Grade In - Marvel X-Men #1 1991 Magneto Newsstand 3 3

[JRTownsend]

I have a set of news stand X-Men First issues from 1991 I am thinking of sending in. I bought them brand new, never opened them and immediately put them in mylar and thats where they have sat since 1991. 

Just curious what you guys think. I sent off a news stand Punisher #1 that came back 9.6 which I thought should of been higher as I can't see anything wrong with it at all and it was handled the same way as this one. But it just shows me my grading is off by a bit... so help me out with an estimate on this one please?

 

Edited September 5, 2022 by JRTownsend
Graded

[KCode98]

Nice!!!!

[grendelbo]

9.4, probably higher.

Thanks for posting.

[Funnybooks]

at least 9.6

color rub bc?

[JRTownsend]

Don't believe there is any color rub anywhere. Might be a glare?  That last image has a glare on it you can see it's not on the full cover image.

 

Edited June 9, 2022 by JRTownsend

[Funnybooks]

On 6/9/2022 at 2:37 PM, JRTownsend said:

Don't believe there is any color rub anywhere. Might be a glare?

That would be good…these were the areas I thought may exhibit some color rub

[JRTownsend]

I see what you are talking about. It looks like a faint streak of ink from the printing. Counted as manufacturing defect? How much of a ding is this?

 

 

[Funnybooks]

I’m not convinced it’s manufacturing…

you may want to take some time to check other copies to see if these defects are consistent 

[Geoff2099]

It's very hard to tell the difference between a 9.6 and a 9.8 unless there's a colour breaking tick. I'd say 9.2 here - I think that is some colour rub on the BC.

[JRTownsend]

Ok I do think it's color rub as well which the way I understand it is a manufacturing artifact because it comes from comics sliding on top of each other while the ink is still slightly wet. There is another version of "color rub" when comics are stacked on top of each other without bags and boards but this looks more like a dirty comic and this kind can be cleaned off.

I started looking at other 1991 X-men #1 on ebay. A lot of the Newstand versions of Magneto cover have similar color rub as mine. And some are even graded 9.8 as seen in this auction:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304473165165

So my question is does this type of color rub cause a ding on the score typically? If it doesn't like this one seems to show then what would mine grade at not considering the color rub?

 

 

Edited June 11, 2022 by JRTownsend

[Sillydiabetic]

I understand the thought process you’re going through.  I wish CGC grading was consistent from day to day, but it just isn’t.  There is no appeals process to be had - finding examples/evidence that a really high grade book has similar defects isn’t uncommon.  I chalk that up to the grader getting lucky the night before.  
Seeing the color rub on the upper left side (and other area pointed out already) suggests a grade around 9.2 - 9.6 in my opinion.  A cleaning would likely lock you in between 9.4 - 9.8 depending on the day.  

[Axelrod]

Bet that black could come off with the (gentle) application of a white eraser.  

I think you can easily get a 9.6.  9.8 almost seems like a coin flip. 

And then they won't tell you most times what it was that made it a 9.6 vs. a 9.8....

[Galen130]

C&P to 9.6

[PeterPark]

9.2-9.4

[JRTownsend]

Grade is in.  No clean no press.  I did lightly remove the color rub.