Question about stickers on comic cover 0

[67Marc]

I am buying a comic that has a sticker on the back cover. How would that affect the grading? Does that automatically make the comic grade real low? I have included the picture of the back cover. 

[LowGradeBronze]

It isn't the sticker that's dragging the grade down on this book. 

So do you mean theoretically, how much would a sticker like that on a high grade book affect the grade?

[joeypost]

If it’s really high grade it would be qualified. 

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 4/26/2023 at 3:58 PM, joeypost said:

If it’s really high grade it would be qualified. 

[gradejunky]

Leave that comic where it is.  As said, the sticker is just part of the problem.  The book itself is thrashed and is what appears to be a 90's drek issue.  What comic is that anyhow?

[MattTheDuck]

If you're paying that sticker price for a reader copy, you're good to go and shouldn't worry about grade.  If you're paying more than 29 cents, I'd suggest you can get a better copy at whatever price you are paying. Slabbing this book would cost more than it's worth slabbed.

[OtherEric]

I'm guessing the book is Batman Adventures 12?  That's the only book with that back cover I can imagine somebody considering slabbing in that grade.  And even then it's probably not worth a slab; sell it raw for somebody who just wants to say they have a copy.

[Lazyboy]

On 5/1/2023 at 10:28 AM, gradejunky said:

Leave that comic where it is.  As said, the sticker is just part of the problem.  The book itself is thrashed and is what appears to be a 90's drek issue.  What comic is that anyhow?

Some junky animated adaptation that people way overvalue.

[revat]

The amount that it lowers the grade is proportional to the grade independent of the sticker.  If you have a 9.8 it'll knock it down like 5-7 full points.

If you have 3.5 it might not impact at all.

There are some comics that have a sticker THAT COMES ORIGINALLY STUCK TO THE BOOK, in which case the answer is not at all, or possibly you NEED the sticker to get a blue label.

Soooooo...it depends.

But very few people are looking for modern books with (non-original) stickers on them