Point Five's 5th Annual Grading Contest: ROUND 1 BOOKS! 5 5

[Point Five]

And we're off!

-- If you're just joining us, please go to the signup thread to read the full rules and sign up. Still a few slots left but closing Friday.

-- The books have not been pressed or cleaned since these raw scans were taken.

-- There are 3 books in this round; all are now in CGC slabs. Send me a PM with your grades (make the title "Grading Contest: [your username]") and I'll record them. Send just one PM with all of your grades and add to it for future rounds; no changing of grades. You can copy/paste the below:

ROUND 1

1. Action Comics #61

2. Detective Comics #411

3. Suzie #56

-- I will post the full grading notes with each book. (This can be misleading... sometimes the notes use harsher language than I might use to describe a flaw, and on the other hand there can be many flaws that the graders don't mention at all. So I tend to advise weighing what you see  more heavily than the notes, except when they describe flaws not visible.)

-- Scoring is as follows:
Bullseye = 5 points
1 grade off = 3 points
2 grades off = 1 point
3 or more grades off = -1 point
(so remember: with this contest, the higher score the better.)

-- Once more with feeling: do not use the census for this contest.

-- Grades are due Saturday, March 9th 10 pm EST.

Good luck!   

Jon

 

Edited March 10 by Point Five

[Point Five]

1. Action Comics #61

[graders notes]
detached cover 
piece out spine
tear left top of front cover
creasing to cover

[my note]
Cover wrap is detached from interior at the single staple. (Covers are still attached to each other.)
 

Edited March 8 by Point Five

[Point Five]

2. Detective Comics #411

[graders notes]
light spine stress lines to cover
very light creasing to cover

 

Edited March 8 by Point Five

[Point Five]

3. Suzie Comics #56

[graders notes]
staple detached bottom of front cover
staple detached top of cover
heavy creasing to cover
heavy spine stress lines to cover
moderate tears to cover
very light pieces out to cover
 

Edited March 8 by Point Five

[Point Five]

Round 1 books are posted! Clicking on the scans should enlarge them.

Good luck!

 

[Point Five]

One more thing: do not discuss the books themselves in these contest threads. Asking questions about condition or talking about defects are off the table.

But: stressing about your grading, bragging about your grading, "grades sent", cat gifs, dog gifs, assorted anxieties, general feelings of impending doom? All fair game.  

 

[Lninefingers]

Grades in. 

Thanks for doing this. Big fun.

[Sandflea]

Grades sent...

[Albert Thurgood]

Grades in!

[Get Marwood & I]

[comicginger1789]

Wish I had that Action #61...lovely book even with the flaws. Did I grade it correctly? Probably not but I drooled over it (not on it tho).

[zzutak]

[BriD.]

Grades are in! Sure I hit every one  

 

[Cocomonkey]

Grades in!

[misterrmystery]

Grades in.

[NY Roadkill]

Grades in - first timer

[Mars76]

Grades in! 😬

[ADAMANTIUM]

Grades in  

[Point Five]

Here's a random gif I came across while cleaning. Definitely don't read anything into it.  
 

[grendelbo]

Just about all of my free time today has been occupied with an abandoned dog I found this morning. 

Grades in by the deadline tomorrow. 

Anyone want a lab/pit (maybe) mix and wanna swing by ABQ to pick him up?