Show us your CGC White Pagers! WHITE PAGE Appreciation Thread! 3 3

[southern cross]

I'm a bit of a sub-mariner fan so any white page books generally have him in them.

 

[southern cross]

[southern cross]

And a couple more. I have others anyway that's a nice example. I don't normally hunt specifically white page books though I do find generally pedigree books will either be white pages or very close.

[mosconi]

Keeping this thread alive

[namisgr]

[namisgr]

[frozentundraguy]

I received this book back from grading earlier this year.

[frozentundraguy]

This book is sort of on the bubble between G.A.  and S.A.

[MAR1979]

A raw purchase from the mid 90's, sent for grading around 2003.  I do think if cracked out and re-submitted today a 9.8 is plausible, but as of this moment in time I don't have the stones to do.

 

[MattTheDuck]

Also not something I obsessively look for, but have managed to come up with a few.

[namisgr]

 

[namisgr]

[MAR1979]

While White Page are very nice, I personally don't understand paying extra for something not visible in a slab. I also don't collectors who will pay more for a 9.4w than 9.6 ow/w. To each their own of course and on raw books it does make some sense but again to me not if in a slab. Talking difference between w and ow/w or even ow only , I can understand some collectors not wanting cream or especially brown pages as it may be evidence of improper storage.

 

 

 

Edited May 11, 2022 by MAR1979

[namisgr]

To me, it's simple.  I collected comic books and not comic book covers, and so wanted the preservation of the interior pages and story in my collection to be as nice as possible.

Your mileage may vary.

Edited November 13, 2021 by namisgr

[namisgr]

These were some of the comics I owned raw, and so got the chance to read them and marvel at the paper preservation before encapsulation.  But I also bought plenty of white page-graded books already slabbed for my collection, too.

Edited November 13, 2021 by namisgr

[MattTheDuck]

On 11/13/2021 at 6:15 AM, MAR1979 said:

While White Page are very nice, I personally don't understand paying extra for something not visible in a slab. I also don't collectors who will pay more for a 9.4w than 9.6 ow/w. To each their own of course and on raw books it does make some sense but again to me not if in a slab. Talking difference between w and ow/w or even ow only , I can understand some collectors not wanting cream or especially brown pages as it may be evidence of improper storage.

 

 

Are they paying "extra" though?  I don't know if there's "data" on this kind of thing, but I can tell you a couple of the books I posted were won at auction and for way under the FMV at the time.  As far as I know, CGC does not increase or decrease the grade based on page quality.

Regardless of what I think, there are collectors for whom "white pages" is a key component of a book they buy, and I suspect some will in fact pay "extra" to get that quality.  I haven't really been selling books, but I would be happy to take more for a 9.2 white pages than a 9.2 O/W - W pages book.

[mosconi]

On 11/13/2021 at 6:15 AM, MAR1979 said:

While White Page are very nice, I personally don't understand paying extra for something not visible in a slab. I also don't collectors who will pay more for a 9.4w than 9.6 ow/w. To each their own of course and on raw books it does make some sense but again to me not if in a slab. Talking difference between w and ow/w or even ow only , I can understand some collectors not wanting cream or especially brown pages as it may be evidence of improper storage.

 

 

Although the page quality is obviously not visible on slabs, "white pages" typically represents the over-all health and excellent storage environment of the book over the years.  I've also found that most White pagers have vibrant cover colors and inks which give them great eye appeal to collectors.  Not to say you can't find that with other page qualities, but I enjoy collecting them and have paid premiums for almost all nice looking White pagers, especially tough to find ones, and have not regretted it at all 

[Straw-Man]

since i posted my 5 wp'ers from each of the 4 marvel s.a. runs i collect, i've added two more endeavors--s.a. dd's, and every s.a. subby cover.  the dd's are complete, still working on the latter.  anyway, here we go...

[Straw-Man]

[Straw-Man]

curator!  the spider!  i love it!

 

Edited November 13, 2021 by Straw-Man