Please grade my Amazing Spider-Man #265 0

[Bill67]

I bought this book off the shelf in 1985. Unfortunately young Bill wasn't quite as fastidious about caring for his comics as he could have been.

These are the issues I can see:

1) This comic was stored in a box without being bagged/boarded, and over the course of many years it slouched and developed a corner roll. As a result, the bottom right corner doesn't sit flat.

2) There are three very small spine stress lines below the top stable (6th and 7th pictures). The extreme close-up photos make them look huge, but under normal lighting they're barely visible.

3) There seems to be some kind of dings/impressions on the back cover (11th and 12th pictures). They don't appear to break color and don't go through to the interior of the comic.

4) At the top right of the cover, there's a small crease but no color break (4th picture)

One other odd thing I noticed is that if you look closely at the Noxema ad on the back cover (last picture)r, along the left edge and about an inch above the black bottle cap, it looks like there's some unevenness in the background coloring. It almost looks like staining, but it's not. (Nothing is visible on the inside cover.) I dug out some other comics that I have with the same ad on the back and noticed similar things but in different parts of the image. I think it's just unevenness of the ink.

My questions are:

1) What would be the estimated grade as-is?

2) What would it be after pressing?

3) Is it worth bothering to submit it in the first place? (This is a comic that's worth maybe $250 in 9.8.)

My suspicion is that, assuming a press corrected everything else, the spine stress marks would put it at 9.6.

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0362.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0363.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0364.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0365.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0366.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0367.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0369.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0370.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0372.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0373.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0374.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0375.JPG

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/pgm/asm265/IMG_0376.JPG

Thanks in advance for your input!

-Bill

Edited October 10, 2019 by Bill67
Fixed link for next-to-last picture.

[Deadpoolica]

imo with those color breaking spine ticks the book will not grade a 9.6 even if you pressed out the other defects, I'd say your looking at 9.0 after press/clean

[Bill67]

5 hours ago, Deadpoolica said:

imo with those color breaking spine ticks the book will not grade a 9.6 even if you pressed out the other defects, I'd say your looking at 9.0 after press/clean

A 9.0? Based on my earlier experience getting comics graded, I think you're being overly harsh.

I have two copies of Tales Of The Teen Titans #44, which also has that terrible black background coloring that makes spine ticks stick out like a sore thumb, and they have about the same level of spine stress as my ASM#265. But CGC graded them both 9.4.

The first photo below is all 3 books together. The next two are photos of the first copy of TOTTT#44 and the following two are from the second copy. The last photo is of ASM#265 again, taken with the same camera, for comparison.

-Bill

 

Edited October 11, 2019 by Bill67

[WPPJames]

I don't see any way of it getting a 9.6 even after a C&P.  Just my 

[Crops068]

21 minutes ago, WPPJames said:

I don't see any way of it getting a 9.6 even after a C&P.  Just my 

Agree

[theCapraAegagrus]

9.4 at best IMO.

[Bill67]

Yeah, I guess I agree with the "9.4 at best" estimate. But at that point it's barely worth paying for the clean & press.

Thanks everybody!

-Bill