HOM 185, Guess The CGC Grade

[nik]

Back cover is real pretty

 

[CJ]

If the back cover looks as good as the front I am saying 9.2

[Timulty]

9.0 to 9.2.

[nik]

Might as well go for this one also

[CJ]

9.0--to bad about upper left corner

[Timulty]

Say is that brown line due to scanner or is that actually on the comic?

[nik]

Scanner

[Timulty]

9.0 then though for some reason I want to lean on the 8.5 side of the grade.

[october]

185: 9.4

 

197: 9.0

[sterlingcomics]

nice 9.0+ books. Go for the BLOD!

[october]

9.0 to 9.2.

 

What are you seeing to knock it down to a VF/NM? Besides a hint of blunting at two of the corners, that cover is almost flawless.

[nik]

First one to be close

[october]

First one to be close

 

 

Now that I look again, the 185 probably got a 9.6. That is one sharp copy.

[nik]

BLOD

Has a nice ring to it

[Timulty]

Very minor spine creases. Bottom doesn't exactly look sharp enough to merit beyond 9.2. Now, I am not a pro-grader but when someone sells me a 9.4 and it is bronze age, I expect it to be nigh flawless. After that it is getting in esoteric criteria that I don't even want to approach.

[KingOfRulers]

185: 9.4

 

197: 9.0

[october]

Very minor spine creases. Bottom doesn't exactly look sharp enough to merit beyond 9.2. Now, I am not a pro-grader but when someone sells me a 9.4 and it is bronze age, I expect it to be nigh flawless. After that it is getting in esoteric criteria that I don't even want to approach.

 

If a 9.4 is flawless, what are the 9.6, 9.8, 9.9 and 10.0 grades for? Check the OSGG, 9.4s can have 2 or 3 spine creases with color break.

[Timulty]

I said nigh flawless. I also said NOT A PRO GRADER. I would rather err a lower grade than a higher, that's all.

[october]

I would rather err a lower grade than a higher, that's all.

 

 

Too bad more eBay sellers don't think the same way.

[Timulty]

Guess what? I am an ebay seller though most of what I sell is vertigo and mature DC before 86. I buy GA but if I were seller GA, I wouldn't be overgrading. See the "Lets grade some GA I am sick of moderns and common silver" thread. I pretty much rip a GA comic I own on that one.

 

I will tell you this, you picked the right books to own, in any grade. I have a great fondness of House of Mystery, House of Secret comics.