Guess the Grade: X-Men #101

[inconceivable]

Hi all I thought I would let you guess the grade of this X-Men #101 that went to CGC using the onsite grading at Wizard LA. Andy helped me and is first-class in terms of customer service. Book has been picked up by Doug Schmell and will be on pedigree soon.

 

Large front and back scans also included:

Large X-Men #101 Front

Large X-Men #101 Back

 

 

Have fun

 

Dan

[verygoodplus]

9.2

[bullseye]

falls right into OS 6.0 because of blunting, nnot exactly sure if the overall nice appearance of the book would raise it, but that's what i would give it if it were my copy with the flaws in it.

[arexcrooke]

falls right into OS 6.0 because of blunting, nnot exactly sure if the overall nice appearance of the book would raise it, but that's what i would give it if it were my copy with the flaws in it.

Anyway, 9.0

[nik]

I see a strong 9.2, possible 9.4.

 

and Bullseye if you think that falls in the 6.0 range, your aim is off a lot

[Stoneheart]

I would say 8.5 because of the blunting and the crease or whatever that is on the right side 3" up by cyclops head and the back looks a tad dirty......

[Foolkiller]

9.0

[Sal]

i'ma overgrade this one to a 9.4, creases be damned.

 

back covers always look dirty on scans. always. well, 99% of the time, but that's close enough for gubmit work

[Aces]

9.2

[bullseye]

6.0 is the first grade to allow blunting, i am just going strictly by the book, with no sense of what the book looks like, but i have also seen much higher grades with blunting, just wanted to state that i am fairly new to grading comics, so i had to actually go off the stl guide which puts blunting at a 6.0

[nik]

So what are the grades Dan

[inconceivable]

So what are the grades Dan

 

Oops sorry. I was going to wait till I could look at my overstreet regarding blunting and why the X-Men #101 did not have it. But this one got a 9.4. For the record I thought it was a 9.2 (because of the non-blunting corner thing).

 

Dan

[sterlingcomics]

9.2

[sterlingcomics]

So what are the grades Dan

 

Oops sorry. I was going to wait till I could look at my overstreet regarding blunting and why the X-Men #101 did not have it. But this one got a 9.4. For the record I thought it was a 9.2 (because of the non-blunting corner thing).

 

Dan

 

If this was a DC mystery book being graded it would have received a 9.0

[bobel]

8.5

[nik]

8.5

 

It graded at a 9.4

[Sal]

i'ma overgrade this one to a 9.4, creases be damned.

 

back covers always look dirty on scans. always. well, 99% of the time, but that's close enough for gubmit work

 

bingo. baby.

 

i'm not sure what you people are talking about re; blunting. i don't see blunting. i see shadows

[Kermit the frog]

I see a strong 9.2, possible 9.4.

 

and Bullseye if you think that falls in the 6.0 range, your aim is off a lot

 

 

this is a nice copie...quite possibly 9.0 to 9.2

 

regards

[toro]

Wow,,,a 9.4, good for you, I was guessing a 9.0 at best!

 

Congrates!

[jbud73]

6.0 is the first grade to allow blunting, i am just going strictly by the book, with no sense of what the book looks like, but i have also seen much higher grades with blunting, just wanted to state that i am fairly new to grading comics, so i had to actually go off the stl guide which puts blunting at a 6.0

 

While that is true it does not mean that every book with a blunted corner can grade no higher than 6.0. What it does mean is that the book has a defect that is not allowable in a certain grade and is nocked down for that - it is not however knocked down to the first acceptible grade where the defect can be present.

 

So this book structurally might have been a 9.6 and they dock it .2 for the corner. Comic books do not exhibit defects uniformly - that is all 6.0s don't have the same defects, all 9.4s don't either - though they have a majority of defects in common. Working from the ground up. Lets take a book that exhibits all the defects of a VG (4.0) BUT has exceptional gloss of a NM copy. The creases and spine wear are still there, but the gloss was all retained. While you can't grade the book 9.4, the VG book could be bumped up to a 5.0 due to excellent gloss and eye appeal. This is why the OSGG puts a number of books with varying defects in there. They could easily do 10 books for every grade from 0.5 on up to 10.0 and there would still be tonnes of books that do not exactly resemble the examples they used.

 

This is why grading is still SUBJECTIVE CGC or not CGC.

 

Looking at the X-men 101, the spine is really really sharp from back and front -this loks like a 9.6 spine. There is no surface wear to speak of, but there are minor defects in the bottom two corners, hence the 9.4. Always easier to do this after the fact hahaha.