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

[Point Five]

11. Fight Comics #27

Looks like it might have squeaked out a 4.5 IMO? but nah.
 

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[Point Five]

12. True Love Pictorial #6  

I had this at 3.5 in hand and most folks were somewhere around there too. Structure is pretty tight... strict grading on this one.
 

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[Point Five]

13. Crime Mysteries #14 

Grades varied widely on this one! Nice midgrade copy.

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[Point Five]

14. Superman #17  

Yay!

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[Point Five]

Thanks so much guys, I had a blast.

Final results thread coming up!

 

[flashlites]

Well a very big thanks to Point Five!!! He gets 3 dancing bananas   (that's a big deal over in the Flash thread) Thanks a bunch, I am in need of recalibrating .

[Sandflea]

Thanks, Point Five!  Had a great time in a great contest! 

[frozentundraguy]

Thanks for hosting this great contest.

[grendelbo]

Man I thought I was giving that Crime Mysteries a bump when I graded it a 5.5. Wouldn't have thought it'd get a 6.0.

The Fight looked right at that "can it get a Qualified grade range." 4.0 seemed right.

The Supe I bumped from a technical 2.0/2.5 to a 3.0 because I'm a sucker for yeller covers and because of the Hitler/Toro cover. B*sterds.

[Lninefingers]

Same. I kept squinting, but couldn’t get to 6.0. 

[frozentundraguy]

True Love Pictorial threw me for a huge loss, as I had it at 5.0, otherwise just one grade off for the other 3 books for a total of 8 points this round. I initially had Sups at 2.5 but changed it to a 2.0 at the last minute.

[jcjames]

Wow!

Three bulls and one -1 for the final round! 

Thank you for hosting this contest/beatdown @Point Five  

I'll get'em next time! 

 

[thehumantorch]

Thanks Jon.  Great contest as always.

[Mars76]

I had the crime mysteries at a 4.0. Too much creasing for me to give it a higher than a 5.0.

[thehumantorch]

On 3/15/2024 at 7:58 PM, Darwination said:

Grades in.  Promptly and with supreme care

Date night, I'm sure everything will be fine

I remember date night, back when I was a young whipper snipper.  3 pounds of dates and I was in the can all night.

[Darwination]

One bullseye and the rest undergraded.  Crime Mysteries by a whole point It's purdy, tho

Thanks for a fun contest, Point Five!

 

[Point Five]

On 3/15/2024 at 10:44 PM, Mars76 said:

I had the crime mysteries at a 4.0. Too much creasing for me to give it a higher than a 5.0.

Some of you were pretty harsh on that poor Crime Mysteries!   

There's wear on/around the spine, true, but the book has positives... the rest of the cover looks clean and sharp. To me this is one of those forest-for-the-trees type things... someone not super plugged into grading like we are would consider this a *really* well-preserved 1950s comic book.   

 

[Matt1982]

I was right in there on all of them, mostly by comparing them to actual grades from other books earlier in the contest. I hit the bull on Fight and Crime Mysteries, off by one on True Love (2.5) and Superman (2.0).

I’ll take it for sure. Thanks point five for organizing, and thanks to the rest of you for the perfect gifs!

[comicginger1789]

On 3/15/2024 at 8:23 PM, Point Five said:

Waiting on grades from 
 

@Carpendaddy

@comicginger1789

@Darwination

@pmpknface

 

I was travelling out of country and missed the last round. Rats