The Golden Age of comics19

Originally Posted by martymann
@KYDU & @CatmanAmerica thank you both for your very kind mentions.
The majority of my collection runs between 3.0 to 6.0 with a few
7.0s and 7.5s...but after all the years of moving them about I'm
always surprised they held up as good as they did.




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Originally Posted by earthshaker01
@KYDU hopefully the rest of us will post something you find worthy in here. I've seen amazing books in all grades by many posters.

Originally Posted by Badger
I'm going to butt in and give my hugely less than adequate opinion, in comparison to Cat's and Earthshaker's, that many times high grade, when talking about GA, is relative to the book in question. For instance, there are (3) 9.4s and (1) 9.6 All Select Comics #10 on the CGC census. There are another 5 copies in 8.5 to 9.2. For a GA issue, that is a pretty healthy population and I would say that 8.5 and higher would be considered high grade, in this case.

Then you have a book like Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #40 where there are no books graded higher than 8.0 yet there are 25% more graded copies, overall, than All Select #10. For a book like this I would say the single 8.0 is high grade and is in fact the highest grade currently known. I would even be willing to call, with slight hesitation, the lone 7.5 copy high grade. Even using these lax standards for high grade, there are no high grade copies of either book on the CBCS census.

GA is tough to collect, and I am happy with my overall midgrade collection; however, some books are more difficult than others. I believe, within reason, the high grade definition can be relaxed for those books that have limited high grade copies. Using this perspective gives you 9 high grade copies of All Select #10, at least 1, and maybe 2, high grade copies of Archie's Girls #40, and, as an outlier, no high grade copies of Marvel Mystery Comics Annual nn since the highest known grade is a lone 6.5 with the rest being 4.5 and below.

Originally Posted by CatmanAmerica
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Originally Posted by Badger
I'm going to butt in and give my hugely less than adequate opinion, in comparison to Cat's and Earthshaker's, that many times high grade, when talking about GA, is relative to the book in question. For instance, there are (3) 9.4s and (1) 9.6 All Select Comics #10 on the CGC census. There are another 5 copies in 8.5 to 9.2. For a GA issue, that is a pretty healthy population and I would say that 8.5 and higher would be considered high grade, in this case.

Then you have a book like Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #40 where there are no books graded higher than 8.0 yet there are 25% more graded copies, overall, than All Select #10. For a book like this I would say the single 8.0 is high grade and is in fact the highest grade currently known. I would even be willing to call, with slight hesitation, the lone 7.5 copy high grade. Even using these lax standards for high grade, there are no high grade copies of either book on the CBCS census.

GA is tough to collect, and I am happy with my overall midgrade collection; however, some books are more difficult than others. I believe, within reason, the high grade definition can be relaxed for those books that have limited high grade copies. Using this perspective gives you 9 high grade copies of All Select #10, at least 1, and maybe 2, high grade copies of Archie's Girls #40, and, as an outlier, no high grade copies of Marvel Mystery Comics Annual nn since the highest known grade is a lone 6.5 with the rest being 4.5 and below.

I'd only disagree in respect to using the term high grade based solely on the scarcity of a book in higher grades. When claiming a book is high grade there needs to be a commonly recognized baseline marker, say 8.5 and above. Using scarce outliers as exceptions only creates confusion that requires more explanation and defensive posturing. One can always say that a book is the highest grade if that's determined by census numbers.

For instance, last time I checked, this was the highest graded copy...




...but it still isn't a high grade, it's a high mid-grade copy.
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