PGM: Superboy 127 - writing on cover and interior

[Saint_Doyle]

Not really something I'm considering getting graded, I was just wondering how much a little writing on the cover and interior affects the grade of an otherwise NM book from the 60's. None of the writing affects the story, however there is rather a lot of it. I ask because I have a lot of comics exactly like this from The Jimmy Richardson Collection.

 

• Check mark on Comics Code box (cover)
  
• Stylized box drawn around title (cover)
  
• "JDR" initials on back cover (back cover)
  
• "JDR" initials on the bottom of every other page (interior)
  
• Blocks of text scratched out from Direct Currents (interior)
  

 

 

 

He wrote his initials on the bottom of every other page like this:

 

And this page got a little extra attention with the pen:

[speople]

Reminds me of when I first began to collect comics. My twin and myself would pen out all the direct currents stuff, and a lot of ask the answer man stuff, that didnt appertain to the 7 books we collected.

 

Fun times.

 

As for grade, I would imagine the scrawled writing can affect an otherwise NM book by quite a lot as a lot of defacing has taken place.

 

No better than FN in my opinion although you may get a better grade with a GLOD (green label of death).

 

 

[MODOK]

I ask because I have a lot of comics exactly like this from The Jimmy Richardson Collection.

 

 

Jimmy Richardson Collection?

 

Thanks for the laugh!

 

 

[Saint_Doyle]

Jimmy Richardson Collection?

 

Thanks for the laugh!

 

Who do I speak with to have this collection officially registered? I have about 50 would-be-super-high-grade comics from the 60's (mostly DC) from this guy whose name I know because at one point in his collecting he put his name stamp on the cover of every issue.

 

If I get the name "Jimmy Richardson" to be famous in the comic collecting world those stamps will only up their value, right?

[MR SigS]

 

Whywhywhywhywhywhy?

 

I honestly don't know how this would grade by ANYBODY'S standards (CGC, POS I mean PGX, Overstreet), but for me- over 50%

of the book being defaced like this makes it no better than 2.0

 

But that's just my personal feeling.

[Hado]

He didn't like Sea Devils....get off Jimmy's back

[MR SigS]

Is that what he scribbled out? I couldn't make out the type.

[Hado]

That's the only one I could make out

[Saint_Doyle]

He scribbled out the entries for Sea Devils, House of Mystery and All-American Men of War (I can't quite make out the issue numbers from these pics and I'm too lazy to go get the book). I wonder if he used this as sort of a checklist and somewhere there exists copies of these issues from the Jimmy Richardson collection...

 

I shall not rest until I find them!

[Hado]

an obsession begins