Please grade my fantastic four 10

[BrianR]

Hello I was pretty shocked when I saw the fantastic four 10 cgc 9.4 going for a little over $4,000 on Ebay. So I took a second look at my #10. I know it is not close to the 9.4 range but it is very clean. No tears, lays perfectly flat pages off-white . Yes there are several printing creases on the book not tears.

[kryptonitecomics]

7.5

[supapimp]

nice book! production creases won't affect grade....7.5

[Aces]

Well...

 

If it's worse than 7.5 I'll eat it.

 

I'd guess a 8.0 with an outside chance at 8.5.

 

They don't take off a lot for those production creases if anything at all.

 

edit:

It took so long to load I was able to do some scans for my auctions while waiting.

I didn't see that ding along the bottom till rechecking the scan after my post and reduced my guess by one notch.

[supapimp]

when are you going to upgrade from 56K dial up?

[Aces]

*sigh*

Next year.

The evil mortgage will be paid off by the late Fall this year and funds will be freed up for more luxuries.

[BrianR]

Thanks for the grades so far, I figured the book might grade about a 8.0-8.5 , but I am bias since I own the book. I might put up a couple more books to get a feel for my collection as a whole. Hopefully, I will start submitting books to be graded this year and I just want to determine what is worth submitting and what is not. I have always bought my books based on my own eye appeal and never really seriously sat down and graded my books. Most of my *nice* Fantastic Fours including this one were bought from a single owner collection in Flagstaff in the early 90's. Too bad I was in college at the time or I would have bought them all. As it is I lost 30 pounds that semester buying the books I could rather than food. Some Priorities huh?

[sfilosa]

Who needs food. It's only going in a toilet shortly.

 

So far the books you show definitely look like CGC material. The only concern I have is that they look very creamy.

 

I myself don't buy Cream to Off-White Silver-Age books (but some board members do), but from the scans, it almost looks like the page qualtiy could get a flat out Cream only. I would think that would pull the resale value down a lot.

 

Page quality is ALMOST ALWAYS a factor when deciding what books to submit to CGC, especially for Silver-Age and more current books.

[DiceX]

7.5 to 8.0

[nik]

7.0/7.5 Great FF book

[Stout1]

A nice book. I would think it fits the 8.0-8.5 range perfectly..

[uclapeterg]

This book is notorious for production creases. I give it a 7.0 at least. You looking to sell?

[uclapeterg]

I usually have submitted books that I thought would get the dreaded cream designation and usually ends up getting off-white. I wonder how bad tight tan really looks.