PGM Amazing Spider-Man 194 0

[grayzr]

This is a tough one for me. All pages are still attached but there is some spine roll and staple tears.

[Mars76]

That spine and those tears around the staples have me at a 5.0. The rest of the book looks pretty nice.

[scburdet]

According to the book, staple tears come between 7.0-9.6. I have two graded books at 8.5 & 9.0 with barely noticeable staple tears. These are much worse. Theoretically, a press can take out a lot of that spine roll, but I'd be worried your tears would become detachments (I suspect a press-related detachment happened with 2 of my books at CCS). It would definitely be interesting to see what CGC would do to this book if pressed to near flatness. Would they give it a 7.0? I'll say 6.0 as-is. 

[Nilo2]

Top staple looks like it was reattached or replaced. With a really good press I'd say 6.5, maybe 7.0. Not sure about a blue label though...

[grayzr]

On 5/25/2023 at 1:37 PM, Nilo2 said:

Top staple looks like it was reattached or replaced. With a really good press I'd say 6.5, maybe 7.0. Not sure about a blue label though...

The staples are original. The book seems to have had an even worse spine roll then it does now. Someone probably tried to correct it and in doing so created the staple tears. Really sucks becuase the book looks great.