A "hard to grade" amazing spider-man #100

[osborn_fr]

Structurally a high grade book, no spine stress line, an easy 9.0/9.2 but...

yes unfortunately, but, there's a lot of blue ink on the spine + a very very slight subscription crease.

Pages are white.

The back cover looks dirty but it's not as much as on the pic.

 

 

 

[Monstro]

"hard to grade"

 

your not kidding

[eddly]

should we treat this like a stain?

 

7.0 to 7.5 maybe?

[joe_collector]

If that's a bettyswalls/calmmix book, then count on a 7.X for those inked-up, otherwise VF/NM to NM- copies.

[Point Five]

Maybe the "real" answer is higher than this, but personally I'd have a hard time calling this book better than 4.5/5.0 unless you use a qualified grade. The blue ink hurts the eye appeal much worse than structural damage IMO.

[herald2galactus]

ill go 6.0

[Owls Head]

"hard to grade"

 

your not kidding

 

That is a lot of printers ink... and i really can't make out the subscription crease, but my eyes just turned 44 y.o....

 

I'll defer to the many, many experts on this board...

[Darrell F]

I have no idea how to grade something like this.

[backtomarvel]

I'd say 6.0 and possibly a 6.5.

 

Not sure how CGC would deal with it, but I would say this is a by buyer scenario, some looking at it as a printer's defect and others as an eyesore.

[rjpb]

Maybe the "real" answer is higher than this, but personally I'd have a hard time calling this book better than 4.5/5.0 unless you use a qualified grade. The blue ink hurts the eye appeal much worse than structural damage IMO.

 

 

I pretty much agree

[marvelcollector]

It's funny..I have an ASM 102 that has distributer's ink slapped on very similar to this...like they used a 4" paint brush...

Distributer's ink is often given something of a pass, but it can't be ignored when it's this overdone...

Yes, structurally it's high grade, but strictly spreaking with this much staining, it can't be higher than a 5.5.

[joe_collector]

but, there's a lot of blue ink on the spine + a very very slight subscription crease.

 

Isn't that impossible, and the bend must be storage-related.

 

I missed that part (since this is an obvious warehouse/distro copy) when I gave it the grade.

[divad]

Maybe the "real" answer is higher than this, but personally I'd have a hard time calling this book better than 4.5/5.0 unless you use a qualified grade. The blue ink hurts the eye appeal much worse than structural damage IMO.

 

 

I pretty much agree

 

[nik]

Damn thats alot of blue ink

[divad]

but, there's a lot of blue ink on the spine + a very very slight subscription crease.

 

Isn't that impossible, and the bend must be storage-related.

 

One senses a certain juxtaposition of defects . . .

[osborn_fr]

Thanks for all the opinions.

 

 

And JC can be right, maybe this is not a subscription crease. In fact it looks like the book was slightly folded, no crease that break the color on it.

 

So i'm going to press it and put more blue ink to sell it at an insane price as a scarce blue variant cover

[Shadow]

Add me to not knowing how to grade this one.