CGC Graded Kull the Conqueror #5 - what do you think?

[telerites]

Just got this book back last week and was curious what you thought without yet revealing the grade.

 

I called and there are no grader's notes and the page quality is white.

 

Thanks for your thoughts. No hidden agenda or rant - just curious.

 

I added some larger scans below

 

 

 

[etanick]

hard to grade an almost all white edged book from scans in my opinion. Any creases or spine ticks are virtually impossible to see but I am going to throw out a wag of 9.2

[Wilson3d]

My thoughts exactly - hard to tell how the spine is with the white boarder but still always fun to give it a shot. While etanick is probably correct, I will still post my initial thought of 9.4.

[telerites]

Thanks I added larger scans.

[Columbia Comics]

Its a 9.6

[ImperiusRex]

9.6. Due to slight bindery defect

[telerites]

Hopefully those scans work better, I'll post the actual grade later.

[seanfingh]

 

Looks like a 9.4

[etanick]

with better scans, I will go with 9.4

[miraclemet]

I like 9.4 with the bindry flare at both the top and bottom.

[etanick]

the only thing that can throw a monkey wrench into the high grade is the edge of the bc. I am seeing things that could be light stain but I think it is just the funky shade and not a stain.

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

9.4

[telerites]

the only thing that can throw a monkey wrench into the high grade is the edge of the bc. I am seeing things that could be light stain but I think it is just the funky shade and not a stain.

 

No stain that I can see in hand and again nothing noted by the graders.

[ROBTOTHEC]

Should be 9.2 with those corner dings.

[porky]

with the tough grading we've been hearing about recently, i'm going to go 9.0, with the graders calling corner dings instead of bindery defects

[NuffSaid57]

Just enough stress at corners for me to say 9.0/9.2

[etanick]

lets hope there are notes on the book to explain why it got a lower grades than the majority of guessers

 

otherwise, it will be just one of the head scratcher that can't be explain from just looking at the scans.

[telerites]

lets hope there are notes on the book to explain why it got a lower grades than the majority of guessers

 

otherwise, it will be just one of the head scratcher that can't be explain from just looking at the scans.

 

I called and there are no grader's notes.

[etanick]

bummer.

 

I have had a few head scratchder and each time that I cracked out the book, I saw things i didn't want to see....Each time I cracked a slab that thought CGC got it wrong, i got the bad news because it was something I missed. i am just not lucky enough to have CGC made a mistake on one of m book

[telerites]

This one was a head-scratcher for me - it is a solid book in hand but I can't deny I may have missed something. I thought maybe a stain on the interior or tear or something but nothing was noted.

 

That's not to say the grade assigned isn't accurate and I may be missing something or just have higher expectations than I should.

 

When I get home and off the IPhone, I'll post the grade and full CGC slab pic.