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https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/auctionschedule.asp#Past Auction Results Most of their past auction data they make available at above link. Possible they just don't want to spend any money modernizing their tech to accommodate API or other reasons but privacy does not seem to have anything to do with it. Comiclink is a decent venue overall but the site being nearly 20 years out of date tech and feature-wise IMHO does them no favors.

<sarcasm> Yes I can tell that by the way they they do not advertise their current past record breaking sales </sarcasm>

From the center of the universe? BTW: I'm glad for your money saving decision.

The "new" Hudson Yards is at 33 and 10th. Plenty of slightly upscale food joints at the Citizen NY Fool Hall/Court there. It's a 5 minute walk from Javits. Also the new Hudson yards mall across the street has a lot of nice dining. again it 5 min or less walk from convention center. If you stay in Nassau ; ensure to verify on https://new.mta.info/alerts that the trains will be running that weekend. For the past year each weekend, some lines especially the LIRR main line which Hicksville is on, have closed for repair/maintenance as well as to prep for the new East Side Access slated for Dec. P.S. be sure to purchase LIRR tickets before boarding train or cost will be nearly double plus everyone will enjoy make fun of you. You can also purchase via the app; https://new.mta.info/guides/apps

My guess given how antiquated clinks site is their back-ends are no different thus no API. 1999 called - it wants its website back

yeah on the published it looks like shes just mindless dancing in the background i also artistically prefer the background coloring on this one. AAv2#1 cover I saw long before I ever did the X-Men 1963 #1 cover - although the mid 80's it was pre-internet/WWW.

Pics are nice always difficult for me to determine high grade from pics but I feel you have a 9.6/9.8 candidate Upper left back area in the blue may have some very minor color loss. Sadly CGC seems to put more weight on tiny amount of color loss than on many other of what I consider far more serious defects. If it is color loss, 9.6 is likley the threshold.

Wrong number on Cover, the printer stuck on the number for that month's Adventure Comics Digest on some copies. CGC also mislabeled it, it's actually #34. Only a mislabel as it is correct on the CGC verification; https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/1050891016/ . Also its another CPV that CGC did NOT note as such. Hi @CGC Mike , I am not the original submitter, I purchased the book a few years back. Any chance CGC will still make good on their errors and correct them?

OA is a planet

@CGC Mike Please look at this obvious error and bring in your new QC Mgr. A solid guess is book got a grade meant for some other comic. You want to help improve CGC perception? Then do not throw out lines like "we stand by this grade" look at this and be honest. Everyone makes mistakes how a person or firm reacts to them is what defines them. Huge Props the original Poster as most people woudl take the wrong grade when in their favor and sell the book immediately. IMHO this book is a 7.5/8.0 at absolute best

It is why I expanded my parameters for a while. Wild guess is that 1/3 of the time I would not have purchased the book if i had seen it up close first. Yes I did find one such seller who I was able to work out fair deals with. I also do deal with WW, Reece and MCS as if an issue can returns books usually with out any problems. My point was is on the whole fixed price auctions are generally overpriced comics in which seemingly a sellers a goal is to ensnare a rube. A seller may not lose money on fixed price item but if it goes unsold they have not made money either. If you sell to put food on the table and meet the rent then you need to have cash flowing in, during a downturn over-priced fixed stuff will sit. IMHO it's not a quality business strategy unless you have the resources to weather the current storm which will get much worse before it gets better. For the Bulk of books the theme song for the near and mid-term future is "Free fallin', now I'm free fallin', now I'm... Oh, free fallin'"

I've never been fortunate enough to come across a grossly under-priced comic book listing.

Fixed priced graded comics on eBay are usually very overpriced. Most books I want can be found for less with a modicum of patience. Couple that with I prefer to examine a book in hand before purchasing means I almost never do fixed priced deal. Again for oddballs and 1/1's I do make exceptions. 3 books in my current signature represent those occurrences.

Like many art collectors who were in the hobby back in 2005-2007 I have a pile of Gold Key 1960-1980s cartoon based covers. Heritage was selling off the stuff from Western files. Multi-Cover lots included but were not limited to; Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny and Looney Toons related, Tom & Jerry, and many many more. Several of those Covers I picked up the comics were only issued in "rare" 3 pre-packs. My guess is those pre-pack issues in high grade would command more than the original cover art. Collectors can be finicky. Still the OCA is 1/1 item and no more will ever come to light.... The collecting pool for comics dwarfs OCA.While I feel OCA will prevail most of the time, case by case may apply.

With exception of odd-ball's and 1/1's, I never buy fixed price books.

Following in suite with any TMNT book I send for grading the FMV drops as soon as I ship my childhood copy to CGC. Its happened with my Turtles 5,6 Donatello 1 and other Turtles books. Now that my grade just popped expect a massive free-fall for 1988 mini TMNT Adventures 1 ;sigh Probably mirrors the hobby as whole but still....

For book that was issued in 1988 its surprisingly difficult IMHO to find raw 9.8 candidates. Yeah the pop's are moving up bit I'd figure there would be more by now. Difficult for me to get a solid read on the spine but I think a 9.4 candidate and I can't rule out a potential 9.6. However it may be a book that is heavily scrutinized by CGC so I will go with a 9.4. One caveat; if that is light crease to the right of the yellow "S" in the logo then lower my estimate to 9.0/9.2 Books CGC Label CGC Total Avg. Grade 10 9.9 9.8 9.6 9.4 9.2 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.8 1.5 1.0 0.5 1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 1 (8/88, Archie Publications) 1st comic book appearance of Krang, Bebop & Rocksteady. Universal 2,200 9.04 448 521 369 199 185 144 107 74 40 28 32 13 17 4 11 6 2

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IMHO what your have described are normal deviation after a bubble burst. There will always be outliers, and some high prices make little sense but the majority of books will follow the trend in this case down. My guess auctions will continue to go for lower until at least 2Q 2023-perhaps even Q4 2023? . To ride that way to savings simply do not purchase any hot book or title du-jour. Although the easiest way is purchase the same titles and issue #'s from my CGC submissions they are sure to sink like a stone as soon as I receive them back Re: ROM 1 - CGC 9.8w newsstand copies sit unsold on eBay for $399 with Best offers choice available - barely above 2019 levels for the book. BTW: I picked up some A-Team OCA year ago you juts put thought into my head to scan it - thanks

Grew up watching Emmet, Thurman, and Barry myself but only Jerome was "the bus"

I agree with a 7.0/7.5. From my personal experience CGC is very tough on this book.

Jerome Bettis fans are legion

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I had an easier time finding Solar OA/OCA than high grade books

I have on good authority that that OP's post in that vile thread which started out with nastiness and hatred had more flagged reports by more members than any in the history of these CGC forums