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    PGM GRADED THOR 165

    in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?

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    1 hour ago, Pontoon said:

    First and foremost, posting books graded by the other guys is frowned upon by our CGC Overlords and against Board Rules.

    That said, the back cover looks problematical to me. That’s a very noticeable stain LLC. There’s a lot of soiling by the spine and it looks dirty elsewhere. Is that a slight staple pull on the lower staple? How bad is the distributor spray? Is it all over the top edge? Does it bleed into many pages?

    I did not know that but for future use thank you! 

     The back cover presents far better in hand.  No stain in LLC.  The apparent soiling along the spine is ink from when the book was manufatured.  Yes there is a 1/8" tear at the bottom staple.  Light rub at top staple. 

    PGM GRADED THOR 165

    in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?

    Posted · Edited by ROBTOTHEC

    OK, I have added some pics.  You can see the lower right corner which shows much less in hand than the close up.   Also, you will see two ever so slight spine ticks.  One is in the indicia at the very bottom

    of Thors cape.  The other is on the red of his cape just below his hammer.  Other than that the spine is pretty flawless as is the rest of the book other than what I just mentioned.  I own 8.0/8.5 books that show fat worse

    than this book does.  I was shocked this was given a 7.0.  Again I own 7.0's with so many more and noticeable flaws than this book.  

     

     

     

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    PGM GRADED THOR 165

    in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?

    Posted · Edited by ROBTOTHEC

    I was hoping at least an 8.5 when I sent it in.  It's a gorgeous copy.   It came back ...  7.0!  ???

    I also had a Batman #227 that I was hoping the same.  Even the CBCS rep at the convention where I submitted them looked at it and said,

    "wow, that looks like a pretty nice VF copy!"   It came back at 6.0?   I am thinking I need to break these open and send them to CGC.  There were

    others too and they seem to grade awfully harsh and even a little unreasonable.  I have never been that far off with the CGC books I send in.  In fact we are incredibly close or spot on!