Mr. Zipper

According to DuPont's logic per his previous post, NYS has zero recovered and 76 deaths, so it is a 100% mortality rate.

This has been my point all along. NO ONE is arguing it isn't serious or dangerous. Yet he persists in posting distorted statistics with doomsday numbers. The last thing we need now is panic and unnecessary anxiety on top of an already stressful situation.

onavirus/ 10% mortality globally, 61% within the US There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. Using the site you referenced, there are 133,239 open cases, which are considered "mild." When you factor those in, the mortality rate is 4.5%. It's even lower if any of the people in the "serious or critical" category survive. Posting a "61% mortality rate" in the US is absurd and adds nothing to the discussion. I cannot understand why you persist in posting distorted information.

The thumbing creases on the right open edge will keep it out of 8.5 IMO. 7.5/8.0 max

5.5 before the press and 5.5 after the press. It may "look nicer," but pressing is not going to magically make the two long diagonal creases go away and it won't grade higher because of them.

4.5

VG/FN

Yeah... I'm kinda noticing that... in the grading threads especially. I used to be here a lot in the early days and tapered off for the past 5 years or so. Coming back and becoming more active again... I noticed almost EVERY grading thread has a Pavlovian "It'll be grade X if pressed" response. Apparently SOP for every book now.

Here is a fact. The United States has 327 million people and 51 have died as of today. That is one death for every 6.5 million people. (And 20 of those deaths were in one nursing home, which totally skews the data.) Yes, it will get worse, but this is not going to be a mass casualty event across the nation. Using words like "wiped out" and "pandemonium," you sound like someone who is panicking and has lost perspective. Pro tip: stay off social media and stop watching the news. Control what you can and stop focusing on what you can't.

You are spreading fake news and panic. STOP.

Agree totally. I would take the 7.0 and run.

Given the 16 or 17 visible color breaking spine creases, I'm puzzled why anyone is counseling him to press and resubmit. You can press it til doomsday and those creases are not going anywhere and it'll never go above 7.0/7.5 max.

Thanks. I was of the same thinking. If it is technically around 7.0 with really good eye appeal I can live with it.

The state of NY just banned all events over 500 people, closed all nursing homes to outside visitors and shut down Broadway. My dad is in a nursing home and I may not see him for weeks or months. While it seems drastic, I do not think this is panic. The goal is to avoid turning into Italy where a mass number of people hit the health care system at the same time paralyzing it and preventing them from giving ANYONE high quality care. That is why the death toll is so high there and they are in a disaster like triage situation choosing who will get care. Slow and minimize the spread is what will keep the health care system afloat. The difference with the flu is that it is spread over four months. If all the people with the flu hit the system in a one month period, there would be the same concerns.

You can see there are "fault lines" in the paper and the tears seem to travel partially down those lines. That along with the unusual location for a tear is what made me think it could be production related.

Often mid-grade books will have flaws that pressing does not repair, e.g., tears, stains, color-breaking creases, etc. The result is that the book may look a lot better because the cover is smoother and some bends have been flattened, but the technical grade will remain the same due to the non-correctable flaws.

Fax Expo Dallas is a dead man walking. Unless there is a sudden plunge in the bell curve, there will be too much pressure to cancel. And heaven forbid they have it and five days later there is an explosion in cases.

It has an accumulation of color breaking spine creases from the blue circle down to Wolverine's wrist area. Maybe you could squeeze a 7.5 out of it, but given those creases, I'd be surprised if it went higher.

This Daredevil 8 is a pretty solid and clean 7.5... maybe 8.0, except it has ~1 inch tears on the top of two inner pages. Very odd... based on location I'm wondering if they are production related. In any case, I got it for a good price and like the eye appeal, so I'm debating to return it or not. In your opinion, what is the impact of the inner page tears?

That really unfortunate. The store stamp would have had no impact at this grade level and also provides a peek into its history. The medicine was far worse than the disease.

Wow... I forgot all about this. Thanks for sharing, Mike!!

Brett is the guy to the left in this photo from his Biz Facebook page:

I do know who he is, but I do not "know" him beyond chatting with him at shows and making some modest purchases. Brett is the dealer at the Albany shows immediately to the left when you walk into the main room. He typically has a pretty decent display with lots of slabs.

A press may help the eye appeal, but given the heavy staining, I doubt the grade would ever go above 4.0/4.5.

That is foxing stains, not surface dirt... so it's doubtful dry cleaning would do much. A solvent bath would likely remove it, but then you are talking about "restoration."