help with fantastic four 2,3,4 grading question

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Hi, i've got an employee who came to me yesterday and said since he knew i collected comic books he wanted to get an idea what some books he had were worth. I asked what they were he said fantastic four, like the artwork you have up on the wall in your office. i asked him to bring them in. Today he brings me in fantastic four 1-10, 1 was dogged out, 5-10 pretty poor condition, but 2,3 and 4 were in really nice condition fine to very fine. i told him the best thing to do would to submit the 1-4 to cgc and see what they grade and i would help him sell them on ebay. the question is this, although the numbers 2, 3 and 4 are in really nice shape cover and page color wise, no rips, tears or tape, it looks like the middle page in all 3 of them is missing, like someone tore out an ad to mail something in. before i have him spend the money to send those 3 in, any ideas on how cgc would grade them, other than that i really can't see anything wrong with them, they look really nice.

any thoughts / help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Aces]

Don't send them in.

 

They will get a green label.

 

Best to sell them raw than have one of those off-color labels...

 

Do you know how to grade? (2.0/4.0/etc...)

How bad is the FF 5?

[Drummy]

My sense is that CGC would give them a Qualified (Green Label) grade noting that the book is "Incomplete - missing page x. Does not affect story" or something like that. There's an Ebay seller who has a nice Fantastic Four #17 that's graded a qualified 8.5 but is missing an ad page. At least, that's what I've seen on Ebay.

 

Dan

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the 2 3 and 4 compare very nicely to some of the 8's and 8.5's i have. maybe 6.0 on the low end. i've never seen the green label, moneywise does anyone know how a 6.0 regular grade and 6.0 green label would compare?

 

[sfilosa]

I don't believe many collectors would want the book unless they were going to be sneaky, and take your book and insert a page from a poor copy (which would still get a qualified grade).

 

My real point is that you won't get much premium getting the book graded (and you would pay a minimum of $50 a book to get them graded).

 

Best to put a big scan on eBay and note the missing pages.

 

 

[Filter81]

From what I've seen there are two schools of thought regarding incomplete books.(green labels)

 

Some people feel that a book missing a non-story page should be worth somewhere around 1/4th of the book's original value. Others feel that it should not necessarily be considered a qualified VF, it should be considered a non-qualified Fair/Good because thats the type of grade Overstreet would give it. In that case the book would just be worth the fair/good guide price. The CGC would give the book a qualified VF grade, and most people on eBay would probably follow the same type of thinking. I would say with the pages missing its definitely not worth paying to have the books CGCed unless you think they will come back VERY high grade. I think once you hit a CGC 9.2, even if the label is green people will start paying well for it just to get a 9.2 on the label of their FF #2.. regardless of what color the label is.

 

 

Anything below a 9.0 and you're better off selling it raw.