Gino D Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Hello folks. New guy here. Bought most of my comics new back when the kids were babies. Just had my first 6 comics graded, unfortunately before finding this thread. Spawn 1 and Morbius: The Living Vampire 1 got the best grades at a 9.6. X-Men Adventures 1 came back with the low grade at 7.5. I think pressing may have helped. Especially with the X Men book as the grader notes read "light bends to cover, light creasing to cover and light spine stress lines to cover". Can you please let me know what you think of this one. There is a bend in spine on FC, a bump on the TRFC and BRBC. The early and late pages are good but the pages leading to the centerfold have some type of manufacturing damage on the bottom, I think, as well as folding on the top of the left pages that are also near the centerfold. Do you think pressing would help? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 The manufacturing page issue should not matter. Would maybe keep a book from 9.8. This one is hard to tell, looks like some light wear bottom of spine. It's a book that you need to make sure no spine ticks in person. I see one fairly noticeable one behind Venom back. For me 9.2-9.4 safely Gino D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William-James88 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Yeah, 9.2 or 9.4 would make sense Gino D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 9.2 Thanks for posting. Gino D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gino D Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 On 1/20/2022 at 10:29 AM, comicginger1789 said: The manufacturing page issue should not matter. Would maybe keep a book from 9.8. This one is hard to tell, looks like some light wear bottom of spine. It's a book that you need to make sure no spine ticks in person. I see one fairly noticeable one behind Venom back. For me 9.2-9.4 safely The tick near Venoms back is the only one. I have never had any books pressed. Do you think pressing would get rid of that tick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 I have a 9.6 graded copy that has no defects except for light waviness on the top edge of the front cover. A press probably won’t do much to get this above a 9.4…IMO. Welcome to the boards!!! Gino D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 On 1/20/2022 at 4:32 PM, Gino D said: The tick near Venoms back is the only one. I have never had any books pressed. Do you think pressing would get rid of that tick? No If you see white it means colour is broken and you cannot undo that. Spine creases or stress marks that are more like indents are the pressable spine flaws Gino D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timfinz Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 9.2 Gino D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funnybooks Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 9.2 Gino D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
