AustinShepherd

...and they shall forever remain a mystery....

I guess I'll need to pull out my stereo microscope and start looking for fingerprints on my comic books.  

This is a total noob question (and I've searched the forum to try to answer this on my own) but I've read a lot of chatter about fingerprints on covers and the resultant grade deduction.  These seem to be fairly common.  Does anyone have a good image of what it is I should be looking for?  I'm assuming these are light smudges but I've not been able to find a good image/example.

Thanks!

Had this one in my collection for a while.  Surprisingly very little damage to the spine.  The staples look brand new and there is little to no spine roll.  Some dings and a small tear on the top edge.  I think it's in pretty good shape but will withhold my novice guess until after I see some other comments.  Thinking about getting it graded by CGC.

agreed!!

Thanks all.  I got a Star Wars #4 35 cent variant out of the bunch also.  There was some neat stuff in there just all low grade.

Just getting back into comics over the past two years since a 10 year hiatus.  Nice having a group to talk to.

That's basically what I'm leaning towards.  I batted around the idea of selling it but...gosh...I'm so high on just finding one it would be hard to let go.

Thanks for the feedback!  I bought the Overstreet guide to grading and am trying to learn to grade but it all seems so subjective.  

Do you think a book in this condition would benefit from pressing or is it to far gone?  I know little to nothing about CGC's pressing service.

So, I have two questions here.

A)  I found this in a lot I just bought.  Guy had SEVERAL key issues from the bronze/copper age but they are all in this condition or slightly better.  Would this be a 1.0?  I'm new to grading.

B)  Is this worth trying to have pressed and/or graded and slabbed?  On the one hand it's in pretty bad condition and doesn't seem worth it BUT from a preservation standpoint (being a relatively rare issue) I think it should maybe be sealed and preserved.

The declared value thing is messing with me also?  I'm VERY new to grading comic books but I have a few I want slabbed.  I think they  are worth a little (maybe around $800) but they may be worth less...I don't know.  I'd hate to rack up a bill for $1000 for grading a handful of comics that are actually worth $200 a piece.