Some thumbnails appear extremely low res/blurry

I am trying to organize images and for some reason some of the files show up as extremely blurry, while others are fine.
This is a huge pain while trying to organize hundreds of comic pages:
It would be much easier if I could actually see the files at their usual resolution.  Why is this happening? How can I fix it?

Hi,
For me this happened when I "imported" an iPhoto Library badly into a newer version of iPhoto.
The older one had Folder of Thumbnails and these were imported along with the Originals and Saved Altered pics.
The new iPhoto then create thumbnails of the thumbnails and ended up with icons like you show.
This of course may be only one cause.
10:05 PM      Thursday; August 22, 2013
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