Please grade this Comedy Comics #5! 0

[Point Five]

Here's a toughie... bright, tight book with almost pedigree-like freshness, but piece missing right edge FC, small color loss + tear left edge BC.    Thoughts?

[davet75]

Beautiful looking book Point Five, and a grading challenge.  A similar book and defect was discussed earlier.  This is a case where we need to be specific about what grade we are assigning:  Overstreet or CGC grade.  Missing pieces are a defect where these grading criteria diverge significantly.  By Overstreet criteria, a missing cover piece places the book in a grade no higher than VG.  However, CGC grades for the same defect have been assigned up to 6.0 for a 1/4" missing square piece and 5.5 and 5.0 for larger missing pieces.

That piece looks to be just under 1" x 0.5"

Overstreet technical grade: 3.5 - 4.0

CGC grade: 4.5 - 5.0  (looks like a 6.5 with two major defects)

Edited September 20, 2018 by davet75

[1950's war comics]

wow this looks like one straight out of Andy's grading contest and i believe it could still get a 4.0 - 5..0  ??

[Point Five]

46 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

wow this looks like one straight out of Andy's grading contest and i believe it could still get a 4.0 - 5..0  ??

I was thinking the same thing... a good one for the contests.   Really nice book with a few wonky defects.

 

[Gnasher]

Despite that missing pieces a 3.5 solid with a bump to 4.0

Edited September 24, 2018 by Gnasher

[FoggyNelson]

Very good in my opinion‼️‼️?