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Definitely much better than their usual description writeup which is pretty much this: Title & issue number: xxxxxxxxx CGC Grade: x.x End of description writeup as they pretty much seemingly expect the book to sell itself just based upon the book itself and condition grade.

Well, if you look at the CGCdata.com website, it looks like the first CGC 9.8 graded copy of X-Men was graded back in the first half of 2004: http://www.cgcdata.com/cgc/search/comicid/89/6mo Looks like it took another 4 years for a second copy to be graded 9.8 in 2008 and now with "maximization of potential" in full play we have a whopping total of 35 Universal and another 3 Signature copies in CGC highest 9.8 graded condition.

Love the fact that my still minty fresh copy should in theory be worth so much more nowadays as compared to the original cover price which I had to pay for it back in the day. Absolutely hate the fact that it would cost me triple digit multiples more to get the darned thing graded and slabbed, as compared to the original cost of the underlying book itself.

This is pretty much it in a nutshell. Being a long time collector from the old days, a slabbed book is not so much a comic book to be enjoyed anymore, but much more a commercial product meant for potential resale.

250 k Although it's seemingly pretty much Crazytown out there right now and 2022 is a long ways away from 2017 even with the pandemic in there, maybe CGC 6.5 at 5th highest graded is still even further away from a Church CBCS 9.2 highest graded? Nevertheless, it will still definitely be very interesting to watch!!!

Yes, looks like that one there was once again on CC and auctioned off for $107K back in 2019 before the pandemic lit a fire under a fire under the collectibles marketplace.

more That's probably even a tad on the low end nowadays since I remember CC auctioning off a CGC 3.0 graded copy for something like $66K back in 2016 or 2017.

what he said Oh, come on guys, the old GA fogeys always wait until the end before they show their hand........................now with the FF5, I will say that's about the one and only single SA book that I've ever wanted since it features the first appearance and origin of Doctor Doom. Now, if it was a copy of that Transformers 1 that was sitting up there at the top after the first day, then I would totally agree with you.

Yeah, sellers market it as a dinosaur but it’s a Komodo dragon. Good to know and I'll be sure to mention it the next time I see a copy because that should hopefully help to drop the price down a tad.

Not sure about a mega buyer scooping up all of these GA beauties that you are talking about, but it certainly does look like a mega consignor who had consigned the large majority of these GA books to CL for this auction here: Good to see some of the other competing auction houses getting their hands on some of the quality GA books for auction, because it's never good for the consumer if there's a monopoly. Especially if it's a Heritage monopoly and much better to spread the wealth around a bit, although I am a bit surprised it's CL as opposed to CC although they are making great strides in moving up the GA food chain.

Have always loved the covers on the New Adventure / Adventure run, with my personal preference being the super rare NA 26 & 27 along with both Adventure 36 & 38. Not sure what your favorites are for the More Fun pre-hero run, but I have always loved the covers for both More Fun 47 & 48, with my preference probably leaning more towards More Fun 48 with the dinosaur cover, although it's hard to argue against the More Fun 47 since it seems to be a tougher book to track down.

Looks like you forgot to include one of the really early ones here and from way back when the title was known only as New Comics: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/new-comics-6-dc-1936-cgc-gd-vg-30-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/122207-13718.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 Absolutely love these first half dozen issues of New Comics as their thin paper cover stock made it virtually impossible to find them in anything close to high grade condition. I guess the funny cover theme for these really early pre-hero DC along with how rarely they ever come into the marketplace puts a dampener on the prices due to the extemely low turnover. Perfect case in point being New Comics 2 as when was the last time we saw one of these show up in the marketplace, except for Jon Berk's restored copy from his big CC auction back in 2017. Interesting to note that this much earlier New Comics 6 along with the earlier New Adventure 23 & 24 sold this past Monday at relatively lower multiples to condition guide when compared to the later 4 pre-hero Adventure issues that had sold on Sunday.

Absolutely love all of the very very early Centaurs like this Funny Picture Stories and Detective Picture Stories. Even back in those early comic book days, it looks like collectors tended to hang onto the first issues for each title, as the next few issues after that first one are usually always the really tough issues to hunt down and find.

