Eye-appeal

[october]

One of the things that attracts me to early golden age books is their ability to retain lots of eye-appeal while being technically lower grade. I love buying and looking at 2.0s, 3.0s and 4.0s that look anything but. I was looking through some scans today, and ended up staring at my Action 18. It's a 4.0 or so due to some minor spine splitting and a chip at the top of the back cover, but it could easily pass for 8.0 or up. Anyone else want to share books that look light years better than their technical grade?

 

[G.A.tor]

One of the things that attracts me to early golden age books is their ability to retain lots of eye-appeal while being technically lower grade. I love buying and looking at 2.0s, 3.0s and 4.0s that look anything but. I was looking through some scans today, and ended up staring at my Action 18. It's a 4.0 or so due to some minor spine splitting and a chip at the top of the back cover, but it could easily pass for 8.0 or up. Anyone else want to share books that look light years better than their technical grade?

 

su wheat!

[nearmint]

This one looks pretty nice for the grade...

 

 

[Silver Surfer]

I've had a few:

[nearmint]

Here's a good one...

 

 

[showcase4]

This book, which both Rick ( Detective27Kid ) and I owned last year at some point, graded a 5.0 due to top and bottom spine splits. As you can see......it's one helluva nice lookin' VG/F

[VintageComics]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Primetime]

[spillred]

I appeal, you appeal, we all appeal for EYE APPEAL.

 

I love books that look like 9.4s but grade at 7.0s due to something on the back cover. Unfortunately, they rarely sell for 7.0 prices

 

 

[SuperBird]

great thread! pretty much all my books fall into this category. I DARE you to beat this one, though::

 

 

CGC 5.5

 

[piper]

great thread! pretty much all my books fall into this category. I DARE you to beat this one, though::

 

 

CGC 5.5

 

 

Wow!

[SuperBird]

I also look for books without major damage to the main cover image. These are good examples of beaters that still maintain good eye appeal, despite technical grades of 2.0 or less. All have white or white/off white pages::

 

 

 

 

[SuperBird]

Here's a good one...

 

 

 

awesome copy- how is it only a 6.0?

[Weird Paper]

 

6.5

[Mutant Manatee]

[telerites]

 

missing the back cover?

[Straw-Man]

[Straw-Man]

[Mutant Manatee]

missing the back cover?

 

 

No, the back cover looks just as nice as the front, but the spine is almost completely split. (I don't own it.)

[Boba]

Hmm - didn't realize non-Superman Action covers continued so deep into the series... great thread BTW.