MrRoboto

I feel this book could get a 9.4. Mine was 9.0 and I don’t see much wrong with this that can’t be pressed.

Edit: Wait I double posted. 8.5-9.4 is my consensus of this book.

On 10/10/2022 at 8:30 PM, scburdet said:

4.5±0.5 for the piece out of the spine and reverse cover foxing/oxidation

Agreed. 4.5

7.0

On 10/9/2022 at 6:40 PM, ComicSpa said:

CGC is getting quicker. Here are the results…

Not going to lie but I didn’t know CGC had that special Secret Wars label. It is slick.

7.5

I see two tiny color breaking spine ticks on the cover 9.4+

5.0

On 10/5/2022 at 8:52 AM, Lenshaw said:

Would a Clean and Press elevate the rating?

 

I believe yes, 4.0-4.5. It’ll help with the spine and with some of that top right front cover corner.

4.0

8.5 as is. Press for 9.0+ 

9.4

5.5

4.5

2.5 - 3.0

Will cap around 7.0 unless the cleaning is superb then 7.5

With my experience of book length creases, it would cap out around 4.5. 

9.0

3.5-4.0

9.4

2.0-2.5.

2.0

On 9/28/2022 at 5:19 PM, Bryan LaBar said:

How can this be a 5.0 when books from 1962 that look like their gonna disintegrate if you touch them still come away with a 5? There's no way.... 

The ages of comic books determines their grade. Books from the earlier years are often graded much easier than compared to their later counterparts.

This is due to the fact that storing books in those ages was very difficult to do.

This book is a very modern book (1990s). As a result, this book and any book from here on out gets graded fairly harshly. So if this book  were in the 60s, I would have probably been like a 6.5-7.0. For the 90s, this is a 5.0.

Probably 8.0 because golden age. Wow, what a beauty.

8.0

On 9/27/2022 at 5:36 AM, Pukie said:

The Legion story is complete.  Better to have the interior story page piece out of the non-significant back up story....?

Although this does not change the grade, maybe a buyer would see more value in this book compared to other .5's...?

That depends on the importance of the back-up story. I would agree with the guys that this is a 0.5 collectors rather have this than a completely incomplete copy.