From my POV, not so much XM94, but DCP 26 is really much more like GSXM 1as both of those books were the first appearance of New Teen Titans and the new group of X-Men respectively. In that sense, New Teen Titans 1 is more loosely analagous to X-Men 94 as they were the start of the ongoing series for both teams.

Well, to the long time collectors here, this is also the same book that old sly Geppi used to take newbie moneybags coin guy Parrino out to the woodshed and gave him a financial whupping to the tune of 350 big ones: https://www.cbr.com/marvel-comics-1-nets-350k-sets-record/ Needless to say, Jay's time with us was far too short as he arrived on the comic book scene like a bolt of lightning, but left like a burnt out candle from last year's birthday cake. Looks like the Pay Copy came back to market at least 3 times after that big Geppi sale and ended up reselling for $201K, $205K, and $227K in 2006, 2007, and 2010 respectively, all while residing in a CGC 9.0 VF/NM slab. No surprise that one of the the big secrets to making money in comic books is to buy and hold as the seller of the Pay Copy on this go round here is going to do much better than Parrino and the subsequent buyers of this copy in 2006 and 2007.

Well, EXCUSE ME and definitely my bad then and shows you how far behind the times I am. Clearly then it must be that muscle bound half naked hulk of a villian conveniently dressed only in that skimpy pair of undies and tank top leaving little to the imagination that's got Alan Scott's juices to overflowing and erupting profusely all over both himself and the reporter's dress.

From you posted image here, it's rather obvious that Alan Scott has the hots for this sexy looking reporter here and just could't wait to "express his deep desires" for her, as it's also quite clear that he suffers from a rather severe case of premature ejaculation.

Almost afraid to ask, but given the certification environment we now seem to find ourselves stuck in, what was the prior grade on this gorgeous SF copy of Cap 1?

After all this time, I imagine the NM Church copy of Arrow #3 that's listed in Chuck's Mile High Catalog must be locked away in some lucky collector's personal collection with the key thrown away a long time ago. As for a Larson copy of Arrow 3, doesn't appear to be the case as the only Arrow showing up on the Larson List is a NM copy of Arrow 1.

So, which ones have you "invested" into so far..................hopefully it was the CGC 9.8 graded copy of TMNT 1?

And yet we get the early Marvel keys with all of that fugly looking eye gouging Marvel chipping or some of the Promise Collection books with all of the rat chewed bitten off corners which tend to be given pretty much a free pass and hence all seem to grade much higher than they should have been. No real surprise though I guess, as it's all really about maximizing the top and bottom lines for the CCG ownership at the time.

Clearly you do not know much about the "price per point" concept since it really only applies for books in the general grade range of CGC 2.0 through to CGC 6.0. Especially since entry level copies (i.e. < CGC 2.0 grade) and uber HG copies both do not fall under the PPP concept since they are subject to huge swings in price volatility. The PPP concept most likely also applies to vintage collectible comic books and not so much to hot off the printing press MA books because we know they are all worth pretty much diddly squat in anything below CGC 9.8.

You mean keep the book and sell the back cover only.

So it's all about the back covers here and not so much about the classic Flessel front cover images. Well, how utterly devious and definitely food for thought here. Then again, this doesn't explain why the New Comics 6 scheduled to end tomorrow is still sitting there at only about 40% to condition guide, even though it has the same back cover as Detective Comics 1: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/cartoon-character/new-comics-6-dc-1936-cgc-gd-vg-30-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/122207-13718.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Open-ThisAuction-120115

No, the real big big winners in today's auction for these books were either long time holders of these "under the radar" books or the astute buyers who were on the ball and picked up unrestored copies of these same types of books at a much more reasonable multiple of only 2X guide back only about 5 short years ago. Perfect case in point being a CGC 3.0 graded Universal copy of today's big dollar winner (i.e. Adventure 33 at $5,040 ) for only $836.50: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/adventure/adventure-comics-33-dc-1938-cgc-gd-vg-30-off-white-pages/a/121550-12177.s?ic16=ViewItem-Auction-Archive-PreviousPricesHeritage-081514 Or a raw apparent VG/F copy of today's big multiple winner (i.e. Adventure 38 in raw Apparent Good condition at $4,320 ) for only $1,434: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/adventure-comics-38-dc-1939-condition-apparent-vg-fn/a/121608-13209.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515