PGM Iron Man 126 1 1

[bronzemarvel]

Pls and ty! Main thing I notice is the "wrinkle"across front top edge. Publishing defect? (Anyone know what to call that? I'll try looking it up in the guide...)

 

[timfinz]

9.4 IMHO with a little room to improve. It would be better to use a coloured back ground so that the white borders/eedges of the book are more visible. The printers crease will not effect the grade now or up to 9.8.

Thanks for posting!

[bronzemarvel]

On 7/18/2024 at 10:38 AM, timfinz said:

9.4 IMHO with a little room to improve. It would be better to use a coloured back ground so that the white borders/eedges of the book are more visible. The printers crease will not effect the grade now or up to 9.8.

Thanks for posting!

Yes, thanks. I saw how hard it is to make out the edges with the white bg.

 

[marvelmaniac]

Not sure what may have caused the long color breaking scratch along the top edge, even if it is bindery it is not subtle or minor, other than that all I see is small bindery tears top and bottom and a "mark" on the outer edge of the rear cover.

Books are graded in their entirety, with the color breaking scratch, IMO, this book is a VF/NM 9.0

NM 9.4 - Subtle bindery/printing defects are allowed. Bindery tears must be less than 1/16" on Silver Age and later books,

NM- 9.2 - A limited number of minor bindery/printing defects are allowed. A 1/16-1/8" bend is permitted with no color break. 

VF/NM 9.0 - A limited number of bindery/printing defects are allowed. An 1/8" bend is allowed if color is not broken. 

VF 8.0 - A limited accumulation of minor bindery/printing defects is allowed. An unnoticeable 1/4" crease is acceptable if color is not broken.

FN/VF 7.0 - A small accumulation of minor bindery/printing defects is allowed as well as a possible moderate color break.

After looking at multiple copies on eBay, I found a raw copy that appears to have the exact defects your has and a CGC NM+ 9.6 with the same (but smaller) color breaking scratch and a mistrimmed top edge, how it got a NM + 9.6 is beyond me.

CGC will have to be the deciding factor on this, however, this is another example of "buy the book, not the grade".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 18 by marvelmaniac

[bronzemarvel]

On 7/18/2024 at 10:43 AM, marvelmaniac said:

Not sure what may have caused the long color breaking scratch along the top edge, even if it is bindery it is not subtle or minor, other than that all I see is small bindery tears top and bottom and a "mark" on the outer edge of the rear cover.

Books are graded in their entirety, with the color breaking scratch, IMO, this book is a VF/NM 9.0

NM 9.4 - Subtle bindery/printing defects are allowed. Bindery tears must be less than 1/16" on Silver Age and later books,

NM- 9.2 - A limited number of minor bindery/printing defects are allowed. A 1/16-1/8" bend is permitted with no color break. 

VF/NM 9.0 - A limited number of bindery/printing defects are allowed. An 1/8" bend is allowed if color is not broken. 

VF 8.0 - A limited accumulation of minor bindery/printing defects is allowed. An unnoticeable 1/4" crease is acceptable if color is not broken.

FN/VF 7.0 - A small accumulation of minor bindery/printing defects is allowed as well as a possible moderate color break.

After looking at multiple copies on eBay, I found a raw copy that appears to have the exact defects your has and a CGC NM+ 9.6 with the same (but smaller) color breaking scratch and a mistrimmed top edge, how it got a NM + 9.6 is beyond me.

CGC will have to be the deciding factor on this, however, this is another example of "buy the book, not the grade".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, yeah, that CGC 9.6 is awfully similar to mine. Thanks for the time you put into this!

[vheflin]

I say 9.4 also