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That is insane that you sent in 80 books to be pressed! Thank you for letting us know who the presser was. There is alot of people in this community who spend good money and it's good to know which pressers arent up to snuff. You do an awesome job by the way👍

That was awesome. Congratulations on the grade bumps on all 10 books. I honestly believe the presser is overwhelmed and is rushing through his work. Obviously, that’s no excuse. I’m glad you press your own books, now. It’s fun to watch.

Your best video hands down. I've learned more from you about cleaning and pressing than everyone else combined.

You did the right thing by naming the company, that's what this community is all about helping each other. We all want what's best for our books and today you helped keep awareness of certain venues that take advantage of our hobby...good job

Great video! As someone who presses comics myself (2 years' experience) I can tell you that I put WAY more time and attention into working on a book than anyone else would. I have pressed most of the books you show here. This video is a fantastic tutorial of what types of books can be improved. No stains, no bent corners. The books you show are fantastic examples of the types of conditions that are optimal for pressing and grading. The rippling is from too much humidity and can be pressed out (but may require a second trip to the humidity chamber with a higher heat press and a longer duration of heat press). BTW, the ASM #306 has a chronic issue of not being cut correctly in terms of the top and bottom can be WAY off. I have seen copies so bad that they almost cut off the signatures on the bottom.

That other guy didn’t stand a chance! 😂

Jim im glad you decided to cracked clean and press those books on your own and resubmit them now you can truly move on keep up your good work we all appreciate you.

Congrats Jim! Your hard work is evident. Those books look great.

I think the biggest difference is when you press it yourself, you can afford to let it cool and remain in the press for 12 hrs afterwards, whereas pressing services - time is money for every press. Rushing the press can result in the press "falling out", not holding. Also, from what I am seeing, a lot of errors from rushing - which rolls back into the first point.

Could have guessed without watching the video. Same situation is what got me into pressing my own comics

Congratulations and nice job no one will care about your books like you do that is the problem with most pressers it's a job to them and a treasure to us.

I have been watching your videos for some time, they are very enjoyable. As always, you did great work getting those books bumped up from where they were. And just think of all the money you can save by not using a 3rd party presser anymore. You save money and get better results doing it yourself.

Really an inspirational video! Thanks especially for including the closeup photos of the defects you worked on. The number of books you got back from the "pro" presser with rippled covers was completely ridiculous, and shows ignorance and lack of care on his part. I know you say you just follow KaptainMyke's suggestions, but I think your viewers would welcome a video on correcting waves/ripples, which I'm sure literally everyone who learns to press or whiten comic books struggles with at some point, especially when using moisture.

Pretty much the same thing happened to Me Too! My local LCS uses a comic book pressure they recommended so I gave them 10 books to press and clean and send to CGC when they came back all the books had the same defects... Was not happy at all so now I clean and press my own books.. I have the comic bookstore giving me the books because I do a better job. Now

All I have taken away from this video, is you need to be a comic book presser/cleaner lol 😂 I know you say you do it for yourself, but you have a serious talent my man. Glad to see you got some serious grade bumps on your books!

Awesome job I hope one day you decide to start taking orders for your expertise

It can be amazing the price bump from a 9.6 to a 9.8. GREAT pressing work, with meticulous attention to detail!!!

Great job getting all those grade bumps. Sorry you had to go thru that whole ordeal to get where you are today. But you're proving over and over that care and focus far outweigh years of experience. I treat all the books I work on like they're my own. Makes for some amazing results and a lot of happy customers. 👍🏻👍🏻😀😀

Most of those books looked like they threw some sand in the press. I'm glad you got them back in great shape. Keep up the good work, I really enjoy your channel!

"If you want something done right, do it yourself". Good results, great work. I do I own as well and my only issues now, is the damage the grading companies do when they handle them. Gonna have to start taking pictures before submissions to prove that they did the damage. Keep up the awesome work, love your channel.

Really pleased for you Jim. Some absolutely huge improvements there.

Great result. Bravo!

So glad to see a new upload on your channel. I was starting to think you might be under the weather or just taking a break. Awesome grade bumps. I remember this from the original video. Rockin the Old School shirt.

Great job on the cleaning and pressing. I started to clean and press my own books after I sent in some books to ccs and waited a long time for them to come back only to still see defects. Like you said everyone can have an off day and maybe they were backed up and tried to rush through them and just wasn't as diligent as they probably are. No matter how long you have been pressing you can always learn and get better. Great video and once again congrats on the grade bumps. 👊🏼

Great video Jim. I learned a whole lot from this video. 1.Everybody’s not a “professional”, & let’s be honest money hungry trying to make a quick buck off others. 2.If you put the time & effort on your own books, you will reap the benefits. Great video again keep them coming 👍

Wow great result! I’m waiting for my first CGC submission to come back. I pressed all the books myself and really enjoyed the process. I hope I get a similar outcome to this. 👍🏻

Great vid! You've inspired my pressing journey more than anyone so far. I'm almost through a hundred practice books of varying quality and era, then I'll do my first 10 for submission! Stories of stuff like this were the clincher to do it myself!

Outstanding work! I love seeing your journey that you have taken into pressing your own books. I am currently reading your recommendation and have all the required products and equipment to start pressing and submitting my own comics. You have inspired many of your followers. Keep up the great work. Your attention to detail is awesome. Love the Grade Bumps..and the closure you have attained. Let's move on 😊

This video and your newfound skills speak volumes - excellent job!

