fishbone Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Just killing time playing around on GPA, and I wonder how much of this book, how much of this cover is "original" !!?? >>> Title Action Comics Issue 1 Issue Date 6/38 Issue Year 1938 Publisher D.C. Comics Grade 9.4 Page Quality CREAM TO OFF-WHITE Grade Date 01/24/2018 Grade Category A-5 Label Text Restoration includes: color touch, pieces added, spine splits sealed on interior, cleaned, reinforced. Art Comments Jerry Siegel and Fred Guardineer story Fred Guardineer and Bernard Baily art Joe Shuster cover and art Key Comments Origin and 1st appearance of Superman. 1st appearance of Lois Lane and Zatara. Grader Notes Color touch (Archival material, high quality over 4"" x 4"") Cover A-5 Color touch (Archival material, high quality over 4"" x 4"") Full Bottom Interior A-5 Color touch (Archival material, high quality over 4"" x 4"") Full Right Interior A-5 Color touch (Archival material, high quality over 4"" x 4"") Full Top Interior A-5 Cover cleaning (High quality) A-1 Interior lightening (High quality) A-1 Moderate Spine split sealed to interior (Archival material, high quality) A-1 Piece fill cover (Archival material, high quality over 2"" x 2"") Full Bottom Back Cover A-5 Piece fill cover (Archival material, high quality over 2"" x 2"") Full Left Back Cover A-5 Piece fill cover (Archival material, high quality over 2"" x 2"") Full Top Back Cover A-5 Piece fill cover (Archival material, high quality up to 1"" x 1"") Right Bottom Front Cover A-3 Piece fill cover (Archival material, high quality up to 1"" x 1"") Spine A-3 Piece fill interior (Archival material, high quality over 2"" x 2"") Full Bottom Interior A-5 Piece fill interior (Archival material, high quality over 2"" x 2"") Full Right Interior A-5 Piece fill interior (Archival material, high quality over 2"" x 2"") Full Top Interior A-5 Reinforcement to interior (Archival material, high quality) Spine A-1 butterfly flared corner back cover butterfly flared corner front cover gloss smudging full center of back cover Mmehdy and Dark Knight 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Knight Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Looks like the only thing original are the staples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark88 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 How much for the original butterfly flares? Married Action #1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 On 2/20/2024 at 2:09 PM, fishbone said: how much of this cover is "original" !!?? On 2/20/2024 at 5:28 PM, Dark Knight said: Looks like the only thing original are the staples? Dark Knight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 well, on the positive side most of the front cover sounds original. Definitely had more work than a Kardashian but its an action 1. onlyweaknesskryptonite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDGray Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Still better than my copy.... PDG fishbone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
