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

On 4/13/2024 at 6:17 PM, CGC Mike said:

Very small, very light spine stress lines

Black covers 

On 5/1/2024 at 10:16 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Bit of good news though - CGC have announced that they'll be grading buckets in the future. 

Vintage! 

On 4/30/2024 at 5:19 PM, Kramerica said:

2 Bulls and 5 points. It's against my religion for a book with both rusty staples in the process of migrating to get anything above a 6.0/6.5. 

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.

On 4/26/2024 at 7:39 AM, TSwift25 said:

Gosh that was a hard round. I think I changed my grades on the JLA and Superman at least three times.

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.

On 2/14/2024 at 6:32 PM, CGC Mike said:

pastandpresentcomics pointed out that I gave him a 6.5 in my results post instead the 6.0 grade he gave the last book.  He still has 4 points and is the first place winner, but I thought I would let everyone know that I made a clerical error which I have edited.  

 

 

 

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... 

On 2/4/2024 at 6:50 PM, CGC Mike said:

Top staple detached from cover

Multiple stains cover

 

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

On 2/6/2024 at 7:33 PM, scburdet said:

without doing the math, my best round. 2 bullseyes & all the rest within 1 grade. Not a great endorsement of using my brain to do thinking.

 

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

On 2/6/2024 at 6:32 PM, JollyComics said:

CGC Mike gave me this emoji -    I knew it has a doom spelling so I ended up with 7 points with no bullseye.

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... 

On 2/6/2024 at 5:23 PM, zzutak said:

Book #13 (Lois Lane #5) is criminally overgraded. 

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

On 2/6/2024 at 6:49 AM, Cat said:

Sorry for being late! 

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.