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[gadzukes]

8 minutes ago, Wreck-It Ralph said:

So what does Qualified mean?

Sorry about all the questions.

Qualified means limited in some way.

A qualified comic is sometimes missing a page or has a coupon clipped, or the CF is detached.  A really common qualification is Hulk 181 with the MVS "marvel value stamp" clipped out.  Technically, the comic should be graded as an.5 incomplete, but if it is an 8.0 in every other way, CGC would give it an 8.0 Green Qualified label (and you would cry because of the clipped MVS)

In general Green Q comics are valued the same as maybe a slightly resto'd comic.

Edited March 22, 2021 by gadzukes

[gadzukes]

15 hours ago, Wreck-It Ralph said:

 

if you bought a graded book with an insert like the one above would it be mentioned on the grade label?

Yes.  They are listed on the label.  Enough collectors look for them that they usually bring a premium price when selling.

The inserts were always at the center of the comic and all the ones I've ever encountered were made out of a card stock material so they are easy to detect when you hold and flip thru a comic, it'll feel stiffer.

[Callaway29]

I encourage these questions, but this isn't the right thread...or even the right section. At the top of the main forum view there is a section dedicated to newcomer questions.

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/93-newbie-comic-collecting-questions/

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

21 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

Wait until he get's to advanced terms like "Distribution Overspray" and "Newton Rings"

I think Someone showed me Newton Rings at a show once are they compression rings that appear on the grade case?

i don’t know what Distribution Overspray is?

Would either of these things affect the value of the comic or the grade?

[gadzukes]

Just now, Wreck-It Ralph said:

I think Someone showed me Newton Rings at a show once are they compression rings that appear on the grade case?

i don’t know what Distribution Overspray is?

Would either of these things affect the value of the comic or the grade?

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/93-newbie-comic-collecting-questions/ 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

3 minutes ago, Callaway29 said:

I encourage these questions, but this isn't the right thread...or even the right section. At the top of the main forum view there is a section dedicated to newcomer questions.

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/93-newbie-comic-collecting-questions/

 

OK.

[gadzukes]

2 minutes ago, Callaway29 said:

I encourage these questions, but this isn't the right thread...or even the right section. At the top of the main forum view there is a section dedicated to newcomer questions.

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/93-newbie-comic-collecting-questions/

 

Thank you, that's what I was asking/looking for.

[gadzukes]

Just now, Wreck-It Ralph said:

OK.

We love your enthusiasm and are glad you're diving into the hobby, but we simply can't answer all your questions on a thread like this, especially when it's rapid fire question after question.  

[Wreck-It Ralph]

1 minute ago, gadzukes said:

We love your enthusiasm and are glad you're diving into the hobby, but we simply can't answer all your questions on a thread like this, especially when it's rapid fire question after question.  

OK, well thanks for all the questions you did answer as they were very helpful.

[Hollywood1892]

45 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

Wait until he get's to advanced terms like "Distribution Overspray" and "Newton Rings"

His CGC Jedi training is like none I have ever seen

[Hollywood1892]

47 minutes ago, Wreck-It Ralph said:

What is a Green Label?

A green label is a qualified label

[Callaway29]

I remember those days. The learning curve was steep, but I was impressed with how he knew enough to ask the right questions. Not knowing what you don’t know is a tough phase to work through...but all of these questions have been asked before.

One final nugget for you wreck...don’t try to search this forum using the search function. Search via google but add “CGC forum” to your search and it’ll do a better job.

Edited March 22, 2021 by Callaway29

[littledoom]

1 hour ago, Wreck-It Ralph said:

I think Someone showed me Newton Rings at a show once are they compression rings that appear on the grade case?

i don’t know what Distribution Overspray is?

Would either of these things affect the value of the comic or the grade?

They’re circular rainbow colored rings that appear on the plastic case. The rings have nothing to do w the comic. Overspray is paint colored spray usually at the middle top of 60-70s newsstand comics. That may affect the grade but it’s a common practice at the time so that defect may not count against the grade.. depends how aggressively it was done

[MyNameIsLegion]

2 hours ago, Wreck-It Ralph said:

I think Someone showed me Newton Rings at a show once are they compression rings that appear on the grade case?

i don’t know what Distribution Overspray is?

Would either of these things affect the value of the comic or the grade?

Fig Newtons, gotta watch out for those....

[Wreck-It Ralph]

26 minutes ago, littledoom said:

They’re circular rainbow colored rings that appear on the plastic case. The rings have nothing to do w the comic. Overspray is paint colored spray usually at the middle top of 60-70s newsstand comics. That may affect the grade but it’s a common practice at the time so that defect may not count against the grade.. depends how aggressively it was done

In Action Figures that would be classed as a factory defect and therefore should not affect the grade!

[Callaway29]

8 hours ago, Wreck-It Ralph said:

In Action Figures that would be classed as a factory defect and therefore should not affect the grade!

There are always exceptions, but typically it doesn't impact grade. I'd say 98% of the time it doesn't... Only time it might is when dealing with uber high grades or if it's drenched in distributor ink....

Edited March 23, 2021 by Callaway29

[october]

$2400 for a 7.0?!?

https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/the-amazing-spider-man-50-marvel-1967-cgc-fn-vf-70-off-white-to-white-pages/a/122112-17040.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

[speedcake]

Well I WAS going to look for a nice lower mid grade copy of that book soon, but I guess that's out the window for the foreseeable future. oof

[skypinkblu]

5 hours ago, Wreck-It Ralph said:

In Action Figures that would be classed as a factory defect and therefore should not affect the grade!

@Wreck-It RalphWelcome to the boards, it's nice to see new people interested in the hobby. 

In the 50's and 60's most comics (I never like to say all) were sent from the publisher to distribution warehouses. Those warehouses sent them to the newstands and candy stores/newspaper stores where they were sold to the public. Unsold comics could be returned to the distributer warehouses. So that they were not resold as new, they were marked as returns.  They were often sprayed with ink, sometime just a tiny bit, sometimes the books were fairly covered with ink.

Sometimes the logos were torn off to mark them as returns. I don't know if the  stores did that or the distribution centers. It was to prevent the books being resold.

Many of those "damaged" books were resold when they were discovered later sitting in piles at these centers. Sometimes just the top book in a pile was sprayed and a little ink leaked over the edges of the others. 

This spray was different from the books that had some ink that was over-sprayed at the manufacturer.

Most of the ink sprayed by the NY distributors (the only ones I'm really familiar with) was dark purple. Lots of times when you see manufacturer overspray, it seems to be red, but not always.

Almost 20 years ago, a big distribution warehouse on Long Island (in NY) was being sold on consignment by an eBay seller who started listing piles and piles of comics from that site. I spent a lot of hours driving out there, it was an amazing place to walk around. I had never seen books with the cords around the bundles before, all drowned in blue/purple ink.

 

Edited March 22, 2021 by skypinkblu
3 phones calls later I forgot about punctuation;)

[PKJ]

9 hours ago, gadzukes said:

We love your enthusiasm and are glad you're diving into the hobby, but we simply can't answer all your questions on a thread like this, especially when it's rapid fire question after question.  

Been suggested in multiple threads with no change.