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On 8/17/2023 at 12:42 AM, Telegan said:
lol. Yes. I think part of the problem is the last sale they have of the 6.0 is from January when dozens of copies have sold since then and the price has been dropping. So maybe it's more the actual collection of data rather than whatever algorithm they use for FMV - who knows. You'll see this often on the site. FYI : a 4.0 graded FMV is listed as $169 for the same issue.
Seems like they could drop the middle column, then, if they're just reporting the most recent sale by grade. Having the middle column as "Fair Market Value" is pretty ridiculous when there's no way it makes any sense (and their algorithm doesn't fix it).
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On 8/15/2023 at 7:13 AM, GM8 said:
That sounds high. I sold a 9.6 through Heritage and it hammered at 66K. My cut was 55K, so 11K in fees or 17% of the full hammer price.
Just checking... if it hammered at $66K, then the buyer paid $79.2K to Heritage (with Buyer's Premium) and Heritage sent you $55K, correct? If so, you got 70% of the buyer's payment and Heritage got 30%.
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On 8/17/2023 at 12:18 AM, Murdo81 said:
Cheers. I know what newstands are. I misread the title as being newbies I thought it was. Anyway cheers again
The four issues of Venom clearly say "DIRECT EDITION", so your statement "I know what newstands are" is questionable.
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On 8/17/2023 at 12:03 AM, Telegan said:
You can see some of this in their FMV for a 6.5 currently, which is $119 and the FMV for a 6.0 is $206.
Is this a real example?
"Hey boss, how much is this comic? $206. OK, what about the better copy of the same issue? $119."
Boss is off his meds.
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I believe these would be a "bigger deal" if it was possible to identify them simply by looking at the front cover. It would be a fun thing to search for on Ebay, etc.
The math is also fun... if the majority of people never care at all about Mark Jeweler or high grade Newsstand or Pence Editions or Canadian Prices, that doesn't mean that those books won't become special because it only takes 10.1% demand for something with 10% supply to beat supply with demand.
If Mark Jewelers turn out to be in 2% of the market, it only takes 2.1% demand for demand to beat supply. When 100 people want something that only 95 can own... it doesn't matter if 4,900 don't care.
If a few more people start to notice and join in, then it doesn't hurt the majority to go from 4,900 not caring to 4,800 not caring, but look at demand going from 100 to 200 for something only 95 can own. Insane possibility, while always being "unimportant" to the vast majority of collectors.
People who "don't care" don't matter if the supply is low. Overall demand doesn't have to be high, it just has to be higher than supply.
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I don't know if this is accurate, but it is logical:
- 25 books pre-screened for CGC 9.6
- Grader looks at all 25 books and quickly rules out 10 which won't be CGC 9.6 because it's easy to see (10 are charged pre-screen fee only)
- 15 books are graded in more detail, and 13 of those do receive CGC 9.6 or higher (13 are charged grading fee, 2 are charged pre-screen fee only)
- Result: 13 books charged a grading fee, 12 books charged a pre-screen fee
If the pre-screener is also the grader, then there might be a possibility that "borderline" books get awarded the pre-screen grade since they are human and the book was on the border between 9.6/9.4.
If the pre-screener is not the grader, then the grader should only grade the already-screened books "as is" and the encapsulation should reject any that don't meet the minimum, putting them with the other rejects.
I doubt if there's any reason that books that aren't on the border between grades would be bumped up to the pre-screen grade more often than something is overlooked on books that aren't pre-screened.
.Errors occur, but I don't know why they would be specific to pre-screening.
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On 8/12/2023 at 12:27 PM, littledoom said:
Yard sale buys
I wonder if the Rai #9 Gold was earned as a reward for doing something to promote Valiant in 1993 or if it was just a purchase made later.
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On 8/9/2023 at 6:59 PM, lizards2 said:
You cannot have a balanced attack until you can balance a tack-hammer on your head.
If you learn to balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.
... also, something about watermelon on your feet. Maybe.
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Nostalgia for me is "re-feeling" something that I felt so many years ago, not pain... but possibility.
I collected baseball cards before I got into comics, so I get that nostalgic feeling when I see a card that I wanted but never owned. It doesn't need to be an important card because I was a kid. I wasn't going to own a Mickey Mantle rookie card, but there was a chance I might own a 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly or a 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco when I started collecting in 1988. They were out of my price range, but it always felt possible that I could trade for one or find one somehow. The "feeling" of excitement seeing those cards at card shows, in card shops, or even in price guides was real even if I didn't have one of my own. I still "re-feel" that excitement for those cards, even though I have a small stack of both cards.
