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Card 3 "the little droid" Blue Series PSA 9 https://www.ebay.com/itm/1977-STAR-WARS-3-THE-LITTLE-DROID-PSA-9-A3016655-147/383931240049?hash=item596415ce71:g:~EkAAOSw0pBgGXcQ If you are selling the card you showed earlier in the thread your card (I can't see the back side) but judging from the front, it looks like a no brainer purchase at $200.

The first STHR 3 pack to hit E-bay sold for $58 today. So they're out there.

Qualified grade, but if memory serves I've seen a few older books get a non-qualified grade as well.

It's a crazy world. Here's an example of my week. Tonight I've already seen some auctions close for 3X what they sold for 8 days ago, so the insanity is still very much alive. For example I sold a Star Wars card for $315 that went for over $900 tonight. But earlier this week I spent $325, bought some boxes and cards from some old school dealers, and now according to recent past E-bay sales over the last 2 days, I can sell those boxes and cards for $1600+. Basically these are all graded Star Wars cards and unopened Marvel boxes. If I was smart, I guess I wouldn't have sold the card that went for 3X. So you win some and loose some, but the fear of selling is certainly at an all time high for me, as you just don't know whats going to happen. I've already started to list most of them and see what happens next I mean, how much longer can this keep going?

No that would be the... "Hey buddy are you on the CGC boards?" button. It's Command C on the Apple and Control C on the PC.

Synder certainlly knows how to make amazing looking cinema. His framing of scenes look often like comic book covers and great splash panels, while his overall story can be muddled at times. While Dark knight is the vastly superior film, I also still think this Batman fight sequence may be the greatest Batman fight on cinema. Take for instance the scene when Batman breaks through the window. It reminds me of a Perez cover coming to life. The music creates a harsh tension of a bomb about to go off. The criminals look terrified yet at the same time still formidable threat. Batman comes in ruthless and disturbingly harsh. He looks seconds away from crossing a line he shouldn't. Batman destroys his foes with over the top crushing blows. Blood and broken bones abound. From once sequence to the next, the face slam, pounding, a gun shot to the head. Fast pacing and brutal, its a Batman that brings fear and terror to his victims. This is pure cinema magic to me. A pulp novel coming to life.

Spread it out with some DC/Timely Golden Age down to StarWars modern age, with a little bit of artwork mixed in.

The trickle down effect is real. I can't believe a box of Spider-man Fleer 1994 gets $600 a Marvel Masterpiece Tin (1992) gets $400 and a Marvel Masterpiece 1993 box gets $300. Not sure if I should sell these now or what.

Not say pressing with cards doesn't happen, but from my understanding and from what others told me, pressing can cause problems by widening the card and flattening the thickness to the point of making the card ungradable outside normal accepted tolerances. Or counting as damage on its own because of the flattened unnatural shape.. It also can damage the surface fibers and make existing damage just a bit harder to detect but then shows up during the light. It also depends on the card stock made. Beckett had a small article on it I remember. https://www.beckett.com/news/how-tell-sports-card-pressing/

What a bomb drop at the end. I could watch a movie just about that.

I would not sub this card. I see a few problem areas. Centering on back isn't that bad but the corners looks like they have issues. Best thing to do is to put it in a sleave and do a scan at 1200 DPI on both sides. Then compare to some other High end scans.

I just pulled one of those out last night LOL!

That ain't bad. On something like this I compare to an already graded PSA 10 for reference. Get a mag glass out and look at the corners, also shine light on it to check for creases. Futhermore PSA looks at centering on BOTH sides. I'm not sure how the Marvel cards were made but on Star Wars and older cards the centering may be great on the front but terrible on the back side. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1991-Marvel-Universe-DEADPOOL-3-X-FORCE-PSA-10-GEM-MINT-FIRST-ROOKIE-CARD-/233888049246?hash=item3674d0685e%3Ag%3AmUEAAOSw6FpgIGfk&nma=true&si=BpxyKj3yx7JKUClQFZLaeQSwjpc%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I'm also seeing a major price jump on Marvel Masterpieces. I happen to be lucky and have some unopened boxes and a tin. But this is making its way down to many other 1990's Marvel card boxes as well. I'm far too afraid to open these.

