How to Pick & Submit A 9.8 Candidate to CGC Comics / CBCS 

Brother, this was a value add for us collectors that have struggled with determining grading candidates. Thank you!!!

Just a little note, the underwrap that you sited will almost always appear on comics, the reason for this is due to the printing process itself. Comics are printed on large sheets, cut to size, stacked, folded and stapled. Try this experiment, take 9 (8 will give you 16 leaves or 32 pages, make one a different color for the cover) pieces of paper and stack them, then fold them in half (stapling is optional). now examine them, you will notice that in every case the cover does not quite cover the pages. The only way that it would cover completely, is if the pages were stacked, folded, stapled and then cut. I believe the actual stapling could happen either before or after the fold depending on if the comic is going to be square bound or not. Square bound comics are no longer stapled btw, they are now made in the same way that paperback books are and simply glued together. If you ever find a wrapped comic that is square cut from one of the major publishers, DO NOT BUY IT, I would take the odds on that being trimmed to Vegas and win 99% of the time! Now corner bindery tears generally happen while the book is being folded, or possibly as they are stacked in boxes for shipping (all done initially by machine). In my opinion though regardless of the fact that it happens during the printing process it is still a defect and should affect the grade, for any grading company to simply ignore it because it happened during printing is absurd. Would they ignore an ink stain on the interior because something went wrong during the wash or would they ignore a grossly miswrapped cover, How about when staples are on the front or back cover and not along the spine? All of those examples happen during the printing process but are never ignored, in some cases they are considered major defects. So why should a minor defect like a tiny bindery tear be ignored. The simple answer is that it should not and is the very reason why in my 50 plus years of collecting comics I have NEVER seen a perfect 10 comic, there is always some defect. I believe that the grading companies give out tens simply so that there is no unattainable grade, Somewhere someone does have a 10 comic, that is absolutely perfect in every way, out of the hundreds of billions of comics printed over the years there has to be one, possibly even two. But I have never seen one, and of the graded comics I have seen that were a '10' (all 6 of them) I found minor defects in every one that should have made it a 9.9 at best. The explanation I received, was, oh that's on all of them so they don't count it. Ok, so it wasn't such a little note after all...but then you probably knew it wouldn't be.

Great video brother!!!!! Man this is a great example of why your channel is the best out there. I don'y know if I am going to wear gloves lol, but man your process has upped my games x 1000. I mostly did a quick glimpse and crossed my fingers. Great stuff man, love seeing new videos posted.

You call them defects, I call them signs of tender loving care. This content is gold!

Regie this video was great! Loved watching you go through the process. Now I see why you get all those 9.8’s!

1st. YES!!!! Great episode Regie. Thank you

Thanks Regie, I really appreciate these how to videos. Still haven’t committed to pressing my own comics yet. :)

Solid video Regie! Comparing the copies really makes sense.

Regie! That was a super helpful video. I’m still learning my way around grading and spotting defects. This was great. Thanks! 👍

Thanks. This will help me out. I am thinking about sending Walking Dead 192 to CBCS! It is most definitely a 9.8 in my opinion!

Thanks Regie, Great content and thanks for for the great videos!

Great video and Nice book to do it with. That reminds me, did you ever get round to checking your silver editions for the Blue Lizard Misprint? Thanks for this great content Regie. Appreciate it. Nice to see someone else do the same things I do. It’s reassuring 👍

Awesome info. Definitely going to put some of this into use. 👍🏻

Great and informative process Regie. I was about to post something about wearing cotton gloves, but then I saw your blurb in the description. Nice work. Maybe you can come over one day and pre-screen my collection to help a brother out... :)

Hi Regie - thanks for all of the great content. 👍. This “How to Pick & Submit” is a fantastic video and my vote ✅ for a new series for the channel. 5k subscribers just around the corner. A BIG 👍 to the channel.

