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9.9 and 10
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In my experience, the key difference between a perfect-looking 9.8 and a 9.9/10 is the corners.  The right corners have to be sharp (obviously), but the left corners on the folded side are the much trickier side to get right.  The cover can often have tiny little tears that are perfectly acceptable in 9.8 but preclude a book from a 9.9+ grade.  This is a big reason books with thicker stock or other special materials on their covers tend to do well.  Panini Press tends to use nice covers, hence a high concentration of 9.9's.  Books sporting metal covers also tend to do well.  I've found the corners are key. 

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You also run the risk of letting graders handle the book. I sent an absolutely perfect Simpson’s comic #1 I thought may be a 10.0, at least a 9.9, and it came back a 9.8 which I was confused. Then I looked at it closely in the case and saw a corner now had some white so it must have gotten lightly rubbed or knicked during the grading process. 👎.

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2 minutes ago, Jasanity said:

You also run the risk of letting graders handle the book. I sent an absolutely perfect Simpson’s comic #1 I thought may be a 10.0, at least a 9.9, and it came back a 9.8 which I was confused. Then I looked at it closely in the case and saw a corner now had some white so it must have gotten lightly rubbed or knicked during the grading process. 👎.

That's exactly right. Just the act of shipping, sorting, handling and encapsulating comics can cause flaws...  :cry:

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I've seen comics that were damaged from such things as: taking them out of the bag, putting them back into the bag, poking at the spine, dirty fingers, sweaty hands, using them as a fly-swatter (yep, that's right!), dropping the comic, forcing the comic into too small of a space, opening the cover and having it fall off...

 

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6 hours ago, comicquant said:

New Mutants 98 has 17,354 graded copies on the census with only 13 9.9's and a single 10.  The chances of you getting either are so small its better to just accept you will likely never get one.  

 

And according to that census, someone sent in a horrible 1.5 to get graded...why????

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I've gotten 9.9s and owned a couple of 10s. They look immaculate. That being said, the 9.9s do have small non-color break spine bumps that I've seen on 9.8s, they can still have OW/W pages and miswraps but usually not all 3. The difference is the 9.9s edges, corners, and centering/wraps tend to look better. 

Keep in mind these graders see thousands of the same copy and many of them are moderns. To grant a copy 9.9 or 10 status it must look flawlessly better than any of the other copies they've come across.  Or just catch them on a good day.

Has anyone tried slipping a c-note into the centerfold with a 10.0 written on it?:insane:

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