scburdet Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 (edited) I just received a lot of +30 Dell silver age comics, mostly horror titles. This copy of the Creature wasn't the motivating factor for buying, but I did notice it was included. I also didn't know which version it was at the time, but it's the 2nd print. Unclear to me what the difference in value is, but there are 3× more copies of the 1st print than the 2nd in the CGC census. Not sure it's knowable if that's b/c of how many copies are in circulation, or just b/c people care more about grading the first print. Pretty nice looking copy, given the Dell grading scale that typically ranges between beat to hell to almost beat to hell. There are only 8 copies graded 9.0 or above for both printings combined. Won't challenge those numbers, but what do you think? Edit: Just a shadow on the inner pages. Just showing the centerfold, which seems to fall out of Dell books if you breath on them too hard. This one is firmly attached. Edited July 21 by scburdet Skytripa, Artifiction and grendelbo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 5.0 Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scburdet Posted August 26, 2023 Author Share Posted August 26, 2023 On 8/25/2023 at 10:57 PM, grendelbo said: 5.0 Sort of curious if you thought the wording of my edit was meant to suggest the centerfold was loose/detached (it's not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 On 8/25/2023 at 9:04 PM, scburdet said: Sort of curious if you thought the wording of my edit was meant to suggest the centerfold was loose/detached (it's not) No. It could be but my guess probably wouldn't change. Edge wear, rounded and blunted corners, corner creasing, cover appears to have lost some of its gloss, minor bends best seen in the inside front cover, some sort of discoloration on the lower right edge. General wear sort of thing. Maybe a 5.5. scburdet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morbius21 Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 i think you could get to 6.5 with some work scburdet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post scburdet Posted July 21 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 21 Everyone was a little hard on this one too. I thought it looked a little better than the first print that I posted at the same time, so this makes sense. Sidenote, there are 3× more 1st prints than 2nds in the census. Wish we had print runs to know if the 2nd print was actually rarer. Corvonie, zzutak, Otter1775 and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcjames Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Nice book! scburdet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skytripa Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 Very clean book. Wish my Dr. Who was as clean as this one congrats! scburdet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
