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What? I bought these recently, and it might turn out for once that I bought a book for my run before the price went crazy?

Tenth anniversary issue of AF 15.

One cover.  Regular price.

On 7/10/2019 at 8:39 AM, LDarkseid1 said:

Another 9.6 white pager sold for $6,088 in the recent c-link auction as well. Seems like sales are tougher on eBay for some reason. There’s one white page copy on eBay sitting at $5650 with best offer. Yet someone paid $6100 roughly on one from the c-link auction and $6600 from heritage. Makes no sense.

Ebay is the only source that I buy from where I sweat whether or not that when I open the box I'm going to find a big pile of nothing.

Maybe some people are willing to pay a bit of a premium for the security of avoiding that potential headache.

I went back and looked at it again, because I was sure it must have been graded prior.

Then I saw the label, and assumed it must have been reslabbed.

Then, I looked it up, and it was graded on 6-20-19.

ASM #3 Qualified Green Label "front cover and 1st wrap married"  Cert # 2043733004.

Oh well,... mistake,.... new change, who knows?

I still appreciate that they make these new distinctions between conserved, amateur and professional resto.

A 9.6 purple, with minor professional color touch, sold for over $7K pretty recently.

Just a beautifully presenting OW-W copy.

In a world of coverless slabs selling for $400, I think 1/2 price on a married cover 7.5 would be a win.

3 minutes ago, MGsimba77 said:

I thought if the staples were replaced its a restored label? Anyway i gotcha but having that on an asm 3 is one thing. Personally I wouldn't be too thrilled about it on an IH 181 with so many copies. Just my 2 cents I think the qualified label would impact the 181 more than the asm 3. Then again if the op desires it more power to him! 

Staples are a weird thing for CGC. Overstreet always said that staples can be replaced with "vintage" on books that aren't NM.

I owned an ASM 6 9.0 green label "staples replaced" for a while many years ago.

On 7/11/2019 at 3:17 PM, MGsimba77 said:

It would be tough to find an original detatched cover for one let alone both! Assuming you find one or both you'd have to staple them on ensuring a "restored" purple label.

If you submit them for grading coverless you would get an "incomplete" label which I don't know the color They would still assess the page quality. Its still valuable and well worth the cost of grading even coverless IMO. 

If you try and staple a replacement cover (even if it's an original one from another book) that would be frowned upon. CGC would notice the staples were not original resulting in a purple restored label notating both staples were replaced. I honestly don't know if they'd be able to distinguish between a replacement original cover and the actual cover it was printed with? Either way it would get a restored label. 

Imo you're better off submitting them coverless. At least it's honest & not a "Frankenbook" with a replacement cover. Not only would it be weird but maybe less valuable if anyone knew it wasn't the original cover.

A married cover would get a qualified label.

I just saw an ASM 3 7.5 with a married cover and first wrap that sold for just less than $1,300.

I missed the end of the auction, or I would have sniped it.

I would much rather have that copy than a coverless book in a slab.

I'm stunned.

Good for you!

5.0

5.0

6.0

Just now, lizards2 said:

Whoah!  Bondage cover!  

Yet somehow not noted.

God, what a nice 3.5.

If we had only known. I remember paying $25 for a copy like this 40 years ago, so that I could marry the pin up page to my "NM" copy.

Yes, that NM copy was probably around a 7.5.

LMAO.

36 minutes ago, arexcrooke said:

Daredevil 86

VF+ $23

Take it.

That #35 looks to be a slab, press and clean away from a $50 golden ticket.

Honestly, if I had seen the one I bought, while it was here on the boards, listed at the $75 it was, I would have jumped all over it.

I stopped getting emails from ebay on books I wanted. That probably cost me grabbing the x-men 76, also a reprint, white paged 9.0 for $115 that sold a couple of weeks ago.

I'll never pay big bucks for a 9.2, but every once in a while, I barely miss the one that i would take.

My copy is the Tremont, and I think best case it will be a VF if I slab it. I may just have to try.

My goal is always 9 or better.

23 hours ago, MGsimba77 said:

Is the census low because they printed less of these MTs or are they less sought after? Maybe both? I would imagine since they're reprints people are not as interested in submitting them. 

IMO certainly less sought after. I did see an MT 35 9.8 sell for a very high price, less than what Greg Reece has one listed for on ebay.

What's the sense in submitting 9.2 #35s when there is only 1 or 2 lunatics out there chasing them for some sentimental reason, and you have to list them at $50?

29 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

They're comparatively hard to find aren't they, especially in high grade. Great alternative cover isn't it. I remember my old copy was covered in blue ink spray. And it wasn't a 9.2!

Believe it or not, there is only one CGC graded copy of #34. 

It's a 9.8.

To get a nicer looking wrap than the #35 9.8s that I've seen, with white pages, really surprised me.

Agree, 100%.

I'm happier with this 9.6 than I would be with that 9.8 too.

I'll be selling my 9.2 , and eye appeal was the reason. lol.

5 hours ago, MGsimba77 said:

That one is actually more desirable than the Pacific coast copy you had asked about! 

I submitted a 9.6 cbcs for a crossover that I thought had a shot at upgrade but I knew it was an outside shot because of those pesky little spine ticks on the back spine that are barely visible . I've seen 9.8s with more color break than my 9.6. Anyone claiming that grading is not strict anymore is full of it!

Thanks...

Someone had one graded at 9.8 this month. The census went up to 14 -9.8s.

I just happened to see it on ebay today (auction ) , and it's white pages too. I'll be watching to see how close it comes to, or if it passes, that $5K comiclink sale.

I kind of have a reason for asking this, and I don't have GPA.

I saw a 9.6 148 with OW pages, a pacific coast copy, with a sale pending of $750 on pedigree.

I know the oldest labels don't present as well, but I wasn't that impressed.

No pun intended. Is it just about "potential"?

What have 9.6 sales been like the last couple of years?

I think it was Esposito. Take a look at how much better, IMO, the first half of 152 looks compared to the last few pages. I'd bet anything that was Giacoia.

I was so disappointed after seeing that Romita was not involved in 152, after getting spoiled by how beautiful the first half of 151 looked, I'm not sure that I ever admired the interior art again.

It wasn't quite as bad as when Frank Robbins started drawing Captain America, or seeing a great Kane or Romita cover, and finding Don Heck interior art, but I was very let down.

The colors on that 122 are just so crazy.

They've held up a bit better than on the copy that I walked to the drug store to buy in 1973.

2.0

3 minutes ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

Love this storyline. Loved all of Gerry's stories. They were organic and natural. Having Harry take over the mantle was brilliant. It just made sense. The Len Wein era and beyond didn't really take Spidey anywhere, and Spidey sorta languished until the intro of Hobby in '82. But this was some of the best of the best. 

Would you say that Esposito had a big affect on Andru's art? For me, either Andru started to slip, or Hunt and Giacoia made that big of a difference. After #157, the artwork never impacted me as much.

24 minutes ago, MGsimba77 said:

Not sure if you're referring to that 124 you posted? That's a chronically mis wrapped issue. The centered copies with a straight marvel banner are outnumbered. Why would you have sold that one?

The 124 I posted was the recent acquisition. It's not as pretty as the White page 9.2 that I sold ten years ago.

Here's the scan of it. I don't have a great answer why I decided I was done collecting ten years ago.

Between the 9.0 and 9.2  129, the 9.0 101, and this 124, it bothers me a bit that I bailed back then.