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this came back 3.5

the end of the story - this book came back from CGC as C-1, 3.0 - no other resto found/noted aside from that mentioned here.

in conclusion, this was graded 8.5 by CGC.

After review and some very comprehensive advise in PM, I am pulling this sale (unsold) and sending off to CGC for grading. Factors leading to this decision include 1) my lack of standing/credibility on this board 2) lack of standing and competence to comprehensively detect or deny any restoration and 3) the ever-present nightmare of a return situation, where a book is returned with additional damage from the buyer handling.

you are right - I took it out for another closer look - the black below the price is touched up, as is one edge of the black around the text in lower left of cover. what does this level of color touch do to valuation in general? It is frustrating because (factually) it was done >=30 years ago but I didn't know enough to even look for it at the time (Paid 100 dollars in 1988 according to info inside the protector, it was the most expensive comic I had ever bought to that date).

regarding any restoration - - to my knowledge, none. I haven't seen the kind of touch-up that would be an obvious tell (see my strange tales 110 thread), but I am also not qualified to catch subtle stuff. I bought this on ebay sometime likely late 90s but maybe 2000-2002 so any restoration prior to that would be using methods common 20+ years ago.

I have not sold here before, but I have sold 20's/30's pulps on ebay among many other things with this account https://www.ebay.com/usr/dogfooddog the feedback about the pulp sales may be informative, and is the best pertinent reference I can supply. rules - with an accepted offer, timestamp is the deciding factor, whether in thread or PM. I may take lower offers at the time time/price priority system. Payment is paypal or bank wire to a US bank. Shipping within the US is free (registered mail), international I will provide a quote upon request. I will not ship where delivery confirmation is not available. No probation list or HOS members allowed. Raw books must be returned in their same condition and you must let me know within 7 days of receipt of the book that you are sending it back and why. I will run this auction until this Thursday, January 31st. Price is $5000. Higher-res scans and photos (the originals of these) available on demand, just let me know where to send them. Note that the slice (about 1cm long) on right back cover penetrates the cover and into the 2nd page from the back. I cannot detect indentation in the 3rd page from back, but I would assume there is a bit of a pressure mark. It looks like some of the pencil on the back was erased at some point, or was very faint to begin with, and additional penciling is present. If you are interested, let me know what additional images you need.

thanks for looking at this! this is a non-optimal image (had already put the book back when I checked the pic, I accidently caused cover separation on a weird tales 30s issue last year and have developed a phobia of touching these as a result), but a lot of the apparent blemish at bottom back cover is the protector. there is a bump on bottom back, top back,and that crease on outside back lower corner visible here.

Hi, this is my 2nd grading request on this sub-forum. spine has no reading-roll at all though it is slightly not perpendicular to the covers. pages are yellowish (I can photograph this if needful) I annotated the scan of the cover with 3 defects - on the left side there are two 'spots' which I would think are where liquid spattered it? on the surfboard circled is a small indentation which I cannot locate on the inside front cover (meaning I don't think it penetrates but am reluctant to handle the book sufficiently to verify this. Would appreciate any thoughts on what this might grade at.

thanks to all posters for replies - I had thought this was a deep pencil mark (and it may be anyway) but on the back cover, that is a slight cut?/tear, goes all the way through the back cover and is about 1cm long. is visible on the back page, I did not see it a few more pages into back of book (not 100% sure how many pages it penetrates). how might this impact grading vs. the thread consensus?

Hi, thanks for your reply - it did not bleed onto the inside of the front cover - but placement definitely looks like a fast fix for white crease lines.

I suspect this is the case, but on the outside chance this is a normal ink artifact for this issue - I bought this ST110 29 years ago, and as far as I know just realized it is likely had a crease blackened with marker. It is only vislble at an angle to light source, otherwise it blends quite well area is lower right front cover, along what looks like a cut or crease line. Am I right on this? would this be considered restoration for grading, or just general damage/wear/marking?

Hi, this is my first post here - I was going through our silver age title and realized I had picked this up in the distant past. note pencil on back all comments/insight appreciated, have not had to evaluate something on this scale before.