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Interesting. I always thought the Tesseract was more akin to the Cosmic Cube.

Justin, did you win those from comics4less? If so, then I'm glad I didn't bid on them! I was watching those, but decided to bid on his Walking Dead 9.8s that I needed. BTW:

That's interesting that the 33b went for $330 when all other sales this year were in the $600s. I almost bid on it, but decided to ignore variants for now.

Thanks Retro! :thumbsup:

Thanks for chiming in Bjorn. I appreciate your insight coming from your experience selling these.

No doubt you would say that, Eric! I owned both in 9.8 and decided to sell the white.

Hey slym, I appreciate the input. Of course it would've been better at the start of the project but oh well. As far as needing at least 2000 results to be a true scientific poll, I have not seen that referenced anywhere before. Do you have a resource that you can reference? From what I have read, there is not a hard number needed to create a confidence interval; it just depends on the margin of error that you are comfortable with. Using the formula provided by the text, only 150 samples would be needed if you wanted a CI of 95% and an error of 8%, assuming the occurrence is 50/50. Only 144 would be needed if the ratio is 40/60. Even with a margin of error of 5%, only 369 to 384 samples would be needed. I agree, the project is not without it limits. I would prefer to have more data, but only 1727 have been graded. Of course slabs can be cracked and reslabbed, but the chances of that happening to a black label should be equal to that of a white label, especially if Kirkman's assertions are correct. I eliminated any SS for this reason.

The black label was first. At least that much we know. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5970682 As far as it being 50/50, or even 40/60, I think the scales are way more out of balance. It seems to me that the price of a graded Walking Dead #1 is high enough to bring any copy to market, regardless of color. A closer proportion of black to whites would be observed if the ratio were 50/50 or 40/60. Bare in mind, I'm not arguing that a black label should make a difference in demand or price; it's just something that I wanted to dig further into.

For those of you interested, I completed my project of trying to find out how many black label #1s are out there: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7159851#Post7159851

Nice, I am excited about that omnibus.

Hello! It took me longer than I thought, but I think I have enough data and re-educated myself enough on statistics to come up with a reasonable answer to the following question: How rare is black label Walking Dead #1? Here is the information used to determine the answer: Data: white - 112 black - 20 Here is how I came about the answer: The best answer that statistics can provide is a range, with a level of confidence in that range. With the data and means available, I am 95% confident that the true proportion of black label Walking Dead #1s fall between 9.03% and 21.27% of the print run. When multiplied by the population (7266), that gives a range of 656 to 1545. The range can get tighter as more data is collected. Feel free to comment with any errors you noticed or any additional slab data provided. Jim

I guess the same argument could be made for the difference between a 9.6 and a 9.8, just less money.

It will be interesting to see where that clink auctions ends because it is an actual auction as opposed to BIN/OBO.

I agree. I have always loved Thanos. I remember years ago wanting to pick up an Iron Man 55 and thinking that $50 was way more than I wanted to spend. Now I can only look back and laugh.

Did anyone see this WD print by Neal Adams? http://www.ebay.com/itm/WALKING-DEAD-RICK-GRIMES-VS-ZOMBIE-HEAD-SHOT-ART-PRINT-SIGNED-BY-NEAL-ADAMS-/231088604999?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35cdf44747 While I think his WW cover is ok, I think this one is much better looking.

J/k Ryan. Nothing but love in this thread. BTW, don't know if you saw my post in EOW, but I referred the same quote

Hey, sometimes a blank is part of larger run and (to paraphrase a quote attributed to Freud) sometimes a blank is just a blank canvas for your own creation.

Nice pick ups! I'm six issues from a complete run of non variants between 9.8 slabs and 9.8 raws. Just need to get off my duff and submit those 20+ raws to CGC.

I would love to see that glow in the dark cover!

Wow, that is awesome. This thread alone is responsible for a sudden spike in IG CGC sales. I wonder if people are looking at slab sales on eBay and wondering WTF?

I agree. I think IG was much stronger than IW or IC, but I love them all. Does Marvel: The End tie into the storyline/mythos, too? I never read Infinity Abyss. After reading the Wikipedia site, I learned that the Avengers/Ultraforce crossover ties into the Infinity Saga - with a 7th gem! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(Ultraverse) Now I have the urge to go buy IG slabs - which was already bugging me in the background of mind, but now has flared up! Here is all I have for now. I'll hope to make a custom omnibus at some point, but I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel comes out with one soon.

Wow, I guess you kinda like that issue! I LOVE the infinity series. I have all of the trades right now, but I'm hoping Marvel puts out an omnibus of some sort. That is the way I prefer to collect my storylines.

Yep, $125

Nice sketch!