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Sounds like a riff on Sesame Street's count!

Regardless of how you felt about that movie, Suicide Squad had higher than average hold over. Wonder Woman won't be able to pass it.

I'll bet the Copper Age folks would love to see this book.

Not sure of the OP saw this or not.

Nice find!

Who was arguing it was? I was just pointing out that collecting the top graded CGC book is not mainstream either. I figured in a thread that is trying to reason if the IH #181 or Cerebus #1 is the top valued book in the Bronze Age in top grade, it would be informative to tell everyone there is another book that sells for more than twice as much as both of these in top grade. You can caveat it all you want, but it doesn't change anything. Cerebus #1 has even less books graded that this Star Wars #1 variant so is that a non-mainstream comic book, whatever that means, as well?

Ouch! "She had man-hands!" Overall, a nice selection of covers, but these two ...

How many collectors chase the top graded CGC books?

This is not exactly the kind of controversy a studio wants though. Early leaks of problems with the story has a tendency to turn off movie goers.

Star Wars #26 was the last sketch variant for that title. Darth Maul #1 had a sketch variant. There are some upcoming Star Wars sketch exclusives, but nothing that will be going to retailers. I've noticed Marvel has been scaling back the Star Wars variants the past few months. I'm guessing they are looking into why there sales are suffering and this is one area they are examining. (Or we could hope this is the case!)

Those who collect CGC slabs don't represent the average collector either. Regardless, I'll drop it.

But, if you are looking at the most valuable modern books, why wouldn't you look at all the books instead of selectively choosing which ones "count" and which don't? Regardless, that is not the discussion of this thread. I don't think anyone is going to change their mind on which is more valuable, IH #181 or Cerebus #1. What does Overstreet show? Still Cerebus #1?

It's the most valuable BA book, you don't need to qualify it.

Those hardcover Famous 1st Editions are really cool.

Do you have pictures of the Star Wars #1 - 4 $0.35 variants? Those books continue to astonish with the prices they fetch. Which books did you pay the most for?

It does appear Cerebus is still the more valuable of the two Bronze Age books in high grade. But I don't think anything comes close to this: http://www.comicbookdaily.com/collecting-community/overvalued-overstreet/overvalued-overstreet-star-wars-1-35-cent-price-variant/ I don't have recent data (the article is a year old), but this is from the article: "Recently a CGC 9.4 sold for $26,290, which was up from the previous record of $23,000 which was up from $11,131 months earlier." How much did this CGC 4.0 actually get? Astonishing money for a 4.0: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-1-35-Cent-Price-Variant-0-35-Marvel-1977-CGC-4-0-Old-Label-/201896297276?hash=item2f01f5033c:g:aOgAAOSwRUhY9isF

I have no problem if someone wants to say a magazine is a 1st appearance of a character. But most of us collect comic books, so it is the first appearance in a comic book story that most care about. It is a rare few who value the panel in a magazine article or an ad in a comic. And I don't see that changing in my lifetime. We agree BTW!

They don't. Fan entitlement is one of the reasons why these creators are so jaded IMHO.

Everyone at his age should be at least worth a million, regardless of which industry they worked in. How else are they going to retire?

It seems kind of self serving, doesn't it? Imagine Wizard magazine claiming the first appearance of a character occurred in a previous issue of Wizard magazine.

I collect comic books, not magazines about comics. If others want to spend their hard earned money on an issue of Previews (most modern 1st appearance are in Diamond's Previews magazine) then more power to them. I'll still collect comic books. I'm guessing this is true of 99% of comic collectors.

The other grading company we don't talk about.

Here is a group shot of some foreign treasuries I acquired in the past year: The 2 in the back are the Heritage treasuries from Canada. The 3 in the middle are Indonesian treasuries. The next 2 are the Philippine and Australian treasuries.

It took over an hour to read, but this has been an enjoyable thread. Probably the best since the new boards started.