PGM: Fear #11 - Is this overspray gone wild or something else? 1 1

[travizb]

Hello experts, What do you all think of the blue ink surrounding the edges of this book?  How will this impact grade?  Thanks for your input.

 

[joeypost]

Distributor ink painted on. 

[namisgr]

I would think the cost of getting this book graded and slabbed would not have positive return after selling.  It's got some value as is, with one of the handful of Neal Adams horror covers done for a Marvel comic.

[Dick Pontoon]

It's always been my understanding that type is distributor return spray, a remaindered book, the equivalent of a stripped cover. "Regular" overspray was used to serve as a quick visual guide to denote to date the month when a book was to be removed from the shelves for newer stock, a quick swatch on the top edge of a book usually in different colors. The heavy all-over blue ink was a way of qualifying the book for return credit. Again, IIRC, a lot of these came out of New York.

[scburdet]

Here's my closest comp. You can only see a little on the front. If one reads the notes, I think there was some tanning that actually impacted the grade more since this was deemed moderate spray.

 

[travizb]

Wow -- thanks @scburdet - I haven't seen as much overspray on my books as this one.  I'm glad to see there are examples of this out there in the wild.  I thought that overspray was typically a small section of perhaps a square inch, not the entire border of the book.

 

Thanks for the example

[scburdet]

There are worse examples. Like unloaded on with a firehose of ink...

[LowGradeBronze]

My copy of this book is just the same. I'd say yours is around 4.5

Edited Thursday at 08:58 PM by LowGradeBronze