fifties

On 11/16/2023 at 12:40 PM, Vintage_Paper said:

There's always the bag test. If it doesn't fit in a Silver Age bag then it's a Golden Age book.

Not too sure about that, if you go by Overstreet's definition of GA years.   After the inflation of 1951, a number of publishers put out narrower books, including Harvey, Ajax-Farrell, CDC, Minoan, Fawcett and others that easily fit into Silver Age bags, as they were all 7" or less in width.

Musta been a later episode than 1952. 

This Magazine is Haunted #15 has an indicia date of February 1954, meaning it must have been available at the stands around December of '53.

On 11/12/2023 at 12:35 PM, pmpknface said:

Generally, I avoid them. However exceptions can be made...

This is a prime example of how CGC grades; much more for the cover, much less for the interior.  Overstreet's guide on brittle pages assigns 1.5 at best.

On 11/2/2023 at 8:09 PM, Readcomix said:

The Jungle is Australian, the Down with Crime is Irish.

 

 

How much is 6D in real money?

On 10/31/2023 at 1:08 PM, Tri-ColorBrian said:

Since my estimate of GA dates got the most "likes" (3) of any other guesses, I must be correct...

My personal scale...

1937-1945-GA

1946-1955 (or code sticker on cover)-Atom Age

 

What 1937 book would you assign as the beginning of the GA, given that the generally accepted norm would be Action 1 in '38? 

And there were no "code stickers" from the CCA until cover dates of March,1955.

On 10/31/2023 at 10:23 AM, JB123 said:

TOP doesn't mean good.

 

So what does TOP mean??????

I would suggest that in this context it means best known and as such, highest cost for their services.   IOW one pays for that label.  

That said, I've noticed a recent decline in the condition of books in any given grade from them.  What used to be a VG they now seem to grade as a Fine. 

Overstreet, OTOH, has not changed their grading standards AFAIK, and is the guide I use, regardless of a CGC determination.  CGC will give a grade as high as 3.5 (VG-) for books that have slightly brittle pages, while Overstreet considers that condition in the 1.0 - 1.5 range.  CGC heavily weighs their grading on the cover condition, which might seem relevant given that the FC and BC are the only elements of the book to be seen in a slab.

I recently bagged a slabbed PLOD on HA with a CGC 6.5 label.  The description stated that among other things the staples had been replaced, and at least one of them was visually obvious.  Overstreet grading would have placed it as a 1.5 for that defect alone.  Regardless, the PLOD designation made it affordable for me.

I thought the GA ended in the first quarter of 1955, succeeded by the code approved SA, which were entirely different from the adult directed pre-code fare.  Their beginning of course would have been with Action Comics #1.

On 10/27/2023 at 8:31 PM, Point Five said:

Funny that just a few weeks after the good Dr. B started this thread, I ended up buying the book below. A longtime grail of mine that's gotten pretty much unaffordable except for really beat copies, I couldn't resist this one when it popped up. It looks insanely nice in hand, and the bang-on centering balances out the trim, to my eye at least. I'm just over the moon to have it. 
 

Posting my copy for comparison.  If you look at the three vertical bubbles, you can see the difference from the trim; barely noticeable.  You did well; this book is indeed a PCH grail.

On 10/24/2023 at 3:44 PM, lou_fine said:

Definitely not my intention as I thought we were all tired of talking about it by now, but are you referring to the Promise Collection here?  

Nope, just in general.  I have no dog in this race.

On 10/24/2023 at 12:36 AM, lou_fine said:

 

Well, my take on this matter here is that since CGC requires you, the submittor and not them, to value the book first (i.e. based upon condition and restoration status of course), you should simply place a valuation on the book based upon your lowest estimated grade and also assume the book has been restored because it just might have been. 

With whatever valuation that you have come up with, you should then divide that figure by two, because you have done half the work for CGC with their requirement for YOU to come up with an estimated grade and restoration determination on the book prior to submission.    

If the submitter has a hand in grading, it's no longer a purely objective determination.