Point Five's 5th Annual Grading Contest: ROUND 4 BOOKS! 4 4

[Point Five]

Round 4, the final round! If I had an inspirational speech it would go here!

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

-- There are 4 books... well, I think you get the idea by now. You can copy/paste the below:

ROUND 4

11. Fight Comics #27  

12. True Love Pictorial #6  

13. Crime Mysteries #14 

14. Superman #17  

-- 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 Friday, March 15th 10 pm EST.

Good luck!   

 

Edited March 16 by Point Five

[Point Five]

11. Fight Comics #27

[graders notes]
light cover tanning
moderate creasing to cover
moderate spine stress lines to cover
very light pieces out to cover

[my notes]
This book is Qualified due to a cutout on the first interior page. Give me the QUALIFIED grade for this one, i.e. you can ignore the cutout inside. Just grade what you see as if it were Universal.

 

Edited March 14 by Point Five

[Point Five]

12. True Love Pictorial #6

[graders notes]
staple detached bottom of cover
light cover tanning
light spine splits to cover
light tears to cover
moderate creasing to cover
moderate spine stress lines to cover

Edited March 14 by Point Five

[Point Five]

13. Crime Mysteries #14

[graders notes]
light creasing to cover
light soiling on cover
light spine stress lines to cover

Edited March 14 by Point Five

[Point Five]

14. Superman #17

[graders notes]
staple detached top of back cover
multiple crease cover breaks color
staining to cover
tears to cover

[my notes]
Cover reflectivity seems dulled, like there's not a lot of gloss left.

Edited March 14 by Point Five

[Point Five]

There you go folks. Go forth and grade! Good luck!
 

 

[zzutak]

     

[grendelbo]

On 3/13/2024 at 8:35 PM, Point Five said:

If I had an inspirational speech it would go here!

 

 

 

[AJD]

On 3/14/2024 at 1:35 PM, Point Five said:

Round 4, the final round! If I had an inspirational speech it would go here!

Here's a nice understated one you could use.

 

Edited March 14 by AJD

[BriD.]

Grades in! 

[Lninefingers]

grades in

[Sandflea]

Hope I did what Mr. Miyagi says to do...

Grades in!  Best of luck everyone!  

[frozentundraguy]

Grades are in
 

[ADAMANTIUM]

Final Round Grades In!

Oh the middle of the pack! Middle of the pack! Most of the time it is like that clap, clap, clap! 

Congratulations to those who stayed unto the end  

[Point Five]

On 3/14/2024 at 9:11 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Congratulations to those who stayed unto the end  

We'll see how this last round shakes out, but for the first three rounds nearly everyone has played it through... that doesn't happen often. I appreciate it! 

 

[AJD]

On 3/15/2024 at 12:11 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Congratulations to those who stayed unto the end  

We few, we happy few, we band of graders.

[Point Five]

Let's do this update CGC Mike style --

So far, 15 participants have sent their grades. 

 

 

[misterrmystery]

Grades in!

[grendelbo]

I'll grade 'em soon. Been ogling that KC Action 1 that went up on HA. 

Spoiler

And trying to figure how it went up a grade from an 8.0 and if it's grade of 8.5 makes sense. 

 

[grendelbo]

Grades in.