Please help with Sub-Mariner #1

[RustyStaple]

This was one of the first #1's I bought a few years back.

Thanks for helping me grade it..

 

There's printers ink on the bottom front and back and a tiny 1/4" stain on the front near the LLC.

 

Bill

 

[Aces]

4.5/5.0

[Silver Surfer]

I say you have a nice looking 7.0, Can you believe I have never owned a copy of this yet.

[shadow_wolf-migration]

nice 5.0

[Mr. Zipper]

6.5 - 7.0

 

With books like this, I always put off and put off because they are inexpensive and easy to find, then one day you go to a con and they ain't cheap anymore!

[divad]

I say you have a nice looking 7.0, Can you believe I have never owned a copy of this yet.

 

SS,

Did you miss the chip at the LEBC? No way this book get's a 7.0 . . .

[divad]

6.5 - 7.0

 

With books like this, I always put off and put off because they are inexpensive and easy to find, then one day you go to a con and they ain't cheap anymore!

 

Zip,

 

This book was the first (and last) time I was ever ripped off by a comic dealer. When I was 16, I had three copies of this book. I took the 2 dupes into my LCS, one of the first I had ever seen, and asked the proprietor what he would give me. Well, he asked what other Subby's I was missing, and "traded" a bunch of later issues for both of my dupes. Boy, was I ever robbed blind! Learned my lesson BIG TIME!

[Silver Surfer]

I say you have a nice looking 7.0, Can you believe I have never owned a copy of this yet.

 

I guess I did but overall the book is in decent condition. Maybe not a 7.0 but not far off. I have owned 6.0's that are far worst.

[Stout1a]

Im with Diva on this one. It wont get a 7.0 IMHO But a 5.0 seems too be fair.

[burntboy]

i'm thinking in the 5.5 to 6.5 range. except for that small chunk on the back, there are no big creases or other missing pieces, so it holds up structurally. the distributor ink stains reduce it's overall appeal, but probably won't hammer the grade too much..............

[garthgantu]

Burnt:

 

That's not distributor ink... it's described as "printer's ink." ??

 

Here's Distributor Ink In All Its Glory

 

Add that to the slight water damage in LLFC, and chip outta the back, plus a few spine creases, and it all adds up to about a 5.0 I'm afraid. That printer's ink definitely knocks it down at least 1.5 all by itself.

[garthgantu]

If the rest of the book were just a tad nicer, it would probably get an 8.0 Green label, due to the ink stains..?