CoverPossible defect · Limited
Slight cover undulation visible at low angle, consistent with 1980s newsprint stock rather than a crease
1 finding3 cited items
Copper Age (1984-1991) · DC Comics · September 1985
Superman 411
Cover-visible identity only: masthead, issue number, cover date and price box read directly from the submitted captures. Newsstand UPC edition.
Grade
9.0VF/NM
Range 8.5 VF+ – 9.4 NMLimiting factorEdges and corners of page block
- Pages
- Cream to Off-White
- Report date
- Report ID
- NG-M3HTP1GM-6FK1
Poor: heavily worn or incomplete; major damage, missing parts, brittleness, or severe defects may be present.Good: recognizable and readable, but with heavy wear such as creases, tears, stains, spine stress, or handling damage.Very Good/Fine: solid mid-grade copy with moderate visible wear; structurally sound but clearly handled.Fine/Very Fine: attractive copy with light to moderate wear; defects are visible but not highly distracting.Very Fine/Near Mint: well-kept copy with only minor handling defects.Gem Mint: exceptional copy with virtually no visible defects in the submitted evidence.
Very Fine/Near Mint: a well-kept copy with only minor handling defects.
- No restoration — Assessed as an unrestored copy.
- Staples unverified
- Centerfold unverified
- Evidence gaps: This point was not established in the issued report.
Submitted media
9 of 9 submittedThese are the original photos and videos. Close-up frames live under each area.
Conditions by area
The overall grade is set by the weakest area, not by an average. That is why the final 9.0 can sit below most area states.
CornersMinor defect
Light blunting with a small area of ink wear at the lower left cover corner
3 findings4 cited items
SpineNot assessed
Spine reads tight and flat with no roll in the low-angle pass; no color-break ticks resolved, but the spine face is not squarely presented in any frame
0 findings5 cited items
StaplesPossible defect · Limited
Both staples original and reasonably centered with only the slightest darkening; no rust migration into surrounding paper
1 finding2 cited items
EdgesMinor defect
Minor edge disturbance and small ink flecking along the lower left cover margin adjacent to the UPC box
2 findings3 cited items
Page colorMinor defect
Uniform light aging with off-white centers and slightly warmer outer edges throughout the interior
1 finding4 cited items
Page structureClean
No defects observed.
0 findings3 cited items
InteriorClean
No defects observed.
0 findings5 cited items
RestorationClean
No defects observed.
0 findings3 cited items
ProductionNot assessed
Very slight cover-to-interior overhang along the right edge, consistent with normal bindery tolerance for the era
0 findings3 cited items
This is a clean, flat, well-kept mid-1980s newsstand copy with bright ink and a tight spine.
Disclosed by the owner
Answers from the intake survey.
- Restoration
- None declared
- Finish
- Standard (non-foil, non-enhanced)
- Title, issue, year
- Not supplied by the submitter
- Signature
- None declared
Identified from the submitted evidence
Determined by the issued report, not stated by the owner.
- Issued fact
- Final grade: 9.0 VF/NM
- Issued fact
- Page quality: Cream to Off-White, supple
- Issued fact
- Plausible range: 8.5 VF+ to 9.4 NM
- Issued fact
- Limiting axis: Edges and corners of page block, with corners tied at the same subscore
What this grade could not confirm
Limits of the submitted photos and video. These are not findings against the book.
- Reference lookup was unavailable for this run, so reference-cover reconciliation could not be performed. No variant call, married-cover call, trim-based restoration call, or era-specific rubric adjustment is asserted on catalog grounds; era was inferred from the cover date printed in the submitted captures only.
- Spine axis: the low-angle video pass emphasizes the bottom and right edges rather than the spine face. Micro-ticks and stress lines cannot be excluded, and the axis is held at the lower end of its plausible range.
- Corners: sub-1/32-inch blunting and 1/16-inch bends without colour break are at or below the resolving power of the submitted close-ups.
- Page colour: no known-white reference appears in frame, so the colour call is perceptual and capped by the video-only ceiling.
- Staple discoloration and any early rust migration cannot be confirmed at the resolution of the centerfold close-up.
- Odor and chemistry require an in-hand assessment.
- Video sampling was below the required cadence and may miss brief spine or page defects.
- Spine reads tight and flat with no roll in the low-angle pass; no color-break ticks resolved, but the spine face is not squarely presented in any frame
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