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@CGC Mike can I also include several of the X-Men I feel were graded harshly in the other direction?

Nope. The Conans had to go economy while the X-Men were modern. I want to believe they assign more "seasoned" graders to the non-modern tiers, but now I'm not so sure. It would appear that the person that graded the modern X-Men submission was looking at my late 70s books with a more modern book sensibility, which is just wrong. Judge a book based on it's era -- production values in the late 70s just doesn't compare to what is produced nowadays.

Another botched grade. I provided feedback to CGC regarding the grading of this entire submission and I hope everyone else that receives similar takes the time to do so. I only hope CGC takes the feedback to seriously and when patterns emerge with certain graders, they do something about it. Grade: 7.0 White Pages Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

More of the same garbage with the exact same notes. I'm done ranting. I'll let the rest of these grades speak for themselves. Grade: 7.0 White Pages Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another head scratcher. No mention of any staining in the notes (everything else was thrown in for good measure). BTW, where the hell is the "light fade to cover"? Nonsense. At this point, I think they just started to grade all subsequent books based on things they saw on the earlier ones. This trend will continue. Grade: 8.0 White Pages Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Not sure I agree with that. Why the other note of "light spine stress lines to cover". That seems to cover "creasing" along the spine (there don't appear to be any color breakers). Still convinced it was the printers creases that (incorrectly) caught their "eyre".

I get that if there are NO notes. But someone took the time to write notes and publish them with the certificate. No one bother to point out the most glaring defect (at least to you and I)?

I disagree that the entire cover is faded (like in the Hulk #181 examples). It really isn't when compared to other samples (here's the image used on GoCollect: https://gocollect.com/comic/x-men-103). It's just the top edge that must have been exposed to light or something and it fades from red to orange. I get being hammered for the kind of fading depicted in the guide, but not so sure such a harsh standard should be applied to the top edge. But now I know where CGC stands on the matter.

First rule of CGC submission: don't submit books with any kind of color fade, no matter how minor (it was so minor on this book, no one here even mentioned it). I'm sure that killed this book. I'm also sure the "light creasing to cover" was incorrectly attributed to the printers creases on the front and back.Those aren't suppose to count against the book, but as far as I can tell from the video, there were no other creases or bends to the cover. Grade: 7.5 White Pages Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

First one of the rest that I feel were graded harshly. The biggest flaw I saw with this one was the small corner chip on the back cover and that wasn't even mentioned in the grading notes. Instead I have non-existent light bends and creasing to the cover. I double checked my video and I can't see anything through the slab (not unusual, I know) that would indicate it was damaged in transit or during processing. I just can't see how this is an 8.0 book unless the corner chip really dinged it but why not mention it in the notes? Grade: 8.0 White Pages Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

This one was pretty spot on. All downhill from here... Grade: 9.0 White Pages

This one is definitely a cautionairy tale about any kind of edge color fading. I had similar fading on my #106 and it ended up 1-2 grades lower than I thought it would (8.5), but I think this fade dropped this one at 2-3 least grades, if not more. Grade: 6.5 White Pages Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover. light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another one I thought would get an 8.5, but again with some reversion. Fair grade. Grade: 8.0 White Pages Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

This one was somewhat fairly graded. Thought it would pull an 8.5 but looking at it through the slab I see some reversion of the press I did. Fair grade. Grade: 8.0 White Pages Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

I have close to 400 books I am considering submitting, most of which I will probably sell, so it is too cost prohibitive to go through a third party (I do all my own cleaning and pressing as well). Didn't realize you could appeal a grade -- just resubmit, which I am tempted to do for a couple but when I look at the value differential from the grade I received and the low end of what I think I should have got, the additional fees to have it graded again just doesn't make a lot of sense since these are books I plan to sell. I would definitely appeal in cases where it is clear the wrong book was sent back to me or I can demonstrate that the book was damaged either in shipping or in the posession of CGC, but if it is just a grade dispute, I'm surprised that CGC will offer that at all. I pretty much asked that question since I think these books in question were dinged hard for printers creases (which CGC confirmed should not count against) but the standard company line is that my only option is to resubmit for re-grading. Not a great answer. I wonder what CGC would do if I appealed the 9.0 grade in the opposite direction?