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On 5/28/2022 at 9:32 AM, davet75 said:

Wow, @SkOw hovered the thread...

If you mean snorted them all up, I think it's a double-oh. ; )

On 5/25/2022 at 6:59 PM, ThothAmon said:

Keep it up Sharon!  (If I were half as busy as Sharon I’d be four times busier than I am.)

Nice variation on the python quote.

On 5/25/2022 at 12:15 AM, fishbone said:

Current runs:

AF15, ASM 1-  ( whatever it’s at today) plus annuals and all early cross-overs

FF 1-100

ROM full run plus annuals

Past runs, most of which are still relatively intact:

Superman 1-20

Action 1-100 ( Supes covers only)

Batman 1-20

Detective 27-37 ( Batman covers only)

Yowzah!

Man of discriminating tastes, pretty serious stuff.  And eclectic, I've got (& read) at least the first 20 Rom (which leaves what, another 55 issues?) but I still can't guess why that's there.

Also, you dabble in any non superhero stuff?

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

On 5/22/2022 at 12:13 AM, Readcomix said:

Peanuts #12 VG final issue; origin of Snoopy (really) $40

<<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.

On 5/14/2022 at 11:49 PM, Slayt2 said:

Still available?  Very interested 

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.

On 5/13/2022 at 12:10 AM, lizards2 said:

On 5/12/2022 at 10:35 PM, speedcake said:

On 5/12/2022 at 10:33 PM, lizards2 said:

Nice night of the walking turd pick-up.

I've always been afraid of poop

As you should be.

This some kind of Johnny Depp joke?

On 5/11/2022 at 10:03 PM, flashlites said:

On 5/11/2022 at 9:53 PM, Point Five said:

I know what you mean, but other than the crease the War Action looks like a pretty sharp book; rich colors, crisp edges and almost no color loss at all. I bet it’s nice and glossy in hand. 5.5 was my first thought too, but I gave it a nudge for those qualities.

 

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).

On 5/11/2022 at 9:24 PM, frozentundraguy said:

On 5/11/2022 at 7:16 PM, sledgehammer said:

Six points, and three of them came on the war action. I called it very good plus. Not a bad way to finish. Looking forward to the next one.

🙏

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. !

On 5/3/2022 at 12:08 AM, Jim Corrigan said:

Four Masterworks have a new home!  Thanks, Tim!

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

On 5/1/2022 at 7:16 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Considering the emoji I saw in that email, I seriously doubt that.  More likely I missed them all by at least 10 grades. 

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.

On 5/2/2022 at 2:46 PM, lizards2 said:

Books are here, and boy are they sexy!  

I read somewhere that WW wears falsies.

On 5/2/2022 at 2:50 PM, NoMan said:

What's the best Neil Adams' Omnibus kinda book with his Batman and Deadman stories. Color, not Black and white?

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").

On 4/30/2022 at 8:09 AM, Sauce Dog said:

whoo top 35 baby! The Hawkman and Secret Wars messed me up, I had em pegged for 5.0/5.5 - 2 points lower than they actually graded. So basically this contest will help you all figure out who to buy raw books from if you are looking for a great deal

 

Me too - neither one looked FN to me.

On 4/29/2022 at 11:58 PM, toro said:

A good round for me.

 

It would have been better if I had actually remembered to submit the grades to Mike. 

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

On 4/29/2022 at 8:49 PM, kav said:

ftfy

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

On 4/29/2022 at 7:14 PM, trmoore54 said:

Pretty happy with ROUND 1.  No bullseyes but .5 off on books 1/2/3 and 5.  Interesting on the BAT 248 book 4...is that not a bottom edge tear all the way through the book (??!!).  Had the book around 6.0/6.5 and dropped down on that.

And all my .5 grade differentials were on the over side not the under.  Interesting...if I'm computing accurately I'm at 3.5

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.

On 4/23/2022 at 11:41 PM, Februus said:

4.5 here

Me too. 4.5

VF 8.0

Nice batch.

Possibly @speedcake has need.