NE OHIO sports cards on YouTube I believe. Also looking at past sales on E-bay especially 5 days ago on the 8th.

That sounds close on OPC. Unopened boxes historically go for more and the production cuts and centering are worse. So you have fewer PSA 9 and 10 candidates. The Deadpool population will go way up and PSA will make bank, but they are backlogged and months behind. I would sell any X-Force comic with a slightly non centered Deadpool inside ASAP. As that should be easy to tell without looking too close. A lot of people will also be disappointed as they will find PSA 9's and 10's are not easy to come by. Its going to take a lot of pure luck to get that 10 card.

I watched a video last night where they showed one investor earlier in the week had bought every box of Marvel Universe 1990 for 3.5K and under, wiping ebay clean in a matter of 15 minutes. 1 box went as high as 6K. Now the price has dropped a bit sometimes under 2K.

You made the right move selling those Wonder Bread as I did the same last week. PSA 9's and below are not really that hard with few exceptions. Wonder Bread population will explode as there are a lot of complete sets sold to the public that didn't come in packs of bread. When the markets settles they will realize its the stickers that are the ones to chase. (Especially from Star Wars series 1-4 and from Empire's 1st & 2 series) I feel like there's no Baseball, Football & Basketball right now and the sports cards guys are moving in with panic buying.

Very cool, I used to open and break these boxes for PSA subbing around 6 to 10 years ago. At one time I had one of the only 4 Vader (Blue Card #7) PSA gem mint 10 cards and had the Han PSA 10. The Vader I would guess be a 15k+ card right now. Lucky I still had some other PSA 9 slabbed cards and have been getting quite a bit. That sticker variant box by the way goes for more than the normal 4th series box. Another note has some who has opened around 3 of the Green boxes, the infamous X-rated C3PO error card is actually more common than the corrected version. An average box gets you 1-2 PSA 10 cards and around 10 PSA 9's. A good box can get you 6+ PSA 10's a bad box can get you zero 10's and only a few PSA 9's. Stickers are harder has you quite often get zero subs because of the gum stains and machine track marks. You get around 2-3 error cards in a box and 1 corrected. Sometimes more. The PSA odds tends to be close to the same in many ways to the Topps 1979 Alien set as well which I am still No. 1 in the PSA registry on. O-Pee-Chee cards tend to go for more than the American based cards like a few other foreign sets, however things are a little crazy right now as new collectors pouring in aren't familiar with the hobby and are making irrational purchases. You will see the population go super nova with Wonder Bread shortly as those could be purchased in high grade sets. A lot of people here also many not understand how important centering is in card grading. A lot of people might think they have a lot of "mint" condition cards but in fact have mostly off-centered cards with slight wrinkles and small blunted corners only seen with a mag. glass. Only very few cards in a box including 1990's marvel will get you PSA 10's. And most of those come out of fresh box breaks. What may look PSA 9 or 10 on e-bay will often be in fact PSA 6 or 7's. One other note, I've seen a few highly questionable "record" sales coming from some of the usual suspects, so beware.

Those Superboy covers are fantastic. Very underrated

Yes! A box of Star Wars series 1 (5K+) 2-4 will get you around 1-1.5K+ Series 5 around $750 Empire Series 1 $750 Series 2 $400 Series 3 $250-300 Top card Luke Card 1 Blue Series 1 PSA 6 $625 PSA 7 $1.5K-2K PSA 8 $4K PSA 9 $6-9K

People who have deep pockets in sports cards are coming over bullish in masse spilling into the non sports cards market and comics. I've had more sales to sports cards guys in the last 10 days than in the last 10 years. I don't think its very healthy at all. So be careful out there. A lot of money to be made and a lot to lose. Stick to what you know best and do careful research. I see a lot of panic buying.

$6000 for a box of 1990 Marvel Universe and 10K for a Magneto Hologram card makes me wonder if I'm living in an alternate universe or something

A well centered copy of the card will now bring $50-125 in the last couple days. Now I gotta dig mine out. Dang!

If you are wondering why people are paying $50+ for a polybagged X-Force 1 now, its because a GEM MINT PSA 10 Deadpool card sold for 4 thousand dollars. Up from $600 10 days ago.