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Ends up? or spikes to? Law of gravity applies. remember the folks a year ago who were paying hot prices for first Illuminati issue HAHAHA!

If that is light scratch on the slab, I have had good luck on mine with PlastX. Takes some effort/force but usually reduces or removes the scratch. I don't use the sandpaper

If it was not before your time, did you go crazy when Byrne and folks completely changed most of the Superman mythos? Most of it was undone as decades passed but the Businessman Tycoon Lex Luthor continues to the day replacing the evil scientist Luthor. Then the 2011 New 52 Superman debacle (in my mind at least) that transformed Superman into what by my account was a deee--baggggg I mention Superman only in this post as the character inspired a genre and has been part of the fabric of Americana since WWII.... Batman has been altered as well multiple times. Inevitability it will all regress mostly back to the mean. If you don't like it don't buy it which is exactly why I've not purchased a single DC book after New 52 started and I know I'm not alone...

MCS I do understand as that makes good sense fiscally, however based on your post not clear on why you would use Heritage and not Comiclink. Additional cost per $100 is much less on CL. Heritage collects tax and they factor it in after their nasty 20% buyers premium.

Not easy money to make from an overall required effort perspective but likley extremely self-satisfying to grind out that coin each year from trash in effect. That's an example of how you stay in biz, keep cash flowing and prosper - any moe ron can make money in bubble. Difficult to believe their are some on this very forum who either don't understand cash flow or somehow believe taking in money is not a good thing for a comic dealer (seriously there are those here that believe that)

Think you nailed it with the part I bolded.

I strongly believe CGC grading standards were much more strict for 9.8's back from 2000 (actually late 1999) - 2003. However I do feel they were less strict on 9.2's and 9.4's during that time compared to modern day. Still even back then unless it was borderline miscut centering of wrap was not taken into consideration. Now of course the tiniest color loss becomes a 9.6 maximum, yet IMHO ugly spine hits can still garner a 9.8 if no color loss. Wraps are personal preference thing in most cases which I feel is biased to the back cover showing on the front yet many of the same collectors have no issue with part of the front cover showing on the back...

Did you mean San Mateo? San Mateo County is east of San Jose and a bit south of San Francisco.

CGC's new policy in effect is that the rings are your fault and your problem - seriously that is the policy! The only way things will change is if people stop submitting and stop buying the slabs. I do not think that will occur. This is what happens when there is no real competition

For $30 I recently picked up a 9.8 of a book that at the start of 2022 ran me $220. I average it out to 125 each not sure it helps... I overpaid for 5 books during the bubble. My mantra of never being the sucker who buys a book when its hot saved me a ton that im now using to buy stuff

I have a dim recollection from my youth of high gloss on a cover being a selling point

Hyperbole much ;) Yeah the wrap is a little off but not egregious. Not only is the book 9.8 but it's a very strong copy from a technical perspective. I purchased it raw and self submitted, so thanks for the personal attack even if it was not your intention. I do challenge you to find a nicer copy of the issue. Great if you have the life expectancy and money to only purchase DC Silver Age books that are perfect to your eyes. As I realize I won't live forever nor have vast wealth; I learned a long time ago that when collecting Silver Age DC's one can not be picky on non-Bat books due to being almost non-existent in high-grade, unlike with Marvel books that usually have vast quantities. P.S. this post does apply to 1968-1969 Silver Age - please ignore my signature this time.

To be clear at time you wrote your post and time i am writing this post it is not at 20K. 20K is the Reserve which has not yet been met. In addition it is 1 of the 3 covers not all 3, they are being auctioned separately. Will it make the reserve is the ? IMHO it should have been sold as a 3 cover lot, which may have been the logic you employed

I agree, but I thought that at $2750... Now that may be 30-40% below eventual bottom?

^ yep. Excercise regulary, go high fiber and lean protein diet and perhaps you might just make it to next bubble.

yw. All props go to @valiantman

Spawn 1 (1992). As graded comics go there are almost as many in 9.8 or higher as there are grains of sand on the world's beaches. It also has the most pre2000 9.9's and 10's . http://cgcdata.com/cgc/cgctop/ Book Total Submissions CGC 10.0 CGC 9.9 CGC 9.8 Spawn 1 (1992, Image Comics) 1st appearance of Spawn (Al Simmons). 2nd Image "i" logo. Pull-out Spawn poster 30,797 6 77 14970 .

IMHO at $35 is still $30 more than they are worth

at very least it should be equal to the amount of single US Paper Currency bill is required to still remain legal tender https://www.frbservices.org/resources/financial-services/cash/exception-processing/mutilated-currency-coin.html https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption

My answer to topic question is no,no,no,No,NO

i believe the data can be pulled from or already is hard linked at cgcdata.com The owner creator of the site is on this forum. If you are unable to figure it out, tag valiantman to this thread.

Yep they are almost as rare as having sand on a beach BTW no offense intended to the original poster, all if us were new to hobby once. Although in my case it was just very slightly before variants, gimmics and hype replaced substance