Great video forgot about the overspray

Great video. The color spray was to let retailers know when they return over stock back to the distributors. The color stood for a month. I got my Aim Spiderman book back in the day as an insert in the Sunday paper with a coupon for the toothpaste.

This is exactly what I wanted, thank you so much. More please!!!

Wow...Distributor spray. Who knew. Great illustration using high graded books that most collectors would see as possible VF conditions in their raw form.

Whoa! A rare Regie wears sleeves appearance! Great vid, thanks :)

Excellent video and very informative

Great Stuff Regie! I think its great to go over this subject! And I noticed that you have an EGS Slab on your wall!! Thank You for that! Now I know we are a force to be reckon with if we made it on your wall!! Means a lot brother! appreciate it!!

Extremely helpful content. The vids and content keep getting better and better. Keep it up! And thank you!

Brilliant video. I have many comics that are in awesome condition BUT exhibit that bindery tear. I have often wondered how far CGC graders would ding my books for have this common defect. Sometimes finding particular issues without that defect is extremely difficult. I try to stay away from it generally, but it seems unavoidable in some instances. A follow up video would be great. Thank you Regie. 👍

Awesome video dude😎👍

Those dang bindery tears! Super helpful - because Overstreet Guide to Grading doesn't talk a lot about printer defects. Got some Marvels from the 1970s with staples into the cover art.

I follow your channel and watch your videos often but never comment. However thank you for this video. I was always hesitant to slab my New Mutants 87 because the printing defect is the same as your New Mutants 98. I am seriously thinking of adding it to my "books-to-be-slabbed". Again, great video!

You’ve got sleeves... 😮. It can be overlooked due to the killer mark jewelers shirt your sporting, 😂. Great video and thank you for dropping your knowledge on us. Appreciate you brother 👊

Awesome information keep up the good work I would like to see a second video for the defects

All the defects to be found in the "One More Day" issues were inside the covers, on the pages.

great video, Regie

I vote for more informational videos like this one. Can’t wait for part 2.

Thanks for this video, and a great learning tool. I can see this becoming a regular series.

This is such a useful video! thank you

Another great video with some awesome information and examples of issues. Would like to seem more videos on this. Thanks Regie!

Love this video. Would definitely welcome a part 2.

Thanks for the great video!

great watch, thanks mate

loved the video. you should definitely do more of these especially about comic specific defect

Good timing on this one. I just had some books come in with miswrapped covers and I couldn't remember if it affected the grade or not. I don't really like how it looks so I'll upgrade it eventually, but they're not keys so it can wait.

I have FF 49 with top staple missing due to manufacturing process. So no holes. CGC told me, that would not affect grading.

Regie another informative video thank you! Whoa you're wearing sleeves, nice t-shirt.

hey regie...great video as usual!! i buy all my silver and bronze comics at 9.4 or better by my standards and it has to be almost perfect (thats the OCD in me) Slight imperfections do bother me. however, if i had a CGC comic that had a 9.8... especially a huge key....i wouldn't care about the imperfections of the book no matter how visible it might be. its a 9.8!!

Great video Mr. Regie and very informative. Thanks. GibbonGang rules!

Great video! I love seeing clear examples of these problems. Bindery tears drive me nuts! I DEFINITELY would love a second video. BTW, is this the first video you have ever done not wearing a sleeveless shirt? Did you feel overdressed? 🤣

Very interesting. My Venom the End has a printing error theirs a faded strip the runs down the right side of the cover. It was the last one so I grabbed it.

Great stuff! Regie can you show us your method or best practice around dry cleaning your books?

I just bought an ASM 15 and the right of the book looked trimmed but after watching your video I'm hoping not.

trim trimmidy, trim trimmidy, trim trim treedee, so many comics, it’s all about the story.

Please note that the following are my opinions only. I'll address the bindery tears first, I am totally down with a minor bindery tear getting a near mint range grade depending on the severity. What I don't like is that I have heard other people say that it has no effect on the grade at all. The New Mutants shows a mis-wrapped comic of a different sort, because instead of being off centered horizontally the centering is off vertically, harder to detect and I understand why it is rarely seen as a defect by most collectors. Which leads me to the off centered miswrap (used to be called a progressive bindery defect, this was latter changed to progressive trimming defect when the Overstreet Grading guide was released), the way I personally grade these is totally dependent on the amount of the back cover that can be seen on the front. or the front on the back. The example that you have shown in my opinion should not be graded above a very fine plus, and then only if the rest of the comic is exceptional. While I am not completely sure why the spray was added to the comics by news stand distributors, I suspect that it had to do with either the route or the pull date, both would make sense to me. Finally we come to the comic with the edges of the pages showing, I think I addressed this previously but this is totally dependent on if the comic is cut before folding or after folding. If it is cut prior to folding then you will always have the pages peeking out from the cover, if it is cut after folding it will always be trimmed square. Because of this it is not to my mind a defect at all and should never affect the grade, this includes the idea that such a comic could conceivably receive a mint range grade. Other defects that were not noted by you included staple placement, and subscription creases. Why aren't subscription crease classified in the same way as some of these other defects, it is after all a part of the distribution process. As an example I received some absolutely gorgeous Tarzan comics from the mid fifties, that all would range in the fine to very fine range (one I would go so far as to grade VF/NM, but now I'm just bragging as I got them for a sweet price), except two had very light color breaking subscription creases, now if you look at these from a distance of about six feet, you can't see the crease at all, at four feet, you can barely see it and closer still it is easily apparent. Personally if I were buying a comic like this at a B&M store and it was graded in the fine range, I would have no trouble pulling the trigger. But the highest acceptable grade for a comic with a Subscription crease is in the low Very Good Range. Once again I would remind you that this was a part of the distribution process for comics that people had a subscription for from the publisher. Over all it was an informative video and I appreciate you taking the time to make it.

