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Alright. Now you’re just showing off! Robots.

Love it!! A tough one for sure.

These are all fair points. Though not everyone (including me!) would do so well in a thirdgreenham grading contest. As @Bomber-Bob wrote in this thread, grading is not a pure analytical process, but then the implication is that grading must involve a holistic process, sizing up the book as a whole. That's fine, but such a process takes a lot of experience. How tan does interior tanning need to be... how long does the color breaking crease need to be... how much glue has to gum up the spine... to shift that grade from a 6.0 to a 5.5, or to a 4.0 conserved? And while just a 1/2 grade difference sounds good and within a narrow margin, even this small variation has dramatic effects on $$, especially at the grading breakpoints, e.g., for a book at 8.0, there's a lot of $$ at stake if that book goes from a 7.5 to an 8.5, and vice versa. One thing that would be a great service to our community is more transparency and more details in the grading notes, and (dare I say) free grading notes to all, which would help everyone get on the same page in understanding how a book arrives at its assigned grade.

Haha! Thanks Hudson! Though I didn't mean, who's next to praise my MM3? I meant, who's next to post a Fox book on this thread? It's been pretty quiet around here of late on this thread...

Wow! Those books are from the estate of Lloyd Jacquet!!! How cool!

Thanks everyone for the nice comments and likes on the Mystery Men 3! Ahem... who's next?????

Great book! And raw! You really ought to read the stories inside. Timeless original stuff.

Hey Lou! Post a Berk book why dontcha!! Inquiring minds want to know!

Such a fascinating thread. And frustrating. The quotes I harnessed above from other boardies in this thread nicely capture a lot of the ongoing issues and inconsistencies we face with third-party grading, and transcend the specific question of CGC vs. Company X. Here we have all sorts of seasoned collectors with hundreds of years of cumulative collecting experience among them, yet, for either CGC books or Company X books, none of us can (a) accurately describe the grading criteria, (b) accurately predict the grade a book will receive, or (c) rely on the often slim grading notes (esp. CGC) to inform their understanding. And (d) in some instances, even unrestored vs. restored vs. conserved cannot be guaranteed. As Tony points out, it might be that Company X is actually a more "accurate" grader than CGC. Or maybe not... but without an accepted gold standard with objective agreed-upon criteria, the boldly placed number in the top left corner of the slab remains a cipher, a moving target, a will o' the wisp, dust in the wind (as our books will one day become).

Great looking books!!

Really nice colors on that one. ?

Sheesh! This place has been so slow, it's like the lazy dog jumped over the quick fox! Let's get things back on track with this recent arrival:

A and update: Remaining books for sale @ 25% price reduction: Tales to Astonish #37, 3.5-4.0 (4th appearance Ant Man), was $85... NOW $64 Tales to Astonish #41, 3.0, was $60... NOW $45 Tales to Astonish #49, 5.0 (first Giant Man), was $120... NOW $90 Strange Tales #134, 7.0 (fantastic Watcher cover), was $55... NOW $41 Strange Tales #163, 6.5 (Steranko), was $20... NOW $15 Daredevil #9, 6.5 (Wally Wood), was $125... NOW $94 Daredevil #10, 5.5 (Wally Wood), was $36... NOW $27 Thanks for looking!!

Though crossing the finish line is always the hardest part!

Rivets: zero. Non-rivets: eight.

Achh! I just saw this thread. Kudos to @jhutton2 for such a bold gambit and spectacular sold-out sale! Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you snooze. That was me, snoozing away a chance to complete my run. Not that I could've competed with the likes of @Ricksneatstuff and @Comcav. Guess I'll just have to keep trolling those BINs on eBay...

Interesting perspective, Rick. Food for thought.

Yeah, probably the worst of the 73 covers. Interesting hypothesis about the gender swap. Actually makes a lot of sense. I’m glad I didn’t shell out a lot of $$ on that one.

I wish that strategy worked with my wife!!

One of my favorite Planets. Not sure why...

Very nice!

Meh. My other copy is a CGC 10.75 porcelain white pages. The “my stick is bigger than your stick” pathology has been the untidy demise of many a tyrant throughout history.

My new favorite Planet from late in the run! High cheekbones, a floating city, cyclopean egg martians, ethically compromised experiments, and brilliant colors all add up to that Planetary goodness.

Nice blues!