Official "Books that should never have been graded in the first place" thread

[Shield]

Let's see some scans/pics of books you know should never have been submitted to CGC. I'll start, with my gorgeous copy of Katy Keene #1 from 1983. No, it shouldn't have ever been graded....

 

 

In all fairness I did send in 5 copies of this book, and 3 of them came back 9.6's.

 

[Shield]

And the label....

[valiantman]

I found this one totally by accident while reviewing the CGC census...

 

Ronald McDonald # 3 (1971 Charlton Comics) - CGC graded 0.5. Census report

[Susanville]

I found this one totally by accident while reviewing the CGC census...

 

Ronald McDonald # 3 (1971 Charlton Comics) - CGC graded 0.5. Census report

 

What if it's from the "Ray Kroc" collection???

[Comicdave]

Here's one I came across while searching for CGC comics

Fear 20

 

Sorry Comicsheet. I don't know if you had this slabbed or not, but this is a good example of a comic that shouldn't be slabbed. Anything less than a 9.4 for this comic is not worth slabbing.

[fantastic_four]

I found this one totally by accident while reviewing the CGC census...

 

Ronald McDonald # 3 (1971 Charlton Comics) - CGC graded 0.5. Census report

 

Steve Borock has said before that there are some Poors in the census that were graded back when CGC first started during some kind of testing of the grading and encapsulation process...if I remember correctly, there was a Superman 75 from 1993 graded 0.5 in the census that he specifically noted was a test book which looks like it has been removed now. It's possible that Ronald McDonald was another test book that's still hanging in there.

[rob_react]

bump because this could actually be a pretty funny thread

[joe_collector]

[CosmicBob]

AF #15 Image that I won't make everyone reload

 

I thought they only gave the Qualified Grade to 9.0s and above?

[valiantman]

Steve Borock has said before that there are some Poors in the census that were graded back when CGC first started during some kind of testing of the grading and encapsulation process...if I remember correctly, there was a Superman 75 from 1993 graded 0.5 in the census that he specifically noted was a test book which looks like it has been removed now.

Not Superman 75, but Adventures of Superman # 500... 20 copies at 0.5 for testing.

(As of the 8/27/2003 census, they're still in there.)

 

No word from Steve on the Ronald McDonald, though!

[rob_react]

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It spreads like cancer