Popular Post TheGeneral Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 Thank you to Mike and the CGC team for another fun one! Mars76, JollyComics, davidtere and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy Steve Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 2/11/2023 at 8:00 PM, CGC Mike said: This round is closed. The reveal coming in a few, followed by the graders notes. I am told the results from CGC will be ready tomorrow. If I receive them by by 10:00 AM, I will post them in the morning. If not, they will be posted tomorrow evening. I have about 25 people's grades to record, so don't worry if you have not heard from me yet. Dang it. I forgot and missed it. mysterymachine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post F For Fake Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 Hahaha so every other round I’ve been staring at the pics and doing grades comparisons and really trying, and have been absolutely dogging it. This round I did on my phone in my car while waiting for my wife to leave Target, and I get three bullseyes. I’ve clearly been overthinking this stuff! flashlites, PeterPark, frozentundraguy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superman2006 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 4 points on the first 2 books for a score of 5 total (my usual). Thanks for another fun contest, Mike! JollyComics, Point Five, grendelbo and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Get Marwood & I Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 2/12/2023 at 3:05 AM, frozentundraguy said: My grades for this round. Not sure why I graded the Batman book so high, but it was my best round of the contest. Startling Comics #40 2.0 2 Strange Confessions #1 5.5 1 Fantastic Four #50 7.5 1 Batman #210 6.0 2 Captain Marvel #31 9.4 0 total 6 I got 6 points too this round and also - inexplicably, looking at it now in the slab - graded the Batman #210 far too high. In fact, it was my worst book of the competition, accounting for 3 of my overall 21 points. I got 4 bulls and 12 books one grade off - 12 points across 16 books. The other 4 books cost me 9 points. Oddly, they were the 'easier' ones. I enjoy these contests, and try to do as much as I can to support them, but I think you need two things to stand any chance of getting a prize: judgment, and luck. We don't hold these books in hand. Grading from images means you can't see inside, the surface wear that light shows, whether covers are attached, spines are split, whether creases are tears, etc. So the best you can hope for is to have enough grading sense and experience to get within a grade or two of CGC's final in hand grade (which itself may have been the average of three different graders assessments). Skill and experience will get you to that point, then it's all down to luck. How many times have you watched a football match when one side had 30 shots on goal and missed every one - hitting the bar, just wide, deflection, a pigeon got in the way - and the opposition had one shot wide, but which deflected in for a goal. It's why the phrase "We weren't supposed to win today" exists. Any one of my 12 'one grade off books' could have been a bull. In fact, if I had got a bullseye on every book, I'd have won. Heh heh. As others have said, this competition would be greatly enhanced by a member donation prize thread and I hope someone US based will offer to set that up next time. I've always made solid contributions to them, and that is where all the real fun lies as everyone gets to share in the camaraderie and has something to look forward to. That's just a suggestion for improving things though, and entirely separate to the well deserved recognition of all the hard work put in by Mike and those behind the scenes to keep the current winner takes all format on the road. Anyway, good luck to those near the top, as they now anxiously wait to see if they're in the running to win some financial assistance with their next submission @Yorick Yoz, unless you scored 1 or 0 that round, you owe me a grand mate. We did say a grand, didn't we? JollyComics, mysterymachine, Morganmi and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 01TheDude Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 2/11/2023 at 6:02 PM, CGC Mike said: On 2/9/2023 at 10:43 AM, 01TheDude said: Startling Comics #40 3.5 Strange Confessions #1 6.0 Fantastic Four #50 8.0 Batman #210 5.0 Captain Marvel #31 9.0 Point Five, JollyComics, flashlites and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashlites Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 (edited) On 2/12/2023 at 7:42 AM, 01TheDude said: Startling Comics #40 3.5 Strange Confessions #1 6.0 Fantastic Four #50 8.0 Batman #210 5.0 Captain Marvel #31 9.0 I considered a 5.5 for Batman but sadly went with a 6.0, I never considered anything higher than 2.0 for Startling. I also considered a 7.5 for the FF comic but fortuitously went with 7.0 (decent looking book), I too went with 6.0 on the Strange Confessions book. Captain Marvel I actually considered at 9.6 but went with 9.4 in the end. Edited February 12, 2023 by flashlites grendelbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F For Fake Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 2/12/2023 at 8:42 AM, 01TheDude said: Startling Comics #40 3.5 Strange Confessions #1 6.0 Fantastic Four #50 8.0 Batman #210 5.0 Captain Marvel #31 9.0 I also had the FF as an 8. My other miss was the strange confessions, which I had as a 4. The colors were nice but that huge bend was just too much for me. Oh well, can’t get em all! Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterymachine Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Startling Comics #40 3.0 3.0 0 Strange Confessions #1 6.0 5.0 2 Fantastic Four #50 7.5 7.0 1 Batman #210 5.5 5.0 1 Captain Marvel #31 9.4 9.4 0 This was my best round. I found that I was grading too harshly on Golden Age. But adding that extra point on silver age burned my biscuits. Thanks for the work you put into the contests Mike. See you next time! F For Fake, JollyComics, grendelbo and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda2 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 I thought the Captain Marvel had a number of colour breaking spine ticks - and also thought the loss of ink on the right top of the ad on the back would affect the grade. Guess I was wrong😳. Fun though! Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post universal soldier Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 Quote Startling Comics #40 - 2.0 Strange Confessions #1 - 5.5 Fantastic Four #50 - 7.5 Batman #210 - 5.0 Captain Marvel #31 - 9.4 Second guessing this round cost me 3 points as I could have had a 1. Seems like I'm not the only one that struggles with low grade Golden age books. I had this as my initial thoughts Startling Comics #40 - 2.5 Strange Confessions #1 - 5.0 Fantastic Four #50 - 7.0 Happy with the 4 for this round though. JollyComics, grendelbo, skypinkblu and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post musicmeta Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 Best round for me. 1 bullseye. 6 points total I believe. skypinkblu, F For Fake, JollyComics and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sledgehammer Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 (edited) On 2/12/2023 at 8:38 AM, flashlites said: I considered a 5.5 for Batman but sadly went with a 6.0, I never considered anything higher than 2.0 for Startling. I also considered a 7.5 for the FF comic but fortuitously went with 7.0 (decent looking book), I too went with 6.0 on the Strange Confessions book. Captain Marvel I actually considered at 9.6 but went with 9.4 in the end. Did I write this for you? Exactly the same thoughts. Edited February 12, 2023 by sledgehammer flashlites and Point Five 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sledgehammer Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 I did check a few other high grade Captain Marvels to see if that color loss on the back was standard. flashlites 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mars76 Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 Startling Comics #40 3.0 0 Strange Confessions #1 6.5 3 Fantastic Four #50 8.5 3 Batman #210 5.0 0 Captain Marvel #31 9.4 0 I originally had confessions at a 5.5 but then I started thinking about the Showcase #94 that was graded at a 5.5 and i thought this book looked much nicer than that one so i bumped it up to a 6.5. I originally had FF 50 at an 8.0 but I gave it a bump at the last minute. I still think it looks nicer than a 7.0. All of my grading is done on my phone so I miss some details sometimes. Congrats to the top place finishers🍻 Point Five, JollyComics, grendelbo and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post davidtere Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 Thank you Mike for all of the hard work. As always this contest is a lot of fun. Thanks for CGC for sponsoring it. Congratulations to the finalists. Good Luck. flashlites, Mars76, grendelbo and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Point Five Posted February 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 2/12/2023 at 11:41 AM, Mars76 said: I originally had confessions at a 5.5 but then I started thinking about the Showcase #94 that was graded at a 5.5 and i thought this book looked much nicer than that one so i bumped it up to a 6.5. I feel like it rarely goes well when you use previous books to determine another book's grade. Even if it's the same batch, and the same presumed graders... I dunno, it just never seems to work out. Particularly when you have these weird outlier books like the Startling #40... you're on thin ice IMO if you 'recalibrate' your grading to make those books make sense. (I always advise people not to do it in these contests... then I do it myself anyway and it bombs... then I go right back to advising others not to do it.) Mars76, F For Fake, sledgehammer and 3 others 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morganmi Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Not bad But not great. The Batman book was my undoing. Kinda knew I was being too lenient on it but thems the breaks. 4 points this round and Thanks Mike for putting on another fun contest. Startling Comics #40 --- 2.5 Strange Confessions #1 --- 5.0 Fantastic Four #50 --- 7.5 Batman #210 --- 6.0 Captain Marvel #31 --- 9.4 flashlites, Point Five and grendelbo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 2/11/2023 at 6:14 PM, Point Five said: Honestly, after seeing the Startling #40 result, I feel like *this* book in my collection is really begging for a new trip to Sarasota. Hide contents Looks like a 5.0 compared to the grades seen in this contest! Point Five and flashlites 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 2/12/2023 at 12:39 AM, Get Marwood & I said: Yoz, unless you scored 1 or 0 that round, you owe me a grand mate. We did say a grand, didn't we? I got your prize right here, mate! Here's my tanked scores (don't I get the Grading Guide for finishing last?): Startling Comics #40 - 2.5 Strange Confessions #1 - 3.5 (yea, it's a nice clean copy, but those color breaking creases...) Fantastic Four #50 - 7.0 Batman #210 - 3.0 (those darn color breaking creases ) Captain Marvel #31 - 9.0 (does anyone else see the two stains on the back cover? Maybe it's on my monitor... ) Point Five and JollyComics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
