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I think you're looking at paper oxidation. A bigger hit than you will want probably or would seem fair. 7.5/8.0

6.5/7.0. Could be higher except it looks like foxing on the back as you allude to.

4.5/5.0. Presentation-wise, the front could be improved by pressing, but it looks like quite a bit of staining on the back, and there's nothing to fix that.

4.0/4.5, the higher only if there's mercy for the creasing on the back

7ish seems right

7.0/7.5 as long as the water marks look as light in person as in the photos

thought they might be. I'll go with the higher end of my guess esp. if you get a nice press & prep.

8.0/8.5. Too bad this cover isn't really pressable

If you're talking about the spot to the right of horse's tail, I'm going with dirt. 4.5/5.0 by appearance, but more like 4.0 with the heavy tanning on the inside of the cover. I don't think it gets dinged below that for the discoloration, but they hate those defect so much

9.2/9.4 with a press, the corners aren't perfect

6.5/7.0 depending on what the horizontal lines are on the BLFC

Who suffered more? William Wallace, or me making a final decision on those 5 books? It's closer than you think.

Bottom Right Front Cover Tear near the spine at the top of the back cover

7.0/7.5. I was a grade or so higher until I found the piece out of the back cover & the tear. The BRFC looks weird in the photo too. IDK if that's the book itself, or just how the photo is taken

6.5±0.5. The piece out alone puts it around 7.0. Pressing out all the minor handling defects might get it there.

I've got 1.0 b/c of the staining/moisture damage. Along with the other extensive defects, I think the staining which they hate anyway, will take it down to the "it's complete" grade. It's still a copy of XM1, which is quite a thing to own.

I'm sure a skilled presser could make this look better, but how much do you want to invest to boost this to a 1.5 or a 1.8. For 50¢, I'm sure you got your money's worth reading it

I hate every book in this round.

@Point Five I missed the detached staple note before. Definitely would have lowered my guess if I knew it was detached. I would love an alert when there's an obvious defect that's not obvious in photos. It's making my assessment about bindery tears in GAs more accurate as the 7.0 seemed too low for that defect in the era. All based on just reading the book as my GA experience is still virtually nil.

Since I can't justify buying a Avengers 8, I went British. For the uninitiated, these UK editions are pretty flimsy. The production quality lags behind the comparable era-US comics. The two main things I see are a small color chip of some sort along the right edge across form Iron Man. There's also some ink loss at the top above 'NIGHTMARE'. Seller wanted to attribute this to a production flaw. I'm not convinced, but it could be.

around 4.0. Quite a bit of ink loss on the cover.

pretty sure those are a manufacturing defect (I mention this in my notes above 😃). I looked at a lot of copies and some have the dots in the same places, some elsewhere, but in 30-50% of the books I saw and on high grade copies too.

Not too bad considering they're supposed to get harder. The Looney Toons looks better than a 7.0, but no real complaints otherwise. I included my contemporaneous ranting with my grader notes. Maybe a feature for CGC to consider adding.

I believe pressing modern books is the easiest b/c they're otherwise going to be more study. Looks like there might be some light scuffing & some slight color breaking at the stress line. Pressed around 9.4

Agree