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Action Comics 67 Please Grade My Book

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Robert Beerbohm here going back to grading school. I will be posting a series of books over the next couple weeks in an effort to come up to speed on tightened grading standards coupled with having bought a few pairs of eye glass 2.75 magnification "cheaters" to augment waning 20/20 vision brought on by advancing years. Any help welcomed.

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Are the lower and upper left back corners chipped or just folded/blunted? Are those tears above and below the staple?

 

Hello - on the back cover, the upper left is not blunted at all, must be from scan angle is all

 

the lower left corner has a slight blunt effect; no corner chipping at all

 

there is a tiny tear on the left back side between "Fly's Foot" and "Dragon Fly's Eye"

 

At the staple on the back, it is a wrinkling effect

 

the paper throughout is off white to almost white

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The Grading Bastiche says....6.5. Nice Action. How long have you had this copy Robert?

 

Since July, out of a one owner collection from a farm house in South Dakota of about 70 books - most all the books out of this batch have mostly white type paper, stored not so far from where the Lamont Larsen collection was uncovered

 

Kicker is just a few of the book's staples picked up a bit of moisture creep, very slight actually not getting into the inside paper at all, just a thin layer on the outside cover, stored as they were in a barn since circa 1943, when the collection waned. Good thing is it was just a few books.

 

The earliest book was Detective 16 June 1938, and it, while a beater G+ well read, had white paper, making the Action #1 advert inside front cover a real beaut to look at

 

And i wish to thank all who have ventured opinions on what i have posted so far as i undertake a serious re-look at grading standards opinions. Having been in his this in a serious way since my first mail order ad in RBCC #47 Oct 1966 while still an 8th grader in Jr High school, it seems grading standards just keep to want to tighten and re-tighten as the price (perceived value) of olf comic books just seems to go up and up.

 

Maybe i should have figured out how to have kept the at least VF+ white paper Detective #27 from the Tom Reilly (erroneously called "San Francisco" copies) for today's marketplace.

 

At the time I sold it to Burl Rowe, then of Houston Texas, for $2200 in June 1973, it shattered the then-world's record of Action #1 selling for $1801.26 in May 1973. That Tec 27 was the first book to sell for over two grand as well as the Whiz #1 from the Reilly collection i sold to Burl for two grand even - they were that nice.

 

We got 100s of AP/UPI newspaper stories run about it in papers as far away as Germany and within a month we had bought 3 more Tec 27 copies along with huge amounts of other old comics - a long time ago now in a galaxy far far away.

 

I have no problems re-entering grading school to teach this-here old dog new tricks. I continuously dig up great old comics, like i have for decades now.

 

And i want to have all the people who acquire books from me to be happy camper customers who want to come back to dip inside my comics well. And i am not going to be doing 25-30 shows a year any more - too much wear and year on myself as well as the books getting to market, so i wil lbe here to get stuff mailed out pronto and answer any and all questions timely.

 

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Robert Beerbohm

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