The same is true for comic books. I never saw a copy of Harbinger #1 (1992) in person until I bought one from eBay sometime around 1997. I collected comics for several years, including focusing on Valiant books, but I never saw a copy of Harbinger #1 at a shop or at a comic show. There was always a "feeling" that I would own one some day, and now I own several, but I "re-feel" the excitement when I look through my collection or see a copy for sale "in the wild". There was a combination of desire and possibility for those collectibles which were reasonably obtainable in the future (but just out of reach at the time) that is very different from just wishing I could own an Action #1 but not "feeling" that I ever will.
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Shock SuspenStories #6 is a possibility, since Suspense #3 and Crime SuspenStories #22 are unlikely to "win" their issue numbers.
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On 8/7/2023 at 6:32 PM, VintageComics said:
Im back.
Someone stole your apostrophe while you were gone.
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Four Color #9 - 1st Carl Barks art for Donald Duck "Pirate Gold"
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Superman #53 - Origin Retold, 10th Anniversary, "Classic cover"
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On 8/4/2023 at 4:27 PM, Cat said:
61. First Appearance of Golden Age Starman (Ted Knight) in Adventure Comics #61. A very important character for many reasons. Joined the JSA in the same issue as Wonder Woman, without him there'd be no Jack Knight, a critically acclaimed series from the 90's. A much bigger character than at first it might appear.
Superman #61 has 1st Kryptonite
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On 8/4/2023 at 1:56 PM, Axelrod said:
Since you didn't have anything for #30 yet, I just spent a little bit of time scanning series to see.
Superman #30 - first appearance of Mr. Mxyzptlk - is the best I have come up with so far.
Possibly a case could be made for Funnies #30 (1939) - CGC notes it as "1st appearance & origin of John Carter of Mars"
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You can also search the CGC Census to find which variants have been slabbed and what CGC has decided to call them.
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I just saw this topic back at the top of the Modern Age category and thought, "That Bone topic should be in Copper Age", but then I noticed this topic was started in 2008. Weird that Bone #1 was 17 years old when this topic started and it's 32 years old now. It was "Modern" when it started, but now it's approaching "Middle Age".
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Startling Comics #49
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Weird Science Fantasy #29
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On 8/3/2023 at 2:35 PM, PopKulture said:
Adventure 40 - first Sandman and a rare book.
Sandman from New York World's Fair 1939 says "What?!?"
On 8/3/2023 at 3:19 PM, Ken Aldred said:Thought of that one, but also thought someone might counter with New York World's Fair 1. Maybe.
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9 - instead of ASM, perhaps Marvel Mystery Comics #9?
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I tried doing this list a few years ago based on the "Most Submitted to CGC" but the majority of 1 - 100 were Amazing Spider-Man and it wasn't very interesting. Identifying "interesting" books like Albedo #2 or Whiz #2 makes more sense than just setting #2 to Wolverine Limited Series #2 (1982) because it has been submitted most often.
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That's very strange because the CGC Census does not have any graded copies of Terminator #12 Newsstand Edition. The only way that slot would work for the CGC Registry is that they're checking the Pedigree information for the "Newsstand Edition" notation which isn't on the CGC Census (yet).
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On 8/1/2023 at 2:09 PM, fantastic_four said:
So he already had Extremis DNA in addition to Groot's DNA mixed with his own before that final episode.
I think I missed it--how did he have some of "the Harvest," but not all of it? Was that addressed at some point?
I think he was told that he was getting "the Harvest" from one of the earlier Skrull raids/heists but it wasn't the full Harvest. Fury had hidden the real Harvest and so Gravik first only had the "decoy DNA" that only contained a couple of other known powers, not the full set. I'm not sure though, maybe the Skrulls went to the Infinity War/Endgame battle field(s) and did their own dirt-DNA extractions.
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Right. So if the "hammer price" (Heritage price before the buyer has to pay another 20%) was $66K, then the buyer paid $79.2K.
If the "hammer price" was $55K (Heritage price before the buyer has to pay another 20%), and then he received a check for $55K, then it sounds like the buyer paid $66K (which is $55K + 20%), so his seller fee to Heritage was waived completed (0%).
Either way, it's good information, but they are two different scenarios.