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I will take these!

Super nice books but to pay for 3-4 of them I think I might have to resort to some dishonesty.

WOW!!!

Take this and the Batman Special 1

That is a great group shot and makes me wonder if the dyes used in the GA were different than now. The yellow covers on Looney Tunes, Hit, and Star Spangled just leap of the page!

Love it! When I see comics like this it always makes me think that someone really enjoyed them.

Thinking of sending this in to get stabbed. PQ is a cream to ow. Minor pulls on staple on cover, centerfold is firmly in place. Any help on you guys guess for grade would be appreciated.

I have some nice front covers for a Flash Comics 34 and All American Comics 53,59, and 60. I am looking for coverless copies to purchase or if you are interested in the covers and have something to trade I would listen to that as well!

Yea I am not saying that missing a back cover is better than missing an interior but I do think they need to do like you stated and come up with a consistent way to do it. I could kind of see the .5 if it was missing the front cover but had the back, but the other way around seems overly harsh considering the appearance of the books in this thread.

This is what I was thinking of. https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/phantom-lady-16-incomplete-fox-features-syndicate-1948-cgc-qualified-vf-75-off-white-to-white-pages/a/121729-13407.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 missing a page. It gets the qualified 7.5

This is an area where CGC, at least to me, seems inconsistent. If the book was missing one interior page that affected the story it would get a qualifies 7.0 or higher? But with a back cover that usually is just two advertisements it gets a .5 i understand it's a cover, and in this case maybe a pinup? But does this strike anyone else as odd?

This is just my opinion but I would agree that Miller changed the model a bit more than Adams and O'Neil. But what I really find interesting is that if I go back and read them today I think the Adams era holds up better than then Miller. I don't know if that means it's better, or if my age when I first read them is important, the place that I am in my life now, may be just as important. But I am curious as to others opinion. If you had a couple of free hours on a Saturday night and were going to read some classic Batman, and those were your only two choices, would it be O'Neil/Adams or Miller?

Awesome book and a really neat idea. Wish I had a book you're looking for. Good luck

This is sort of related and wanted some folks who have been viewing this a lot longer than me to really weigh in. When a book hits that 1 million mark does that impact the price in all grades or is it sort of limited to the 8.5 and higher grade range? More many higher end books the price gap seems really high to the that starter level book (of course measuring against $0 anything looks big) but then the dollars per point seem to shrink down a little between 5.0 and 8.0 and then get bigger and bigger again the higher you go? For instance a book might only be 1000 difference between a 5.0 and a 6.0 but then would be a 2000 difference between 8.5 and 9.0? Am I imagining this? Thanks for any insight.

Dang! that is super slick and shows I know next to nothing about grading comics. I have seen 4.0 with the Brittle Pages notation but why this one gets a 1.0? I just don't see it? Someone help me out a bit, please...

Nice!! Ever want to part with it PM me!

OK this is actually pushing the bounds of the thread but I wanted to post it somewhere! This is a great exampl of not every book needs to be professionally graded. This is a book missing its front cover, back cover still attached that I married to an authentic cover that someone at sometime had cut off, matted, framed, and displayed. Professionally graded this is a qualified (because of the married cover) 0.5(because of complete spine split). But it really is a good looking book and the epitome of "presents well in Mylar". I know it is the best qualified 0.5 in my collection. Adventure Comics 67.

Very Nice experience, good communication!

More Fun, if you got any!

Objectively I totally agree that motivation should not affect the value, but to be honest it would affect my mood once I found out. Then again I am somewhat flexible about restoring and trimming and all of that depending on the book. I don't like trimming but if anyone has a trimmed More Fun 54 that they don't want anymore that can give me a call!

To anyone's knowledge is there any way to tell when it was trimmed? If done in 1991 then yea I may be really upset, but if done in 1947 to make the book look better, or even preserve it (if an interior page hangs out by 1/4 inch it is more likely to get snagged on something starting a tear) I would feel much differently. On a tangent I don't know why people are upset about married books or conserved books. conserved doesn't really look better it is just to make the book more structurally sound and last longer. When people are so put off by this I wonder if they are upset when someone stores books in Mylar because it will.................gasp...............make them last longer? OK that last point was tongue in cheek but hopefully everyone understands the point I am making. just to me there is a big difference between trimming and doing it specifically to defraud someone. Just my

I'll take it!

I think this is all really interesting. Has anyone heard of someone manufacturing reproductions? I would not think the materials would be that expensive and I would like one but there are certainly not enough of these around anymore to meet demand. Thanks