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OWL card

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Norrin_Radd

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Anyone know where I can get or print out an OWL card? I don't understand why there isn't one in the Overstreet Grading Guide...

 

You can order one from Overstreet. It's all a marketing ploy.

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Anyone know where I can get or print out an OWL card? I don't understand why there isn't one in the Overstreet Grading Guide...

 

You can order one from Overstreet. It's all a marketing ploy.

 

WTF. A guide every year, a grading guide, and now the card is separate? You would think with the 11 billion ads they have in their publications they could afford to put the OWL levels in somewhere without trying to milk us for more money. 893censored-thumb.gifChristo_pull_hair.gif

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Anyone know where I can get or print out an OWL card? I don't understand why there isn't one in the Overstreet Grading Guide...

 

I've seen scans of them here before, someone will post one before ling. If not then I'll scan one tonight when I get home.

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Anyone know where I can get or print out an OWL card? I don't understand why there isn't one in the Overstreet Grading Guide...

 

I've seen scans of them here before, someone will post one before ling. If not then I'll scan one tonight when I get home.

 

I would appreciate it, thanks! thumbsup2.gif

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Aces

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Ace's OWL card!

 

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It's from the old grading guide and has the 100 point system on the back.

Seen it share of use... smirk.gif

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Anyone know where I can get or print out an OWL card? I don't understand why there isn't one in the Overstreet Grading Guide...

 

You can order one from Overstreet. It's all a marketing ploy.

 

WTF. A guide every year, a grading guide, and now the card is separate? You would think with the 11 billion ads they have in their publications they could afford to put the OWL levels in somewhere without trying to milk us for more money. 893censored-thumb.gifChristo_pull_hair.gif

 

The OWL card is obsolete. OWL levels are no longer part of (current) OS grading guide nomenclature.

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Anyone know where I can get or print out an OWL card? I don't understand why there isn't one in the Overstreet Grading Guide...

 

You can order one from Overstreet. It's all a marketing ploy.

 

WTF. A guide every year, a grading guide, and now the card is separate? You would think with the 11 billion ads they have in their publications they could afford to put the OWL levels in somewhere without trying to milk us for more money. 893censored-thumb.gifChristo_pull_hair.gif

 

The OWL card is obsolete. OWL levels are no longer part of (current) OS grading guide nomenclature.

 

They are referenced, by OWL number, in every grade in my guide (second edition). confused-smiley-013.gif If they are obsolete, does anyone have examples of the current page whiteness designations?

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Anyone know where I can get or print out an OWL card? I don't understand why there isn't one in the Overstreet Grading Guide...

 

You can order one from Overstreet. It's all a marketing ploy.

 

WTF. A guide every year, a grading guide, and now the card is separate? You would think with the 11 billion ads they have in their publications they could afford to put the OWL levels in somewhere without trying to milk us for more money. 893censored-thumb.gifChristo_pull_hair.gif

 

The OWL card is obsolete. OWL levels are no longer part of (current) OS grading guide nomenclature.

 

They are referenced, by OWL number, in every grade in my guide (second edition). confused-smiley-013.gif If they are obsolete, does anyone have examples of the current page whiteness designations?

 

Which grading guide do you have? What's the copyright date?

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Anyone know where I can get or print out an OWL card? I don't understand why there isn't one in the Overstreet Grading Guide...

 

You can order one from Overstreet. It's all a marketing ploy.

 

WTF. A guide every year, a grading guide, and now the card is separate? You would think with the 11 billion ads they have in their publications they could afford to put the OWL levels in somewhere without trying to milk us for more money. 893censored-thumb.gifChristo_pull_hair.gif

 

The OWL card is obsolete. OWL levels are no longer part of (current) OS grading guide nomenclature.

 

They are referenced, by OWL number, in every grade in my guide (second edition). confused-smiley-013.gif If they are obsolete, does anyone have examples of the current page whiteness designations?

 

Which grading guide do you have? What's the copyright date?

 

OGG 2nd edition 2003.

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det...=glance&s=books

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Which grading guide do you have? What's the copyright date?

 

OGG 2nd edition 2003.

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det...=glance&s=books

 

No kidding? I don't remember seeing OWL numbers in the book at all and I've read the thing cover to cover so many times it's falling apart. I must be losing my mind. foreheadslap.gif

 

I will post a pic in a few minutes...the OWL deisgnation on each book is right below the "Hidden Defects" heading.

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Well I'll be damned. I never paid attention to that. I always just read the descriptions written in the grading sections that spoke in terms of "white" and "off-white" and "cream" and so on. I wonder why OS kept the OWL numbers and dropped the OWL card? I believe that Overstreet even said somewhere (maybe even somewhere in the OGG) that the OWL card is now obsolete. I'll have to look when I get home.

 

Anyway, thanks for setting me straight on that Andy. flowerred.gif

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Surely to god, you guys don't think a scanned OWL card is accurate, do you?

I can't believe what I'm seeing in this thread. screwy.gif

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Surely to god, you guys don't think a scanned OWL card is accurate, do you?

I can't believe what I'm seeing in this thread. screwy.gif

 

I was thinking just the same, but it should be ok to use once printed out! grin.gifscrewy.gif

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Surely to god, you guys don't think a scanned OWL card is accurate, do you?

I can't believe what I'm seeing in this thread. screwy.gif

 

I was thinking just the same, but it should be ok to use once printed out! grin.gifscrewy.gif

 

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Surely to god, you guys don't think a scanned OWL card is accurate, do you?

I can't believe what I'm seeing in this thread. screwy.gif

 

True, there are color variations among monitors so what I'm seeing isn't necessarily what anyone else is seeing.

 

But not all comic book paper starts out at the same color even in the same era, so there's really no one OWL card that will work for all comics anyway. That's been Steve Borock's biggest complaint about the OWL card every time I've seen or heard him mention it.

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