PGM Le Babbucce di Allah (italian comic, 1950)

[vaillant]

A experiment: I wish to grade with more accuracy – adapting US comic book grading standards – a few italian books I am keeping for trade with similar stuff,

 

This is tabloid sized (or the like) and does not fit into my scanner, so I have tried to take pictures, hope they look enough good to grade.

 

This series, as many others of the same period, has the cover paper which is the same stock of the inside pages, only a bit thicker, and thus more bound to get ruined.

Main defects:

 

– some tearing to staples (common with these);

– book was fold in two at some point, but no bad crease (this, on the italian market, is common with journal-sized publication, and thus is not hammered like subrscription creases are with comic book-sized publications).

– minor back cover staining due to humidity (not much taken into account here as well, with books).

 

Many thanks as usual! (thumbs u

 

http://i.imgur.com/HXAeM6m.jpg

 

High res: http://i.imgur.com/y8kTzWO.jpg

[timfinz]

7.5 IMHO!

[vaillant]

Thanks. (thumbs u

For those wondering, that is fake Arabic, and the word to the left is the name of the author (Jacovitti), while the one on the right has no apparent meaning.

 

Title reads like "Allah’s Slippers".

[marvelcollector]

7.0-7.5...staining/foxing kills it...

 

Very nice job of picture taking btw...don't think I would have realized they weren't scans if you didn't mention it. (thumbs u

[vaillant]

Thanks W.! (thumbs u

 

As I said, staining/foxing (at least to this degree) is basically ignored here, both by collectors and dealers. Of course, a copy without staining is preferred over a one with it, but price difference is almost nothing, if grading is the same.

 

I took the picture and then adjusted the distortion of the eye lens with Lightroom, and cropped it. It’s a nice software.