This is a NM 9.4??

[Guest]

Check out this CGC 9.4 Baby Huey #1 at Heritage and tell me if you think a modern book with this kind of spine and cover wear would grade a 9.4?

 

http://www.heritagecomics.com/common/auctions/viewlot.asp?s=804&l=8273&zoom=1&SID=3AD5979750EC419EAECFA397751ADE96

 

I've benefitted from CGC's inconsistent grading sometimes as well, but I really do wish that they graded Silver and Golden Age books the same way they grade modern ones. I think it definitley hurts their credibility a bit. I'm thrilled that CGC exists and I'm not trying to dump on them, but the truth is the truth.

[notch_top]

Spine looks pretty tight to me.

 

The BRC and middle back cover have some problems however.

 

 

[PovertyRow]

Spine looks pretty tight to me…BRC and middle back cover have some problems however.

 

I agree. I see one spine crease but overall the spine looks fine (hey! I'm a double-entedre poet!)

 

That bit at the bottom corner - looks like a whack. Don't give me no flack! (ditto)

 

Hmmm - I posted a few scans of my Jungle type books - got a ton of views and only 1 reply on grade. Maybe I will pick the best of my Jungle/Jumbo/Sheena type books and submit them. They may come out the highest graded cause not a lot have been! And that's no sin (ditto ditto bo ditto banna fanna fo ditto).

 

OK - I shall stop now. Not sure how.

[underthebigw]

Yeah, and the ULC

 

And the ding and creases at the center of the top edge, etc.

 

As a modern book, I bet not even an 8.0.

 

I'd guess this, especially the last flaw, is an example of post grading damage to a book while being slabbed. I had one dealer swear to me a couple of years ago that he sent in a book, it received a grade in the mid 9's, but somehow in being handled after grading, the back cover was accidentally sliced by a plastic edge (he guessed) and still encapsulated with the same grade. From what I was told, he and CGC eventually worked out some sort of compensation. Given the shear numbers of books being handled, I'd imagine some small percentage of a percentage are bound to be damaged in repeated handling. I just can't believe the GA/Modern discrepancy is this bad. Or can I.

[NativeNewYorker]

That 3/8" crease above the "y" in "Baby" looks like a result of removing / inserting the book from / into a mylar.

 

Ted

[underthebigw]

Yeah, probably. My conspiracy theory above was just an attempt to try to explain the massive discrepancy between the grade assigned and the books actual condition. I just can't imagine an experience grader giving this a 9.4 and this was the only possible explanation I could come up with, no matter how implausible.

Pretty egregious error.

 

paul