Spidey 86 : Your thoughts?

[nik]

Real purdy back cover and even White Pages, opinions welcomed.

[Sal]

9.4, unless that is dust/sun shadow on the upper part of the right side, which in case i would say 9.0?

 

did you really need a grade on this one or are you showing off? nice book either way

[nik]

It is a light dust shadow, and I dont really have anything to show off compared to other books that have been posted here,

 

I am just very small fry in this hobby

[bullseye]

nice book, and i agree on the 9.0 good color though

[uclapeterg]

I would say 9.0/9.2 with the dust shadow. I've seen books with a lot worse dust shadow than this one get a 9.4, but I think those books were 9.6 structure wise.

[FFB]

9.2. 9.0 would be worst case scenario. Nice book! That's one of the books that I hoard.

[Aces]

9.0/9.2

[uclapeterg]

9.2. 9.0 would be worst case scenario. Nice book! That's one of the books that I hoard.

 

Why?

[Sal]

It is a light dust shadow, and I dont really have anything to show off compared to other books that have been posted here,

 

I am just very small fry in this hobby

 

oh, no offense intended, i kid. sorry, i forget i'm still a n00b around here

[divad]

It is a light dust shadow, and I dont really have anything to show off compared to other books that have been posted here,

 

I am just very small fry in this hobby

 

Don't let him fool you . . . he's a BSD

[divad]

9.0/9.2/9.4 What's with the slash grades all of a sudden?

 

9.4 Nize book!

[FFB]

9.2. 9.0 would be worst case scenario. Nice book! That's one of the books that I hoard.

 

Why?

 

Try to find one in high grade -- none of the major dealers ever have a copy in 9.2 or better. Then if you CAN find one, try to buy it at anything approaching a reasonable multiple of guide. Doug's 9.6 copy sold for 15X guide before it ever even hit his site, and a 9.4 sold for $614 recently -- more than 6X the NEW guide price before the new guide even came out. Another 9.4 copy sold on ebay for $200 within 24 hours of the 9.4 copy that went for $614, but that was an anomaly caused by the fact that the auction was one of those weird "Ebay Live" auctions that you have to pre-register for and despite three tries, I couldn't get the registration to work so my much higher bid was never accepted.

 

ASM#86 is one of the few issues in that time frame that to my knowledge was not included in any of the big warehouse finds and it is the origin and revamping of one of the upcoming characters in the Marvel Universe who has a movie deal where the movie is in active development. I am not the only person who is hoarding that issue.

[divad]

You Black Widow freak, you!

 

hey, where's your reply to my last e-mail?

[FFB]

You Black Widow freak, you!

 

hey, where's your reply to my last e-mail?

 

The one where you offered me the paltry sum of $22 for my AT#12 VF+ 8.5? I responded as soon as I got it.

[divad]

Perhaps you forgot to send it? And VF+ with a 1/4" tear to the back cover? I thought I was being reasonable (insert dirty laundry emoticon here)

[FFB]

Perhaps you forgot to send it? And VF+ with a 1/4" tear to the back cover? I thought I was being reasonable (insert dirty laundry emoticon here)

 

Take it up with Bob Storms. He graded it.

 

Also, you should note that under your accretive grading scale, the book has at least "9 points of gloss." Take off .5 for the small tear on the back cover and you get an 8.5.

[divad]

Perhaps you forgot to send it? And VF+ with a 1/4" tear to the back cover? I thought I was being reasonable (insert dirty laundry emoticon here)

 

Take it up with Bob Storms. He graded it.

 

Also, you should note that under your accretive grading scale, the book has at least "9 points of gloss." Take off .5 for the small tear on the back cover and you get an 8.5.

 

What was I thinkin'

 

Don't know Bob, but you've only said nice things about him . . .

[FFB]

Perhaps you forgot to send it? And VF+ with a 1/4" tear to the back cover? I thought I was being reasonable (insert dirty laundry emoticon here)

 

Take it up with Bob Storms. He graded it.

 

Also, you should note that under your accretive grading scale, the book has at least "9 points of gloss." Take off .5 for the small tear on the back cover and you get an 8.5.

 

What was I thinkin'

 

Don't know Bob, but you've only said nice things about him . . .

 

The TOS#52 that I bought from Burntboy has several small tears along the top edge of the front cover (at least one of which is 1/4") and just slabbed out at 8.5. I don't think a single 1/4" tear would drop the book out of 8.5.

[divad]

Perhaps you forgot to send it? And VF+ with a 1/4" tear to the back cover? I thought I was being reasonable (insert dirty laundry emoticon here)

 

Take it up with Bob Storms. He graded it.

 

Also, you should note that under your accretive grading scale, the book has at least "9 points of gloss." Take off .5 for the small tear on the back cover and you get an 8.5.

 

What was I thinkin'

 

Don't know Bob, but you've only said nice things about him . . .

 

The TOS#52 that I bought from Burntboy has several small tears along the top edge of the front cover (at least one of which is 1/4") and just slabbed out at 8.5. I don't think a single 1/4" tear would drop the book out of 8.5.

 

For a mid-Bronze Age book it would IMHO

[FFB]

Perhaps you forgot to send it? And VF+ with a 1/4" tear to the back cover? I thought I was being reasonable (insert dirty laundry emoticon here)

 

Take it up with Bob Storms. He graded it.

 

Also, you should note that under your accretive grading scale, the book has at least "9 points of gloss." Take off .5 for the small tear on the back cover and you get an 8.5.

 

What was I thinkin'

 

Don't know Bob, but you've only said nice things about him . . .

 

The TOS#52 that I bought from Burntboy has several small tears along the top edge of the front cover (at least one of which is 1/4") and just slabbed out at 8.5. I don't think a single 1/4" tear would drop the book out of 8.5.

 

For a mid-Bronze Age book it would IMHO

 

Well in that case, your FF#112 is DEFINITELY not an 8.0.

 

Also, AT#12 is not "early bronze age" either. BA goes until 1984.