The Less Blob

Not many roll the dice on these booms

When? Earlier in cgc yes when people made a lot of clueless submissions. New submitters now who think their 8.0-9.2 is a 9.8 too. I buy these books. Not the vast bulk of quantity submitters nowadays.

Have marvel BA monster books slowed? Seems like the new blood may not care about that stuff

Each book has its own trajectory. Just as likely stiff that jumped may stagnate and a different group will double etc. Personally I am only buying stuff that has not gone crazy this year. Mostly.

People generally don't think spending $25 to get back a book possibly worth $25 back. Some people are happy burning money. It isn't like slabbing your FF 5.

Hulk 258 has 1st Ursa Major, who David Harbour just teased as appearing in the movie (probably not much of one): https://thedirect.com/article/black-widow-david-harbour-mcu-superheroes-winter-guard Pretty easy to CGI a giant drunk bear for 15 seconds. I just sold a copy this morning.

You can look in the census too

This was a steal: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274679448932?hash=item3ff42bc564:g:-V8AAOSwqHNgJKHO But yeah, $10-15 sound right for a high water mark, assuming the whole market hasn't died before then. I thought it was the 2d app and hunted it down, but he is in 5 and 9 also, so it is the 4th... (despite most of the people on ebay claiming 2d)

Seriously? He is on the cover of #3. Yeah, I know, in the 80s or 90s they used to pimp this book as meaning something, which is why I bought like 15 of them, but this distinction probably doesn't mean much to folks nowadays. Afterall, the first Venom solo story is worthless. of course, marvel messed up and didn't even reference it on the cover of the book!! you have to look inside to know it. and cgc does not reference it either.

I wish. Nowadays I fully expect to pull at least 25 $15-25 books out of my average "misc junk" shortbox and when I don't I am kind of sad.

Goon 1, Goon 2, Darkhawk 1, Spawn 1, Locke & Key 1, tons of books have more 9.8s than any other grade. Locke & Key 1 has more 9.8s than all the others put together. Quite possibly because it was an instant sellout and like 10% of the copies bought were sent to CGC. Spawn 1 does too.

yup, many of these companies and usps are bad about getting real signatures. my wife gets wine, which must be signed for, and they often just leave it in the front

Since when does anyone care about 3rd appearances or whatever these are? (I used to buy that whenever I saw it for a buck, I get it)

DC New 52 books had so so many variants and that was 2011 and even by then the variant thing was feeling old and overplayed

no, too many variants was well before the valiant relaunch, started somewhere in the 2002-2006 range

why? just another one of their endless reboots, the only difference is they did it for every title, and eventually they returned to some legacy numbering. I don't like the idea of DC, the second fiddle, dictating the ages here. At least in the early 90s all the companies were doing titanic things all in that 1991-1992 period. similarly, both DC and Marvel were doing some big shifting right around 1970. the start of copper is a bit mushier, true.

or we end chromium whenever cgc started...

No, whatever happened in the early 90s has to start a "new age" from copper, the question is whether they next "age" should be ending at some point in the 90s (a short age, the chromium age maybe, from 1991 - 1998). I'm not sure if there is an "event" that can be pointed to, but in 1999 things start changing a lot, only a couple of books a month go over 100K, DC takes the lead on Marvel in overall market share (according to comichron... which is weird because DC often only had a few titles in the top 20, not sure where they are winning looking at comichron).. 1999 to some point in the 2000s is maybe pre-modern, when did variants become such a huge part of the business model? I know they've been around with "platinums" and such, but they were not such a big part of things until some point in the 2000s. the 608 rrp variant might have really started things, but that was not your typical store variant

Nice copies of Spiderman Unlimited 1 have been selling decently for a while. Here is one for $35 from Feb: https://www.ebay.com/itm/203281050922?epid=85492686&hash=item2f547ead2a:g:sqoAAOSwE4tgLD1c Divad sold one for like that much a year or two ago, but yeah, prices were all over the place on it.

I just don't get it. X-Men 244, 282, common as dirt books, but at least they were the 1st apps of the character. Lobo 1 is like the 143rd appearance of Lobo. This is not even the first "new look" Lobo, he started looking like a biker monster before then (some of his legion appearances had him pretty skinny, but there was a superman 1989 one shot with him where he is huge). But I suppose Gambit 1 is $150-180 in 9.8. 1st solo I guess. I just feel like 1st solo years after an introduction just doesn't mean that much.

258 has been doing well for a while now

Was this the first "new look" lobo? But seriously, there are tons of these. If this is $250 then 64 in 9.8 should be $1000?

That is nonsensical. Not even a newsstand

A mcp 72 for $65 or a mid grade fawcett for the same price seems like a no brainer to me

I did some debt cleaning, don't get me wrong