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A solid 4.5 kept at that grade by general soiling. A good solid copy! One of my fave BA covers too.

I'm at 7.5 to 8.0 and if that's a well read copy you look after your books very well. Thanks for posting! (Copies with the tattoos def command a premium but don't beat yourself up over it. Id rather have the comic than the tattoos.)

Gets a 4.0 to 4.5 here and hats off to you for keeping this in shape from new. That's quite a history! I only go back to 1973 with a small handful of mine.

Has nobody spotted the corner bump, the colour breaking spine creases? 4.5 but given cgc lately it should get 5.0

2.0 to 2.5 for me but this is a fab comic. At least you can read this one not put it behind glass.

I'm at 3.5 for this one. Good cover gloss, making it very nice in the hand, but the faults drag it down.

Congrats on the grade! Is this a new grading term? "Light tears" Its either torn or its not!

That Danny Bulandi's name is in fact Bulanadi. And I found that out today having read it as Bulandi for, oh so many years!!!

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Anyone? Somebody must have a Cap 109 they don't mind posting scans of the letters pages? Make an old man very happy!

This is a good honest copy that I'd give a 6.0 The Luddite in me says C&P is not natural, putting all that heat on a fragile paper item and I would not do it. Yours is a true reflection of a decent example. It carries its history with it and has not been tinkered with. Love it!

Exactly...less incomplete. I certainly can't make it any worse and it has almost no value in this state, but luckily didn't cost me much either. Had it many years now and always wanted to see those panels when I open to the letters pages.

Yes that's it really. I can copy the image, play around with size and then print the new page. Then likely cut out the missing panel from the new page with some of its surrounding and tape it in place* behind so it shows through. It's a low grade copy, (even with no damage it would only be 2.0) and to some degree this is an experiment. It just bums me that I don't know what those panels look like! (I've added a MVS to a very low grade Captain Marvel 32 in the same way. It feels complete now, sort of. Call me eccentric.) *using tiny strips of low tack tape across the corners

I have a Cap 109 with cut outs in the letters pages. Is there any kind person out there that would scan those pages to this thread so I can print and add them to my copy? Technically I am also missing the Karate advert on the back of the first letters page and a house ad on the back of the second letters page so if you were feeling really kind...I won't say no if you wanted to post those too. Thanks in advance for anyone's help with this project. (Syd Shores really was the master inker on JK!)

It's classic JK circa 1978, which took some getting used to at the time, but now 40 years on I really like. The art stayed the same but tastes change!

Hi Batarag, do you mean for example, you have Captain America 109 and someone has cut out the two picture panels on the letters pages and you want to see what they were (someone really kind takes pity & scans or photographs it and posts it here,) and then you copy/print and tape it into the comic? Cos that's what I want to do...and have just asked in a separate thread.

I'm in the 7.0 camp. Clearly above average copy but the spines are so hit and miss on square-bound comics. Even as they came off the press they weren't 9.8. Presents well. Nice looking book!

I'm at 6.0 as square-bounds always suffer a little from the production process but yours is very nicely aligned and the spine quite square unlike many. At least some of that spine split is going to be bindery in origin. It's a case of how much more has it split from handling. But its a solid looking copy.

A lovely looking copy with a tricky defect. I think it could get 4.5 as multiple wraps and the cover are affected but it presents so nicely. If I bought that comic, without seeing it, and it was sold to me as a VG+ Id be very happy indeed.

It's a tough one for sure. Seen books like this offered a qualified grade when on sale, which I dislike but if the description is full it should include what grade it is and what grade it would be without the defect. Looks like an easy 7.0 without the fade and it could take a full 2 point hit for its current grade IMO.

AlI I can add is that if some of the tape residue is still, err...sticky, then I sprinkle a little talcum powder on it to 'take up' the stickiness. this may have to be repeated but talc is at least a neutral substance and can be wiped away once its been on long enough to soak up the glue. This is not a professional approach and certainly not for really expensive books, but works when you have a sticky book! Yours would be $275 in 3.5 so even in your low grade its still a hundred bucks or so. Not small change really. I have a low grade Silver Surfer 3 with tape on the cover that I'm waiting for it to age enough to peel away, but it only cost me £3 or about $5 so Im very relaxed about it. I check it now and then! Have a flick through.

I have a feeling the answer is no, nothing can be done since the adhesive has already stained the cover. Have a few like this myself where an anxious owner (the term OCD not in existence back then,) needlessly applied tape to the spine. Allowing it to dry out completely will often allow removal as you've found, but the staining remains. Maybe on a high value book a pro restorer could do some magic. Know anyone?

I don't disagree....I just feel you said it in a rather 'stilted' manner. (Badoom tish...)

Lovely copy! General wear & handling restrict it to the VG or VG+ territory. The wear is all from handling by the looks of it and evenly distributed so it's been loved and looked after. The best type of VG in my opinion.

I knew this thread title was open to literal interpretation...you got there first Namtak