Adam Lui

You know that you leave footprints because of the "Last Visitors" section right

It's okay you can deny it but you're not the first (even if a hater instead of a fan) to follow me around, I was just stating an observation didn't mean to embarrass sorry sir

I suspect you have it bookmarked because you cannot resist engaging me, how else are you visiting my profile so frequently

Then how come you kept visiting my profile on the other days?

Yes you and a few others visit my profile often I noticed, so you guys are following me like my thousands of followers on other sites

You clicked my profile and promptly replied to my latest post therefore you followed me to this thread...

U ok @Galen130 ?? Don't do that I received a titanium implant due to an eye injury it's not a comfortable procedure to recover from

Well you left a footprint on my profile is how I figured it out (how else did you appear in my thread so fast)

Yes those 353 results are from "cgccomics.com/boards" which is the URL of this board

Ohhh I recognize you now you're following me around I see

What playing cards? I have been playing cards all night incidentally (the French game of Baccarat, James Bond's game of choice)

So as you can see, members who joined 12 years before you have been calling it "crooked" because naturally it is not centered and crooked means off-center

In response to a miswrap:

That's not true, 353 others have (you just joined yesterday how could you even know):

You are suggesting other graders the same way, no one's disagreeing that CGC's not..

IDK who Borock is but if you are referring to CGC then I already stated I agree with ldarkseid that his suspicions are true (CGC's not most graders as originally stated)

I don't understand what you're saying, because it's miswrapped it doesn't appear crooked to you? So if a human manually made it slanted it would..?

A miswrapped cover creates a crooked appearance thus lowering its appeal and less negligible the more slanted it is, especially when combined with other manufacturing defects such as off-center staples (let alone the handling ones)

Perhaps I didn't explain profit clear enough? The formua is P = R - X Here is P = R - X as a baseline $1000 = $2000 - $1000 Here is P = R - X where R increases but X remains constant $2000 = $3000 - $1000 X is the cost of CGC giving out policy to factor age. Since it costs nothing, it remained constant while increased demand drove revenue upwards thereby increasing profit

Meltdowns? I don't understand...?

It's always possible they do but more likely just a company policy dictated by executives/stakeholders given to waged employees

Heritage's standards are most definitely clearly not CGC's (I completely believe LDarkseid1's suspicion CGC's factors age). You quoted me saying others don't factor age, so I proved it with Heritage as an example. Visit any other auction site and you will notice something similar Achieving higher grades more easily after submission creates more demand among GA collectors who want to resell at higher prices, boosting CGC's popularity and increasing revenue. Profit = revenue - expenditures so the latter remaining constant (since one would assume they don't pay a grader more to grade higher) makes the profit difference larger

Here are Heritage's standards: https://comics.ha.com/tutorial/comics-grading.s?show=comicdefinitions See any mention of factoring age into grading? Now read their explanation of scarcity of comics: Golden Age comics (1941-1952): Surviving comic books would number from less than 100 to several thousand copies of each issue. Near Mint to Mint copies are a little more common but are still relatively scarce, with only a dozen or so copies in this grade existing of any particular issue. Exceptions would be recent warehouse finds of most Dell comics (6-100 copies, but usually 30 or less), and Harvey comics (1950s-1970s) surfacing. Due to low paper quality of the late 1940s and 1950s, many comics from this period are rare in Near Mint to Mint condition. Most remaining copies are VF or less. Browning of paper could be a problem. So they are explaining that, BECAUSE of the paper quality in older books, NM is rarely achievable. (For them to factor age they would've stated "Regardless of low paper quality")

I wasn't knocking you, just CGC. The age of a comic is not taken into consideration by most graders, revealing their clear motive to be less strict for more profit. As a reminder, here's their grading scale: As you can see, 9.8 is the highest grade that allows for negligible manufacturing defects. As mentioned already, however, off-center staples AND off-center cover (to the point the DC logo is literally touching the edge) = hardly negligible (if it were only one or the other then it's negligible because not as glaringly noticeable) Combine that with the multiple ticks + wear along the right edge and "negligible" becomes impossible to most graders, making it 9.6 tops.... But as stated, you got extremely lucky that someone was probably having a good day or was a fan of the title/era. He even gave it WHITE when there it's clearly tan. Unless of course this is a regular occurrence where older comics are treated differently, in which case their grading scale is highly flawed because 9.8 should mean exactly what it says on the tin.... negligible defects (both handling and manufacturing yet this one has a lot combined) without accounting for age (since it is not explicitly stated as a factor), as low-grade GA's already demanded higher prices prior to CGC's existence, so it inflates it even MORE if they're truly factoring age as you claim

@LDarkseid1 Not knocking your comic because I love it too, but just can't believe CGC hands out 9.8's when several spine ticks exist + staples are off-center + the cover is crooked. You got lucky if you were the submitter!