AMZ Spider-man #361

[synch]

Thinking of getting it graded but now am not sure if its worth the cost

 

 

Some pages have these in them I've no idea what would cause it but it goes through a bunch of pages sadly I saw... I Think this will affect my grade a lot right ?..

 

& then there is this

 

 

[Stronguy]

Without close scans it's impossible to tell. Even then it's a shoot unless you're absolutely sure it's 9.8. 9.8s bring about $75... 9.6s bring $30.

 

If you really, really want a 9.8 just buy one already slabbed and save the $30 in slabbing/shipping fees.

[Peter Loves Gwen]

Almost all of the 361's have the inner bottom page tears. More than a few have them in the front cover as well. I have about 40 copies of each of the 360-365's, the 361 had that one defect on most of them. I recall ASM121 being very hard to find without the two bottom cover tears on them.

 

I agree, from what we see here it's a 9.6 at least and maybe a 9.8 if that's all that is wrong with it.

[Flaming_Telepath]

It is utterly impossible to grade from a photo, especially an angled photo.

[synch]

It is utterly impossible to grade from a photo, especially an angled photo.

<-- Yes that was pointed out in the first reply

 

[AJD]

I think the tears in the page bottoms are from the printing process and won't affect the grade. If they are equally spaced across the page bottom that's a sure sign.

 

It might be worth paying for Matt Nelson's prescan if you think it's a strong shot at 9.8. But slabbing that book is a marginal proposition without an expert opinion, IMHO.