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Would have sold a lot higher for a 3.....I might have went higher if condition was better on the number 1, I feel like I would be upgrading down the road at some point (and possibly for the yellow too). Anyways, sorry to have made you pay as much as you did, I think I ran the bill up lol.

Congrats on the purchase! I was watching it, but what it sold for was more than what I wanted to pay.

Money aside, these books are about as close to irreplaceable as it gets with only a few copies of each.....I don't even know how this stuff goes stolen. Does a customs agent open a box and stuff them in their shirt and then quite for the day? You'd think every package is carefully accounted for? The Hershey factory probably has better inventory management over their 50 cent chocolate bars....

Oh man...well, whomever has them if they try to sell it should be obvious - and if they try to resubmit to CGC, I would think that would be apparent too?

Jesus Christ...just saw this post now. Were these books ever recovered?

Hi guys, I sent in a pair of Valiant Unity TPBs for grading that are super rare in high grade. They came back 9.6 and 9.8! Just for context, for book 2 there were no blue label 9.8s! The books were not packaged property and got damaged and when we returned them to CGC the grades are much lower - 9.8 dropped to an 8.5. CGC is offering the insured value plus grading, is this the best I'm going to receive in compensation? I'm super pissed because the likeliehood of getting another set like this is extremely low....I really wished I never sent them in in the first place.

Thanks. Less quantity is easy for someone like me that doesn't setup at shows and only sells sporadically...but maybe I post the deathmates as a lot - part of me thinks I should just keep them, lol.

I saw a set of 1-6 sell for about $100. None of the books above are high grade; I'll double check the blacks to see if any are worth grading but probably not.

Hey folks, some great deals here! I haven't been posting much; there aren't many collections I have enough interest in to see (life is insanely busy too), but I did pick one up today. It was a lot of 260 books, that looked like it had a stack of deathmate black golds (pics were few and far between). This seller was 1.5 hours away, but he agreed to meet me halfway and I gave him a bit more. This was a crazy spec lot from the 90s, like 50 copies of Dracula 1 sealed, 40+ copies of Shadowman 11, etc. But at about a quarter a piece it's solid! There's about 15 of these Gold Star Wars books, 27 Deathmate Black Golds! 12 Deathmate Prologue Golds 36 Deathmate Epilogue Golds! 26 Deathmate Blue Golds! 3 Deathmate Yellow Golds! 4 Sealed DK 1s, a Deathmate Preview and 3 Sealed Jason Goes to Hell #1. The rest are being tossed/recycled. It's wild to think that I believe the deathmate golds were awarded on a ratio of 1/50 (or maybe there were 2 in a case of each book?). Regardless, some person would have had a pallet of Deathmates to have these golds that never made their way into collector hands.....

That's to RMA for confirming. This is exactly what I thought - a seller didn't know what version of book it was (not really to any fault of their own), and they realized it was a gold after speaking with the buyer and cancelled the order. I believe there was a book listed on MCS too, I wonder if this was also a gold mislabeled? Until I see more copies floating around as proof - there's two of these books out there, a 9.4 and my 9.8.

Nowhere does it actually say it's silver though. So you can't be sure until you get it in the mail....

I selected each of the drop down options, and I don't see any copies? Perhaps someone bought it, how many did you see?

Where is the silver copy? I don't see it....

I don't see any copies on atomic? I see the one at MCS...it's definitely worth grabbing for $5 from them, they say it's the silver.

Well, the thing is the Shadowhawk ashcan has three other variations - gold, red and blue (the latter two being less common) - and I don't think the other ashcans have at least 3 variants but I could be wrong. All of the Shadowhawk Ashcans (Red, Gold, Blue) seem to be quite common, I haven't bought any of the magazines or seen any in any quantity to suggest distribution levels between the three....given that there are several silver editions of these Hero ashcans (as pictured above), I think this was a planned release and not necessarily an error (there is at least one other copy on the census).