jdraheim Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 How does this effect the grade? The comic looks really good but it is missing a small piece in the lower right corner. The missing piece is 1/8" high and less then 1/4" across. There's some foxing and a dust shadow on the back cover. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James J Johnson Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Without accounting for the missing corner, the foxing and tone will lower the grade ceiling for this book to 8.0 maximum. It's Bronze age, so defects like tone and foxing aren't as often encountered as on Silver age, and quite common an occurrence on Golden age, so my feeling is that the grade will be skewed slightly down on Bronze to a greater degree than on Silver and Gold. If of 9.0 to 9.2 quality, which it appears to be aside from the piece, the missing piece would probably downgrade it to 7.0 territory, so the 8.0 or so it appears to be, factoring in the piece, I think we're down into the 6s. But the eye appeal is much better than that. The heart of the book, the spine, will give this book a very high grade look in the slab, so like some others mentioned recently, even graded 6.0 or 6.5, the sale price should reflect a book with much higher grade attributes than the technical grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
