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3.0 isn't a bad guess IMO depending on the back and the rest of the book (e.g. back cover). It could make a 3.5, but I don't think multiple tears will let it go any higher.

G.I. Joe: A Real American Bummer Yeah, we all have those Schrödinger's comics that are both a 9.8 and a 7.0 until we open the box and take the book out of the bag to realize it isn't as perfect as we remember.

IDK if that "KC" written on the cover will be considered a distributors mark or what. I haven't come across that before. I can imagine it getting a Qualified grade, being considered a significant defect or being deemed acceptable. My guess is that tear on the back cover is going to relegate this to 5.0±0.5 despite the fact that the rest of the book (minus the possible marker issue) looks better than that.

I'm a 7.5 as is. At least 8.0 after C&P. If the person with the FF #1 doesn't accept my offer of a crisp $10 bill for their books, I will put it on the table for this one. It's very nice.

I'm with Will here. My default option moving forward is to just get the books pressed no matter what. I didn't opt for pressing when I sent my Ultimate Fallout 4 in for the Bendis signing (b/c I had never removed it from the bag and it was always bagged and boarded) and then I learned about "polybag creasing". I hope that there's a chance to get it signed by Pichelli at some point and have it pressed then, but unless you just like the idea of sending the same book in multiple times, or kicking yourself for the rest of time wondering if you should have gotten it pressed, I would bite the bullet and get it done. I sent this annual in for the Claremont signing. I'd say yours looks similar to mine and it scored a 9.4 (with pressing). Maybe you'll do a little better.

So, child of the 80s (mostly) here. The annoying kid whose parents for some reason pulled the trigger on a USS FLAGG for Christmas one year. In light of the opportunity to have Larry Hama sign books at a private CGC event, I pulled out the 3 GI Joe books I have that are significant that he worked on. I could send all, none, or something in between depending on what grades I can expect. I will spare the board a triple post though and spread them out. Starting with issue 1. Really solid looking from cover. Small (possibly pressable) spine tic in the middle. Unclear if that's a small stain or some printing issue in the corner box. The real thing that give me pause is the discoloration at the top of the back cover. I've seen this sort of thing on old backing boards but the board with this book is clean, so my guess is this was there before I acquired it (the GI Joe comics I had growing up were beat to hell, so I had to find replacements). I also don't know how easy/hard it would be to clean this discoloration. It does not appear to leach through to the other side of the page. Possibly b/c it's a cardstock cover. Thanks for looking

I suspect the experts here will tell you to get this cleaned and pressed first. The back looks pretty dirty and it would really help if that was cleaner. I'm going with a 5.5 as is.

I think a 5.0 is about right. With a little work it might go up a 0.5 or so. You probably saw my copies of this book I posted here recently with my usual square bound ranting.

I'm interested to see what some other people say about this one since I have several books that look about this good with one of the little crease like the one at the top right. I'm going to go with a 8.5 with a high degree of uncertainty since I don't know what I'm talking about.

From my recent experience that staining on the back cover is going to kill you unless someone can take it off. I'm going with a max of 5.5 with the stains. Maybe you can get it to 6-6.5 with some work. I got a little lucky with my copy of this. I bought it like 20 year ago when no one cared about Brother Voodoo. It's on the way to CGC too.

Sub-par photography on my part. Hard to deal with the shadows and hold the cover. As far as I can tell, there isn't a missing piece. It's just separated and there there's a tear that separates the thin spine paper from the rest of the spine. Thanks for looking!

From my Square Bound Closet of Anxieties. There's some obvious dings and the back needs cleaned, if possible. It presents very well though for a square bound book. My obvious concern is where the cover is separating from the spine at the bottom (I tried to hold it up without making it worse). Again, I've heard that sometimes sq bound books don't get hammered as badly as regular books, but how bad is the deduction? I'm bias about getting all the square bound books encapsulated just to keep them from deteriorating even more.

I'd go with 7.5 ± 0.5 without accounting for the detachment. I really don't know how much of a ding this is given the rest of the book looks pretty good.

I think a 7.0 ± 0.5 with C&P, leaning higher. I have a copy of this one too that looks better, except there's a hole on the spine that's 1/16"-1/8" in diameter

Only been on this thread for about a week, and I'm already causing a civil war. Take that Tony Stark. I'm inclined to agree with you here. I only vaguely recall buying it, but I suspect that I few bidders were scared off by the overspray, so I might have gotten a better price than I would have otherwise for a book with similar front cover eye appeal. It's in my grading queue, but that queue is >30 years deep with books I've been acquiring. I think we've waded through the express tier candidates and this one is mid-standard, so it might be a while. It is crazy to learn about something (overspray) even after so many years as a semi-serious hobbyist.

Depends on if they bring back Michael B Jordan to play the Black Panther . I'm pretty sure I paid less than what I can get for it now.

Thanks. I don't know whether to be happy my ASM123 doesn't have an overspray, or sad my 109 has an overspray . The 123 has the cooler cover.

That's what he called it. I kept Googling ink spray and similar. The other book I have is more oversprayed spots all over the edges of the interior pages and so forth.. At least this one is limited to the back cover/spine. There's not ink on the interior pages

I was going to save this one for later, but someone posted a PGM on ASM123 and I thought mine had the same issue as this copy of JA6 (I misremembered, it was my ASM109). I decided to go ahead and abuse the good people on this board with another post since I had these out anyway. I showed this to my CGC facilitator recently, and he had a name for this extra ink along the edge, but I either forgot what he called it, or there's not a good resource I can Google. It's a pretty nice book otherwise. If it is a manufacturers thing (which seems right), I wonder if anyone has sent one of these to CGC before and knows how they weigh it.

Thanks. That was my first though, but it hasn't been uploaded to comicspriceguide.com. I re-searched and there are a lot of gaps in their UK FF list. I would never have guess issue 48 would be one of them. It's not like anyone cares about this book or anything.

I'm very interested in how this turns out if you get it pressed and graded. The back cover of this book looks almost the same with the subscription crease, the only difference is the ad is for a GED program. Of course, this FF book is probably a lower grade b/c the crease shows up quite well on the black cover. I think 6.0 is a good number to set expectations for your book

I can't tell if those are spine ticks on the front cover or just effects of the photo. The front looks solid, I think the back stress lines might be fixable. If so, I'd say you have a decent shot at a 9. 8.5 if not. My copy is somewhere between the shop preparing it and being sent to CGC, so we can see how things turn out. I didn't photograph mine, so we'll have to just make totally random guesses.

I don't see anyone mentioning it, but can anyone educate me on what version of FF48 this is? I see "10d" where it usually says 12￠. I searched really quickly, but I can't find any examples, and it certainly looks like it's as it was printed that way

I have so much trouble zeroing in on grades for these middle-of-the-road books b/c of the ambiguous nature of the word "several" in the CGC guidelines. I feel like 5.0 is almost certain, higher with some luck and all the standard prep-work. I would feel ok if I bought this at the advertised range. I got a "6.0" book recently that ended up having a >2" split in the spine that was not mentioned (this book was returned). I just love these Kirby covers from that era of FF.

Thanks. Funny what sticks with you. I still remember walking into the comic shop all those years ago and seeing this hanging up behind the counter. It was rare to see any books older than a decade, and seldom prized issues. 16ish year old me must really have been a savvy collector!