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Jdraheim Posts: 2
11/27/2017
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I have about two dozen old Batman and Detective comics from the 1950s. Someone attempted some bad amateur restoration by using a black felt tip marker - they tried to draw over some of the edge lines and dark areas on the covers. Aside from the restoration ink damage, most of these comics are in the VG to VG+ range. What does this ink damage do to their value and condition? Thanks for any info.
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
11/27/2017
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Jdraheim wrote:
I have about two dozen old Batman and Detective comics from the 1950s. Someone attempted some bad amateur restoration by using a black felt tip marker - they tried to draw over some of the edge lines and dark areas on the covers. Aside from the restoration ink damage, most of these comics are in the VG to VG+ range. What does this ink damage do to their value and condition? Thanks for any info.
This was common in the 60's and early 70's among those who sold comics. It made the covers more presentable. I don't think it was done maliciously. It would be like using tape to tape a label to a can if the label fell off.
The defect is writing on the cover, so you just have to look at that and factor all of the other defects to determine the grade. I don't sit around grading comics, so I can't tell you what defects are allowed at one grade vs. another.
To accurately grade the comics, you need to do a page count. I've seen a lot of low grade collections from that time period that had comics missing centerfolds or even single pages.
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Oxbladder Posts: 487
11/28/2017
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Any restoration will drop the value in the apparent grade by 25-60%. In our trade restoration is mostly highly frowned upon especially "restoration" that is irreversible.
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