Taylor G Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Suppose I have two copies of a book, A and B. Copy A has a mediocre cover, say 7.0, but the interior is nice. Copy B has a nicer cover, say 8.5, but someone has defaced some of the interior pages. Pornographic doodling, but the pages at least don't stick together. So one thought is to carefully remove staples and attach the good interior pages to the good cover, using the original staples. Is this considered a sin against the CGC gods, inadvisable, kosher, or people do it all the time? I assume the danger is weakening of the cover around the staples, causing a staple pop, which will bring the grade down a couple of levels. But if I have to weigh a staple pop against pornographic defacement of interior pages..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keys_Collector Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 It'll most likely be detected and gain you a green label with a notation of "married pages". The Lions Den and Taylor G 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theCapraAegagrus Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Marrying covers/pages is usually a Restored label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Collector Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 It will get a green label for qualified not a restored label (provided you do no other work to it). Keys_Collector 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theCapraAegagrus Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 46 minutes ago, The-Collector said: It will get a green label for qualified not a restored label (provided you do no other work to it). Is this the case when full wraps are married to a book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Collector Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 9 minutes ago, theCapraAegagrus said: Is this the case when full wraps are married to a book? I believe so, but am not 100% sure. I've definitely seen married centrefolds and wraps in green labels. theCapraAegagrus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lions Den Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 26 minutes ago, theCapraAegagrus said: Is this the case when full wraps are married to a book? Sometimes a book will have restoration and a married cover or wraps (then it would be a PLOD). So theoretically, Taylor could replace the cover and/or a number of wraps and not even bother attaching them again and still end up with a green label... The-Collector and theCapraAegagrus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 I agree that doing this would likely be detected if you were to have it graded. However, as someone who prefers raw comics, I would definitely do this for my own collection. Especially on a book I like. If I felt I could connect the nicer cover with the nicer interior, I would definitely do so. Taylor G, The Lions Den and silversurfer275 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpoolica Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 B is already ruined so, lets not ruin A as well Qalyar and oldrover 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 If they're slab worthy, I'd slab them both and leave them as is. JMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 I wouldn't cannibalize a 7.0 just to get a qualified 8.5 copy of a book. If you have a nice looking cover, but a defaced interior, look for a lower grade copy with nice page quality to marry to the cover. Deadpoolica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
