DD # 158

[Funone]

 

 

Now this one is pretty darn good...

Cover has 1 tick on spine and that light green spot in the top bar doesn't

show when you hold it in your hands but the scanner picked it up...

back is great maybe just a little dirty...

My Grade is 9.2

[Anfield Fox]

VF+

[arexcrooke]

Im thinking 9.0 for the following reasons:

Several spine stresses

Edge wear near the brc

brc crease

rounded corner on trc

Sweet book!

[-cryptkeeper-]

9.0

[nik]

What is the white mark that goes through "EL" in Marvel?

[Dad&Son-migration]

9.0

[nik]

9.0

 

 

VF+

[MutantKeys]

9.0

[Sir Ped of Ro]

Im thinking 9.0 for the following reasons:

Several spine stresses

Edge wear near the brc

brc crease

rounded corner on trc

Sweet book!

 

ditto...

[Sal]

wow. i think the book is a VF-. 7.5 to you new school people.

 

spine creasing, rough ULFC and LLFC, creasing along the bottom edge of the FC, chip out of the LRFC along with a crease in the same location, that NCBC at the bottom edge BC, plus the book looks like it's lost some gloss.

 

this is a perfect example of needing to have a book in hand for a really accurate grade.

[The Paper Monster-migratio]

I was thinking more along the lines of an 8.0, maybe 8.5.

[Sal]

i will acknowledge that many will think i am undergrading. i'm not going to say with 100% accuracy that my grade is correct

[backtomarvel]

wow. i think the book is a VF-. 7.5 to you new school people.

 

spine creasing, rough ULFC and LLFC, creasing along the bottom edge of the FC, chip out of the LRFC along with a crease in the same location, that NCBC at the bottom edge BC, plus the book looks like it's lost some gloss.

 

this is a perfect example of needing to have a book in hand for a really accurate grade.

 

I agree, but I find I usually grade more strictly than this group as a whole. Before scrolling down I was thinking VF-/VF ... and still think that.

[sterlingcomics]

8.0 -- take a look at that long cbc at the bottom, and other defects Sal discusses. I could swing more in either direction upon closer inspection.

[herald2galactus]

wow. i think the book is a VF-. 7.5 to you new school people.

 

spine creasing, rough ULFC and LLFC, creasing along the bottom edge of the FC, chip out of the LRFC along with a crease in the same location, that NCBC at the bottom edge BC, plus the book looks like it's lost some gloss.

 

this is a perfect example of needing to have a book in hand for a really accurate grade.

 

agree 100% on the 7.0 7.5 area, cant see how it would get a 9.0

[marvelcollector]

I don't see anything that would drop this below a 9.0...

A couple of spine stress marks, blemish at top, corners a bit blunt, but not that bad...

Grading by scans is limited to the monitors we all view them on; perhaps that accounts for the disparity...

And determining gloss from a scan is impossible.

[Sal]

I don't see anything that would drop this below a 9.0...

A couple of spine stress marks, blemish at top, corners a bit blunt, but not that bad...

Grading by scans is limited to the monitors we all view them on; perhaps that accounts for the disparity...

And determining gloss from a scan is impossible.

 

bottom right front corner. in the black shadow area. look "rubbed" to you? it looks dirty to me, and i extrapolate that across the entire mag. basically, the book looks - to me - like a bunch of unbagged books i have from the same time frame

[Shadow]

8.0 - 8.5 It could just be the scan, but it doesn't look sharp enough to be a 9.0 for me.

[Funone]

Wow this book brought in the most response's so far for me..

and with such a large range of Grades...What really helps is when you point out

and show the area of faults as to come to your grade...

I once again

 

PS: this book is no way a 7 or 7.5