Please grade my Fantastic Four 20

[Fan4Fan]

I bought this as a VG+, but I have my doubts

 

Some of the things that you may not detect from the scans (not exhaustive and not mentioning the chipping, creasing, etc.)...

 

Front Cover:

 

1) Water/liquid stains

- From Molecule Man's left hand to his left knee

- lower left edge of the box with "After Reading This..."

- below the Thing's left foot

 

2) Rip from chip through Mr. Fantastic's right wrist

 

3) NCB bend from center top to Molecule Man's left (center) energy bolt

 

Back Cover:

 

1) Staple tears at top and bottom of upper staple that wrap slightly to front cover

- top tear is 1"

- bottom is 1/2"

 

2) 1/4" staple tear at top of lower staple

 

3) Water/liquid stain on left edge by Albert Dorne

 

 

These are smaller than they are at home... Any way to get around that (other than grabbing them to your own system and playing around with the size locally)?

[marvelcollector]

Looks like a 3.5-4.0, but the scans are too small....

[TFL-migration]

VG is a bit of a stretch. Id say Good or possibly Good+ The scans are to small to really make a decent guess of the grade. But I could see someone calling it VG{seller}.. Not me, but some might...

[Point Five]

Ebay purchase, perchance?

 

I'd guess 3.0/3.5 range, leaning 3.0. Even with all the flaws, I don't think I'd go lower. It does present reasonably well at least.

[piper]

Ebay purchase, perchance?

 

I'd guess 3.0/3.5 range, leaning 3.0. Even with all the flaws, I don't think I'd go lower. It does present reasonably well at least.

 

(thumbs u I concur with my learned colleague!

[CAP Freak]

3.0

[Fan4Fan]

Sorry about the small scans.... can't seem to get PhotoBucket to show them larger (even though I tried to upload larger ones).

 

3.0/3.5 is sort of what I was thinking (given a bit later FF in 5.0 that I purchased from John Hauser and some FF 20's in Heritage's Archives:

FF20 from Heritage Archives

Another FF20 from Heritage Archives

Still Another FF20 from Heritage Archives

Yet Another FF20 from Heritage Archives

And Still Another FF20 from Heritage Archives

And Yet Another FF20 from Heritage Archives

).

[Aces]

Ebay purchase, perchance?

 

I'd guess 3.0/3.5 range, leaning 3.0. Even with all the flaws, I don't think I'd go lower. It does present reasonably well at least.

 

Ditto except my lean might be 3.5 unless I could get a clearer view of the water damage.

 

[JohnT]

Definitely not 4.0. Probably 3.0.

[Fan4Fan]

Ebay purchase, perchance?

 

I'd guess 3.0/3.5 range, leaning 3.0. Even with all the flaws, I don't think I'd go lower. It does present reasonably well at least.

 

Ditto except my lean might be 3.5 unless I could get a clearer view of the water damage.

 

The only definite damage is the area between Molecule Man's left elbow and left knee. There is a definite loss of gloss there with possibly some slight waviness.

 

The other areas are more like splash residue that *may* be able to be cleaned off.

[Mr. Zipper]

3.5

[gernblanston]

3.0/3.5, tough call but in that range.

[Owls Head]

VG-

[Mr.Diggler]

yup, gotta go 3.0

[CAP Freak]

4.0`

[G.A.tor]

3.0 is a fair grade

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