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Can MC-ing happen if the book never had it, is in a slab, is never handled and sits in a safe deposit box?
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I think this kind of hallucination-driven worry is most often associated with working seventy-hour weeks.

You know anyone who worked 70 hours a week the past several weeks, by any chance?

Here's a copy of cgc nm+ 9.8 squarebound that's loose in the case and clearly no longer a 9.8.  Technically not marvel chipping but consider it my small contribution to your mild neurosis. ; )

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15 hours ago, grebal said:

I think this kind of hallucination-driven worry is most often associated with working seventy-hour weeks.

You know anyone who worked 70 hours a week the past several weeks, by any chance?

Here's a copy of cgc nm+ 9.8 squarebound that's loose in the case and clearly no longer a 9.8.  Technically not marvel chipping but consider it my small contribution to your mild neurosis. ; )

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Wait, did you drop the slab?

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3 minutes ago, kav said:

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if chips happened so easily then I regret the guy in the ebay thread that asked to send it back to the seller, that I said a lot were like that in the slab.

A lot of slabs are like that but snap that is EEK! :eek: 

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1 hour ago, NoMan said:

Wait, did you drop the slab?

No, I got it that way (with the defect at top edge).

This book is loose inside the case - there is about 1/4 inch of space inside the inner sleeve, and if you shake the slab up and down, the book will slide from top to bottom of inner sleeve, thump, thump.  It's a prime candidate for "SCS" and that's almost certainly what caused the damage, I guess it happened when the seller shipped it to me because that defect wasn't there in the ebay pics.  I console myself that it's the worst slab I own, and most of the other cgc books seem secure and not a case of damage-in-waiting.

A slab sitting flat in a safe deposit box should be pretty safe, imo, (aside from some boxes that create the rusted staple problem that you're already tuned into).  A book is probably as likely to spontaneously combust as spontaneously MC.

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6 hours ago, grebal said:

No, I got it that way (with the defect at top edge).

This book is loose inside the case - there is about 1/4 inch of space inside the inner sleeve, and if you shake the slab up and down, the book will slide from top to bottom of inner sleeve, thump, thump.  It's a prime candidate for "SCS" and that's almost certainly what caused the damage, I guess it happened when the seller shipped it to me because that defect wasn't there in the ebay pics.  I console myself that it's the worst slab I own, and most of the other cgc books seem secure and not a case of damage-in-waiting.

A slab sitting flat in a safe deposit box should be pretty safe, imo, (aside from some boxes that create the rusted staple problem that you're already tuned into).  A book is probably as likely to spontaneously combust as spontaneously MC.

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23 hours ago, grebal said:

I think this kind of hallucination-driven worry is most often associated with working seventy-hour weeks.

You know anyone who worked 70 hours a week the past several weeks, by any chance?

Here's a copy of cgc nm+ 9.8 squarebound that's loose in the case and clearly no longer a 9.8.  Technically not marvel chipping but consider it my small contribution to your mild neurosis. ; )

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I work 80 hour weeks, every other week.

It makes all my books look 9.8 when they are clearly 8.5

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6 hours ago, grebal said:

No, I got it that way (with the defect at top edge).

This book is loose inside the case - there is about 1/4 inch of space inside the inner sleeve, and if you shake the slab up and down, the book will slide from top to bottom of inner sleeve, thump, thump.  It's a prime candidate for "SCS" and that's almost certainly what caused the damage, I guess it happened when the seller shipped it to me because that defect wasn't there in the ebay pics.  I console myself that it's the worst slab I own, and most of the other cgc books seem secure and not a case of damage-in-waiting.

A slab sitting flat in a safe deposit box should be pretty safe, imo, (aside from some boxes that create the rusted staple problem that you're already tuned into).  A book is probably as likely to spontaneously combust as spontaneously MC.

The defect looked frayed, which would happen with handling, not rattling around in slab.  Did you compare it closely with pics to make sure it's the same book?

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1 hour ago, jcjames said:

What is "MC-ing"?? ???

I've read somewhere on the boards the safest way to store slabs is spine-side down. Not flat horizontally. 

"MC"?? Like the Hammer?

 

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Marvel Chipping... 

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Marvel chipping is a printing defect, right?  So you either have it you don’t.  It is not age caused brittleness (which can make your book deteriorate in a slab).

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4 minutes ago, sfcityduck said:

Marvel chipping is a printing defect, right?  So you either have it you don’t.  It is not age caused brittleness (which can make your book deteriorate in a slab).

Correct. This is a misuse of the term marvel chipping, which is the effect that dull cutting blades and cheap paper had around the edges of Marvel covers in the 60's.

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1 hour ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

*you’re

:facepalm: can not believe I pulled that one. I would like to blame predictive text, but unfortunately I can not. Late night speedy reply. My grammar fail. 

 

 

 

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