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Recently when going through some books I picked up I noticed some dells have different back covers than others of the same issue. One with ads and one without. How much rarer, if at all, are the non-ad covers?

On 3/30/2023 at 2:40 PM, plady69 said:

Great cover!

yes it is. an underrated one imo

i wonder with that scraping off if that right corner is barely hanging on by a thread. 

the auctioneer. during the live vid

the 6.0 with Stan Lee SS with some bad tanning and little writing went for 75k with the bp. little odd he said it's one of the nicest 6.0s he's seen. idk where that's from

On 3/30/2023 at 3:49 PM, Batmanis#1 said:

Agreed it does not even look like a 7.5 maybe a 6.5.

i take it then you don't consider this 7.5 too much better than the last 2 6.5s that went for 90s

On 3/30/2023 at 1:35 PM, Dark Knight said:

Ugly copy.  Has color touch removal on cover.

was it purple slabbed before? if so, what was it at in the resto grade?

the AF 15 7.5 goes off in a bit on HA. currently at just over 100k with the bp

bump

not good. this copy, despite the better page quality did have some slight tanning on the right edge, but that's still not enough to account for drop to 91/92

On 1/25/2023 at 11:44 PM, DC# said:

 

I was really bored recently and decided to go way, way back in this thread - all the way back to 2015 or so - just to see what conversations have been like over the past decade.    Funny how the conversations have not really changed that much - where prices are, speculation, predictions, impact of marvel chipping, validity of various auction houses, etc etc etc.    

One thing that caught my eye was a chart from April 2017 that broke down how many Universal graded copies were in the census.    In April 2017 it stood at 1,653 copies - in January 2023 we are at 2,403 - a 45% increase.    So in the first 17 years of the census they graded 1,653 and have done 750 in the past six years.   That is an average of just under 100/year in the first 17 years to around 125/year these past six.

The 2017 chart doesn't have actual numbers by grade but I eyeballed them to create a comparison by grade.    The most growth was in grades 2.5 and under (50-70% increases) but all grades under 6.0 grew by over 30%.   Even 8 and 8.5 grew around 30%.   

Again - I had to guess the 2017 numbers but this gives a directional sense of how many books have been added by grade.

 

 

when studying census numbers like this, how many or what % do you think is resubs/presses/resto removal etc that do not include original label and then would be doubly counted? same with cgc to cbcs or cbcs to cgc skewing 

When subbing from cbcs to a cgc from a pedigree or collection book does it help to send in the old cbcs label that it was cracked from or no

gonna give this another day or two on here before posting it on other avenues

On 1/17/2023 at 9:24 PM, DC# said:

My eye is so trained to skip everything after the standard universal grade number.....I inaccurately assumed that "signed by" in GPA meant it was a yellow label.   Learn something new everyday.   

odd. guess it's something in their coding or algorithm. 

On 1/16/2023 at 8:12 PM, DC# said:

And the 5.5 on Clink just closed at $58k.  David Parsow collection.  

 

do you have this one 5.5 from heritage few months ago in there? 55k

Amazing Fantasy #15 (Marvel, 1962) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white to white | Lot #13032 | Heritage Auctions (ha.com)

On 1/14/2023 at 9:11 AM, GAMBIT said:

MC is a defect that drives me away from a book. (if to keep in my PC) over all other issues.   

 

there's got to be polls somewhere of what people feels is worse from MC to tanning(or fading) to miscuts to PQ

I feel like there's a few 5.5s missing on here. There was a few months where a few 5.5s were going for mid 50s

On 1/13/2023 at 5:18 PM, DC# said:

Here is an update to my AF15 tracker (note I have been tracking sales that don't show up in GPA as well like Clink).    The rate of decline looks like it is slowing down / flattening for these grades.     I added 5.5 to the chart capture the sentiment in the last post.    All these grades are down 40-50% from their first 2022 sale (which is also the historical peak sale for 5.5, 3.0 and 2.5 )  except for 3.5.    Even throwing out the last $36k sale for a 3.5 it is only down 30%.    

That one $100k sale of a 5.0 in June still stands out as odd - it's messing up my chart     But it is still sitting in the GPA data (June 29th)

 

fwiw when 6.5 were spiking in june, those were cream to ow too. I think bad chipping is worse than PQ most of the time. the 5.5 that sold right after sold for more than other 5.5s lately too despite OW pages and more tanning

in higher grades especially 

gets priority

Shipped USPS or UPS in US

Paypal G&S accepted

no trades sorry. 

Amazing Spider-Man #15 CGC 6.0- $1625

 gets priority

shipped USPS or UPS in US

no trades sorry

Paypal G&S accepted. 

Young Avengers #1 CGC 9.8- $425

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