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  1. valiantman
    What’s the value on this? I have a copy in this grade. Around $450 for a CGC 9.4 direct edition first printing.
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  6. valiantman
    GPAnalysis has been splitting out the newsstand and the direct editions for several years for important (or very popular) books. They don't use CGC's newsstand identification, GPA is identifying these by hand. For example, GPAnalysis for Spawn #1 CGC 9.8 Spawn #1 Direct Editions = 728 copies recorded in 2023 (93.5%) CGC 9.8 Spawn #1 Newsstand = 51 copies recorded in 2023 (6.5%)
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  13. valiantman
    Here's another interesting list: Most submitted book by CGC grade: CGC 9.8 Spawn #1 (the most CGC 9.8s in existence are CGC 9.8 Spawn #1s) CGC 9.6 Amazing Spider-Man #361 CGC 9.4 Amazing Spider-Man #361 CGC 9.2 Amazing Spider-Man #300 CGC 9.0 Amazing Spider-Man #300 CGC 8.5 Amazing Spider-Man #300 CGC 8.0 Amazing Spider-Man #300 CGC 7.5 Amazing Spider-Man #300 CGC 7.0 Amazing Spider-Man #129 CGC 6.5 Amazing Spider-Man #129 CGC 6.0 Amazing Spider-Man #129 CGC 5.5 Amazing Spider-Man #129 CGC 5.0 Amazing Spider-Man #129 CGC 4.5 Fantastic Four #48 CGC 4.0 Fantastic Four #48 CGC 3.5 Fantastic Four #48 CGC 3.0 Fantastic Four #48 CGC 2.5 X-Men #1 CGC 2.0 X-Men #1 CGC 1.8 X-Men #1 CGC 1.5 X-Men #1 CGC 1.0 X-Men #1 CGC 0.5 X-Men #1 The most CGC 10 and CGC 9.9 belong to Batman: Damned #1 (or one of those silver foil island nation cover reprints).
  14. valiantman
    It's interesting to watch these numbers every six months, particularly the average universal grade. Here is Amazing Spider-Man #300: http://www.cgcdata.com/cgc/search/comicid/273/6mo The average universal grade of 8.58 (2024) has dropped from 8.78 five years ago (2019), and it was 8.93 as you noted back in 2014. Here is Amazing Spider-Man #14: http://www.cgcdata.com/cgc/search/comicid/118/6mo
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    No, because these sellers are souper-jeniussess, see, they'll list the book for $0.99 with $8,888.88 shipping.
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    CGC will need to fix their public CGC Census immediately. @MattM CS All of the "CGCxJSA" books that I have seen are being reported in the CGC Census under the details of the Restored label. Unless they've selected the worst possible books to start the program (restored AND signed), these new "CGCxJSA" labels need to be identified as "Signature" (unwitnessed, or whatever is necessary), but they're not Restored in any way. https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_restored.asp?title=Amazing+Spider-Man&issue=187&publisher=Marvel+Comics&year=1978&issuedate=12/78 https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_restored.asp?title=Mr.+T+and+the+T-Force&publisher=Now+Comics&issue=1&year=1993&issuedate=6%2F93 Beavis & Butthead #1 has never had a Restored copy: https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_standard.asp?title=Beavis+and+Butt-head&publisher=Marvel+Comics&issue=1&year=1994&issuedate=3%2F94 Until now... they've got CGCxJSA in there: https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_restored.asp?title=Beavis+and+Butt-head&publisher=Marvel+Comics&issue=1&year=1994&issuedate=3%2F94
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    CGC will need to fix their public CGC Census immediately. @CGC Mike All of the "CGCxJSA" books that I have seen are being reported in the CGC Census under the details of the Restored label. Unless they've selected the worst possible books to start the program, these "CGCxJSA" labels need to be identified as "Signature" (unwitnessed, or whatever is necessary), but they're not Restored in any way. https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_restored.asp?title=Amazing+Spider-Man&issue=187&publisher=Marvel+Comics&year=1978&issuedate=12/78 https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_restored.asp?title=Mr.+T+and+the+T-Force&publisher=Now+Comics&issue=1&year=1993&issuedate=6%2F93 Beavis & Butthead #1 has never had a Restored copy: https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_standard.asp?title=Beavis+and+Butt-head&publisher=Marvel+Comics&issue=1&year=1994&issuedate=3%2F94 Until now... they've got CGCxJSA in there: https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_restored.asp?title=Beavis+and+Butt-head&publisher=Marvel+Comics&issue=1&year=1994&issuedate=3%2F94
  23. valiantman
    Nope, hundreds of thousands of anything add up to very little value individually, even 30 years later.
  24. valiantman
    It’s kind of sad how variant covers completely took over around 2000. Comic books have always been about 10 years behind sportscards. "Variant" cards took over in the early 1990s (limited "chase" cards), so it's actually right on time that we'd see variant comics switch from the content of the books to the "limitedness" of the covers around 2000. Sad, but true.
  25. valiantman
    If anyone's interested, the monthly Wizard Top Ten lists (1991 to 2010) are archived on WizardTopTen.com
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    I don't know if these belong in the discussion (not necessarily 1980s movies), but I feel like I must have bought them for similar reasons.
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    That's the longest wording I've ever seen for "Of COURSE we are criminals, but their JOB was to catch us. They didn't do THEIR JOB very well."