LMFAO!

[Bonds25]

Check out LOT #6485 in the Heritage Signature auction for March. A 9.0??

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check out that back cover!

[Rickdogg]

Ummm can u provide a link?

[seank]

Space Action #1, with what looks like a water stain on the back.

[Bonds25]

I would, but then everyone would know my username and bids. Heritage needs to get that sheot fixed!

 

Go to Heritage.com, type in lot #6485 (or Space Action #1), and check it out! The back cover looks like a POS.

[Rickdogg]

http://www.heritagecomics.com/common/auctions/viewlot.asp?s=806&l=6485&sid=0F80EE36F5304D339B654B85FFD40EBF

[Bonds25]

So, whaddya think? A 9.0?

[ArAich]

What a freakin' joke...I have had to fight for a 8.0 on some books that looked a whole lot better than this book does...

This grade is a little too out of whack....

[Rickdogg]

Definitely not a 9.0. Would modern get a 9.0 with the same defects?

[ArAich]

Would modern get a 9.0 with the same defects?

 

The answer is all too clear....

[OldGuy]

"Heritage needs to get that sheot fixed!"

 

They have a lot more important things to fix then their web page. Have you not seen enough proof yet to understand that Heritage gets special treatment from CGC on grading? Stop acting surprised and start to expect it, it's easier to take it that way.

[ninanina]

So what. Now we have 3 grades. Overstreet, CGC and Heritage. Now I'm really confused. I think we need a show like 60 minutes to get this all straightened out once and for all.

[ninanina]

Oh yeah, almost forget. There's CGC Golden Age and CGC Silver/Bronze Age and CGC Modern Age. That makes 5 different grading systems in existence.

[wormboy]

Ridiculous!

 

But, at least they show you what you're gonna get.Can you imagine if there was no back scan and that piece showed up?

[ubiquiti]

yeah, but thats kind of a moot point compared to the "alleged" collusion going on here.

[hammer-migration]

Just imagine what it must have looked like BEFORE it was cleaned!!!!

[ArAich]

......and pressed.

[Guest]

looks like a foot print on the back. A modern like that would grade no higher than VG+.

[Ron_Nasty]

Can't Grade Consistently.

[Lockjaw]

A modern that looked like that book would get a grade that a comic mauled by a lion would get...a 4.0-5.5 if you were lucky. Sheesh, I sold an ASM 300 9.0 for what many would consider a song...and it had a fairly damage free cover and corners (some damage to the corners, no problem admitting that), the only major flaws were a series of small spine stress marks on the back cover that broke color, and there were no stains/scratches/scuff marks--so my ASM 300 gets a 9.0, but that book also gets a 9.0....OY!!

 

I LOVE CGC (I actually enjoy submitting POS modern books like USM 33-36, etc.), but c'mon Steve...that book was not graded correctly, and quality control the day it was graded must have been on vacation.

 

Wow, I would kill to get a 9.0 on some of my moderns that only had a fraction of the damage that book shows. Being realistic, I know some of my Jonah Hex's with much less damage (mostly a rounded corner/some spine stress marks) would be lucky to clear an 8.5, if I was LUCKY they would get a 9.2-9.4 (hence the reason I am not going to grade them for selling on ebay, maybe when I come into money I will get them graded for my own pleasure).

 

So far CGC has done a SUPERB job grading my books, but I am starting to understand why people have issues with CGC (I did not thrown in the word superb to be a brown-noser, just pointing out that they pretty much nailed the grades on ALL the moderns I have sent in).

 

Edited to add: After viewing the humongous scan...I now feel that the book is not a 4.0-5.5, BUT it is no better than Fine-/Fine at BEST. No way a modern would get a 9.0 looking like that particular comic.

[hammer-migration]

Christopher, Please note your usage of the trademarked word "HENCE" as being used by permission (once you secure such to use the term) of Araich. I would check the words "albeit" and "ergo" periodically as well as their unsecured use may, at any time, also eventually fall under the same possible trademark infringement. Just a heads up.