What's your take on this Daredevil #1?

[Psiknight]

Hi all,

 

What would you place this at? It goes out to be slabbed on Tuesday.

 

 

Let me know if the image comes through ok. The back is clean, with sharp corners and no staining or spine cracking.

 

The only two defects that I really see are the grease pencil writing and a small track line about an inch down from the top cover.

[joe_collector]

That is one funky looking comic. Is that a miscut or is the top of the cover folded under?

[Psiknight]

It looks like a light impression from a print roller or something. You can't see it on the inside cover and it's definitely not folded down. In person it's hardly noticable.

[Psiknight]

Upon rereading your comment, I'm not sure to what you're referring? The top of the comic (the very top edge) is pretty normal looking to me. Were you referring to the line or to the very top edge?

[divad]

That is one funky looking comic. Is that a miscut or is the top of the cover folded under?

 

The cut looks fine to me - off a little at the LRFC, but not at all uncommon for this book. The indented printers' stripe along the top edge (the stripe going thru DD's neck in the price block) doesn't look that severe at all

 

JC - you need to get out more - stop goin' down them dusty roads!

[Aces]

I'll shoot a guess of 8.5.

But I'm taking your word the back is as clean as the front.

[divad]

It goes out to be slabbed on Tuesday.

 

Just curious, but what does this mean exactly? That you're dropping it in the mail on Tuesday and then waiting 3 1/2 - 4 months before it's slabbed? Don't forget to make it a line-item in your will, btw

[Aces]

It goes out to be slabbed on Tuesday.

 

Just curious, but what does this mean exactly? That you're dropping it in the mail on Tuesday and then waiting 3 1/2 - 4 months before it's slabbed? Don't forget to make it a line-item in your will, btw

 

I'm sure that's standard and not economy.

[ComicSupply]

Very clean.. plod maybe?

[divad]

Very clean.. plod maybe?

 

Why would you say that?

[Psiknight]

Very clean.. plod maybe?

 

I was guaranteed that the book wasn't restored, but we'll see. Gosh, there are a lot of pessimistic people here...

[divad]

Very clean.. plod maybe?

 

I was guaranteed that the book wasn't restored, but we'll see. Gosh, there are a lot of pessimistic people here...

 

Well, we can't garde a small scan of one side of a book in a plastic bag If you want a serious evaluation of your book, take it out of the Mylar, and scan both sides at at least 200 dpi with a 4" scan width

 

It's hard enough as it is

 

Oh, and btw, a "guarantee" is worth only as much as the person who makes it . . . that being said

[Psiknight]

I wasn't really referring to anyone in particular. I've just noticed in many of the grading threads that many people really, really under-grade books - seemingly just to tear people down. You'll see a book that most people think is a 6.0-6.5 or so and you'll get the iconoclasts that say "4.5" or "4.0." *shrug* My favorite is when the CGC grade comes back way off from what people guessed.

 

That being said, I still enjoy these threads. I might put up a larger scan (it's more of me getting around to it, as I don't own a scanner) or I might just wait for it to come back and reveal the final grade. I'm hoping for an 8.0 or so...I'm not sure how CGC deals with grease pencil and a printer track defect. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back as a 7.0 or a 7.5, though.

 

Also, do you know how long the actual turnaround time for Express is? It says 5 business days (meaning I should get it back in less than 2 weeks) but I just sent off a Standard JIM 83 and they told me 5-6 weeks, at least (for a 15 business day turnaround). Should I expect a good 4 weeks before I get this book back from Express?

[joe_collector]

The cut looks fine to me

 

 

Here's an experiment:

 

1) Line the scan up at the correct angle.

 

2) Enlarge and print.

 

3) Measure top cover edge

 

4) Measure bottom cover edge.

 

5) Take out slide rule or ruler, etc. and compare the angle of the bottom-right image (Foggy, Murdock, Page) to the DD image on the top-left.

 

Either the scan is warped, the cover is folded over, or there's been some trimming, but something is definitely up.

[Psiknight]

Here's the back.

 

[divad]

The cut looks fine to me

 

 

Here's an experiment:

 

1) Line the scan up at the correct angle.

 

2) Enlarge and print.

 

3) Measure top cover edge

 

4) Measure bottom cover edge.

 

5) Take out slide rule or ruler, etc. and compare the angle of the bottom-right image (Foggy, Murdock, Page) to the DD image on the top-left.

 

Either the scan is warped, the cover is folded over, or there's been some trimming, but something is definitely up.

 

And the results are . . . . what? As if I don't have better things to do Than to disprove your theories

 

You're the one who's But on the other hand we don't know this guy from Adam, and we even know less about his source . . .

[Psiknight]

 

 

[Psiknight]

You're right, you don't know me from Adam...but I'd still appreciate any help you can give...

[Psiknight]

The cut looks fine to me

 

 

Here's an experiment:

 

1) Line the scan up at the correct angle.

 

2) Enlarge and print.

 

3) Measure top cover edge

 

4) Measure bottom cover edge.

 

5) Take out slide rule or ruler, etc. and compare the angle of the bottom-right image (Foggy, Murdock, Page) to the DD image on the top-left.

 

Either the scan is warped, the cover is folded over, or there's been some trimming, but something is definitely up.

 

Ok, I did what you asked:

 

Measurements using an engineer's ruler.

 

Top cover: 6.77 inches

Bottom cover: 6.8 inches

 

Left side: 10.25 inches

Right side: 10.25 inches

 

I wasn't sure what you wanted from the angle at the two corners you mentioned. Can you clarify a little? Thanks!

[KingOfRulers]

8.0