what percentage of bronze books look right?

[blowout]

.......seems to me as i look through my bronze age collection that nearly all the books either have a back cover wrapping round the front, staples mis-aligned, books mis-cut, off-centred...or some other printer type flaw......................

 

......am i just really bad at finding quality books or are most bronze age books so shodily put together...................

 

..........even the so-called high grade cgc books on ebay seem to suffer from this...........

[blowout]

....doesn't seem to be a problem with gold/ silver books..............why just the bronze age............

[comicinvestor-migration]

Virtually none of my Bronze Age books have this problem, and the reason a majority of CGC books seem to have it is that it's easier to get high-grades with a white spine than it is with a black one. Since CGC doesn't downgrade for printing defects, it's a no-brainer that these are highly submitted.

 

Now as for why your personal collection has printing defects, if you bought them off the news stand, I have no clue. I have stacks and stacks of Bronze and I can count the "big white border" comics on my hands.

[blowout]

........i do have some decent looking books............

 

.......but no, i didn't buy any of the ones i have now from the news-stand, the ones i had as a kid are long gone................

 

........the worst problem, maybe 50% of the books i have display is that annoying diagonal strip of colour above the marvel comics group logo..........

[hogations]

"Since CGC doesn't downgrade for printing defects, it's a no-brainer that these are highly submitted."

 

I'm sure they do, but maybe not to the degree some collectors prefer. Off-centered covers bother some collectors a lot more than others, and some will downgrade significantly. It should be interesting to see how the new Overstreet guide will categorize this defect. I don't think the first grading guide covered this defect enough (or they were way off base).

 

[OldGuy]

"I'm sure they do, but maybe not to the degree some collectors prefer."

 

How can you be sure? What do you base this on?

[hogations]

I met Steve at a Paradise comic convention in Toronto a while ago (maybe his first time in Toronto?) and he told me they grade comics from different eras differently - one factor being the printing/binding process from the particular era.

 

I don't know how they factor off-centering into the grade, but they will knock down a book if it has bindery tears on the corners (which to me are more significant than off-centering). I also submitted a 2 copies of Marvel Chillers #1 a while time ago - one came back a 9.4 and the other a 9.2 noting 'slight mis-cut'. The 9.2 had a better spine and corners than the 9.4 so I'm guessing the downgrade came from the mis-cut.

[OldGuy]

It sure would be nice if CGC would just tell us their standards insted of making us have to guess.

[hogations]

"It sure would be nice if CGC would just tell us their standards insted of making us have to guess."

 

Doubtful they will....your avatar image is mesmerizing, not that I'm complaining

[Fabfrank]

Oldguy- I gotta tell you. One of the main reasons I read these posts is just to look at your icon. Now, back to the thread.