Golden Age Grades Please - SUPERMAN #62 (Orson Welles cover)

[dekeuk]

 

Golden Age Grades Please

 

(note - some kid traced Superman's outline in pencil on the cover)

 

 

I need some help grading the better issues in this 200+ issue Golden Age collection I recently acquired.

 

I am going to keep some of them but will eventually sell most of them.

 

I want to submit some of the better ones to CGC, but I am not used to grading Golden Age books (i.e. factoring in the “Golden Age bump” from CGC that some people claim exists).

 

So please give me your numerical grades. And if you want to give me your opinion of whether it is worth my spending the cost of slabbing it before selling it, I would be interested in hearing your opinion.

 

FYI - The 2007 Oversteet prices for this issue in GD/VG/FN are as follows:

 

$71/$142/$213

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dekeuk]

 

Not one opinion on this one? I was looking for advice on how to grade this one given the pencil outline some kid made on superman.

 

 

[Aces]

5.0 Thers no water damage is there?

[dekeuk]

 

no water damage, just that kid who traced superman in pencil on the cover a long time ago

 

 

[SuperBird]

If the pencil drawing impact into the paper, then I think it'll end up grading lower. Regardless, this is not worth slabbing, IMHO. (speaking as a GA superman collector) Nice book, though!

[dekeuk]

 

yeah it dented the paper, especially on the arm

 

 

[TFL-migration]

4.0

[CAP Freak]

4.0

[Detroit MIke]

3.5 - 4.0

[Point Five]

I'd say 3.5. Fairly long crease on front, chip missing on back, some spine roll and reading wear around the spine, penciling on Supes. Nice for the grade though.