Juno Beach

Gonna put that one in my personal lexicon of female body part colloquialisms.

Saw a couple of these at the current Comic Link auction. At first I thought the art was ok but something seemed kind of off. When I looked closer I realized that it looks like her left leg was growing out of her howler for some reason. The composition is just really not put together in the right way.
 

I just noticed this stinker on eBay.

Wouldn't say terrible, but many of those early Kane covers lack any energy and feel a bit boring.
Bland, maybe.
 

Frank Miller at it again.

Don’t think so. There’s no twirly moustache.

Can someone please explain what's going on here?

I'd be screaming like Tony, too, if my upper half expanded like a balloon inside a metal suit and my legs crumpled under me.
 

Yes! It does, and apparently a couple of bidders believe it, it's at $620 including BP.  Should've gone to Specsavers. 

I've been after a 9.6 copy of this for ages, so got a bit excited when one popped up in this weeks Heritage auction, that was until I looked closely at it, all four corner are horrible and will the guy who graded it please grade all my books.

Judging from the corner, it was a hot comic at one time or another.

Probably the bets way to go about it is from the barcode. Each variant has a different number, so 1 should be "A," 2 "B," etc.

Yes - this is my issue with Deadpool as well.
Yes - Liefeld and Nicieza created his look, mannerisms and dialogue for at least his first two appearances (obvious Deathstroke plagiarism aside).
But most of the defining characteristics of Deadpool as we know him today (the saracasm, breaking the 4th wall, etc.) came later - with Joe Kelly's run in the late '90s.
So...does Joe Kelly deserves co-creator credit -- because it was his writing that made the character truly popular - and he (not Liefeld) wrote some of the most enduring characteristics of the character?
Should Jim Lee be given co-creator status for Psylocke - since British Betsy Braddock with the purple hood is so radically different from the Japanese assassin we first meet in X-Men # 256-258 - and who later appeared in the X-Men movies?  

I guess my biggest issue is (if I am reading the article correctly) Roy Thomas up and said he helped create Wolverine in 2019 (45 years after the character hit the comics), and he had waited until after 2 of the 3 already credited creators had died and the third was 89 years old.  I'm not saying he did help create and I'm not saying he didn't but it isn't like Wolverine just "blew up" in the last couple years, so why didn't he claim to have created him back in the 80's or 90's?

Just talked to my friend Bill. He does Copper, but mostly Modern. 
500+ subs before this year: zero 9.9/10.0 results. 
Last 21 book sub: four 9.9 results. 
Take that for what you will. Wondering if 9.9 will be the next 9.8, especially with the pre-screen. 

Nice book!  And yours has the added benefit of not having a spine mis-wrap (unlike the newly christened sole "9.9"!)...
 
 
 

I don't know if it does or doesn't lead to more bias. My overall point is that the scenario you laid out is plausible, but equally plausible scenarios exist to explain why and how this copy ended up as the first 9.9 to be graded in close to 25 years. It's hard to ignore the great marketing opportunity to feed the modern 9.9/10.0 initiative by having a mega key from 1975 hit the 9.9 mark for the first time. It's a great way to usher in a new paradigm where 9.8 is no longer considered a sort of glass ceiling on submission expectations for moderns, coppers, or late bronze. Whether that's what is happening here or not, I don't think a tin foil hat is required to spot the marketing opportunity. 

Yes, I realize it's color rub over the staple but it's not a publisher defect, it's from the book being slid in and out from between other books, moving around in a box, etc.
The color is missing due to what happens after the manufacturing.
So it's either acceptable damage for a 9.9....or it's sloppy grading.
They won't say it's sloppy grading because of the press it's getting.  But that reason would make sense based on the examples we see in the QC thread for the past decade.

I appreciate your reluctance to go full tin foil hat, but I'm not sure your conclusion is supported by this breakdown.
The problem is, there's nothing mathematical or inevitable about hitting a 9.9 on a GSX 1, because the assigning of that grade is a subjective call made by humans. It's hard to ignore the myriad of incentives that could have potentially played a role in assigning a 9.9 to this particular copy at this particular time. So I don't think Occam's Razor applies here; it might just be a straight up 9.9, or it could just as easily be a marketing decision. There's no way to know for sure, so everyone is just going to believe what they will. 

The very concept of a 9.9 "pre-screen" makes no sense (is that really something they are going to be offering?) given the historically comically low numbers of 9.9s (and 10s) given.
Unless what they are tacitly admitting/saying is that their 9.9 grading has been too stingy in the past and they are now going to be a bit more generous with that grading going forward.

He didn't say that, did he?
That would mean either:
a)  He's admitting they didn't grade them correctly and/or held off giving deserved 9.9's
b)  They've lowered their standards now.

I know it was all the way back in the foggy days of 2022, but have we all forgotten the Clayton Crain acetate 9.9's and 10.0's? 
Whatever. Business as usual in comic land. Everyone go back to sleep. 

Well, I don't know now, do I?  The point is, I'm not making assumptions based on nothing except it "feeling" correct to me.  
(untrue, I am making an assumption based on it feeling correct to me, which is that CGC gives special consideration - including more favorable grading - to their biggest customers)  
The book has been submitted over 13,000 times across the years.  My suspicion - again, not based on personal knowledge - is that the number of these copies submitted by "not the largest dealers" greatly outnumbers the number of copies submitted by "the largest dealers."  
But who really knows?