Stuart Aldridge

Thoughts on this card? 

Didn't get a great grading, but still solid NM 7. 

Obviously if someone is interested, money talks!

On 12/19/2021 at 12:03 PM, joeypost said:

Did you wipe the counter down first before placing the book on it?

9.4/9.6 camp 

Nope!  They be all clean like that.

On 12/15/2021 at 9:09 AM, Galen130 said:

Not trying to be Captain Obvious here, but are those actual tears...including the front cover?  They don't look production related.  It's almost symmetrical with the small chips/tears to the right...

They appear to be manufactured.  It seems way to even to be a tear and it’s not on the cover.  I didn’t know about that or the one groove to the right of it.  

I thank you in advance for helping look this over.  This is such a learning curve for me.  Super appreciate the advice and education!

On 12/14/2021 at 7:43 AM, comicginger1789 said:

9.0 range. Newsstands from this era are always advertised as rarer (and are) but when you consider prints runs where they were, even at 10% of copies being newsstands, that's still a very large number. Generally people only go ga ga over the big key books in newsstand versions (even when these are not rare at all it seems). You may find someone who is trying to put together a newsstand run who might pay a slight premium to have but generally for a book like this one, price will be around the same as direct edition. 

Thanks!  Great insight.

On 12/13/2021 at 8:50 PM, MAR1979 said:

9.2 close to a border line 9.4.  There are over 8000 copies of this book in 9.8 and and 75 in even higher grade. No other single issue has even half those number of 9.8's.  Even the slightest drop in demand and those 9.8's crash in value possibly down to $40-$50 again.

IMHO,  unless the specific copy you showed us holds memories for you it simply is not a book worth grading unless it's a 9.9 candidate

 

Thanks for the info.  It’s so funny when talking about “perfect “.  My eye isn’t trained enough to spot the color “rub” as mentioned earlier.  This is why places like these boards exist.  Much appreciated you all!

On 12/13/2021 at 7:09 PM, Tri-ColorBrian said:

9.0

Thanks for looking it over.

On 12/13/2021 at 7:13 PM, grendelbo said:

9.2/9.4

Thanks for posting.

Thank you!

On 12/13/2021 at 8:19 PM, Galen130 said:

I’ll go 9.4.

Crick in mah neck, y’all!! 🤣

Yeah, sorry about that.  Appreciate looking over!

On 12/13/2021 at 8:02 AM, Funnybooks said:

as is 9.2

9.4 after C&P

Thanks!

On 12/12/2021 at 11:40 PM, grendelbo said:

9.2

Front cover color rub looks to be it's biggest flaw.

Thanks for posting.

Thank you very much!  Doesn’t sound like it’s worth getting graded for resale.  Much appreciated!

Any insight is much appreciated!  Not sure if the newsstand edition is worth getting graded.  The value seems to be lower.

Thanks you!

Any insight is much appreciated!

Thanks you!