PGM TOS 63 - grade is in 0

[vandybill]

I appreciate everyone's feedback. As I have said, I am new at grading and I miss a lot of things that as you guys point them out I say "how in the world did I miss that." Hope to be better at it soon so I can offer opinions on other books. Interestingly, I tend to see the flaws more clearly on scans than I do looking at the books themselves. 

Edited April 25, 2018 by vandybill
Grade received

[James J Johnson]

This is an atypically nice 63. First off, the right edge manufacturing of these typically produces a serrated (sawtooth) right edge and this doesn't have it). There's some chipping bottom BC, a few spine breaks in the black, some stresses across the line on the BC, but overall, very solid, 8.0 Exceptional overall.

 

PS: If what looks like chipping on the bottom back cover is actually just part of the cover overhang pushed down and in, and the paper is all there, once corrected, hand-pressed, this could get up to 8.5, outside chance at 9.0.

Edited February 12, 2018 by James J Johnson

[vandybill]

Unfortunately it is indeed chipping. 

[James J Johnson]

27 minutes ago, vandybill said:

Unfortunately it is indeed chipping. 

I was hoping it was just pushed in and back unevenly.      Still, overall, a beauty, worthy of an 8.0. Like AS 57, most of these were machined so badly on the right edge, that even if perfect otherwise, with all the serrations, divits, and jagged progressions on the right cover edge right off the production line, they're no better than VF to begin with! This is a rare bird to escape that fate. Should pull an 8.0 considering the strengths on a whole.

[larryfk]

7.5 probably...are those spots over the red/white/blue "Captain America" on the comic or from the scanner?

[vandybill]

Scanner. I will let everyone know what grade it gets along with Avengers 16 and CA 100. 

 

Appreciate the feedback

Edited February 14, 2018 by vandybill

[Phill the Governor]

8.0 seems about right.