So I also sent a bunch of my childhood books to that same presser and I also did not get the results I had wished for but like you I figured it was due to my grading / cleaning / pressing ignorance as it was my first outing... My newsstand GI Joe #1 came back a 9.6 and I had thought about cracking it and getting it re-done by someone and now I am most certainly will.. I saw many of the same issues as you did ESPECIALLY with wavy books, I was a bit shocked by that... I am using a different presser now but haven't actually sent any in yet for grading - wish me luck

Congratulations on the grade bumps. Keep up the good work. I enjoy the videos and may dabble in cleaning and pressing in the near future.

I ran into the same problem with a guy in California. Paid $160 for 20 books to be pressed and cleaned and he tried playing "it hurts my soul" that you questioned me. I'm like yea, you're a liar and a scammer bro. Only 8 out of the 20 books were "pressed" and the "minty" books were never touched. So I bought my own press and doing this on my own.

Well done! Your videos inspired me to get cleaning materials and a press. I've cleaned a good deal of books, but haven't quite gotten around to pressing. Hoping to one day get similar results as you

Awesome! Well done.

love this video concept and love the satisfaction of the presser saga

You have influenced me and all I asked for Christmas was a a press😂

Thanks for your channel! You’ve inspired me to try this at some point in the future. All I need now is time!

Haha. Awesome video. Obviously your initial presser was very careless. I have now pressed 10 comics in my first week and none have had any issues like those! Congrats on your improved results once again. Looking on the bright side, your bad pressing experience has turned you into the fantastic comic presser you are today lol. Already waiting for you to put out your next video.

This is just incredible. Wonderful job my friend!

Excellent work

Tremendous!! Congratulations and kudos to you for being precise with your grading and pressing skills. I'm currently evaluating some third-party pressers as well and will be reviewing them on my channel very soon. I enjoy pressing my own books but I am curious to see how a third-party (not named CCS) does. I really enjoyed this head-to-head video! Well done.

Have a book from when I first started collecting, sent in to cgc when I didn’t know anything about pressing and cleaning. Even though it looks really good to me I got a low grade. I’d love to have you crack and do you work and see what you can do. I pay for the service and the new cgc grading. Would make a good video.

I always go by the mantra, if you want something done right you have to do it yourself. With the grade bumps from your work after they were supposedly "cleaned and pressed", it really appears that nothing or very minimal work/effort was performed on your books. Nice job, btw...

Great video!

Way to look at things. As I've said in past comments your work has inspired me to start getting into pressing and cleaning my own collection. Speaking of, what would you suggest you'd do if there was a drip of dried latex paint on a cover of a book you bought?

I love that Batman 423. One of my grail books. Hoping to get the rare $1.00 CPV in a high grade. Really hard to get. Anyway, great job as always! Love the vids, cheers!

Really liking your channel very good information, just getting into pressing etc. thanks keep up the good work !

I’ve had the same results from them. I only used them because Joey is authorized to crack and press SS slabs. Bottom line never again after 3x’s

Congratulations! Gives me hope that I can do the same. Be well.

I am really enjoying your vids, appreciate your sharing any details as to how you are improving. I bought KaptainMyke’s books, but I am finding the devil is in the details, such as non-color breaking spine issues.

Great job on the books. Maybe the presser had too many books to work because many people were submitting books for grading and as you have shown a single quick press doesn't always take care of the problem.

The waviness is because of too much humiliation. The press was not able to evaporate the moisture before taken out. Gijoe is thicker, so that is has more moisture.

You have to be careful reading reviews on the CGC Forum concerning pressing. There is a clique of people there that rally around certain pressers no matter their results. Which is crazy, but true.

Well I guess you will be doing your pressing from now on. Sound like that presser was rushing to catch up.

Great video, Jim! I feel like I'm in the same position you were a few months ago. I just got back a bunch of books from a third-party presser. Unlike you, I'm overall very pleased with the results. But there are a few books that I think could get bumps - maybe significant ones - with a little more attention. Here's the thing - I don't blame the presser for that. I've seen DIY pressers press books multiple times; I just saw a video where the YTer claimed to have pressed a book a dozen times to get the result he wanted. Because of financial and time constraints, there's no way a third party presser can do that. So now I have an 8.5 X-Men 101 that I think could be a 9.0 or 9.2 (maaaybe a 9.4) with a bit more work. And I don't have the time (right now, anyway) to learn to do this myself. So I guess I'm stuck with it. 🙂

Why did a CGC grader let eraser shavings go and not count as a defect? Or that CGC did not think someone was mocking them, and then give it a restoration color regardless of the grade.

I’m glad you revealed who the 3rd party pressor was bc folks should be made aware and stay clear. Your vids are really encouraging and show that norm folks like us can learn how to press and clean comic books. You really motivated me to learn how to Press especially after I experienced a similar situation with Hero Restoration 👎🤢 thanks again

Why would you not go back to the original presser complain and ask for your money back?

The other presser obviously doesn't clean up their books well, and possibly some of those dents might be from a platen that isn't fully smooth. Just a shame.

that guy was a scam artist....there is no way you should be out pressing him with only 4 mo experience...no way!

I love comics. But think grading is way over done. It’s. Not a diamond. Your grading that is tough. It’s a. Paper book. With art for kids. And. Take the fun out of it. It should be. Two grades only. This way. Every body haves. Fun. Making. You fell bad to have only. That’s so. Sad I only have a 9.0. When that’s is. A great condition that’s why I said the showing to two grades and anything that’s six below should be readers copies and then under six should not even be available for greeting too many grades making people very unsatisfied with a perfectly good comics always chasing 9.8‘s. Makes. You slave to there game. Only the truth