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That's fair enough, and we've been working on this for some time - it's being incorporated into a bigger certification search function so that even certs we don't have recorded in GPA can at least get you to the sales data. With respects to finding certs now, if you know the cert then you know the title/issue - and the historical data will show you when(if) it was previously sold. I know that's not ideal but you don't necessarily have to go hunting for it once you're in the title/issue data page. That's how the ASM 252 was identified, because once the data was expanded, the historical info was all there to see. As for images, you have the capability to link back to the auction houses that keep an archive, and that's our preferred way of doing things. But in the end, please be mindful that GPA is a pricing tool, and our resources are mostly applied to that purpose.

What were you looking for us to say? This is a slab tampering and slab processing issue. The fact is without GPAnalysis this would not have been as easily discovered - we've been recording CGC certification numbers against sales for more than two decades, and we also track those certs across historical sales. We also track and identify a number of details that have allowed collectors to see this originally identified as Newsstand book move to a Newsstand/MJ insert designation and delve further into what was going on. We've supplied data to CGC with respects to this situation, and previously with (the identification of trimmed books sold through Ewert). We also spend time checking previous sales data and, as best we can, remove erroneous sales and identify relisted books. Unless these current books under investigation need to be adjusted (with respects to sales not having gone through) then we won't be removing anything from GPA. Including any certs that no longer appear in CGC's system. As a pricing first service, we are also the most complete and accurate information source for CGC books. Our service is used daily by tens of thousands of collectors. So not really sure what a public statement or email from us at this stage would achieve, especially as information is still being collected and analysed by multiple parties, other than to blow our own horn.

This is true in almost every case except when it comes to Stan Lee, and why we do mention a written remarque on SS books with his signature. They do appear to attract a higher price than the same book with just his signature. Additionally if Stan has signed the book on his birthday, bam!

Putting aside SS books that are signed by multiple creators, looking at single creator SS books, in descending order of unique counts by cert number: 1. Stan Lee 2. Todd McFarlane 3. Chris Claremont 4. Neal Adams 5. George Perez 6. Jim Lee 7. Robert Kirkman 8. Skottie Young 9. Donny Cates 10. Frank Miller Unique Stan Lee signed books we have recorded are at a factor of 5 compared to Todd McFarlane, and a factor of almost 20 to Frank Miller

Could you try force reloading the page please - the service should be up. People were having login issues and I tried restarting our servers, but the problem persisted. Seems to have been a reCaptcha error where once someone ticked "I'm not a robot" it would time out trying to reach Google's authentication server. My apologies on the error.

Yep. The only other thing I'll add here is that Conan is one of the most friendly, accomodating, thoughtful, intelligent and outstanding individuals I have had the pleasure to work with inside and outside the comic book industry. GPA is fortunate to have him as a supporter and contributor. The community is better inn having him as a participant. The dollar amount of this sale, the time frame, and the extreme fluctuations in the market over the past 1-2 years has created the perfect storm where this anomaly has needed to be readdressed. As pointed out, neither position is ideal (report day 1, report at last payment) but we're working through the scenarios and what's best for how these should be included/reported. We're doing this in a measured and considered way, and not hashing it out on a message board or via a YouTube video.

I've just taken another look at listing 333975689723 and it appears that although the seller relisted the book, with the same pics as per his previous listing, days later changed those images for what must be the second book he is offering (CGC cert number is different). So we'll bring that $4499 sale out of "relists" and include it in the main analysis.

Maybe turn on restored listings in your filters?

May well be - we report what they share with us

My understanding is that although they appear as sold, sometimes the transactions don't complete. They do remove them eventually, but there are some that remain even though they did not complete.

The $66K HA sale is included - it's an SS by Lee/Wein so separated into its own row in the analysis. Is there a chance you have the SS filter off and hence aren't seeing the signature series data?

