Iron Fist 7: Help with Cream to OW paper question

[ft88]

Original Owner collection of 400+ Bronze books. They were stored in the old Robert Bell comic bags from the 1970s but not taped so the edges (bottom edge almost always) was partially exposed.

 

So my question is how would you grade a comic like this and should I submit this book?

 

Many have cream to OW pages with the edge more on the cream side. This book is typical, some worse some better depending on where it was in the stack.

 

[joeypost]

PQ will not affect the grade unless the pages are brittle or damaged.

 

There are plenty of 9.6 and better slabs with CRM/OW pages.

[divad]

I'd submit the #1 and #14, but certainly not the #7.

[KermitsPad.net-migration]

I have always wondered about page quality as it is sad to not be allowed to represent the true quality of such a nice book because overstreet doesn't allow anything less then light-cream pages on Near Mint- books, which would mean by strictest law it would have to be a VF/NM+.... of course if you are selling the item you can let folks know it is NM or NM+ etc but discount the price due to page quality. This lets folks know how sweet the book is but also that you have adjusted the price for the lower page quality.

 

We just got a 5,000 High-Grade one-owner "Wythville" collection in with long boxes of sweet silver and bronze. Sadly some got slight water damage at the top of the spine etc, so those won't make the grade.. snif snif.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Sincerely,

 

Kermit

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