Eric C M

6.5

7.5/8.0

What a beauty! 8/8.5

6.5, wish I had that book!

By EBay standards I would say that this seller did not do you wrong. Most sellers seem to use NM on eBay to describe books from about 7.5 and up. I agree that outside of the minor corner issue everything else appears that it should be pressable with the right presser. I’d guess 9.2 after that but a 9.4 would be possible. Regardless of the number you should go with your gut, if this is not the quality book you wanted, return it (if possible).

5.0

9.0

4.5

I think you are on the mark with your 7.5, possibly lower and probably not any higher.

4-4.5

2.5

9.2, front cover looks excellent back has a couple issues that may not improve with a press

Man what a shame with that water damage, really nice copy otherwise! Maybe 6-7? Tough one…

Concur with 8/8.5, some spine ticks, general corner wear

9.4 as is, maybe 9.6 after a press. Can see a slight corner bend from the inside front cover and 1 CB spine tick.

9.0

9.0-9.2

Did you use the tracking tool during your submission to see that this book was actually at CCS and cleaning/pressing was ‘in process’? If not, I would recommend, from my own experience, at least contacting CGC to ensure the book was pressed. They have been known to skip that crucial step on occasion. If it was skipped they should allow a free re-submission. If it wasn’t skipped then I guess a couple fingerprints are a much bigger hit than anyone thought…, I would have also put it in the 9 range.

Appreciate the update and congrats on that grade! You’re not such ‘bad guy’ after all Darkseid 😀

I would have thought 4.5 as well, highlight is the beautiful White pages, those look immaculate!

I’m going off a sample size of exactly 1 but I have to believe that CGC is grading Restored books much more harshly than unrestored, whether they admit it or not. I recently submitted 2 copies of JIM #112, one of which I had posted here. Superficially one copy was far superior, no question, and I submitted that one in High Value. The other was a nice mid-grade plus copy. Results: High Value copy returned in a Restored grade 6.0 (sidebar - I was taken by KellysSuperheroes on EBay - avoid at all costs!) Vintage tier copy returned Universal grade 7.0 if you were just judging the 2 without knowing of restoration 100% of people would say the Restored copy looked superior. I have a 6.0 of your book, yours looks slightly better, I would have said 6.5-7.0.

My thought would have been a 9.2+ if authentic but everyone makes a good point here, why on earth would you be running around with a very high grade raw copy of this book in this day and age? At a 9.0+ is that a $25K book? 50K?! It does arise suspicions and I would trust your gut unless there are ways for the seller to make some concrete assurances (like you pay for grading regardless of grade unless it comes back restored). A book of this value would have results in about a weeks time. There would be no good reason not to do that unless you were hiding something…

5.5 potential, maybe even a 6? Front cover, pretty solid overall, maybe some color loss, some small color breaking creases. Right edge is rough but it’s hard to know whether it is wear or production damage in that era. Back looks pretty good also. Given all the light colors on cover a cleaning could really help depending on how the structure of the book is in hand.

Really cool and nice book. In my opinion you would have been looking at 7.5/8.0 were it not for that spine split. Really looks like a great copy outside of that (significant) issue. I thought it was just a matter of how much they docked you for that split from there so a 6.0 seems pretty reasonable to me.

6.5