flaws, but should still get that.

1.0, but as it's GA, you may get a lucky 1.5

Normally they give around one point leeway for Gold Age. I've got an All-Flash that has a detached top staple amongst other things, silver age and that would have been 3.5 all day, but it's a 4.0.

Again, if it was SA, i'd have said 3.5, but I reckon if you press and clean it may come back a 4.0

On a SA book I would have said 3.0, but as it's GA I'd say 3.5, maybe a 4.0 if you send it off for a press & clean.

Looks to be called a Hand Bound Reject

After doing a bit more research I learned that they do come back blue label with the note "extra set of staples added in the manufacturing process" or something like that, highest I've seen of one with this notation is a 5.0, but that could be a coincidence.

Also, found this on another thread, looks like this could be it. Hi; I got another little manafacturing error that I have been wandering about for a while. I have two comics a Defenders 50 and a Marvel Tales 82 and I did have a Peter Parker 7 that all have two sets of staples in other words two at the top and two at the bottom what I found strange about this is that one set of staples is inside the cover and the other set holds the cover on and all three of these comics are like that. It is like the comic was stapled together without the cover and then they sent it back through and stapled a cover over it did this ever happen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cosmic, I asked DiceX the same question a few months ago. Here is his reply: I received the book today. It looks to me like it was a "hand bound reject". I'll try to explain it... A publisher requires a certain number of books to be produced. During the bindery run, they have enough raw product to produce the run + a percentage predicted by the bindery allowed for waste. Say the run is 100,000 books and the bindery expects 3% waste...They receive 103,000 books worth of raw product. During the run there are books that jam up in the binder, or have odd flaws (untrimmed, unstapled, no cover, etc.). Those books are stacked to the side until the end of the run. When the raw product has been depleated, if the count doesn't add up to what the publisher ordered, they have to find a way to fill the order. They go through the "reject" skid to find any books that can be salvaged. There is usually nothing wrong with them, they just have been produced incorrectly. They take those books and piece together what they can. These books are bound by hand, stitched (stapled) by hand, then hand trimmed on a flatbed cutter. Whatever they have to do on a book by book basis. After "pulling rejects", if the order still has not been filled, they have to go back to press to run enough raw pieces to finish it off. The book you sent looks like it was produced without a cover. The body of the book had already been stapled, so a fresh cover was placed on the book and stitched onto the body. (The second set of staples) The staples are done by hand, so that would explain why they were off centered. There are no other staple holes in the cover, so it was definately a raw cover that was placed on the book. Afterwards it was hand trimmed on a flatbed. No doubt in my mind that the book left the factory this way. I don't know if this book would have passed through CGC without a purple label, because I don't know if they would have been able to tell it was a factory error.

Unfortunately not, a remainder book is one with part of the front cover chopped off. Have had a couple people say that it is definitely a blue label, apparently they were ones that missed the cover in the bindary process, so they ended up feeding them back through the presses for q new cover, still no idea on a name for them though.

Thanks for the help everyone, I'd anyone knows what these are called or has a link to any others with the same thing, that would be highly appreciated, thanks.

Thanks for the help, posted a separate thread yesterday and just about to read the responses.

It doesn't particularly bother me, it's only 4.0-4.5 so never going to get it graded, just wanted to ask and see if anyone had ever seen anything similar, has to be others as I have this on two books in my collection bought from different people several years apart.

I'm not asking anyone to verify it, just wondering if anyone has seen this sort of thing before.

Yes, but this wouldn't be a green label as it was part of the production process.

I started going through all my books the other day, and i have found something interesting that I wanted to ask about. I've got 2 books, Flash 165 & 222 which both have the same thing. From what i can gather they are sort of frankenstein books, technically they are married, but as it's part of the printing process I believe they are still blue label. From what I can gather they are put together from two or more scrap copies in the production process to fulfill orders. Each book has two sets of staples, one which acts as normal, and another that just pierces the interior pages and doesn't touch the cover. I know that there is a term for them but can't for the life of me remember, I'd like to look them up to learn more about them, does anyone know anything about them or what they are called? Attached are some pictures of the 222. This isn't just my opinion btw, I messaged the guy who does the pressing on the books i send to CGC, and he was the one who told me that, as apparently he had pressed a few before but he couldn't remember what that specific type of thing was called. Any help is much appreciated.

Attached some pictures of the 222. This isn't just my opinion btw, I messaged the guy who does the pressing on the books i send to CGC, and he was the one who told me that, as apparently he had pressed a few before but he couldn't remember what that specific type of thing was called. Any help is much appreciated.