We also have a basketball game planned for 7 AM Saturday morning. Should have 8 or 10 people there.
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Originally Posted By: VintageComics
Originally Posted By: *spoon* Pontoon
Exactly when and where did CGC admit this?
It is fairly well known that CGC hammers light tan books just for being light tan, though. An otherwise NM book would be limited to 8.5 or 9.0 just for light tan pages, etc for the lower grades as well. They do have a "cap" (pun intended) that allows only certain poor page qualities into certain grades.
As they should.
Interestingly enough though, several years back I debated with some boardies in a thread about page quality being a factor in assigning the overall grade of a comic, and the majority said I was wrong for doing so.
They felt that two books with an identical state of cover presentation, but one with blazing white pages the other with tan pages should receive the same numerical page, and only be differentiated by the page quality notation.
It is fairly well known that CGC hammers light tan books just for being light tan, though. An otherwise NM book would be limited to 8.5 or 9.0 just for light tan pages, etc for the lower grades as well. They do have a "cap" (pun intended) that allows only certain poor page qualities into certain grades.
As they should.
Interestingly enough though, several years back I debated with some boardies in a thread about page quality being a factor in assigning the overall grade of a comic, and the majority said I was wrong for doing so.
They felt that two books with an identical state of cover presentation, but one with blazing white pages the other with tan pages should receive the same numerical page, and only be differentiated by the page quality notation.
Such utter tripe then, and utter tripe now.
Totally agree. Tanning to interior covers should be included in that category of fault as well.
It is fairly well known that CGC hammers light tan books just for being light tan, though. An otherwise NM book would be limited to 8.5 or 9.0 just for light tan pages, etc for the lower grades as well. They do have a "cap" (pun intended) that allows only certain poor page qualities into certain grades.
As they should.
Interestingly enough though, several years back I debated with some boardies in a thread about page quality being a factor in assigning the overall grade of a comic, and the majority said I was wrong for doing so.
They felt that two books with an identical state of cover presentation, but one with blazing white pages the other with tan pages should receive the same numerical page, and only be differentiated by the page quality notation.
Such utter tripe then, and utter tripe now.
Totally agree. Tanning to interior covers should be included in that category of fault as well.
I would agree if CGC was consistent with page color.
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Originally Posted By: VintageComics
So yes, if you want to use the word "hammer" for a 0.2, or a 0.5 (meaning the smallest possible) downgrade (if there is any at all) then I wonder what sort of superlative terminology you might use for a large downgrade? Super-duper- hammer? Rick-the-hammer? Hammer-time? Hammer squared?
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Maybe the word hammer doesn't mean what I think it does and the next time I am doing carpentry I will simply severely downgrade the nail into the woodwork.
It is fairly well known that CGC hammers light tan books just for being light tan, though. An otherwise NM book would be limited to 8.5 or 9.0 just for light tan pages, etc for the lower grades as well. They do have a "cap" (pun intended) that allows only certain poor page qualities into certain grades.
As they should.
Interestingly enough though, several years back I debated with some boardies in a thread about page quality being a factor in assigning the overall grade of a comic, and the majority said I was wrong for doing so.
They felt that two books with an identical state of cover presentation, but one with blazing white pages the other with tan pages should receive the same numerical page, and only be differentiated by the page quality notation.
