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^Right, of course I meant Lucy not you as the unreliable narrator. ; )

<<origin of Snoopy (really)>> Dunno, looks like fake news to me. Elephants love beagles, right? But cool book!

I'd say in the 1.5 to 1.8 range - really not sure how hard to hit for all the missing corners. Also matters whether "art" is affected which I can't tell for sure from the images. It doesn't look like the chunks reach the art panels. If only the cover was missing the chunk from br corner, I'd be with you at 2.0 assuming the paper's in decent shape. And like the seller on e bay I would grade it low just to avoid argument from unhappy buyer, although when I consciously undergrade I'll overcharge for the assigned grade by at least a bit.

WTTB. Generally just saying "take" means the book is yours if not already sold (taken) before your post. Unless like sometimes happens you bump a 4-year old thread, then all bets are off.

I've always been afraid of poop As you should be. This some kind of Johnny Depp joke?

And that's an important lesson for me because I tend to focus on certain defects at certain grade levels and need to remember to take the whole book into account. Are there offsetting attributes? Like a rich glossy cover. That would offset some of the ding I would normally give that reading crease. CGC takes the whole book into account. And that really is the right way to fully and accurately grade a book. Arguably, the "right" way to grade a book would be to assign the grade that most knowledgeable* collectors would assign, using reasonably strict grading standards commonly held by collectors. "Knowledgeable" is of course open to argument. It's not in the spirit of a contest hosted and sponsored by CGC (and done very well imo), but we could make a good argument that another way to see who "won" is to score the exact same contest and WAGs, but with the "correct" grade being the grade assigned by the most players, and not the final grade assigned by CGC (i.e. mode grade).

War action was my biggest miss also. I had it at 5.0. In past Green Eggs contests, Shin @sckao prepared a SCOREBOARD that rated all competitors for "best" based on lowest avg. error, i.e. most consistent for all 20 books (use the exact same number used in this contest, 1 pt for every grading increment wrong). The winner of lowest avg error pretty much was always off by AT MOST 2 grades. The scoring in Green Eggs @thirdgreenham was very different (highest score wins, 5 pts for bull, 3 pts if miss by 1, and I forget the rest, maybe minus 1 if off by 3 or more grades)? If WA 2 was your biggest miss (add 2 pts), I suspect you'd have been at (or at least near) the top of that scoring of lowest avg. error rate, pretty solid grading to consistently be that close.

Methods of cope: - Next time I'm gonna grade it what I think it is, and not try to guess what CGC would grade it. - There's no way that book deserved that grade! - There's no way that book was that bad, must've been a bad day for the grader. - What the heck is going on with my computer (or phone), the graphics card must be wonky or something. - Next time I'm waiting, if I sleep on it maybe will be better. - Next time no waiting, just gonna go with my first impression, gut instinct is really the best way. - It's not like when I die St Peter will hold it against me that I really sucked as a grader that time. - That contest was probably rigged. Others?

Ouch. !

Yeah, they were great deals. Got a set of Marvel Mystery myself (just thru issue #20), among a few other GA volumes.

Andy (who, along with Shin, ran the Green Eggs grading contest for a decade), had a good deal of fun messing with the contestants, via his choice of emojis and comments he included in each PM that confirmed "grades recorded." I still have nightmares.

I read somewhere that WW wears falsies.

I've seen a lot of criticism of the color choices in the Batman Omnibus (lowbrow me wasn't put off as much as most fans apparently are) - don't know about the Deadman omni, I've got the floppy set of that and never saw the Omni.

2.5 Assuming paper & cover bend but don't break (not sure what precisely is "brittle").

Me too - neither one looked FN to me.

And those aspiring to a spot in the top 10 feel a little better about their prospects.

you already fessed up, you're at 7 with me, sucka.

Pretty sure that each step wrong counts as "1" not 1/2. So guess at 5.0, book ends up 5.5, means add 1 to your score. Agree about the Bats, the chip out of top edge on right side had my max grade at 5.5, even though it's a nice looking book overall. But I didn't register the defect that looks like tear you noticed.

Very sad, Neal's always been in my top few favorite penciller/artists. I even became a collector of e.g. Deadman and some Batman (DC, I know) solely because he was the artist or drew the cover. He will be missed. I even bought some Tomahawk! Below's a picture of the INRODUCTION of this TPB in Mr Sig's quote above. Mr. Adams had a sense of humor - Neal suggested "Three Cows Shot Me Down" as title of Avengers #93, as he explains here.

Me too. 4.5

VF 8.0

Nice batch. Possibly @speedcake has need.

Are these like actual people?

Oh well.. I hardly come around these parts and when I do its in PGM forum. Frustrating the signup thread was posted on a completely different board. Last year I missed it even though I visit here daily, because I was only checking out the BUY/SELL and Bronze, SIlver, and Golden Age subforums. I think before CGC-Mike took it over last year, the Contest [in olden times was called the Green Eggs, I think] was only listed in GENERAL, and people who frequented the Buddy Spare a Grade forum never saw when new contest was getting started. Don't really know what my point is, probably just in the mood to pontificate.

Dibbs or second dibbs is time honored and no shame should attach imo. They even have a word for it.