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Dr.Kooslend themselves well, to slabbing. It's a wonderful grading encapsulatory procedure for items that are basically two dimensional (cards, coins, etc.), but items with internal parts that will forever more be "invisible" (unless unslabbed). A Silver age comic is comprised of 11 individual components, 8 interior sheets of pulp-type/newsprint paper, printed on both sides, yielding 4 separate reading pages per sheet (32 in total), 2 staples, and a cover of higher paper quality. After being slabbed, we can only view the outer portion of that cover page (front and back), TWO PAGES of the 36 in total, that are present. Roughly 93% of the total surface area of the sum of the comic's components are now HIDDEN from view!