trmoore54

Cr*p shoot guesses submitted. As usual, really appreciate your (and Zzutak's help) efforts in this. Always fun. To the victors the spoils...

Black covers

Vintage!

Forgot this closed last night and just getting to this. (That makes 3 rounds in a row I forgot and didn't look at the reveal until the following day I must be losing it .) Same for me...my BEST ROUND yet!! 2 bulls, two ones (.2 off) and a 3 on the SW8 . Shocked frankly that got an 8.0...I'd sure be not happy if I was paying 8.0 money for that book. I like Kramerica and I'm sure many others could not relegate that above a 6.0 which is what I gave it. EDIT. Oops my math was off...4 points for the SW8 which gives me a 6...tied with ROUND 1 for my best round. Oh and BTW I felt the 6.0 for SW8 was generous (or perhaps rounding up to what CGC would grade as)...that defect is so bad/pronounced that I couldn't in all clear conscience grade/sell that book for more than a 4.0.

Guesses submitted...all tough rounds IMO...

Can anyone explain what relegates the Superman 50 to 8.0? Looks generally 9.0/plus to me. What are the issues. Apparently I am blind.

Just getting to the reveal. Was doing pretty good out of the gate...first 3 books .2 off = 3 points...4th book the Transformers I went 9.0 = 2 points and then got nose-punched on the Supe 50 went 9.4 for 4 points = total 9 points. Ugh. At least I didn't go double digit points. Congrats to anyone with a 6 or less on this round.

I typically settle quickly on 2 grades...for this round I had 3 or 4 possibilities/probabilities on some books...

Grades?? You mean guesses? Guesses in.

Just getting to this got home late last night. 6 points...one bullseye on the ASM 262 if my math is correct. I started the AV 10 at 8.0/8.5...and initially settled on 8.5. As I am a chronic under-grader, I bumped all my grades one grade...thus gave the AV 10 a 9.0. This worked out for me on 2 books and got me .2 closer...and negatively on one book the FM 13 and got me .2 more away and the AV 10 .5 more away. Pretty happy with this round...I'm usually pretty iffy on HG books especially beyond Silver Age. (If I would've left them as is would've been a 7 without the bullseye...)

Yeah...tough round...especially when I can't even find/see some of the grader's comments ...grades submitted.

GADZOOKS!! CONGRATS...what a beaut!!

I'll play.

Well you start with it's minimum 4.0/4.5...presents very nicely so I'm at 5.0/5.5...not thinking it warrants a 6.0. I always grade books as if they were my books and I were selling them and want to make sure I have a happy buyer on the other end.

No worse than a 2.0 IMO. Possible 2.5/3.0 depending on CGC's grading mood any particular day. A full back cover pic would be helpful. Imagine this book put forth for sale with all the pics as a 3.0 I don't think you'd get crazy pushback. I think 2.0/2.5 is a safe position.

Get some rest Mike...lol. Wish you the best. All good...CGC love to all. And CONGRATS to the winnahs!

My worst round by 1 point...ugh. Four rounds 7/4/7/8 = 26 double ugh. I guess I don't know how to grade the old GAs...had 5.0 in the toggle for the first 4 books but started at 6.0 on the OBIE and went with 6.5 for the GA bump...the GA bump always seems to enter my mind as I think many GAs I see are overgraded by .5 to a full point for seemingly that reason. Did manage a bullseye on the PEP. THX for the diversion/fun Mike/CGC. CONGRATS to the WINNERS and TOP SCORERS!!

Hardest round yet for me...usually I find it pretty easy to get to a 2 grade toggle...with this round I had reasons to consider a 4-grade range (includes .5s of course)...not in the running but wanting to finish as best as possible...

WOW! You could buy a gun pretty cheap in 1941...

Have you read Fredrik Backman's "Anxious People"? I highly recommend it...those who have read it will understand this tag post

Got same...7 points...

7 round for me...normally par or so for me but I had higher expectations...if I throw out the Supe/Lois book I'm at 4. Started off with a bullseye and then downhill from there...one off on two other books and then was at 6.0 for the My Secret Life book (1957) so off by 2 points but looks nicer especially when held up against the rest of the bunch (didn't even have a 5.5 toggle on that one only 6.0/6.5). I'll say it again...if I bought that Supe/Lois book as a 7.0 I'd be sending it back...

Had that one at 5.5...tried to go to 6.0 for a 1958 book but couldn't do it...

You're only "late" if you fail to submit grades at all...

I actually thought this round was harder than last round... We shall see. Grades submitted.