Here’s my CGC and CBCS collection
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Two more and you’ll have a square…
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Good observation
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Where’s my glasses?
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And with another row, you’ll have a rectangle
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Then offset each row by 1 slab and you’ll have a rhombus.
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I have OCD about asymmetry. This bothers me. You must fix it!
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I need to buy 2 more. Or I can add empty boxes in there to make it complete 
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Technically I need 2 more plus another 5 rows to make it a square. That would make it 15x15. Right now it’s still just (almost) a rectangle at (15x10) - 2. 
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impressive collection. did you buy most of the books slabbed or did you send to cgc?
I sent in around 50 of them myself, the other 2/3 I bought on eBay over the last 10 years or so. All the Neal Adams signature series ones and sketch covers I got done at comic cons. And some of the other sigs I got myself too like the Greg Capullo ones and Tomasi and some of the Snyder ones. I bought the Jim Lee’s, Alex Ross’s, McFarlane, Stan Lee, and the Frank Miller.
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I sense a theme.
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That’s impressive. Assuming it had initially been slabbed without a press?
It had severe foxing which I was able to treat.
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How do you treat foxing?
I’ve seen some of those crazy contraptions with purple light and sheets/shades and coating the book with some kind of peroxide goo. I dunno… looks like a horror movie but I guess it works.
I don’t know how all these activities to a book are not found/caught by the grading companies, but it appears they are not.
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Same thing you do for bottom of shoes to make them like new again.
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Usually distilled water, some peroxide. I use several different methods depending on the stain, the placement, severity, overall condition of the book, etc.
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I got back a Stray Dogs #1 Acetate cover from CGC graded 9.8, but they don’t specify in the header that it’s the acetate variant.
The acetate cover looks exactly like the Cover A except it’s got the transparent cover attached onto it. It is actually pretty hard to see the acetate cover when in the slab. But if you look closely you can see the extra set of staples that attaches the acetate cover.
What do you guys think about this? Does it hurt the resale value? Should I send it back to CGC?