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On the topic of scoring a slot: Why not team up with Overstreet? Set the reference value of a slot (Universal Blue 9.0) to the Overstreet 9.2 value. Once a year they update the pricing guide and then all set scores are automatically updated by software that uses their database (assuming they have a database...). Yes, that ties slot scoring to $ but I like that personally. With the 9.0 reference value, all other slot grades can be automatically generated.

This thread seems very unfocused and I'm having a hard time narrowing it down to the real issues. What exactly is/are the problems? All of the below? (1) Individual issue scoring (2) Set scoring (3) Set awarding (4) Set variant explosion It seems to me that one resource we do have access to is the census. Why not use it to help scoring? We should be rewarding difficulty, right? I realize that scarcity in census can be due to real scarcity or to indifference. Either way, it's hard to own the single graded copy of any issue.

I got the initial group from Captain Tripps back in 2008 and have been trying to improve the set ever since...

I've always been a fan of Smith's Skylark and Lensman series and consider them way more important than Buck. I've decided to get a copy of the Aug'28 issue just because I gotta. The cover is perfect in my mind. I've had modern copies of his stories for many decades, and have read them many times.

My OO copy.

Congratulations! Great copy for your set.

It would be educational to pick a set and artificially populate it in various ways and then ask for opinions on how each should score. Each slot would have a score and the set sum could have a set modifier assigned based on this exercise.

Oops, wrong thread.

bc, thank you for the informative posts. Great reading!

Congratulations! That's a toughie. Sorry that your children will be indentured for the rest of their lives to pay it off

Would appreciate a look at Amazing Spider-Man #3. Comiclink just sold a 9.0 for 35000 (on 5/31) and Heritage just sold a 9.0 for 44400 (on 6/2). Current registry pointage for a 9.0 is 9800. Thank You Score adjusted per Overstreet Access 9.2

Stan was probably referring to Tales of Suspense #41 (5/63), featuring a villain named Dr. Strange

I have requested a set be created for the LSH issues of Adventure Comics, including 247,267,282,290,293,300-380,403 If you approve, give it a like in the "CGC Registry" Forum.

Hoping you can add an Adventure Comics, Legion of Superheroes set. It would include Adventure Comics numbers 247,267,282,290,293, 300-380,403 Thank You Set: Legion of Super-Heroes (Adventure Comics) Created per request 5/25/22

Heritage relisted my winnings for resale. They just defaulted it to ON without asking my permission.

What about? Strange Tales #147 Doctor Strange #169

Just for reference, Cerebus #1 is about 7.75" wide by 10" high. So about 1" wider than normal.

No idea about Deni's copies. Cerebus 1 is an oversized issue and I read somewhere that the damage was done when squeezing them into standard comic boxes for shipping. Rooting through my archive I've also found two CGC 9.2 SS books that were signed back in March 2004 (and graded in 2020) that do not have the "File Copy" designation. With the 9.6 that makes three in the club. CGC must be allowing these copies to be slabbed as SS after 15-16 years.

There were 3 graded 9.4: *001, *002, and *010. The *001 must have been reholdered or something in January 2008, keeping the original S/N. I've never seen the *010 copy. Heritage sold the *001 copy in February 2010 and GPA shows it as sold in September 2019. There is a boards posting from June 15, 2009: The 12 top copies are the Dave Sim file copies: (note: must be two other copies mixed in at 8.5 and 8.0) - 3 x 9.4 - 3 x 9.2 - 3 x 9.0 - 1 x 8.5 - 2 x 8.0 There is also this article from 2004 with the *001 copy up for sale (according to my memory). Scoop - Where the Magic of Collecting Comes Alive! - Cerebus File Copy Auctions Begin (previewsworld.com) If Dave spent time going through all 2000 copies to cherry pick, I'm sure he would have kept the best 10 for himself at the divorce. The fly in the ointment, of course, is what criteria he chose to pick with...

Of the 10 signed books submitted back in March 2004, 9 are still in the census. The missing one was an 8.0 and is not the same as the 9.6 (I have the 8.0 archive image). Somehow there seems to be an 11th witnessed signature book from that day...

The CGC 9.6 was signed on 3/13/04, the same day as Dave's other file copies, so I would have to assume it was one of his 10 copies, that was regraded and lost the "File Copy" in the process.

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Nicely done!!!!!

The magazine is called Petit Puchi Comic, and is the April issue. The month is on the upper left of the back cover, and I think the year at the bottom is 1990. The back strip is called "Nippen no Miko-chan" (I think). Bit hard to read. Looks like a young girls mag. Are there any native Japanese boardies to elaborate? Petit Comic - Wikipedia

Speculation time: There are about 120 copies of these issues in 9.0+ in the census. Rosland, RICK STARR, and fantasyland15 have about 10 copies each, leaving 90 unaccounted for. If we assume 2 big fish at 25 copies each (many highest graded copies are not in the registry), that leaves 40. I would guess half of these are scattered in various collections, leaving 1-2 more collectors. Speculative conclusion: there are 6-7 collectors seriously chasing this set at the 9.0+ level.