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Hi Folks...after my original post and your responses, I decided to make another plot and see if it was all informative. I took Detective 1-40 and plotted total CGC graded copies (all books...universal, restored, qualified, etc.) along with the Gerber Scarcity value. See the result below.

To be honest...I am not sure this says anything meaningful. I had suggested before that I thought the issues prior to 27 were not graded as often as those after 27. This data clearly shows that to be true. But it's hard make the conclusion that those issues are actually rarer with a lot of confidence. For the really early issues, there may not be that many raw books out there...or maybe there are. It's hard to say. As an example, Gerber says that issue 2 and 3 are really scarce...and that agrees with the CGC data to some extent. But the other books don't seem to correlate very well with that idea. (Maybe 24...but that would be it)

Anyway...just thought I would throw this out there. I will put it up on my blog for reference as well.

Cheers...

For some reason, the #2 second print is under a different entry. There are 55 graded. 9 are 9.8.

 

http://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_standard.asp?title=Walking+Dead&issue=2&publisher=Image+Comics&year=2004&issuedate=2%2F04

Thanks...just saw that. Not sure what that is about.

wow!

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331046472419&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:US:3160

The CGC database says that only one copy of the #2 second print has been graded and it was 9.6. How often do they update the database?

 

I am not sure what you are going for with your article. You do not define the Gerber Scarcity Index or show the SI of the Action 1, Detective 27, WDC&S 31 or the All Star 8. You do show their CGC census numbers. But you just jumped from Gerber's SI to these books with nothing to tie the two concepts together.

 

Perusing my own Gerber Guides, I see the following:

 

Action 1 - Gerber Scarcity Index of 7

Detective 27 - Scarcity Index of 6

All Star 8 - Scarcity Index of 5

WDC&S 31 - Scarcity Index of 5

 

Gerber uses the following for the SI:

 

11 - non-existent - known to have been printed but no copies known - Gerber has not assigned any books an 11

10 - unique - less than 5 copies known

9 - very rare - 6-10 copies

8 - rare - 11-20 copies

7 - scarce - 21-50 copies

6 - uncommon 50-200 copies

5 - less common than average 200-1000 copies

4 - average - 1000-2000 copies

3 - more common than average

2 - common

1 - very common

 

These are things you should be including in your article in order to make whatever case it is you want to make. Otherwise it really does not make a lot of factual sense.

 

It is a good idea but it needs fleshing out.

 

Poverty Row...many thanks for the editorial feedback!! I really appreciate you taking the time and the thoughts everyone else had.

I will connect the dots on this tonight in the blog post. It is interesting, that Gerber is still not that far off on Action 1...and while there may still be copies "in the wild", I suspect there are not that many (I'll take a WAG and say fewer than 10...total guess)

As for Detective 27...I highly doubt there are more that 100 copies total out there. That probably should be Gerber 7. Anyone care to discuss that point? It's a bit of a guessing game I suppose. Like I said before, I highly doubt there are more than a small handful of ungraded copies of these caliber of books out there.

I'll have to rethink my interpretation of the numbers for All Star 8 and WDC&S 31.

Later...

P.S. Is Gerber still around...does anyone know? It would be great to get his thoughts.

Hey...I just wrote a piece on my blog about Gerber scarcity and what "Rare" should mean today, when we have the internet and can search world-wide for things we collect. I would love to get the thoughts of this community on this. A link to my blog is in my signature below...

Bottom line...Gerber defined "Rare" as 11-20 copes in existence. I think that range should be anything below 50 copies is "Rare".

Thoughts?

I was rummaging through some of my books tonight and came across this...Gotta love Cardy. And this book has an Alex Toth story as well.

First post here...been collecting for about 30 years though.

This week...an IDW Artist's Edition of Xenozoic Tales. The last guy who posted here posted on Rocketeer...if you have not checked out the Artist Edition Rocketeer...do so. It's awesome!