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Not responding to new orders, and putting them on a shelf for a few months is the same thing as a shutdown. What CGC is doing is just massaging the optics for the consumer. No shut down, but a heck of a long wait instead

Read the feedback, guys are handing over major amounts of shekels for a nice ebay photoshop picture, and a book that will come back as a VF+ on a 9.6 listing.

Thee's hope for humanity, the time eternal adage "buy the book, not the grade", may be beginning to sink in.

A natural reaction.

The classics

My Mac constantly tells me this page uses too much data in idle, or words to that effect. So I'm not to sure "who" logs me out, my computer, or the chat boards.

Can anyone explain why this book is getting so much heat lately?? It's a very nice 7.5, but that's 9.0/9.2 money.

Cool, 78 years from now this is really going to pay dividends. FMI, are you 12 years old or younger by chance??

I just had a look, using the first week free option. There doesn't seem to be any current pricing information??

Whats your take on things?? The peaks are coming off for a lot of books, but a few alternates, or late to the party are rising. Is this seasonality, or something attached to a larger pattern?

They seem to be tightly graded, the red shows up everything.

I see two out of three books are already in top sets on the collectors registry. Dam!

Very well put, and summarised. Traditional patterns in the comic market were (people will argue with this) around the ages. There would be a big upswing in say the SA books as a whole, then buyers would see the GA, or BA as looking light, and "undervalued" in comparison to what just happened in the SA. With the MCU explosion, it's a new cycle. The popular key's attached to the movie franchises are exploding, irrespective of age. Modern books included, with prices mirroring or exceeding well established price points on SA, and BA keys. There's seems to be a lot of buyers coming in, targeting the obvious books of interest, and are completely unmoved by population numbers as well. But as we've heard on other threads, CGC populations look trivial next to the sports card populations, so the books keep climbing despite the obvious warnings ringing in our own heads. So the buying patterns we're seeing, go against all our best judgement, and understanding of the hobby to date.... The rest at this point is speculation, climb, sink or stagnate, the market will be interesting to eat ch for the next few years. The MCU is building fan's, and an era of movie appreciation that will endure for decades from now. As for the books, who knows. We know "favourites, and hot books" is a shifting focus. But trying to predict where things will go is part of the fun too

You're entitled to your own philosophy, but I don't think you should be telling me (or anyone else) whether I'm "handicapping myself" or whether I am valuing the contents of the books I collect (of which, I have read and enjoyed every single one). I'm fortunate to be able to afford high grade books outright, and therefore I have no interest in low- to mid-grade books or partial ownership of books. That's what works for me. I encourage you (and everyone else) to do whatever works for you. I follow the same philosophy towards books, having started when high grade copies of keys were readily attainable, across all the books we now see booming in price. It's still a level of collecting I see as "normal". So looking at guys on so many forums, very happily showing their 4.5 Hulk 181 etc, just doesn't jell for me. For me, a big part of collecting was finding the rare diamond, an obscure high grade copy of a book. Thats always been a big aspect, but it didn't necessarily cost you a deposit on a house to do it, like it does now. So Valiantman's points are very true, from an investor perspective mid to lower grades stack up very well, and we there's so much movement. Is it the price point, the bigger census numbers, it seems be all of these. The MCU is driving a whole new era of comic collecting, and comic price rises.

Two copies that have come up lately. I missed one, but got the other.

I see you missed the "just in time" inventory management class. For you, this makes a lot of sense... and I wouldn't expect anything different. For me, there's too many other books I'm missing out on, looking at these pictures. I personally buy multiples to sell at a later date, to fund other purchasing. Or like in the early CGC days, chasing a truly proper high grade copy, not one that technically made the grade.

Agreed. Not about the Spiderman 1 though, seen those go for 100 bucks at 9.8 lately Add in time value, slabbing fee's, and any 9.6's or less are losses against the costs incurred for a decade or two.

You're talking to the guy who won the first slabbed set award for Astonishing Tales back in 2008. Back then, finding most of the books in 9.4/9.6 was a great result. The big issue to get was #8 the 25c square bound issue. It joined Conan #10, X-men #72, Sgt Fury #92, Millie the Model #192, in format, all October 1971 books, and the other issues were 15c that month. My point is that the run has a lot of cross over aspects for more and more collectors now. I've always regarded the title as under appreciated, so it's great to see that it's moved away from it's 2nd tier title status

There was a big break in the listings, I missed a page!!!! 300 - 51 copies!!!!

Don't forget people, there's folks out there waayyyyy more "collective" than you. Be discerning, and picky about where you lay your money down.

It's worth overlaying some of the population numbers here. The Spidey books are turning in big numbers every auction now. Searching right now there are 1,868 Spiderman books in the current and coming auctions at the clink. 194 - 18 copies on the blocks. 238 - 12 copies 252 - 28 copies 300 - 23 copies That many copies turning up auction after auction with multiple options in each grade, is going to hurt prices.

You stepped up for that even though it is the only 9.8, there are 3 #27's in 9.8 so should be easier. Thats going to be a long ride as well. The whole series has a lot of heat around it now, with Black Panther, Mockingbird, Kazar, Fin Fang Foom, Guardians of the Galaxy, and of course Deathlok. It's jumped up in peoples radar for sure.

The voices, the soundtrack... 10/10.

For those of you who can't wait for the MCU to pick up the story line... The Russian Comicbook Geek, it looks like he lives here in Australia.