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  • ASTONISHING TALES # 14 KAZAR

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  • Posted: March 1, 2015 3:42:21 pm
  • HELP
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  • Posted: March 2, 2015 12:19:45 am
  • A good number of defects on this book but it's the subscription crease that keeps it around a 3.0 in grade at best.
  • Posted: March 2, 2015 10:31:29 am
  • 3.0. That's a bit rough
  • Posted: March 23, 2015 3:02:43 am
  • I have to confess I have no idea how much a subscription crease decreases the grade a comic gets but it is there and I'm sure that brings the grade down a couple of points more than if it didn't have it. You'll need someone a lot more knowledgeable than me to give this one a proper assessment.
    Tenzil
  • Posted: March 24, 2015 1:40:54 pm
  • In most cases, a full-length subscription crease - with no other significant defects - would max out a book's grade at a 5.0 which would be VG/FN in condition. With the other flaws that can be seen - soiling, discoloration, numerous spine stress marks that break color, corner blunting, edge wear, etc. - drops it to no better than VG- or VG (3.5 or 4.0) in my opinion. And with no information on the condition of the interior pages, I'm going to downgrade it a little more and stick with original assessment of 3.0 which is a bit rough but it's what I feel comfortable in grading it at with the information provided. Odds are that if I saw this in person and had a chance to look through it carefully, I'd probably would grade it higher - most likely a 4.0 - but better to under-grade in most cases because no one complains when they get a book in better condition than they thought it was in.
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