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Include me please Thank you

Pending back cover scan

Incidentally I would have graded X-Men 101 & Howard the Duck 1 9.4 also if not for the extent of that bottom right corner crease on both books. But I believe from reading comments that a lot of people didn't notice the corner creases which are kind of faint I would say so a 9.4 is totally reasonable but even without the corner crease I still don't know where CGC got 9.6 on that Howard the Duck 1. Aside from the Marvel Spotlight 5 that one is probably the second most confusing grade to me. Can anyone imagine the luck of that submitter? You start out with a book that is borderline even worth grading and end up with a $350 book!

I haven't read all the posts in this thread so this may have already been commented on but did anyone notice that the X-Men 101 and the Howard the Duck 1 were very similar in condition but one was 9.0 and the other 9.6? My guess is the grader missed the corner crease in the bottom right corner of the 9.6 but it's funny because it is the exact same defect that brought the X-men 101 down to 9.0 which is the grade that I think most people think Howard the Duck 1 should have gotten. Out of the 20 books presented the one that still confuses me the most and I still haven't read anything that clarifies it much is the 4.0 on the Marvel Spotlight 5. I have looked at that book multiple times trying to justify that grade and I still can't do it. I realize it is an "ugly" copy but that usually isn't as significant a factor in determining grade. I have seen many "ugly" books in much higher grades including 9.8. How many times have you seen 9.8's with multiple spine ticks, bad centering, and color rub? There are always plenty of gorgeous examples as well as ugly ones for every grade but they still get the same grade. People made reference to the amount of foxing on the book but I have seen excessive foxing on books that get 6-6.5 grades with similar structure. Look at the War Action 2 from the 4th round, it has what I would consider to be a major amount of foxing and is in a lesser condition structurally than the Marvel Spotlight 5 but it got a reasonable grade. I actually think the War Action 2 is a 5.5 but 6.0 is reasonable. To me anything below 5.0 is not reasonable for the Marvel Spotlight 5 book. With a defect like foxing once you have more than a moderate amount it shouldn't cause the grade to drop any further and with the structure of the book being mid-grade I think grading the book at the bottom of that range to account for it's overall lack of eye appeal would put it no lower than a 5.0. Those are my thoughts, I would love to hear what other people think as long as it is something more in depth than just how ugly the book looks because we can all see that for ourselves.

I have two comments on Round 3: 1. On the Howard the Duck 1 I definitely see a faint color breaking crease in the bottom right corner of the front cover which would max the grade out at 9.0 along with the other minor defects. 2. I am still confused by the Marvel Spotlight 5 grade. Can any of the experienced graders in this forum help me understand why this book was graded a 4.0? I feel that I am a fairly experienced grader myself and I can't see this book lower than 5.0. What am I missing? I see in the results that most people were within one grade of the CGC grade so I must be missing something.

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I bought a beautiful book from Cory that was shipped very quickly, packaged well, and actually nicer than described so I am very pleased. I would definitely buy again from him.

That's funny you should say that because I actually held out as long as I could hoping someone would do the same thing for me but every time I looked it was still there!