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get up that post count.and get reading,great stuff in those bomics. Thanks buddy! That's why the post count is low. too busy reading.

Sweet X-Men!

Sorry for the multiple posts. My phone is only allowing me to post 1 or 2 links per...

I'm really liking the older horror stuff. It's affordable and the art is AWESOME! Thanks for the look

Will post my pick ups when I get home.

There's really no "premium" either way. Not enough people care. -J Pick a number... how many people need to care? Because this is a number: $1,600 http://www.ebay.com/itm/252619622987 GPA was $1,000. http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=252619622987 Four different bidders bid at least 35% "premium" over GPA. The final was 60% "premium" over GPA. But like everything else where there's not (ever going to be) 100% agreement, let's just keep repeating... "Not enough people care." Right. That auction was shilled, and at best is an outlier. Here are two other 9.8 sales of "newsstand" copies from the last month, one for $1000: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARVEL-COMICS-AMAZING-SPIDER-MAN-300-1988-CBCS-9-8-1st-VENOM-KEY-ISSUE-/232113007539?hash=item360b036bb3%3Ag%3AFh0AAOSwzaJX%7E8en&nma=true&si=qgYwxrvFOCf5e4Mw7iWlMzFOyNo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 and one for $900 (almost half the price of this last one??? ) http://item.ebay.co.uk/232105339278?item_hash4=8a5876d1&LH_Complete=1&LH_BIN=1&LH_BO=1&_ipg=200&_pgn=1&rc=nt&rmvSB=true Not enough people care. -J. The first auction didn't mention "Newsstand" and is not a CGC book. The second link was an accepted BEST OFFER, not an auction. Four different bidders over 35% of GPA on the $1,600 book and you call it shilled. What do you call it when a modern book goes for $3,000+ because of two high bidders? Shilly-shilled? We aren't talking about a "modern", we are talking about a common-as-dirt-in-all-forms Copper book. A sale is a sale is a sale. There are two 9.8 in the last month that sold for $1000 or less for a "newsstand" version of this book. I could link even more (including other CGC copies) if ebay would go back more then 3 months. I know these sales do not fit with your narrative, but look- there they are anyway. There is no "60%" premium for CGC books over Voldy on excessively common books such as this, and I don't think even you, in your most frothy and deluded state believe that there is a "60%" premium" for a newsstand copy of this. As I said, best case scenario, it's an outlier, worst case, it was shilled (and it was shilled by at least one fake 0 feedback bidder). -J. The 0 feedback bidder was the 4th highest bid. Why do you keep saying the auction was shilled when that bidder, shill-or-not, made no difference? What we have with Amazing Spider-man #300 is a book that's nearly 30 years old, extremely popular, with thousands of graded copies. The book is stable... the market is stable... it's not a rarely-seen book in CGC 9.8. It's downright common. No one would pay $1,600 for a CGC 9.8 $1,000 common book unless there was something special about that book. $1,200 gets anyone a Buy-It-Now in two seconds: http://www.ebay.com/itm/381838529743 GPA is $1,000 if you wait for an auction to end. Two bidders bid over $1,500 for it. Why? CGC 9.8 Newsstand. So I guess that guy who got another 9.8 Newsstand for nearly half the price two weeks ago got the bargain of the century. -J. Are you talking about the CGC 9.8 that had a best offer accepted for $900? That seller decided, not the market. Or are you talking about the CBCS 9.8 that didn't mention that it was Newsstand so a search for CGC Newsstand would have missed... twice? Because a regular old auction for a CGC 9.8 Newsstand just ended at $1,600. That's my point. I never know what your point is... except that it's usually to say that demonstrated facts aren't enough facts for you, and that your opinion should be enough to for us to consider it a fact. My point is that the qualifiers that you are attempting to place on two other, recent sales that show no "premium" are not valid, as is your attempt to minimize the blatant shill bidding that happened in this auction. My point is that there is no consistent or provable "premium" that can reliably be demonstrated because not enough collectors care enough either way to pay one. My point is that for every one sale you can show that you think demonstrates a "premium", I can show (at least) one sale that shows there is none. Erratic and inconsistent data cannot be used to "prove" anything one way or the other. That's my point. -J. I thought that [market] included the "seller" and the "buyer"??

Added my second X-Men comic today...nothing too crazy. I love the older X-Men. A lot of cool covers!

Nooooo. I was just looking at this, saying I have to have this. What a classic. White cover, and Pedigree!! Great pickup bro. Great buyer and great seller- Congrats to both!!! Killer books Matt!!! . Same here. Was going to pull the trigger. Ugh... Awesome stuff by the way!

Added another ASM to my run and picked up a long- awaited X-Men 14 (1st Sentinels) Thanks for the l@@k!

Wow...unbelievable. I honestly didn't even know you could get just "a page" slabbed. That's so damn cool. Question: Is it possible to choose which side of the page you want facing the front as with the label?

Dang Greggy...SOLID pick ups. That IH 271 and NM 98 are on point!

A couple more to add to my recent "just started" ASM Run... A nice score on this 9.6 copy (with tats) Daredevil 1st Crossover Thanks!

SAAAWEEET! Just started watching that series on Netflix.

AF #15 has not only had seasonal lows, there are times when the book just plain stopped rising for a time and fell backward in value. Expecting any book to beat GPA at every sale is not only unrealistic it's unhealthy over all. Any market that goes up too fast will fall back on itself. Well said...

Woody I joined the boards for serious discussions on comics not this kind of thing. I'm logging off. Aren't you being a little heavy-handed when you bark at us like that? I wonder if he's holding a palm tree? No, it's a weeping willow. Because he was being "knotty"? Yes, so much so that he said to 'leave it out' or he'd call the copse. Bugger, that should've been 'leaf it out'. One out of two ain't bad I suppose.

I really love that cover! Great pick up!!!