comicginger1789

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Looks like those wood pictures that are sold of classic covers....def not a comic, def not real. Not to be rude but if you cannot tell that that is not a comic by looking at it, I don't know if this is the hobby for you....

Definitely not Marvel chipping and definitely would hurt the overall grade. It looks like the glue ate away at the paper...or something did. I would think 4.5-5.0 would be the best grade one good hope to get if the rest of the book presented 8.0 ish

4.0-4.5 Both that split and staple are unfortunate as it presents much higher.

This

I agree with 4.5 and the potential of a 5.0-5.5 with a clean/press.

Definitely not worth it to restore. Comic restoration is frowned upon and many collectors despise it. That being said, certain OLDER books from the 40s and 50s have restoration as back in the 80s, it was not deemed a terrible thing. With this book, restoration would kill any value and cost so much it would outweigh the amount you could ever hope to sell the book for (if you ever did). I get that you want it to present well but this book is not all that bad. 6.0 range from me, which is a perfectly good grade to get. Plus, it should still look sharp in a CGC case.

3.5 because of the rusty bottom staple and migration of said rust.

I have a pristine FF book from the late sixties with an old price sticker on it. I don’t mind the sticker at all

Teedees I need that Elvira 1 but I live in Canada

I should think that would be quite rare and possibly even a tad more desirable for a lot of people.

Crazy! People with partial copies and pieces should get together and raise a true Action Comics #1 Frankencopy! Tis the season!

Make sure you follow the posting rules...I think it is 3 books per day.

I will say 9.0 potential. The spine on the back could clean up some to guarantee highest possible grade.

Kinda but not by much given the grade of this book. If it is a tear and that staple is still holding on, I think 3.5 is the highest you could hope for. The creasing and damage to the top right corner has me worried that a 4.0 would be out of reach. Definitely not higher than that, so I am settling at 3.5

4.5-5.0 I think the water stain and page tanning keeps it from a 5.5 and I think any lower is too harsh.

I am closer to 7.5. The back cover along spine looks like it could be cleaned which may get 8.0 consideration but that ink smear, be it production or otherwise, hurts.

I was thinking this the other day...I have some books saved up as prizes (Christmas too!) to give away. Plus I wanna flex my muscles!

Yeah 5.5. I was gonna say 6.0 but the bottom of the back cover takes it down. If that can be cleaned up at all, 6.0 is possible.

I watched a couple videos that CGC released about grading a book. Assuming it was filmed in the same area they do the grading, the background appears like they each have a desk type situation happening with maybe a couple graders side by side. This I like, because it suggests that you could ask a colleague and quickly come to a consensus on a book. If three-five graders agree, its probably the right grade. So I think that while our eyes (generally) seem to have seen the first book as the 9.6 and the second as the 9.8, we are grading off cover alone. And if the original poster did that, they did not properly grade the comic.

17! Imagine what a little research could have done for me haha! So the theory of getting a lenient grader seems unlikely as I am sure 17 guys and gals are trained pretty well and for some it seems, in respective areas towards certain books. Either way, CGC still can't lose. They aren't required to give ya notes to differentiate the upper grades so its their expert eyes against your seasoned ones.

10-15?

Or even something wrong with an interior page. Sometimes people forget that CGC actually opens the book and inspects the pages. If one has a slight flaw and the other is flawless well there ya go!

So it is much smaller? 20? 25? I honestly have no idea. Obviously the smaller it is, the better chance of having them all be consistent on most books. I feel like 20-25 would be the prime number range for getting a group of men/women to agree on something. Much more than that and I feel like you are gonna have issues getting consensus grades from everyone.