Roger66

TALES OF SUSPENSE #57 4.0 OW - per PM - thank you

I would say it is around a 2.5 or Good Plus-plus. It should get a CGC blue label as this is doodling not restoration (from what I can discern in your photos). It is a fairly common Silver Age key, with a lot of copies both raw & graded just sitting on eBay now. If it were my copy - I would not spend the time & money grading it but keep it raw and look to trade it. My best guess without looking up current prices now is it could be worth around $500 to the right person, who doesn't mind the cover markings, as this remains a very popular key for good reason. If you are looking to sell it online - then grading it might be the way to go and the front cover here has very nice gloss and deep colors too - which is preferable.

X Men 12 VG Take per PM

Honestly you should also post the interior sides of both covers. Interior cover tanning even slight is a knock on the grade, which is why you can never judge a comic grade-wise by its' covers alone. My 2 cents. Roger

Fantastic Four 48 & 52 VG - I will take both per PM too

I agree a great book to own and it presents well no matter the assigned CGC grade. You can argue it lands as a 2.0 but I don't see a press helping this one iota and would be curious to see the final grade if the owner submits it. I still think 1.5 if not 1.8 but we are splitting hairs at this point with CGC being the final arbiter here (so to speak).

In my humble opinion this would never get a 3.0 as indicated above (unless you submit to PGX) - let alone is this a 2.5. A safe bet with all that cumulative wear & tear mainly showing on the FC - is a nice presenting CGC 1.5.

Awesome stuff and as always thanks for the heads up!

Take ASM 129

Which is what makes the final sales price on this ugly copy still impressive because to many a keen-nuanced collector that book is worth a chunk less.

Faded covers are simply a big knock if not a $ drag on a final auction price and GPA does not and cannot have an asterisk next to the sales' data noting "ugly copy." When you only focus on GPA recent sales of big keys like X1 without having a fuller picture by doing your due diligence in finding the actual sale - you are often doing yourself an injustice whether as a buyer or a seller because value is very often about eye-appeal with comics not just the technical grade assigned. I, for example, loathe faded covers on fairly common keys and would never bid on one for my PC. My 2-cents.

Iron Man #55, VG/VG+ - per PM - thanks

Per our PMs - took TEC359

Regret worked out well for me in some respects. When I parted with a few of my treasured childhood SA & Bronze age keys some years back via a CL auction - it just fueled my subsequent desire with a vengeance to acquire those keys back & more but in multiples. So 'regret' worked out well in the end but I remind myself unless you are King Tut everything we value and possess in life has to be let go at some point before we turn to dust .

I am unaware of CGC giving out blue labels with staple replacement . I imagine the only way to get a blue label on this book (assuming no restoration and conservation) is to remove the staples and get a blue detached cover grade. If I am wrong - I'd like to know.