gadzukes Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 (edited) Front cover is really nice. Back cover has some rubbing near the spine. The cover paper used for this comic is really thin (I think they were cutting corners to keep the cost down?). My thought from holding this in hand is that it would be really tough to find one of these in super high grade. Edited March 24, 2022 by gadzukes Galen130 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 The staples look recessed. Is there wear near them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 On 11/2/2021 at 2:16 PM, Galen130 said: The staples look recessed. Is there wear near them? The staples are holding really well. Like I said above.... the paper quality of the cover is very thin for a cover.... that may have contributed to the staples being slightly recessed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 On 11/2/2021 at 1:06 PM, gadzukes said: The staples are holding really well. Like I said above.... the paper quality of the cover is very thin for a cover.... that may have contributed to the staples being slightly recessed. Yeah, I kinda figured. But is there wear on the spine at the staple edges? It looks like it...just want to make sure there are no tears there. Thanks for humoring an old man!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 On 11/2/2021 at 3:27 PM, Galen130 said: Yeah, I kinda figured. But is there wear on the spine at the staple edges? It looks like it...just want to make sure there are no tears there. Thanks for humoring an old man!!! I don't have it in front of me (I just sent it in for slabbing), but I didn't see any tears at the staples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Good. I’ll go 7.5 conservatively. Good luck. 🤙 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 7.5/8.0 Great book. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funnybooks Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 On 11/2/2021 at 3:42 PM, Galen130 said: Good. I’ll go 7.5 conservatively. Good luck. 🤙 On 11/3/2021 at 10:24 AM, grendelbo said: 7.5/8.0 Great book. Thanks for sharing. 8.0 grendelbo and Galen130 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 I want this to get an 8.0, but I think because of the number of color rubs on the back, it'll get marked down another step for a large-area defect... so 7.5. Happy to be proven wrong there, though! Regardless, beautiful copy from the front, so it'll present well ahead of its technical grade. As you surmised, high grade copies of this don't grow on trees; the black cover and the bargain-basement thin paper conspire to make a mess out of a lot of books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 (edited) I am SO please to announce that this one is coming back as an 8.5. Very happy I paid less than $1 for this raw (paid $825 for a collection of 3000 modern... which comes to $.27c each) Edited March 24, 2022 by gadzukes grendelbo, Funnybooks and Galen130 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funnybooks Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 congrats!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanenwang Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) Cover is awesome... back in mid 1990s Mr. O'Barr was selling all of the OA for this run through an art gallery and was asking $12K for each of the 4 covers. I think I still have the catalog somewhere... should try to dig it up. Edited April 8, 2022 by hermanenwang gadzukes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 10:44 PM, gadzukes said: I am SO please to announce that this one is coming back as an 8.5. Very happy I'm surprised CGC didn't treat that back cover color rub more harshly but I'm also pleased because my Caliber Presents 1 has the same moderate flaw. I'll go back into my collection and grade it a little higher. Congratulations. gadzukes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Februus Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Congrats! I wasn’t around and missed all the fun but it’s good you had it graded.. have to wash your hands or wear gloves to handle that baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 On 4/8/2022 at 11:53 PM, Februus said: Congrats! I wasn’t around and missed all the fun but it’s good you had it graded.. have to wash your hands or wear gloves to handle that baby. YES! I've never seen a cover want to show fingerprints more than that one. Horrible paper quality too. I'm lucky this was able to get an 8.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