Would like to see a video with some examples of the errors that WOULD effect the grade. And if so how significant of a downgrade they would be. :D

I believe the distributor spray was a result of telling the dates of the books for vendors to be able to determine when the book should be removed from display.

Very interesting stuff thank you Regie. I assumed it would affect the grade so that's a happy surprise and certainly opens up a collectors options knowing that. Definitely would love to see more on this topic. If I may suggest another topic: (given the recent conversation starter of Marvel stating Wolverines first appearance as Hulk 180 😬) I would like to have more of an understanding what is a cameo; first & first full appearance?? (And linked to that, who decides such matters?) I don't know if you've done that already but you have a great way of explaining things so I thought I'd ask! Thanks Regie appreciate all that you do! 💯👊🏻💯

You should write a book

What sleeves wow not used to that lol just messing with you great content as always

Thanks for this cool video Reg, appreciate it. Also if this matters, I was first here, #GIBBONGANG.

Hey, nice presentation. Next time you can talk about staple errors. I have an ASM 101 where one staple got shot right through the cover, so there is a slit where the staple should be. It came this way. So I wonder how much this would affect its grade (it's raw right now).

Hey Reg, I have a question regarding a defect. I noticed one of my older books from '88 has a staple issue, where the bottom staple is perfect to the crease, but the top staple is almost completely towards the rear of the crease, although the book's binding is solid and shows no rolling or under/over wrapping due to handle. So it looks like the staple issue may have been a defect. In your opinion does this effect the overall grade if the book were to be sent in?

I have couple of books that have the white print marks on the cover. Kind of like the one in your ASM #300, above the title. Does that effect the grade of a comic, or just the appeal?

@Regie Collects ~I've got a Marvel Two-In-One #50 thats like your X-Men #101. Lotta white. My Marvel Team-Up #137 has part of the front cover on the back. Half the "M" in Marvel is on the spine. My favorite defect/error I have is my mis-cut copy of New Avengers #46. Its actually shaped like this: / |. Yep, the entire book is narrower at the top than the bottom. Plus the spine is slightly shorter than the right side of the book. Never seen one like it and I've been collecting since 1987 at the age of 5 and a half.

I have an Amazing Spider-man 299 with just one staple. As in, it's clear that there was never a second staple because there are no holes--inside or outside of the book--that would indicate that a staple had been present.

Regie : Does a staple defect (wavy) or placed off centered from the spine affect the grade?

I have 2 copies of SDCC #2 first Hellboy. The spine, on both comics, have white discoloration from the blue cover. I cant tell if it was chipping through time or a manufacturer error. I'm the original owner, and they have sat bag-and-boarded since 1993. Do you know what that'd likely be?

Regie : Do the printer tears on the cover affect the grade (for example ASM 361). Also do ink spot from printing affect the grade? Thanks my man

Great Video bro! I have a ASM 400 gray embossed book with a page that didn't get stapled to the cover and has no staple holes. I was going to ask the CGC folks about it at the Long Beach comic con but I totally forgot it like an idiot! lol I hear there are collectors who like those kinds of defects.. any experience with those?

Excellent video sir. Question for ya;Say for today's modern books, mostly Marvel and DC with them using such cheap paper the past few years, would CGC take that into account? For example, if a book looks perfect, no dings or dents but has page ripples just because of the low quality paper. I'm curious what your opinion is, thanks! :)

Hey Reg, question. I have an Incredible Hulk 363 thats in pretty damn good shape considering I bought it when I was really young (surprised I didn't man handle it too much). The only real issue It has is that the pages are pretty tan. Nowhere near brittle but not at all white. How would this affect the grade it gets?

I'd be keen to find out about printing defects where the actual art on the cover (or back) is interfered with. Would that impact grade despite technically be a manufacturing issue?

Hi Reg, about a Two-in-one The Thing number 1. The sky on the cover is normally red. This one is orange and there is only a 1 inch square, top right, with the original red color. Vendor claims its not decoloured by the sun, just a printing defect. What's your opinion? Could it affect grade? Thanks. A Catalonian guy.

Hey Reggie... how do I contact you? I got a comic with a color error and wanted to know what you think

Awesome video Reggie!! I have a venom lethal protector at CGC right now and it has little spots on the book. They are very small. Like a little sunburst. I really don’t ha e the words to describe it. Do you know anything of what I’m describing. If so do you think it’s a printer defect?

I got a question I am selling a book that is pretty hot right now and it has a pretty solid black back cover. There does happen to be some breaks in color that either happened during production or the distribution..My question is to your knowledge does cgc makes “allowances” for such a defect given the cover is almost completely solid black and this defect is likely to have occurred during the books production/distribution?

Then classic phrase...Buy the book (look)..not the grade. :)

If theres a color break, like a white line, directly on the spine because of the folding of the cover, is that a manufacturer defect?

I disagree with the “allowances” grading companies give on books. Whether it be age related or common defect, a 9.8 should be a 9.8, and it should properly represent the book in the slab. If that means the highest grade a book can get is a 9.4, then so be it, grading on a curve shouldn’t be a thing.