A. Schaeffer

It gets worse the longer you look at it...it's so off model that it's somehow mesmerizing. Poinjts for bootlegging two disney properties at once though. Whoever bought this should crack it and ask for something from pixar or star wars as a remark for his next SS event, see how deep you can go.

I don't have anything to add, just wanted to quote this monstrosity Too funny

Stapling new things to old things to sell backstock is a pretty solid tactic though

ok fine somewhere right now someone at dynamite is planning out 46 plastic flag variants

right, and disney is known to be lax with IP so it should be chill but, maybe there's some grey area where you are modifying something you did license/buy under contract after the fact so it becomes fair use. what is sure though is now that these get a special label distinction you'll get copycats, and those should be even goofier. given cgcs newest statement i dont think youll ever see a copycat in a slab, but i would bet someone is drawing winne the pooh holding a flag on plastic as we speak

I'm actually interested to see if they step it up and put a character they own on the overlay of a marvel book. Maybe they also talked to Disney ahead of time? I don't know why I'm getting shades of a decade of looney tunes characters dressed as Kriss Kross on airbrushed t shirts.

You might have missed the third bullet point That's the out for anyone else to try this and get rejected/NG.

If you replace the phone with a folded american flag and include a RIVERDALE stamp somewhere..then I'll take 10

I'm the black hole in the middle of the convention

Maybe CGC realizes only insufficiently_thoughtful_persons would design this, or buy this, or slab this and the rest of us will just forget this exists eventually. The idea that they have two more of these ugly stapled books to show off is pretty funny though. Plus, as mentioned above, the idea that I can ask an artist to create a goofy overlay and get that blue label graded opens up some fun possibilities. e: word filter made it even better honestly, ITPs indeed

The overlay they created really is comically bad. I would say it's straight out of the 90's school of graphic design but I can't even come up with a period example as bad tbh. Wild they said Clayton Crain designed it.

I would argue this is a unique situation compared to something like the Bad Idea cover only book. Here you have what is legit a bootleg by the very definition skirting the rules of anything else classified as bootleg, without publisher (marvel/disney) consent. Other people pointed out a line of variants called "museum editions" that are the same thing but those are rejected from grading. There could be no consequence to this like you said, but if you're an impartial third party grading service credibility would be a major asset worth protecting..I would think... But I'm just one customer sending books seeing this unfold with a raised eyebrow., not some mass dealer or anything.

I gotta wonder if anyone is now going to try having an artist make something on a clear overlay, staple that to a book and send it in as a custom variant now that CGC has weighed in saying that as long as the artist designed it it's "manufactured" That can't be a fun pandora's box to open

This is the important bit. The rest is just distracting from this. Especially important when ebay is pulling these for being bootleg but CGC certified it..pretty big disconnect.

I sent in two sets of books to facilitators last year for signings they had. One set of 3 books went out May 2021, were "quick pressed" by the store..whatever that actually means, and then sent to cgc. I got those back may 2022, almost a year to the day. Talked to cgc today about the second set of 8 books. They got to the facilitator 7/6/21 but they don't press so they were sent as modern + ccs..A year in and they are still 4 months away from being pressed (was told CCS is working on 8/21 books now), then up to a year TAT in grading. So I think my eta is like 12/23 for stuff I sent 7/6/21..just a quick 2.5 years, no bigs. Lesson learned on that, anything SS is just going to be submitted by me to cgc directly..those seem to be under a year at worst, usually much quicker unless the signing date pushes or it's magazine sized