AwesomeSauce

Great looking copy!! 9.2 - 9.4 IMO

Kind of impossible to say, because you cropped it.

4.0 - 4.5 IMO ... due to the tape-pull and staining

Looks like 7.5 IMO

I now understand. Cool. Thanks!

Hmmmm ... looking at the back cover, I'm wondering if this book has been trimmed. What do other's think?

6.5 - 7.0 IMO

This is a nice looking book! It falls in the 7.0 - 7.5 range IMO

6.0 - 6.5

Looks like a 2.0 - 2.5 to me

7.0 - 7.5 IMO this book looks really good - - flat spine, a little soiled on back cover, stress lines are not too prominent, no glaring color breaks

You're kidding, right?

Now I understand, and couldn't agree more. Thanks, Lazyboy!!

Can someone who knows please explain to me the exact meaning of this quote?

Thank you for breaking it down for me!! Your reply is quite reassuring. In the end, it's simply my opinion. However, when it comes to comics, I tend to be this irrational perfectionist. Most of the time, I realize that I have absolutely zero idea what the heck I'm even talking about. I guess that's why I use the boards for feedback. Your answer(s) truly sooth any nit picky paranoia I may have about issues like this one. Thanks for your time!

Thanks for your thoughts on this topic. I now understand, better, the issue at hand. I am definitely not a grader, so I really might be expressing MY opinion of the comic's actual grade. I trust CGCs grading system! As long as the slab has not been tampered with, I have no choice but to accept the comic as having earned the 9.4 grade on the blue label. Today, you've taught me a lot. You've especially opened my eyes to the fact that 9.4s DO have a range of flaws (which is why they're not graded higher), and that some of these flaws, if present, may not be ones that are acceptable to my tastes.

I'm perplexed. Two weeks ago, I bought a CGC graded and slabbed comic off of ebay. It is a 9.4 with Off-White Pages. When the comic arrived, though, it was graded a 9.4, but did not look like a 9.4. It looked to be a lower grade. My questions are: 1) Should I be concerned? 2) Is there a way to tell if the slab has been tampered with and the comic inside replaced with another, lower grade comic of the same issue? 3) If I send the comic in to CGC to be reholdered (it is right now in an older blue slab), is it likely that CGC may change the grade to a lower grade, if it doesn't look up to par? 4) Has this ever happened to anyone else. I'm curious to know. Well, thanks for any input you may have on this topic. I look forward to hearing your responses.

For my submissions, it's almost always taken 10 days to show up on My Submissions page.

Got it. Thanks!

I'm not sure. What exactly is Legacy numbering?

I might be, if I knew what legacy numbering was. Please explain.

As a hypothetical example, if a CGC graded ASM comic has an issue number of 23 but on the slab it says Amazing Spider-Man 736 what does that indicate?

I am trying to choose between two CGC graded comics of the same issue. The first is a 9.6 the second a 9.4. The 9.4 has great centering! However the 9.6 is off centered, with white spilling over from the spine wrap around to the front cover. I know centering is important to the aesthetics of the slabbed comic, but how much consideration should one give to good centering over slightly higher grade?

Thanks! You've helped, because I had absolutely no clue.

I have grown a quite sizable collection of CGC graded comics. How would I go about insuring them through an insurance company in case of fire or flood?