September 13, 1999
Space: 1999 Magazine 1
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Space: 1999 Magazine 1 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0502567011
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Owner:
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Number 6
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
This issue adapts the first episode of season 1, Breakaway. The cover art used on a number of items of Space:1999 merchandise, including an HG Toys puzzle and later the laserdisc release of the series.
This copy illustrates some of the issues inherent in Charlton publications to due their low printing quality. The black inks for the background run out before reaching the top right edge of the front cover. There was a 9.8 copy in a ComicConnect auction that had the same issue but on the bottom right edge. I own a couple of raw copies that don't have this issue at all but I don't think they were quite nice enough to get graded. And of course, there's a stray printing artifact on the back cover.
I purchased this copy already graded. I had previously tried bidding on the 9.8 copy on CC but it went beyond what I was comfortable paying for this type of book and didn't want to get in a bidding war with someone. So I purchased this copy from Doug Sulipa.
I can see a couple of small stress marks and perhaps a slight bend to the top right corner, but overall I would say this is would I would expect for a 9.6 and I think it presents well considering the predominately black cover.
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Edit - 2/24/24
The above is for the 9.6 copy serial number 2019583015.
I was able to upgrade to a 9.8 copy today but it was an ordeal.
Doing my daily Space: 1999 search on eBay I spotted a CGC 9.8 copy that a seller had just listed. He had both a starting bid and a Buy-It-Now price which was out of character for the seller and all his other listings were just straight auctions. To top it off, the BIN price was less than what I paid for my 9.6 copy and significantly less than what the last 9.8 copy I'd seen up for auction ($460 on ComicConnect back on 3/21/20).
I'd held off from bidding with this seller before because his $20 shipping charge and lack of combined shipping policy had given my pause. But even with the shipping cost, I felt it was too good to pass up.
The book arrived and sure enough the seller had used a Priority Mail Medium Flat box which was $17 at the time (less if you factor eBay's discount to seller on labels printed through them). That might have been ok but the seller had wrapped the slab a couple of times in bubble wrap and that was it. The slab was completely smashed on the top right corner with a 2" piece missing from the edge with shards of plastic floating around in the slab.
But fortunately the slab was still sealed on all four corners, the label didn't look like it had been swapped out, and once I confirmed with CGC that this would qualify for a reholder I decided to keep the book. I had informed the seller immediately of the damage but that I would keep the book. He did refund the $20 for the reholder fee, but I still had to pay the $24 for a CGC membership for the "privilege" of submitting a book for a new holder, and all the shipping cost back and forth. Still, even with all that additional cost, I still have about as much into this as I did my 9.6 copy.
I was nervous about whether CGC would decide to regrade the book and whether the grade would go down, but fortunately it stayed a 9.8 and this copy presents better than my 9.6 as black cover inks don't run out before they reach the top edge of the cover.
So now I'm only one book away from having an all 9.8 set.
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