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I was watching this from the start, with strong bidding from the get go. Any one know why the sudden jump in price?

Thats a solid price, I'm guessing that's increased since then significantly.

Something is definitely damaged here.

The elusive one in grade, well done!

You sir, are gentleman and scholar! Thanks for the entertainment, and your endurance here, it's been a marathon and counting

I chased a pair of #3's recently, but lost out. Prices are rising The #2 I won

Things have gone crazy lately, you could pick them up for $1,500 not that long ago.

It'll be very interesting to watch, it'd be worth laying down a few predictions on final prices... Annual 14. 6 9.9's X-men 266 there are 15 9.9's. Price range is anyones guess, but I'm thinking they could go $10k up to $25k each. The big thing here is the split. Which one will go for more than the other.....

The market gets to cast it's vote in the upcoming clink auction. A cgc 9.9 copy of each book, lets see where the prices land

Yours for a meager $750. The book is hot, for sure, but that's a stunning result for the grade.

Thats interesting, unless the DC were just the one's still sitting there 40 years later.

These seemed to off tripled/quadrupled in value in the last month or two.

Did you actually look at that book??!!! When you can say, that the best thing about a book, is it's back cover, it's going to hurt the price!

And a 6.0 #4 for $1,100. It's like we've entered bizzaro world. Thats nearly halfway for what I paid for my 9.6 copy.

Can anyone explain what's happening with DS collectors at the moment... The #6 went for $400 more than these two issues in the latest Clink auction!!

He'll do a video on comics in the next few years if the card guys are moving into comics.

How so, are you referring to anything in particular? this entire hobby is currently driven on hype. Me myself I love the fresh challenge, around a key period of books that I enjoyed when they first hit the shelves.

The guys at the Clink have it annotated as the first appearance.

The only point that can be added here, in relation to these two examples, is that point of grading for each book is over a decade between each of them. CGC is like any environment, with continued learning, different graders, changes in personnel, market conditions, heck...even new glasses for some (myself included ). It all creates variables from one passage of time to the next. It'd be interesting to see early SA issues graded at the same time for those .2 grade differences. Not for the point of second guessing the process, but illustrating the differences that create the increments. This something that is rarely seen, and properly understood. Particularly in the SA, with 40-50 year old books. Grading modern books at CGC has to be the easy gig in comparison

Yeah, that was a good price... top of the 'old' price for the book. Add another $1,000 to that number now

Wozers! That is impressive.

Can I ask what you paid? This book is red hot right now.

Looking at the Group Collection thread, you get to see the books in the "never to buy" category. As for attic finds these days, they have to be far and few between now. Yup, it's up there with my biggest regrets, selling it. Though looking back, in fairness, I bought big, and sold big, so I can't complain. I was looking at Slobodian copies the other day, and found this old priceless. Good books were never cheap!

I had that lesson in spades. I bought the original Boston Silver Surfer #1 9.8 from a dealer, based on the census numbers at the time (single highest grade), and he was concurrently getting the other Boston copy resubbed...and it jumped from a 9.6 to a 9.8. Now jump forward 13 years, and there's 9 9.8's on the census. The single number one spot doesn't last forever, that's a slab collectors maxim for sure!

you made me think, what's the cut-off number now for perceivably 'scarce' book on the census for a SA book. 10 or less does seem to fit the bill, whether that's in the 9.6 or 9.8 category.