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Amazing Spider-Man Collecting Thread!
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trmoore54

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Well it's that time again...Apologies in advance for my lameness in figuring out how to convert files (especially excel spreadsheets) and post here.  I got away from file sharing websites some time ago having been hacked too often over the years so you'll just have to bear with how I am presenting the data.

ASM 1-50 HG CENSUS ANALYSIS                                             6.23.2024

TOUGHEST IN HIGH GRADE

I’ve been keeping track for about 10 years on the ASM 1-50 Census as well as with FF 1-50 (see also Fantastic Four Collecting Thread in Silver Age Comic Books) …my two favorite titles.  The study includes only universal and Signature books, no qualified or restored copies.  Like the FF, ASM is very static in terms of rankings holding from 14 months ago.  1-6 order remains the same and also the only books with less than 100 HG graded copies.  Pretty much the same for the Top 20.  4, 11 and 28 still remain the only books without a 9.8.  As mentioned in the FF write-up, Spidey HG copies outrank FF copies over 2-1 (406 new copies to 176).  But the more scarce of the rankings are getting stingier.  You have to get to Rank 23 before a book that added 10 or more copies…and there are 10 more in the remaining ranks with 9 or fewer new copies.

Anomalies.  I am showing issue 4 and issue 38 both having less HG copies than in 4.23…must be an error on my part.  In the case of Issue 4, this could be a resubmission dropping from a 9.X grade to 8.5…but I doubt with Issue 38 there were 5 books that that happened to.

ASM 19 is still the only Silver Age Marvel book dating 1967 or earlier with a 9.9 grade…truly a unicorn.  Maybe there are more but I haven’t heard of any.  Warehouse finds are noted as such, and thus the crazier number of HG copies, but are not necessarily conclusive (perhaps anyone in the know can shed additional light here).  Lost a lot of my files a while back when my external hard-drive decided to have a meltdown…so I don’t think I have the ASM 1-50 Census spreadsheet from August 2014…if I find it I will post…

Here’s my write-up from July 2019…

I just recently updated my HG Census analysis for ASM 1-50 which I posted in the ASM 11 thread.  Now let’s have a look at the Fantastic Four 1-52.  As for the ASM data, the last time I put his together was in August 2014 as well.  Let’s break it down…

As per the title, I am using the Census to examine the numbers.  As with all analyses and empirical data/evidence…there are factors of error to be considered…retired books resubmitted probably the foremost issue…but all-in-all the numbers appear to be consistent with the Jan 2012 analysis and my non-published analysis prior to that.  Also the fact that “key” and singular books will have more submissions than the other issues.

Additionally in the case of the FF issues, issues 44 and 48 are warehouse finds and thus significantly more issues have been submitted and graded for these 2 books with higher grades as would be expected.  Let’s start with some general statements of fact:  Of the 50 books, 14 issues have only added 8 or less copies to the Census in grades 9.0-10.0 or 28-per cent.  The most difficult of all, with only 3/4/5 added copies respectively are issues 1, 11 and 8.  Next up is Issue 12 with 6 copies and then Issues 3, 4, 5, 6 and 18 with 7 copies and rounding out Issues 7, 17 and and 19 with 8 copies.  Issues 16 and 20 have 10 copies added.  Issue 1 retains the top spot with 16 issues and only three 9.0s added.  Issue 3 is next with only 27 copies.  And then those 2 dark covers, Issues 11 (31) and 7 (34) followed by Issue 8 (36 copies) to round out the Top 5.  The order is the same as in 2014 except for 7 and 11 changing spots.  Issues 2, 18, 5, 2, 13 and 6 round out the Top 10.  Twelve issues do not have a 9.8 adding 2 9.8s down from 14…Issues 9 and 49 each added one 9.8  There are a total of 29 9.8s added.  Of the issues without 9.8s, Issues 7 and 8 have only one 9.6!  Fifteen Issues now have 100 or more HG copies graded up from 10.  Issue 48’s total numbers have risen by a staggering 121 copies or an average of 24 per year.  There have  been no 9.8s or 9.6s added for Issues 1, 3, 11, 7, 8, 2, 18, 5, 13, 6 and 4 in their order in the rankings.

9.8!

Still only 145 copies in the entire run achieving the rarified 9.8 grade status (or 2.9-per cent)!  That represents a meager 32 issues added in the last 5 years of an average of just over 6 a year!

As previously mentioned, Issues 9 and 49 joined the list with 1 copy each.

9.6!

Only 73 9.6 copies for an average of a little under 15/year.  Summarily, there are only 5,013 CGC graded issues of FF 1-50 graded 9.0 or better…an overall increase of a 1,130 copies in the last 5 years…and average of 226/year. 

Side-by-side comparison

Grade   2014     2019

9.8       113       145       28.3-per cent increase

9.6       391       483       23.5-per cent increase

9.4       849       1066     25.5-per cent increase

9.2       955       1371     30.4-per cent increase

9.0       1443     1948     34.9-per cent increase

FF

Issues 1-52

 

 

 

8.25.14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.8

9.6

9.4

9.2

9.0

TOTAL

1

 

2

3

2

6

13

3

1

1

2

10

6

20

7

 

1

5

8

12

26

11

 

2

5

6

14

27

8

 

1

7

5

18

31

18

1

1

5

12

12

31

5

 

2

11

11

8

32

2

1

2

6

11

14

33

13

1

3

5

10

16

35

9

 

6

13

7

10

36

6

 

2

6

11

18

37

17

1

4

8

11

16

40

15

2

4

8

12

15

41

4

 

6

10

11

16

43

19

1

7

13

8

16

45

31

2

3

11

13

16

45

23

1

4

6

16

20

47

10

2

4

11

12

20

49

12

 

4

14

17

14

49

37

 

4

8

17

20

49

29

 

8

6

19

21

54

16

1

2

18

15

19

55

20

1

7

10

8

30

56

34

 

2

16

20

21

59

51

 

7

10

21

21

59

42

2

4

14

17

23

60

43

2

7

12

20

21

62

40

 

7

6

18

32

63

14

3

7

16

14

24

64

22

2

7

15

14

26

64

27

1

4

13

18

28

64

25

2

5

11

20

33

71

30

1

8

20

22

22

73

32

2

11

10

16

34

73

24

4

11

20

14

27

76

21

4

6

14

23

32

79

33

5

7

22

15

30

79

38

2

9

19

29

22

81

28

2

6

24

22

38

92

39

2

10

18

19

43

92

26

2

11

19

29

33

94

36

1

8

17

33

36

95

45

3

5

15

24

58

105

50

2

5

13

38

57

115

52

3

12

27

37

72

115

35

3

16

22

36

43

120

41

7

10

34

30

40

121

47

2

14

33

39

38

126

49

 

9

22

35

60

126

46

7

18

45

60

53

183

44

9

33

90

69

64

265

48

28

71

98

105

148

450

TOTALS

116

410

886

1109

1536

4057

2013

105

373

764

955

1314

3511

DELTA

11

37

122

154

222

546

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I want to get a little more plugged back in here on the boards so am hoping for some conversation/discussion here.  Having said that, I am retiring this week Wed June 26 my last day and then going to Cabo Thursday morning and back Sunday June 30 afternoon.  So if there becomes a bit of a gap here I'll get back to it Monday July 1...Cheers... :headbang:

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