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    Recent CGC PULP purchases.

    in Pulp Magazines

    Posted

    I've always loved PULP covers but its always been in that shadowy unknown world of where is a pulp's place in the market?

    The Pulp genre has now been given a leg up in the collecting world in my view, with the advent of CGC deciding to grade them. This of course may inflate the market BUT I do believe it will give some assurance to potential collectors.

    I've always admired the risque and salacious covers, the horror element and let's face it...the downright superb artwork on some pulps.

    Now that there is some sort of benchmark on their condition I really feel enthusiastic on finally collecting them.

    I have no interest in cracking them because obviously it's basically all text within BUT I will enjoy collecting them purely for the cover artwork.

    Anyone else jumping on the Pulp bandwagon?

    Here is my first one.....

     

     

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    Point Five's 5th Annual Grading Contest: SIGNUP THREAD! Closed!

    in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?

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    1. WolverineX

    2. thehumantorch

    3. Wipple

    4. frozentundraguy

    5. grendelbo

    6. Albert_Thurgood

    7. Get Marwood & I

    8. AJD

    9. scburdet

    10. Cocomonkey

    11. Lninefingers

    12. comicginger1789

    13. Mars76

    14. misterrmystery

    15. C. Spaulding

    16. Carpendaddy

    17. Matt1982

    18. Ray Monroe

    19. jbpez

    20. BriD.

    21. topcat54 

    22. Tom789

    23. flashlites

    24. ADAMANTIUM

    25. tmac100

    26. Darwination

    27. Bmattioli86 

    28. Sandflea

    29. pmpknface

    30. Panda2

    31. TheTallGuy

    32. paqart

    33. jcjames

    34. Paul

    Show your KRACKED out & LIBERATED Gold Books (RELEASE THE KRAKEN)

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    On 3/6/2024 at 11:10 PM, Point Five said:

    I missed this before. Oh man, that sucks!

    I wonder if it's conceivable that the cover was attached when graded, but has a super-weak spine that came apart between the one-two punch of encapsulation and shifting around in transit. I've had a few similar (but smaller & less critical) problems with recent slabs.

     

    Sorry Jon, I'm not buying that potential excuse or explanation.

    Even if what you say is correct, then...

    1. Revise the encapsulation process.

    2. How come a totally brittle cover was not factored into the grade?

    I honestly believe that any slab should be viewed as a Schroedinger's cat scenario.

    Or to paraphrase Forrest Hump...

    'A slab is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna git'.

    I don't say this lightly. Years ago when I bought SA I stopped cracking because of the stuff I found within.

    I understand humans make mistakes, but this slabbing business has to be laid on trust, and personally I don't have any confidence in any slab I crack.

    It's a complete lottery.

    To be blunt, the graders...or a proportion of them couldn't grade a Sandwich.

    Sad, alarming...but true IMHO.

    Show your KRACKED out & LIBERATED Gold Books (RELEASE THE KRAKEN)

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    I said at the beginning of this thread I would be cracking books and sharing some of the quirks found within. To date there hasn't been much to report in the way of that.

    I have to stress I love cracking books for reading material, as long as the price is right and logical for me. The majority of my small collection which are gems and which carry some value stay in the slab, and will remain there.

    I will also state FTR, I am not a CGC basher. I recognise the stability and the value they have brought to the hobby, and I think that resto detection is probably their biggest plus albeit there seems to be constant debate and inconsistency as to what actually constitutes a restored book within their criteria. 

    I think CGC's greatest gift are these wonderful forums which empower community, knowledge and policing within the hobby.

    Having said all that this book is a doozy. The person who graded this book does not know how to grade, period. They either need to be re-assigned or retrained....simple as that.

    At best this book would be a 1.5. Personally I would give it a 1.0. Some would call it a 0.5.

    I would also add, and you'll have to take my word for it, I know how to crack a book efficiently, speedily and safely i.e. without causing damage or distress to the book.

    The cover of this book has wonderful colours, the gubbins or guts of the book is probably in the Fine range...however I do not expect a book assigned a 3.0 grade to have a detached and fully split cover. FULLY SPLIT!!

    Not attached to the book in any way. To add insult to injury, the cover of front and back is BRITTLE.

    Really astounding mis-grade. IMO Two whole grades out of whack.  :facepalm:  

     

     

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