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37 minutes ago, ramrod44 said:

Thank You. 

I found the cgc 9.6 Daredevil #196 CPV on a comic website for $66!  The cgc 9.6 Thor #337 CPV I scored for almost exactly what the 9.2 CPV sold for on CLINK.  

Price wise, I would have expected the $400-500 for a 9.6 copy as well!   Thy pop up semi regularly lately, particularly graded in the 9.4 to 9.8 range.

The DD's are like hen's teeth in the CPV's, for a high graded copy.

56 minutes ago, ramrod44 said:

Yeah, I was 2nd highest bidder on the Daredevil #227. 

I did manage to recently acquire these elsewhere tho:

 

There was a definite fight out on the 227.

Nice consolation prizes though

This has to be a new record price in grade.

More CPV goodness, with some strong prices.    A few classic Frank Miller Daredevils, but there's not much love usually for these easily attainable books state side.

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

On 4/15/2021 at 2:14 AM, Dave Henson said:

Wow, just saw Strange Tales 110 in 8.0 sold last week at Heritage for $15,600!

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

Something is definitely damaged here.

1 minute ago, picon3 said:

#23

The elusive one in grade, well done! 

7 minutes ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

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

6 hours ago, followtheleader said:

Wow, that's some bread. 

Even as an X-men fan, those copies would be out of my collection in about 2 seconds if I could get that. 

Patrick

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

9 hours ago, rexinnih said:

Well, since I have an Annual 14 and don't have 266, I'm a bit biased but curious to see where those 9.9's land. 

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. 

13 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

I find the DC more common in my findings.

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

On 8/4/2019 at 2:04 PM, CanadianGothic said:

A few new ones lately...

 

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

1 hour ago, dem1138 said:

2nd consecutive 9.2 sale @$3900...

https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superhero/the-silver-surfer-3-marvel-1968-cgc-nm-92-off-white-pages/a/122113-19515.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116

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!

1 hour ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Wow.  Almost as much as you could have paid for a 9.6 last year.

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!!

On 3/15/2021 at 2:13 PM, aardvark88 said:

Here come the private equity 'investment'/spec firms into paper collectibles. Slabbed rookie cards being resold and auctioned at HA.com:

 

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

On 3/18/2021 at 3:44 PM, Lazyboy said:

Hype, hype, hype! (With lots of lies, lies, lies!)

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.

6 hours ago, Pantodude said:

 

Those who only care about the cover often rely on scans, forgetting that CGC also evaluated the rest of the book, too (that mysterious stuff between the covers).  There might have been a small tear or stray mark on an intereior page, etc.  Too often, the "buy the book not the grade" mantra translates into "buy the cover, not the book"!   

So, all things appearing equal from scans alone, even through well-rested eyes, there is good reason to pay extra for 9.8s.  CGC had more intimate knowledge of both books while grading them, and presumably much more experience differentiating between a 9.8 and 9.6.    

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

17 hours ago, I am not Glenda said:

Past Oct/Nov I paid $825 on a Bin which was pretty much low FMV ( if you can find one) at the time, but in todays world that was a life time ago  

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