holy spine!

[g-man]

IM #55

[ninanina]

Robin?.......

 

Is that you? .....

 

Robin?........

[Hensley300]

What spine? Where?

[THE_BEYONDER]

A fine example of "pressing". Just place your comic between two pieces of finished plywood, and park your car on it..............

[joe_collector]

That is one butt-ugly comic, and I pity da fool dat buys it.

 

I can remember pre-CGC, those kids of books used to be graded VF+ at best, and many EBay sellers continue to grade strictly on serious flaws like this.

[THE_BEYONDER]

"flaws"? It doesn't even look like the copy has any pages. Good thing it's CGC'd, because that spine could definately cause a mean paper-cut...........

[comicmankev]

I'm cutting this guy a little slack, don't you think it is just the contrast of the bright white cover and the black background? If that really was pressed like that, nobody would give that a 9.2, apart from Hammer

[joe_collector]

How does the black background "cause" a huge white border and staples punched through the front of the cover?

[musicmeta]

I wonder why CGC does not take off for twisting spines or is this book really a

9.6 and has been downgraded to a 9.2 because of the spine?

[hammer-migration]

I'd have to challenge you on that Kevin. Of all my books currently up for auction, not ONE of them has any appreciable spine shift, the white back cover margin wrapping around to the front cover's spine. That is one feature that I avoid in my purchases, regardless of the book's importance. 95% of my books feature cover art/colors, right up to the apex of the spine. On the remaining 5%, the color/art/spine line is no more than a hair away from the spine fold.

[blowout]

Surely it can't be long before CGC start to downgrade for spine/cover printing defects. The credibility of their grading system longer-term depends on it IMO.