PGM FF1 2 2

[WalesUK]

Hi All.

I would welcome your thoughts on my low quality FF1, torn rear cover.

As well as a grade - please can you let me know if you feel pressing would be recommended for such a poor copy.

Cheers All.

[Terry JSA]

1.0 if 1/3 of the back cover wasn’t missing.

0.5 since 1/3 of the back cover is missing. 

Edited August 8, 2021 by Terry_JSA

[grendelbo]

Geez, look at all these great books from @WalesUK. What is it - Christmas-for-graders-day? 

Nah, it's the anniversary of the birth of the Marvel Universe.

0.5. Too much of that back cover is missing along with the other defects.

Thanks very much for sharing this book and the others.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/8/2021 at 7:09 PM, WalesUK said:

I love that M.M 9d stamp, Josey - about the fourth one I've seen. Len Miller's wife, perhaps? 

Given that the book exists as a pence copy, distributed by Thorpe & Porter, it's interesting to see a cents copy with a stamp like that.

I'm not an expert on the practice, but I don't see that copy being strong enough to take a press and I suspect it wouldn't do much for it even if it could. 0.5 to 1.0 is likely the best it could achieve given what is missing. 

Thanks for posting it 

 

[Terry JSA]

On 8/8/2021 at 2:47 PM, grendelbo said:

Geez, look at all these great books from @WalesUK. What is it - Christmas-for-graders-day? 

Nah, it's the anniversary of the birth of the Marvel Universe.

0.5. Too much of that back cover is missing along with the other defects.

Thanks very much for sharing this book and the others.

CGC also marks a book “incomplete” if a certain amount of the cover is missing.

Edited August 8, 2021 by Terry_JSA

[FoggyNelson]

Poor cond.

[WalesUK]

On 8/8/2021 at 8:20 PM, FoggyNelson said:

Poor cond.

Yes, that I know........................PGM comic

[grendelbo]

On 8/8/2021 at 1:30 PM, WalesUK said:

Yes, that I know........................PGM comic

[mattn792]

DO NOT press this book.  It would be a waste of your money, and it might actually make the book even worse.

Its a 0.5 all day.

[rjpb]

Probably no more than an 0.5, but it's complete and the pages look to be in okay shape, so it's value would probably be closer to a 1.0

[ninanina]

Boy would I like to read about everything this comic's gone through in the last 70 odd years. There's a story here and I think I have a great idea for the next Marvel movie. 

Also not sure if it would be a good press candidate. A lot of what's wrong won't be fixed with a press. But, it is complete and I'm also thinking somewhere in the neighborhood of .5

Thanks for posting it. 

Are you able to let us know where you got it? I'd settle for that. 

[comicginger1789]

It’s one of two grades. Either 0.5 or 1.0. 
 

As for thoughts, this is exactly the type of copy I imagine finding and being able to get some day if I am ever that fortunate. Lovely worn book especially if inside is complete. 

[1950's war comics]

CGC 0.5 but would look nice in their slab

[PetuniaGrimm]

0.5 and no to the press.
 

[grendelbo]

On 8/8/2021 at 4:35 PM, comicginger1789 said:

As for thoughts, this is exactly the type of copy I imagine finding and being able to get some day if I am ever that fortunate. Lovely worn book especially if inside is complete. 

My old Marvel keys are like this and I wouldn't want them any other way.

[grendelbo]

On 8/8/2021 at 4:09 PM, ninanina said:

Boy would I like to read about everything this comic's gone through in the last 70 odd years. There's a story here

I picked up a low-grade UK Avengers 1 about 30 years ago and have always wondered about it's journey, especially getting back to the USA and NM from across the pond. The hands it traveled through. The eyes that read it.

[Math Teacher]

On 8/8/2021 at 1:47 PM, grendelbo said:

0.5. Too much of that back cover is missing along with the other defects.

+1

 

[Hibou]

.5

Great book!

[Funnybooks]

.5 slam dunk..no way 1.0

[Deadpoolica]

.5