Need help grading this Golden Age one-shot

[Metarog]

Please help grade this comic. It has a spine split from the top to about midway down and and ink pen line about halfway down on the left. The pages are creamy with some yellowing on the edges. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

 

Atomic thunder front

 

Atomic thunder back

 

[ninanina]

The only thing that really bothers me is the spine split. Most of the damage to this comic is around the edges and corners. I do not have much experience in grading lower grade golden-age, but an educated guess would put this at about a Good to a Good+.

 

Be very interested in what other people think on this one. Gonna use it as a learning experience.

[BachelorOfComix]

4.0 - 4.5

[Warlord]

Unfortunately I think the major spine split pretty much determines the grade on this one. Doesn't that max it out around VG or so as the highest grade that Overstreet says can contain a spine split of that size?

 

The ink mark is no biggy, and the wear is around the fringes leaving the main part of the cover looking very attractive.

 

I think you end up with a low-grade at about a 3.5, but with great eye appeal.

[Elvis]

I'll go with 4.0. I would be curious to see how CGC grades this one.

 

[buttock]

VG/VG+ without the split, Good/Good+ with it. That's a big tear.

[Metarog]

Thanks to all of you that helped me out here. I bought this comic as a vg/fn but I knew of all the defects and paid about vg price for it. I got it for my collection of Golden-Age one shot publishers not for resale and I really like the eye appeal of the comic. From all the comments above I would guess that a 3.5 to 4.0 is not an unreasonable grade for this comic. I don't know if I will submit it to CGC but there are only 3 others submitted so Again, thanks to you all.

[supapimp]

just a quick peek at the FC scan and not reading flaws in your description, i give it a 3.0.

[GudEnuff2Read-migration]

Pretty cool book!! How's the storyline?

[Metarog]

Pretty standard to sub-par Golden-age stories. There are actually 3 stories-the first one is the origin of Atomic Thunderbolt, the second is a comedy short with 2 goofy guys and the third one stars someone named Mr. Murdo. I can definitely see why this was the only issue by Regor.

[uclapeterg]

I would give it 2.5. According to overstreet, any spine split over 1" should garner no more than VG. This is a lot bigger spine split.