Please grade this Baffling Mysteries #8! 1 1

[Point Five]

Colors are terrific and cover is attached at the staples. There's a skinny vertical chip of spine paper missing just above the bottom staple, roughly as tall as a staple itself. Thanks!

[obiedagod]

3.0?

[davet75]

several color breaking spine tics, approx 3" diagonal color breaking crease right lower corner, corner and edge wear with some color loss, vertical chip of spine, small chip out of back cover corner, light soiling / dust shadows on back cover, small tears back cover.

Color is outstanding, looks like ink is fresh.  awesome book!

CGC 5.5 (the small pieces/ chips out keep this from grading higher)

[Point Five]

So between a 3.0 and a 5.5 then. 

 

[piper]

4.5

[KobaltDog]

4.5 or 5.0 everything mentioned above and is there a stain on the lower section of BAF ? 

[davet75]

rechecked a couple reference points for similar books. 

Changing my grade to:  CGC 5.0

see comparables below with similar defects:

[theCapraAegagrus]

That front cover is gorgeous but the back cover is a disappointment, sadly.

A 4.5 IMO.

[comicdonna]

It looks like a 5.0 to me.

[Point Five]

15 hours ago, KobaltDog said:

4.5 or 5.0 everything mentioned above and is there a stain on the lower section of BAF ? 

You're right, it really does look like that in the scan. But I just checked and nope, that is just show-through of the ad on the other side.

 

[KobaltDog]

Good! That's something I've seen before on these boards and it tricks me every time. 

[Point Five]

25 minutes ago, KobaltDog said:

Good! That's something I've seen before on these boards and it tricks me every time. 

It is interesting (if you have no life... ooh, over here!) how that show-through effect can vary widely on different copies of a book, regardless of condition. This book has blazing colors, which might suggest it was well-preserved... and yet it seems to have more show-through than average. Go figure.

 

[The Lions Den]

And I must say, what beautiful young lady wouldn't want to be queen of the lizard men? It seems like such an attractive offer... My best guess is 4.5 - 5.0...

[AJD]

5.0 for me

[KobaltDog]

7 hours ago, Point Five said:

It is interesting (if you have no life... ooh, over here!) how that show-through effect can vary widely on different copies of a book, regardless of condition. This book has blazing colors, which might suggest it was well-preserved... and yet it seems to have more show-through than average. Go figure.

 

It is interesting. I think the last one I saw was on a red cover also. 

[Gnasher]

I'm going against the grain here a bit, that looks solid enough to get a 5.5 

[1950's war comics]

2 hours ago, Gnasher said:

I'm going against the grain here a bit, that looks solid enough to get a 5.5 

agree with Gnasher either a 5.0 or 5.5

[The-Collector]

I'm at 4.5 that corner crease on the FC coupled with the chips FC and BC are too much for me to go to 5.0. 

Edited April 13, 2019 by The-Collector

[shadroch]

I'm thinking 5.0, maybe better.

[FoggyNelson]

Super bright colors , 5.0 👍👍‼️💥