PGM Fantastic Four 44

[meself]

Thanks again in anticipation chaps (thumbs u

 

I inch piece missing front page.

½ inch tear as seen in missing piece on FC goes through book

Pages complete and attached

 

 

 

 

[Lost]

2.0

[etanick]

i will go with 2.5

[MR SigS]

I'm really not too sure how to treat these books with full book damage like this, but I would guess 2.0

[vaillant]

There is a rule on the maximum area which could be missing, from any given (low) grade. I seem to recall Fair allows one third of the cover missing (which, honestly I would call Poor).

Since the piece out is not so big, and affects little the characters, I would say some could call this a G+ 2.5, but I wouldn’t go past a G 2.0.

[vaillant]

BTW, isn’t there a single copy of this book (which I love) where the black ink actually covers the other three process inks?

Most of the covers look like the black wasn’t printed as the last color, rather it seems the cyan and yellow plates have been printed last, and the result is the line art on the Dragon Man is toned down. Or maybe it was just a problem of letting the inks dry properly, I am a graphic designer but not a printing expert.

[MR SigS]

I dunno :shrug:

 

I suppose if you want to get technical about it, since Dragon Man is farthest away, he would appear toned down.

 

Yeah, that must be it. After all, it's Lee/Kirby FF

 

 

[vaillant]

My copy is in nice shape, but for that reason it always looked to me as it’s somewhat "blurred".

 

Hey, you may be right after all: they did it on purpose.

[MR SigS]

I'll sleep easier believing that

[vaillant]

Kirby is always right.

[meself]

Kirby is always right.

 

 

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