PGM: Low Grade Spider-Man #1 Megacon Purchase

[Westy Steve]

I just got this. Half cash and half trade. I might have overpaid because I noticed while taking the picture that there is a triangle in the lower cover that was carefully glued on. Looks original, but repaired. Is that considered restoration by CGC standards in this low grade? If I cut it back off and then tape it back on, is it still? Recommendations?

 

Cover is attached (barely) and centerfold too.

 

 

 

[oakman29]

1.5 PLOD

[tjanse]

Looks like some CT Too 1.5 maybe? Not to sure with the pic some of the blues look off on front cover and back of front cover.

[thehumantorch]

1.5 PLOD

(thumbs u

[Westy Steve]

Looks like some CT Too 1.5 maybe? Not to sure with the pic some of the blues look off on front cover and back of front cover.

 

I don't think it's color touched. My camera and lighting isn't the best.

[tjanse]

Looks like some CT Too 1.5 maybe? Not to sure with the pic some of the blues look off on front cover and back of front cover.

 

I don't think it's color touched. My camera and lighting isn't the best.

 

Still a cool book either way

[rjpb]

1.5 - the grade would probably remain the same if you removed the triangle, but really, why bother, it's low grade enough that that sort of thing shouldn't matter.

[Westy Steve]

Thanks. Kind of what I figured. If I really wanted it in a slab, I could re-cut the break and tape it. I think the grading companies shouldn't count off on minor glue repair when the book's grade is so low, or just provide a "details" grade. Because in this case, I think someone's glue-job actually helps the book. And if it was a tape repair, which is horrible for long-term storage of the book, it wouldn't count as restoration.

 

It does make me wonder how many books like this pass through collectors unnoticed because they don't know what to look for.

[TheMightyJohn]

Thanks. Kind of what I figured. If I really wanted it in a slab, I could re-cut the break and tape it. I think the grading companies shouldn't count off on minor glue repair when the book's grade is so low, or just provide a "details" grade. Because in this case, I think someone's glue-job actually helps the book. And if it was a tape repair, which is horrible for long-term storage of the book, it wouldn't count as restoration.

 

It does make me wonder how many books like this pass through collectors unnoticed because they don't know what to look for.

 

Can't agree with you there, all restoration should be PLOD period. I hate the golden age books get away with small amounts of restoration.

[ARK]

1.5 PLOD

(thumbs u

 

+2

[Westy Steve]

Update:

 

I got out a powerful magnifier (15x) and looked at that "glued piece" again. I figured out that the piece was not glued on there. Instead, it was a hard...hard...crease that was fairly flimsy, so someone dabbed glue on there as reinforcement to keep the piece on there. I don't know if CGC would scrutinize it that hard before throwing it in a purple slab, but I'm confident in what I'm seeing (so I won't send it to CGC). It's kind of like if you bend a paperclip a couple dozen times before it breaks...they caught it in time and lightly traced the glue on. Don't know what CGC would do with glue reinforcement like that. Probably still a PLOD, but I like the fact that the piece never actually fell off.