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Correct. The top of the pyramid makes up a VERY small percentage of the overall market, and frankly much of the time the prices at the top of the pyramid are determined by the 100,000s of collectors who make up the main body of the pyramid, pushing up the top of the pyramid - although we also know a record sale can also pull up the lower end of the market. That volatility at the top is often driven by fear, or just a bidder not bidding on a particular item one night whereas the real collecting base adds support. But even though the higher grade market fluctuates the bottom won't fall out of it as long as there is a foundation of steady sales and collectors below it. If a book gets 'too cheap' it will get snatched up at some point. In fact, that there are deals being made in the background and some of the books that went 'cheap' in the past week are already being bought up at higher prices. But I can neither confirm nor deny anything.

After I posted the list someone purchased it privately before I could list it publicly. Sorry about that.

Because one auction sales is not an indicator of the market, and I can give MANY examples. The Hulk #181 example was discussed a few pages ago and I think the reasonable conclusion is that those two $50K Sig Series sales were both outliers and possibly even fake sales. I never thought Hulk #181 was a $50K book after those sales, and we now have at least two more sales at $90K+ forming a bottom on the book (and that's two IN THE SAME AUCTION which is even more impressive). Another book I was surprised about was the ASM #1 CGC 9.6 that sold for $330K. That sounds like a lot of money but in the grand scheme of things, I think that book went incredibly cheap when compared to other ASM #1 sales, AF #15 sales and other related books. In fact, I was shopping around a 9.6 for someone at well over that number a year ago (let's say double) and I was getting interest - not serious enough to sell it - but if the book had been priced as $330K it would have sold many times over. So does that mean that ASM #1 is faltering? Hardly. The book is climbing in price in other high grade price points. So, this one slipped throw the cracks because another bidder didn't show up to drive price up and I think the buyer got a deal. We'll know in 6 months where the bottom actually was on this new market but I think people are just currently reactive and not proactive. One more thing. I won't name names, but there were dealings buying up books when everyone was selling in 2008-09 and in early 2020. They spend millions buying up people's 'fire sales' books, and they did very well in retrospect.

I waited until the Heritage Auctions ended yesterday to see how these books did, and they did well.

That's all for now!

Giant-Size X-men #1 CGC 9.8 OWW Asking $35,000 (shipping included)

Amazing Spider-man #1 CGC 9.8 OWW - Golden Record Reprint (1966) Asking $10,000 (shipping included)

Amazing Spider-man #129 CGC 9.8 OWW - John Bernthal is rumored to be playing Punisher in the MCU Asking $38,000 (shipping included)

Amazing Spider-man #129 CGC 9.6 White pages - John Bernthal is rumored to be playing Punisher in the MCU Asking $10,000 (shipping included) SOLD!

Adding a few more books...

X-men #141 CGC 9.8 White - 1st app alternate future X-men - Days of Future Past Asking $1000 (shipping included)

X-men #130 CGC 9.8 White - 1st app Dazzler Asking $1200 SOLD!

X-men #121 CGC 9.8 White - 1st Alpha Flight Asking $1450 SOLD!

DC Comics Presents #26 CGC 9.8 White - newsstand - 1st app New Teen Titans Asking $1850 (shipping included)

Amazing Spider-man Annual #16 CGC 9.8 White - 1st app New Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) Asking $1000 (shipping included)

Amazing Spider-man #149 CGC 9.6 OWW Asking $1000 (shipping included)

Adding a few more books.

You haven't spent much time on the chat forum lately, have you? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mudslinging

Roy gets a fail.

The only critical thinker in the thread. Class gets a fail.

Maybe if you had a better case, but in this case you're likely wrong. I didn't even see the sales on GPA because I don't have my Sig Series box checked on GPA. I had to check that box just now to see the recorded prices. That's how little attention I pay to Sig Series books. And they both sold on the same day, too? From the same seller? Within an hour of each other? A seller with only 185 eBay feedback? And a seller who has never sold anything expensive before? And the bidding is private? And neither buyer has left feedback for the purchases even though they were completed a month ago. None of the above is weird to you? Come on. These two examples are about as shady as can be. No wonder nobody serious bid on them. This is not the type of example you want to build your case on. These auctions have everything going against them and nothing in their favor. Like I said, if I'd seen the books I'd have bought them at that price. Most dealers would probably have even paid 50% higher, or more than what they sold for. They obviously either went under the radar because MANY people completely ignore Sig Series books or nobody bid on them because the auctions looked shady as F***dge. Likely both.

Ditto. I NEVER pay close attention to a yellow label. The buying pool for yellow labels is much smaller than blue label books (especially on the high end) and I'm certain that's what happened to those two books.

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There was also a $138K copy on Heritage 2 months ago. What this shows is that the floor seems to be the $90K range where it has been for a year now, and that the ceiling in the $150K range for premium copies such as the Sucha News. Sucha copies in general seem to usually fetch premiums and a 20-30% range for non-Pedigree copies seems to be right in the range of fluctuation for high grade Bronze where people weight page quality and production quality much more than SA or GA books. Expand EXCEPT, the two Stan Lee signed 9.8s that sold for $46K and $50K in October. There is a lot of "floor" between those and $90K. Those must have slipped under the radar somehow and are outliers. Things slip through the cracks all the time only to resurface later at much higher prices. It's how a some dealers procure inventory. There was a time when auctions were NOT the determination of FMV. This is a fairly recent phenomenon that's only been around just over a decade. Auctions are a contest between how many viewers an item has and a timeclock and sometimes the timeclock wins. Any dealer with half a brain and the pocketbook to do so would have bought those both all day long at those prices. In fact, most dealers would have probably paid much more for them. I know I would have, had I seen them. What probably happened is that people saw that these were sig series copies and anybody (like me) who is looking for a blue label copy would have ignored these copies. Whoever bought these is going to double their money.

I had tons of people message me about this asking if this was the guy that bought the Superman #1 Church copy. Most people missed the NG on the slab and thought it was the record book. The video is obviously a fake.