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PGM Batman 251
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Hello folks. I'd appreciate an assessment of my Batman #251. I have been told that it's a very clean copy, by Neal Adam's manager himself, who offered to buy it from me at NYCC 2019, lol! Anyway, I had it signed and submitted to CGC (and CCS for pressing), but would like to know what grade you guys think it deserves. Thanks!

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FYI my CGC submission tracking was just updated! CGC gave it 9.0. I would've been thrilled with anything over that, but the grader notes say: "small crease right top of front cover breaks color, very light spine stress lines to cover"

It's hard to tell from the one scan I took whether this book might deserve a higher grade, so I'll follow up with pics once I get the slabbed book back. I had the book pressed and cleaned, so it will also be interesting to see if we can spot any difference.

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Ok, here's the graded and signed book! I took a close up of the small crease on the top right corner, which I believe is what most impacted the grade. You can barely even see it without a close-up shot. Let me know if you agree with CGC, or if I should request a re-grade, since the rest of the book (back and front) is pristine (any dust you might see is from the scanning bed, which I guess needs to be cleaned lol).

Thanks!

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So guess what? After I got my book back, I decided I wasn't happy with CGC's grading of 9.0 for this book, and asked them to re-grade it, because I thought that was bit low and had overly penalized the book for the small corner crease (which I don't think is actually a crease). Any they agreed to look at the book at no charge, and LO AND BEHOLD - it came back with a 9.6!!  Which means it just tripled in value :flipbait:, and which also makes me question alot of my other grades, but I guess I should just count my blessings and leave it alone...for now.

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