Get Marwood & I

trmoore54 waiting for the results table... Get Marwood & I waiting for the results table... ADAMANTIUM waiting for the results table... CGC Mike hard at work putting the results table together...

Anything less than and you're off the gig mark

I think he meant the overall results table. We're all excited to see where we are on it. I don't think anyone is unduly worried about it though.

I grew up with Andru. We all love the artists we grew up with I suppose. You should pop over to the Andru thread and post that. Spider-Variant Reggie would love to hear it.

You can't beat a bit of early Andru can you. I like the 10d behind the sticker too, minus its numbered top bit.

It could be done. In fact, I reckon half a million would do it. If I sell the Charltons, I'll only need to raise another £499,998.50.

I'm blind as a bat as a rule, but for some reason I can see a faint, hidden price stamp a mile away 🤓

No, sorry Len Miller. His LM 6d UK distribution stamp is just about visible on his chest.

Miller's there, if you look closely enough...

'Love' it!

Now, look at this picture below here. Has something in my life gone very wrong... ...or very right? After all, I could've collected comics that are actually worth something. In money, I mean. That seems to be a key preoccupation with the some, if not the many, in this hobby of ours. It's bad enough having boxes of Charlton UKPVs in the first instance, but two boxes of duplicates? Hmmmm OK, I've thought about it, and I've decided that this is a good thing.

Once again, not much I can do today. I've been stuck with a heavy cold for over a week now. Here's a few books that I spotted on the Bay, whilst aimlessly scouring this morning. A nine changed to a ten... ...a ten changed to a nine... ...a six versus a nine... ...and two five pee Marvel romance titles, which you don't often see, stamped five pee, by Tee and Pee. Yippee.

That's still pretty good going Andy. A one grade off average, taking everything into account, is really good. If you know how to grade, you get very close. From there on in, it's luck and, in the cases where you write an initial two grade range down, a coin toss

Hello all I'm just testing cut and paste tagging here. I've added all the original 109 participants, so don't worry if you have dropped out of the contest, or have already submitted your R3 grades. There was a little confusion at the start of the thread as to the deadline for your R3 submissions - it is: Tuesday October 31, 8:00 PM Eastern time Remember - the earlier you get your grades in, the easier it is for @CGC Mike to collate them. Good luck! @1Cool @2muchhorrorbusiness @AbsoluteCarnage @ADAMANTIUM @Ahsoka Tano Jedi Apprentice @AJD @apocalypse76 @ArcherC @Asianassassincomics @Axelrod @B3AST @batcollector @Batman Fett @bighairjer @boron @Brock @brumil190 @Cerebus3000 @ChrispyC66 @CJ Design @Cman429 @Cocomonkey @comicginger1789 @Comics4All @Crose87420 @Cushing Fan @davidtere @Deputy Dan @Doctor Dositheus @Dr. Ogie Porterhouse @EastEnd1 @ekaylor @Every Day A Story @F For Fake @FigaroToe @flashlites @frozentundraguy @GawkHawk @genrlzod @g-man @GradedGrails @Grendel72 @grendelbo @HighStakesComics @Howard Karpoff @Hudson @iXr184 @jas1vans @jbpez @jcjames @Jesse-Lee @Jfigs818 @John R @JohnH19 @JollyComics @JWKyle @Kramerica @Krismusic @KryptoMayor @Lninefingers @MatterEaterLad @mattn792 @Morganmi @Motor City Rob @Nearfall @ned @Nsschenks @Old Fashion PB and J @old_dano @Panda2 @paqart @pastandpresentcomics @Pickie @pmpknface @Point Five @Ride the Tiger @Ron C. @sagii @Sandflea @scburdet @silverseeker @skypinkblu @s-man @southern cross @spidermanbeyond @Stefan_W @Superman2006 @TC33 @TheApprentice @TheGeneral @thehumantorch @TheTallGuy @timfinz @Tom789 @topcat54 @topofthetotem @toro @trmoore54 @TTG @universal soldier @Warlord @WEBHEAD @WilliamLunt @Wipple @Withering Wind @Yorick @youfoundjake @zzutak

Put yourself in the shoes of some of the staff trying to manage this change Doug. It must be an enormous, extremely tedious, time consuming task and some of them may not even agree with the management-set principles, or the communication strategy. Speaking from experience, it doesn't pay to get too emotionally involved in these things. CGC are a private company, and they can operate how they please. All you can do is decide whether you want to be involved anymore as a paying customer. On the flip side, they will have to accept that they may lose previously engaged customers by changing things in this way, at this stage of the game. At the end of the day, it gets dark, and you've played your part with the feedback you've given. You've kicked the tyres, as they say, and you can't do anymore than that (unless you get very rich suddenly, and buy them out). Companies will always try to put themselves in the best possible light of course. One person's "thing's have evolved" is another person's "they got it wrong from the outset". I'd actually prefer for CGC to change course rather than stick with an ill judged strategy though, if that is what is happening here. My interest is how they are defining variants and reprints, as I have put a lot of clarifying effort into those areas down the years. I don't use the CGC service, and therefore the Registry, but I'd like to see CGC promote reasonable definitions as they are increasingly influential in the hobby and others will follow them and use their definitions. Would someone tag me when the final communication lands please?

Same here - 5 points made up of two bulls, two off by one and a 5.5 on the Prize to ruin it. I'm at 10 points so far, a one point off average. Not too bad seeing as I have no experience of grading Gold.

Quite right. I try to abstain from cherryade at least 24 hours prior to grading I'm off to the land of UK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs now gang. Good luck with your R2 scores. If Mike posts another five golds in R3, I say we storm the castle!

Think once. Think twice. Think: never change every single one of your grades that you set a few nights ago before submitting them to Mike. It'll probably be a mistake.

I don't think Mike has posted that anyone got 19 bulls and a score of zero yet He should wind us all up and say "So far 109 people have made a proper hash of it"

I'm getting Bale Batman voice again....