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The Majesty that is Alf #48
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Saw two of them at Heroes Con. from two different dealers. Both had them displayed on their wall and both for well over ten bucks. Could not find it when I went box diving anywhere. Hopefully one day I'll find one in a discount box for 2 bucks or less.

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i have spent years looking for one of these in a bargain box...everytime i hit a bunch of alfs I tell myself "this will be the day!!!!"... no such luck so far.

 

this is both sad and pathetic while at the same time showing the fun of the hunt. oh, the yin and yang of comic collecting...

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The Capital City orders for Alf #48 were 2,500 copies.

Since Capital City had about 20% of the market, the print run on Alf #48 is probably around 12,500.

That's insanely low for 1991 Marvel.

 

Total number of slabbed copies on the CGC census? 5.

Average slabbed grade? 9.2

 

What portion of that 12,500 went to non-collectors? Probably a lot.

There were still a few people buying comics and tossing them out in 1991.

Probably the largest group of books tossed out would be the non-superhero books.

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13 hours ago, TTony said:

Fast forward to 2021... there are now 135 graded copies, 9 of them are 9.8's... and one of those 9.8's just sold for $1400.

145 graded copies, 9 are 9.8.  Most interesting is the average grade... 8.5.  We don't see the average grade drop that much until the higher grade copies really start drying up.

http://www.cgcdata.com/cgc/search/isolateid/85957

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Does anyone else feel this cover is glaringly out of place in the final four ALF covers? The other three share a common theme of the title's cancellation, to the extent that each cover has no fewer than three references to it. ALF #48 has zero obvious references to the cancellation.

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