Peter Loves Gwen

The books of the modern era have different paper and the spine fold has naturally a break along almost all of it. The older books do too often times, but my point is that many "defects" are not damage caused after printing. Grading weighs all imperfections, and printing defects do receive different weight than other defects. If you read enough, you will find people who think marvel chipping is treated like it isn't there. Some defects are ignored at grades below a certain level. So, grading is a huge subject of weighing varies imperfections, deciding what each was caused by likely, and how it should affect the grade. Check out any hard paper stock cover, such as the Platinum Spider-Man. Those covers all have a spine split the entire length of the book. The thickness of the cover paper is the cause, so grading that is judging how much of a split there is? Is it deep and/or wide, or just a narrow slight break of the surface? The handling of those books, and like in the pictures here, how they were packed into boxes, and removed from them, that all adds to the defects.

I have four tough to find Spideys to sell. I will start a thread shortly, one is a 7.0 ASM 4 on the way from CGC. The others are below and I can ship them now. I need to make scans of the last two. ASM 31 9.4 white pages ASM 93 9.4 OW/W pages ASM 114 9.6 OW pages

Wow, you guys are busy. Keep it up, finish your collections and I won't have anyone to sell my raw spares to.

Ah well, who cares. Now you're obligated to post scans. Scans of ALL OF THEM! Ditto, but only three per day.

I am glad that things worked out for you Phill. Enjoy the book my friend.

sweet Ditto, and it looked that good when I packed it today. I hope it gets there tomorrow.

Obviously OW and better is prefer, but CR-OW is acceptable since that is the average PQ for SC22. Now, if this copy in 9.2 has white pages....rocketblast to the moon. good to know, I was wondering if Cream-ish covers were the norm... if only that were part of the census info (and not just available via the direct book ID lookup). That 9.2 SC 22 is a nice looking copy, I'd agree on the grade(I love a strong spine). The pages inside are cream to off white, the cover paper quality is unknown. CGC books do not tell you what the cover PQ is. That is why some books seem to have a lower grade, the covers are tanned quite a bit even though the book may look gorgeous. We hope that the label PQ hints at the cover PQ.

Very nice Frank, great copy.

Great find Jim, being in the right place at the right time, well done.

I had 100 of Spawn #4 at one time. I bought them to trade with a local dealer, for a $5 profit on each back then. I'm sure most of those were 9.6/9.8's, but wow a 9.9 has got to be tough to find.

Thanks guys! As per Rodan Title • Cover Month • Newsstand Date Amazing Fantasy #15 • August • June 5, 1962 Amazing Spider-Man #1 • March • December 10, 1962 Amazing Spider-Man #2 • May • February 12, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #3 • July • April 9, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #4 • September • June 11, 1963 Strange Tales Annual #2 • 1963 • June 11, 1963 Fantastic Four Annual #1 • 1963 • July 2, 1963 Amazing Spider-Man #5 • October • July 9, 1963 At least one of those Annuals is just a reprint of the ASM 1 encounter with the Torch. I thought it was the FF annual because I've got it and have read it, but the Strange Tales cover looks like it too. I'd love to own all of the early appearances of Spidey also, but that's more than I can do. Great spread of books though, all very nice.

Ditto,l nice trade. Bob is very good to work with, thanks Bob.

Yes, nice copy.

Sweet, you have a good eye Frank.

Yes, great books, Sweet. Did you submit those Frank?

Be glad it's not as high as the FF 3.0 which just sold on HA, for $11,950.

If you go to the page for any HA comic sold that's over a few hundred dollars, you can make an offer to buy it. HA automatically sets a price, and the owner can change that if they like. That price was probably set by HA.

something wrong in Denmark...... You can now make an offer to the new owner. Through HA, the minimum is $15,535.

Those look great together. I know about the chip thing, they are fragile and we are more careful with them.

That's a gorgeous 9.8 book, congrats.

Congrats Mark. I was hoping it'd get OW, that was tough to grade.

How much was it?

Ditto, add the crown jewel.

That's a killer 6.5 book. If not for the issue I'm guessing is around the lower right, I'd call it a NM book easily. Well done, find me some of those.

Beautiful.