It was categorised under Mystic #40 (UK Edition), but now it's been re-assigned in the census as Tales to Astonish #13 (UK Edition). When you look at the TOA #13 pricing on GPA, scroll right to the bottom and you'll see this issue separated and grouped under its own section (due to the fact it has a different publisher, L.Miller & Son Ltd). https://comics.gpanalysis.com/analyse-prices/sales-data/54/13#l111963

This is untrue. And ComicConnect sales have been included for more than a decade (and continue to be). So are many other venues, all outlined here: https://comics.gpanalysis.com/partners-and-suppliers/cgc-online-auction https://comics.gpanalysis.com/partners-and-suppliers/dealer-consignment For CGC books, it's the most comprehensive pricing report and the fact we do include sales from a range of auction houses & online dealers means that statistically you are going to get the best gauge of pricing for most books. Just wanted to correct the misinformation.

Just to correct the record, we’ve been including ComicConnect sales in GPA for more than a decade. The data from their recent auction percolates through a week or so after the auction ends as they finalise their results.

Looking at a whole-of-market approach to pricing trends, not much indicates that the CGC comic book market (for books published from 1960 to 2009 that GPAnalysis.com tracks) is cooling/stabilising, and will most likely continue its most recent trend of increasing across the board. Taking a basket of books that trade every quarter(1) and plotting the median price paid, we get to see the most recent trends, broken down by decades. In each decade, this would represent upwards of 10,000-15,000+ trades(2) per quarter, ample enough data to give us a strong indication of trends. Quite a sustained jump in all segments. But as always with historical data, please remember that current/past trends are not necessarily an indicator of future gains, and especially for specific titles/issues. (1) Q2 2021 includes only two months, April and May (2) No restored books are included

Hmm, it was definitely reported at the lower offer price (the taxexclusive price isn't always accurate), but now it's not showing up in the feed results, so it could have fallen through. I think we'll remove it for the moment until we can follow up and see if we can confirm it.

I'm not sure how they're going to handle all titles, especially the example you give here. I guess we'll see as more are graded with the new categorisation method. But it could well be the case that it is grouped in with the US title and the label notes the foreign information including the internals.

I believe this is the way it's going to be done moving forward. I don't necessarily favour one way or the other, but I think it's a reasonable way of categorising these as the cover is one way they can be grouped together and tracked efficiently. It could also be due to the fact that getting the foreign title correct could be a sticking point at times, and hence why moving the same covers under one unified title/issue, and then noting anything of the original foreign title on the label, is preferable.

I should add the Greek "T" is not a "D" as I have noted in SPAINDER, just that it would most likely be pronounced in that way when you look at the context of the word.

As a side note with respects to what the Greek title is, if we use the English equivalent letters to the Greek letters, it is actually spelled: SPAINDER MAN The first letter is an S (the Greek capital Sigma), the second a soft "p", and the last "P" is actually a Greek capital "R". So in fact it is as close to "Spider Man" as it gets. I think from what I've been privy to, CGC are moving these foreign titles under their US equivalent and using the cover to group them together - so the above cover on the Greek publication is the US #252 cover, so it's being categorised under that, and the label notes the original Greek numbering, which is #164 While both this new categorisation method and the way these foreign books were previously categorised exist, there will be some overlap until all are brought together under the sale title in the census and the newer way of labelling these books prevails. In GPA we're also categorising these in the same way going forward - older labels will exist and as we come across these we'll move them over to their respective titles and let CGC know to update on their end so they get moved in the census also.

Argh, apologies, it was mis-categorised under a different title. Have removed it and will re-add with tonight's update under the correct title. Sorry for the error.

We'll have no problem in including the BP - CC share their data with us.

No apology needed I was simply clarifying how often we update

We haven't been having any issues with keeping up with recording prices from all our reporting partners. We still report daily, GPA continues to be updated daily across all books. Just to be clear and FYI, we don't do "fair market value" with predictions of where the prices are going, if that's what you mean by "keeping up with current prices". We simply report on what has happened with respect to recent sales.