Much appreciated for this Regie , it's definitely upped my grading game. Although I think the Katie Perry sounding staccato intervals of music in the video is a bit , erm ... 'off-white to white' if you feel me ? lol

Great video + very informative! Unlike some other comic channels, that just patronise their viewers on how cheap they supposedly got deals at. At least this vid has some long term value 👍

Hey Regie great stuff. I never did send any modern comics in with those bindery tears thinking that it wouldnt get a good grade. I probably going to just wait till I have enough to use the screening service.

Great info I have yet to slab any books yet this helps alot

Needed this! Thanks for the info

Very helpful video - learning lots. Thank you!

Silver medal yay😀👍 Thanks Regie for another great video. I only have gold and silver Asm 1. Would love the platinum ahh dreams😝😀 take care Regie😀👍💗

Great video as always, and I was going to suggest you raise some fund and get a better camero so we can get more closeups. But then, you got up close, still had the light hit on angle, and it was perfect. So now, I'm just going to ask for more closeups ;)

Great, informative vid Regie...though use painters tape to close your book!!! I've moved from the clear/masking/magic tape too grippy. Painters is nice, holds enough plus easy to remove.

Really great info. Thank you

This is a great help thanks regie

Great video, and if I have multiple copies, I do compare. But I havent put them side by side before. (I will add that to my procedures) Yeah I saw that Arachnophobia ad......got a feeling that was a little bit for me haha since we were just talkin about that!

Just found this video. Very helpful..thanks. So even with those spine issues you pressed all of them? What results did you get back from CGC. It would be great if you have a follow up video on this. I didn't see one.

If you can use some gloves especially on black covers helps in the spreading of fingerprints. I've gotten a 9.6 book back with the only defect notes by cgc was a fingerprint on the back cover. 🤦‍♂️

Quite the process...💁🏻💯✔️

Very helpful information.

So that’s what I’ve been doing wrong all this time, here I was using the Eeny, meeny, miny, moe method the whole time, oops lol ;)

What a cool video man. Thank you.

Hi Regie. I noticed some cgc 9.8 graded books with miswraps. How does CGC take miswrapping into consideration when evaluating the grade? Do they downgrade only when its not a know printing defect on thjat particular issue ? Great video !

Me before video completes: "Just pick one and send the other two my way" :)

Question about covers with texture/have holograms, assuming you don't press the whole cover, do you just press out certain portions of the book, like the edges? Not sure if this is even possible

The comics I submit to CGC have never been read/left the original bag/board...hoping to get back some high grades...

~ Would you suggest using gloves when handling them?

Great video.

Just got my 9.8 Batman who laughs #3 Francesco variant 9.8 and Teen Titans #12 9.4 Francesco variant.

So just found out it's going to take about 3 to 4 months to get back the comics i just submitted to CGC... yikes! 11 to 12 business days for the quick press and another 20 business days for the grading....feeling somewhat distraught right now. They said it was because of three big cons that happened and they got backlogged... i guess this is normal?

Full audio would be better while your inspecting the comic. You are gesturing and pointing but it’s hard to see what your gesturing at.

Where can I get a copy of your arachnophobia #1 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks Reg another great video

I have that spider man, is it worth slabbing if it's not quite a 9.8?

335 time for my dose of Regie comic goodness

What is your advice for a comic in an unopened poly bag?

Do you have a video on how these defects can be restored?

not bad,, rarely use my hands like that though,, usually use another backing board... it work.s

Can I ask your success rate when selecting and sending in?

These days I just bite the bullet and get a cleaning and press before submitting anything to CGC these days. Could be a difference between a 9.6 and 9.8

I have thousands of books and so few 9.8s. It’s depressing.

Did you ever send this off and did it come back at a 9.8?

Eye of the Tiger

Local LCS got a book back that should have been a 9.8 , instead came back as a 9.6....... graders notes. Found a finger print ...... wth ????

How do you decide what you want to send in?

I can't wait to rid myself of this McFarlane crap!

stop using tape. resealable bags are available. lol