CGC grading of Trade Paperbacks

sckao · Post by **sckao** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:50 am

Here's the official response from Gemma:

CGC cannot encapsulate any books thicker than 1/4" or any trade paperbacks with a hard cover.

Gemma Adel
CGC Customer Service Supervisor
x178
gadel@cgccomics.com

So it looks like slabbing the Unity Diamond TPB might be out since I think it's thicker than 1/4" (Someone might want to measure it.)

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:58 pm

That one seems a bit thick...but this one got through and it's definitely thicker than 1/4" maybe even more than 1/2" perhaps...

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:10 pm

woog

do you have a pic of it on the top section (with the title)?

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:31 pm

Chuck wrote:woog

do you have a pic of it on the top section (with the title)?

What? a diamond Unity? No, I don't have one of those slabbed, I think they're too thick. I put this Fatale tpb up because I thought it represented about max thickness for tpbs. The QC guy at CGC told me it took the biggest inner well they had in stock to fit it.

mnc93 · Post by **mnc93** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:00 pm

Most valiant trades can be slabbed. The Diamond Unity trades are just too big.

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:06 pm

mnc93 wrote:Most VALIANT trades can be slabbed. The Diamond Unity trades are just too big.

Why doesn't the label list it as a variant, I wonder?

mnc93 · Post by **mnc93** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:54 pm

mrwoogieman wrote:
mnc93 wrote:Most VALIANT trades can be slabbed. The Diamond Unity trades are just too big.

Why doesn't the label list it as a variant, I wonder?

There are only two copies on the census. From what I know the other copy is the original and not the blue variant. The original was graded in 2003 or 2004!! CGC hasn't seen another copy until recently, so they probably didn't know a blue variant existed!! If more copies where graded then CGC would able to distinquish between the two.

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Wed May 16, 2007 1:25 pm

You need to tell them when you submit something like this that it's the variant version. CKB has returned a few variants because they didn't get it right on the label.

CGC has only been in business since 2000...

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:12 pm

mrwoogieman wrote:You need to tell them when you submit something like this that it's the variant version. CKB has returned a few variants because they didn't get it right on the label.

CGC has only been in business since 2000...

Sometimes they don't bother to do the research even when you mark something as a variant on the invoice and it is not already in their database.

My advice would be to make a phone call to them for any "new" variant that you are having slabbed.

Some of the mistakes they've made I still have sitting in my collection waiting for the next time I ship books to them. They do pick up the cost when they goof.

I think I have a 9.6 Blue Rai (or maybe a Harbinger), but have not been lucky enough to have one that looks as good as the one listed here, including the one that was untouched from when I got it from Diamond. So, good show! Thanks for posting the scan.

mnc93 · Post by **mnc93** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:18 pm

mrwoogieman wrote:You need to tell them when you submit something like this that it's the variant version. CKB has returned a few variants because they didn't get it right on the label.

CGC has only been in business since 2000...

Sorry! Correction made. I made the post at 3 am. I was a little tired!!

mnc93 · Post by **mnc93** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:25 pm

ckb wrote:
mrwoogieman wrote:You need to tell them when you submit something like this that it's the variant version. CKB has returned a few variants because they didn't get it right on the label.

CGC has only been in business since 2000...
Sometimes they don't bother to do the research even when you mark something as a variant on the invoice and it is not already in their database.

My advice would be to make a phone call to them for any "new" variant that you are having slabbed.

Some of the mistakes they've made I still have sitting in my collection waiting for the next time I ship books to them. They do pick up the cost when they goof.

I think I have a 9.6 Blue Rai (or maybe a Harbinger), but have not been lucky enough to have one that looks as good as the one listed here, including the one that was untouched from when I got it from Diamond. So, good show! Thanks for posting the scan.

The problem is I am tired of getting back Valiant books with wrong labels. For instance, I sent in a Shadowman #0 (gold edition) twice and CGC still didn't even add gold edition to the label after indicating it was a gold edition.

I will be sending in some valiants to CGC very soon for label corrections and a few more surprises.