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All of it comes across so poorly, hence why having a YouTube channel dunking on Disney is a full time job right now. Characterising the typical viewer as "rabid" looks desperate. It gives us a clear indication of what the senior stakeholder meetings at Disney must be like. Complete contempt for the typical viewer, and offering up a bad product is just passed off as "we gave them something different to their expectations". They're a sinking ship at this point.

Teen Titans is hot. ...for the right issues This is on the front page of the clink exchange section.

You can still get the war issues for okay money, but the horror issues is where the real battle is. HOS, HOM are all virtual classic covers of the period. And forget that 52 pager issues of Dark Mansions, and Sinister House even exist!

Just wow!

For the numbers coming from the CGC Census, we know that books were not identified correctly all the time... but for numbers coming from @gpanalysis identification of newsstand and CPV, we're not relying on CGC's labels. Thats a very good point. For the current discussion, the data sets, of sales volumes, and realised prices are constantly massing on GPA. From a personal standpoint, I can't wait to see numbers on your database moving forward. While the data isn't available just yet, what would be a likely start date for books arriving at CGC, and receiving the Newsstand notation as an automatic function of the grading process at Sarasota?

You right they are rare. And even having a closer look at those two books, I wasn't overly in love with their condition, but still there's so few high grade copies around.

Not that I'm aware of. Unless two guys are chasing books for the 52 Pager set on the registry

The prices have gone schizophrenic at this point!

Thats interesting to see. This book comes straight in after the end of the Tales to Astonish series, and I understood that Brulato had all the Western Penn Tales to Astonish books. That book has re-sub written all over it

From what I've seen the ratio for CPV's for that era does actually look pretty consistent across the time period. The big event books of that era, that were promoted ahead of their release dates, with storyline buildup series and issues, all have very strong census submission numbers in CPV's. For these books the direct to CPV ratio still seems to be intact, which is interesting to see. Reading through the contributors to the topic, the ratio in it's broadest estimates CPV's sits in the 1-5% range of direct editions The big three books from the early 80's; Secret Wars #8 2% CPV ratio Direct submissions 23,258, CPV submissions 366 ASM #252 3% CPV ratio Direct submissions 19,853, CPV submissions 658 Thor #337 6% CPV ratio Direct submissions 9,314, CPV submissions 598 Then taking time looking at non key issues, or unprompted books from the CPV time period, the ratio's all sit around the similar percentages. There are of course a few books with low direct edition submission numbers, which even a few CPV submissions make the ratio look high, circa 20% etc. But overall things look fairly consistent. CPV's in that era, do look consistently represented in volume, and submission ratio's seen on your database. We all know the census does not represent all direct editions in existance, and there are unacknowledged CPV issues in the direct edition numbers, and there is of course the competitions own census numbers to consider. But there is an abundance of data points, across multiple years, big and small issues submission books, popular, and non-popular books and titles (I'm looking at you X-Factor #5, & #6) that consistently illustrate the ratio of CPV's to direct editions out there. But looking forward, there is a ton of newsstand books out there, that will need to be resubmitted to gain the slab notation, and inclusion in your database. But that will very likely be multi decade process, to see significant numbers of books returned to CGC for label updates. Returning to the Wolverine Limited series, the books had a huge amount of promotion leading up to their release, the CPV ratio's for all three issues sits squarely on 1%. Which is why it's abundantly clear that Canadians hate Wolverine. Just checking who's still reading.

That title is easy to talk about, the number direct edition books is huge, and the grading is extremely clear, and extremely tight. Even if 1 or 2 copies get bumped up, the total number of copies of CPV's is minuscule. For perspective, there is more in common with CPV 9.8's, and direct edition 9.9 census numbers. And the very last 9.9 was handed out in 2020, then you have to jump back to 2015 for the next one.

Also, the high grade copies are locked away in collections. There are certain high grade CPV's that no longer appear on the market anywhere. There's not been a Wolverine Limited Series CGC 9.8 on the market for the last 2-3 years, even 9.6's have dried up. Guy's are holding onto CPV CGC books, while their direct edition counterparts, get sold like hot-cakes back and forth. CPV submissions for this year finally are looking broader across the grades. The high grade submissions have run out except for the big event books, and even with those books, its light.

I'm just watching Agent Carter at the moment. That looks like a cinematic blockbuster next to this series. Its creators are the screenplay power house of Christopher Markush, and Stephen McFeely. These two guys seem to be the high-water mark for the MCU. Their back catalogue of work is all of MCU's big hits.

Even the newb's must wisen up quickly There's no way the reputation for these guys 200-300% mark-up isn't common knowledge in the wider CAF community?

No one gets that excited about 80's newsstand copies. They are not the rarities we see in the modern era. Mid 80's is all about CPV's, and price variants for rarities.

Thats the thing, everyone would be invariably using the same mindset. We're seeing all the high grade copies come out off the woodwork first. So if your looking at the census for CPV's and extrapolate off the current grade profiles, you'll be in for a shock later on. This is the good books coming onto the market first.

Actually north of a million for a CGC 9.8 copy. @VintageComics has good knowledge on this result if a copy came onto the market today.

Speaking with Roy @VintageComics, the $330 sale was the outlier. The Nov 2022 sale of an ASM #1 9.6 was cheap and I stated that openly when it sold. The winning bidder ended up flipping the book for FAR MORE shortly after it sold. $330K was always too cheap for an ASM #1 9.6 and it slipped between the cracks last winter. This sale it seems is inline with expectations. So a cool $1m for a 9.8 isn't too much of a speculation.

From the man himself.. I actually did not sell an ASM #1 9.6 for $650 but I did offer the Curator at that price 2 years ago. The Nov 2022 sale of an ASM #1 9.6 was cheap and I stated that openly when it sold. The winning bidder ended up flipping the book for FAR MORE shortly after it sold. $330K was always too cheap for an ASM #1 9.6 and it slipped between the cracks last winter.

Thats stronger than I expected for the ASM#1. Though @VintageComics IIRC, did sell a 9.6 copy during cave-in for $650k.

Traveller... All the species, all the tech, it was pretty cool. I never got one of these

So those who didn't have access to comic shops, but were into collecting comics, and they had intermittent openings, and closings of newsstand outlets in their area, have I got this straight? Impacted the buying rate of newsstands by how much? Are there any other pressing scenario's you want to bring to our attention??

'Original Owner'. I don't think there's such a thing at this point.

For all other slow burner keys, newsstand copies will be like hen's teeth.

This is aspect not covered well so far. Everyone is focussed on absolute numbers of newsstands out there. But the grades of newsstand books out there for the modern era is starting to look like SA grade profiles, far more than MA. With the CPV's we see the heavily hoarded key books of that time with dozens of high grade copies. For the modern newsstands, there's been lack of event books. And if there were, people got their copies at the LCS where they could order them as they wished. Newsstands were simply not on the radar.