Guess the Grade: X-Men #101

[inconceivable]

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.

 

This may seem a little self-serving (ok a lot self-serving), but another scan of this book is available in the CGC case. Please ignore the price. I am not attempting to peddle my books on the grading forum

 

Dan

http://www.pedigreecomics.com/detail.php?issue_id=2940

[Sal]

again. no blunting on this book that i can see. no blunting.

 

i swear you have to shout to be heard around here sometimes

[bullseye]

not saying the grade can't be higher, as it obviously is, i am fairly new to grading and use a guide when i look at books, due to the lack of me getting off my hiney to send in comics for grading conrgats on the grade though

[Kermit the frog]

congrats, that's a very nice grade you've got there...!!!

[Tango 'n Cash]

This may seem a little self-serving (ok a lot self-serving), but another scan of this book is available in the CGC case. Please ignore the price. I am not attempting to peddle my books on the grading forum

 

 

Ummm, okay.

[sterlingcomics]

lucky grade there...

[micmack]

Gives me hope on some of my other books....