Penalty! #48 January 1956 Ace Silver Age Crime Comic Book 4.0

Vintage Silver Age Crime Comic Book:

Penalty! (Ace Magazines) No. 48 / January, 1956

Cover art by Louis Zansky

Features art by Ken Battlefield and Sy Grudko. One online source posits Al Camy and Warren Kremer might have been contributors

Condition notes:

• Cover inks / gloss: vivid colors; very good reflectivity
• Cover wear: light handling wear w/ light wrinkling; no tears; top staple is nearly detached
• Cover creases: large corner crease at bottom right; intermittent vertical reading crease along spine
• Soiling, staining: back cover has a small stain at bottom of spine
• Dates / stamps: date stamp
• Spine roll: moderate; some page fanning on reverse
• Spine split: none
• Staples: no rust
• Staple tears: 2x 1/8" at top, one 1/8" at bottom
• Rust migration: N/A
• Stress lines: a few, longest are 1/4"
• Corners: abraded
• Centerfold: tight
• Interior tears: one 1/4" edge tear at bottom of first page
• Paper quality / color: supple; lightly tanned; very good colors
• Acid odor: none noted
• Missing pieces: none
• Amateur repairs: none
• Coupon cut: none
• Readability: excellent; complete
• Back cover: good reflectivity; light soiling; horizontal stress lines along reading edge; small stain at bottom of spine; tiny corner crease at top

All things considered, I have graded this book VERY GOOD (4.0), downgraded due to the corner crease on front, and staple tear at top

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