CoverMajor defect · Limited
Overall reduction in ink reflectivity with light general soiling across the purple field, most visible in the lower half of the front cover
3 findings4 cited items
Bronze Age (cover date January 1977, read from the submitted cover) · DC Comics
Batman 283
Identity read from the submitted cover only (price box reads 30c, NO. 283, JAN., 30430). Newsstand UPC edition.
Grade
6.5FN+
Range 6.0 FN – 7.0 FN/VFLimiting factorSpine: multiple color-break ticks and stress lines along the left edge, with staple-area stress visible across the spine pass frames
- Pages
- Cream to Off-White
- Report date
- Report ID
- NG-SQVH1TH2-V79V
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.
Fine: an above-average copy with moderate wear but still attractive.
- Restoration unverified
- Original staples — No staple replacement finding in the issued shared record.
- Centerfold attached — No centerfold detachment finding in the issued shared record.
- Restoration unverified: Restoration 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 6.5 can sit below most area states.
CornersMajor defect
Top-left corner shows slight to medium blunting with light paper fray at the extreme tip
3 findings4 cited items
SpineMajor defect · Limited
Multiple small color-break ticks along the left edge, several persisting across adjacent frames rather than appearing as single-frame reflections
4 findings8 cited items
StaplesMajor defect
Light stress at the staple entry points on the cover, consistent with the spine stress lines
1 finding3 cited items
EdgesMajor defect
Light chipping and irregular fray along the left cover edge near the top
3 findings3 cited items
Page colorMinor defect
Interior pages read as off-white to cream through the middle with distinctly tanned outer edges across the full run of the book
2 findings5 cited items
Page structureClean
No defects observed.
0 findings3 cited items
InteriorMajor defect
Light general soiling and handling grime on high-traffic ad pages
1 finding4 cited items
RestorationPossible defect · Limited
Handwritten-appearing mark in the lower cover margin reading as a two-line creator credit; without a reference cover comparison this cannot be confirmed as a printed artist signature versus an added inscription
1 finding3 cited items
ProductionMajor defect
Minor color registration softness in the cover's purple spiral field, consistent with period newsprint printing rather than damage
2 findings3 cited items
The evidence set supports a well-read but structurally sound copy.
Disclosed by the owner
Answers from the intake survey.
- Restoration
- None declared
- Finish
- Standard (non-foil, non-enhanced cover stock)
- Title, issue, year
- Not supplied on the intake survey
- Signature details
- None supplied
Identified from the submitted evidence
Determined by the issued report, not stated by the owner.
- Issued fact
- Final grade: 6.5 FN+
- Issued fact
- Page quality: Cream to Off-White, supple
- Issued fact
- Plausible range: 6.0 to 7.0
- Issued fact
- Limiting axis: Spine
What this grade could not confirm
Limits of the submitted photos and video. These are not findings against the book.
- Reference catalog lookup was unavailable for this run, so book identity, variant status, printed byline content, trim proportions, and cover-mark reconciliation could not be verified against a reference cover. Identity is asserted from the submitted cover art and price box alone.
- The spine pass is an overhead sequence rather than a true raking-light pass, so sub-1/32-inch ticks and shallow color breaks may be under-resolved. The spine axis was graded toward the lower end of its plausible range as a result.
- Spine roll magnitude cannot be measured from overhead frames; the axis was assessed assuming a slight roll may be present.
- Page color could not be fully confirmed from the submitted media.
- Odor and chemistry require an in-hand assessment.
- Interior page count completeness was assessed from the flip-through sequence and appears full, but a page-by-page collation cannot be certified from video.
- Video sampling was below the required cadence and may miss brief spine or page defects.
- Possible faint dimple or reading kink in the mid-cover field, not resolvable to a color break at submitted resolution
- Very slight spine roll suggested by the cover lift visible along the left edge; magnitude not resolvable without an in-hand flat check
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