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    Q&A Comic Production Flaws

    in Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues

    Posted · Edited by comicnut

    Thanks DICE!!!

     

    I had actually set aside all the stacking curl ones thinking they would only get 9.4's at most, so some potential 9.6's out of them for the slightly curled is better already :)

     

    And I thought the progressive white strip (or silver on the right edge) would be bad (like how a progressive spine roll is worse) and end up dropping to 9.4 with maybe the slightest getting a 9.6 and anything with a whitestrip getting 9.6 at best so that is also good news.

     

    :banana:

     

     

    Q&A Comic Production Flaws

    in Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues

    Posted · Edited by comicnut

    Great thread Dice,

     

    I have questions with regards to grading on these comics with production flaws. I couldn't find another thread with that kind of thing and don't want to use PGM as there anyone chimes in just their opinion whether they have experience with CGC or not.

    I know nobody can say for sure, but would appreciate some people's advice whom have a lot of experience with 9.6, 9.8, 9.9 and 10 books. I've only lots of experience with 9.4 and below.

     

    In particular I bought a case of Silver Spidey #1's. None of them seem perfect to me, or 9.8 material but I'm probably being overly cautious. In each case assume that this is the only flaw with the book.

     

    The particular defects I'm curious about are:

     

    1.The white strip along the spine, some have said that this is considered a defect, even if it is the same width.

     

    2. The same white strip if it goes from narrow to thick, so a misprint.

     

    3. Minor bindery tear

     

    4. Another misprint where it is the picture on the right edge that is slightly off center.

     

    5. Minor blunting

     

    Here are pictures to illustrate.

     

    In this case I didn't take a picture of #1, but here is example of #2.

    Spidey1_zps202e23aa.jpg

     

    3. In the same picture above you can see a tiny bindery tear at the top, if that was the books only flaw what would it get. Here is a side view

    Spidey1b_zps6facfb17.jpg

     

    4. misprint on the right side, you can see a silver strip at the right side bottom.

    Spidey1c_zpsadd0b6d0.jpg

     

    5. minor blunting top and bottom

    Spidey1d_zps9a9bde53.jpg

     

    If someone could give their experience with how they would be graded like 9.6-9.8 or likely 9.8 kind of thing I think that would help me and many others.