Hello,
When I was younger, there was a comic shop a few blocks away from my high school. I would walk over during our lunch period to pick up mostly older books. I got to know the owner pretty well and one day she suggested I pick up a new book, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I bought the first four copies, all first edition, and put them in a long box with my other comics.
For about two months, they were in my home in New Orleans without power (after Katrina). They were never exposed to water, as my house didn't flood, but the pages are yellowed. I understand that this will affect the grade, but given that these comics were printed on cheap paper, I'm curious as to what a pristine page from one of these issues looks like?
Issue #1 has a couple of creases on the cover and a couple of small creases on the spine. Issues 2-4 are what I would have considered near mint back when I was collecting. The colors on all four covers are bright and about as "glossy" as they were when I bought them; issue #3 has two cover pages and two back pages, which I guess was a mis-print?
I was considering submitting the four issues for grading, but I'm not sure I want to wait that long before I try to sell them. Assuming I can figure out how to upload images, you should be able to see the front cover and the last page and back cover of #1, the latter of which shows just how far from white the pages are as compared to the inside of the back cover.
So the question is whether anyone here can tell me whether page color in these books in particular will dramatically affect the overall grade, and relatedly, whether my best bet if I don't have them graded (or restored and graded) would be to put them up for auction on ebay with multiple pictures of the interior pages so that a buyer could easily judge the color issues?