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TC33

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    Champion of 2023 CGC Grading Contest Season 2 Winter Edition (#5)

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  1. FF #67 CGC 9.6 Just sold per PM. Congrats! ASM #4 In discussion. Someone is getting very close to snagging a screaming deal!
  2. Canada shipping available, but needs to cover the additional shipping cost, on the larger books PM me for specifics. Any other countries are case by case, just PM me.
  3. Free Shipping! Payment either Paypal or Venmo or by check. PM me any questions or offers, but first gets the prize! My Kudos Page (I have sold many books far bigger than these for years and years) ASM 4 CGC 8.0 1st Sandman! Nearly perfect OW to White pgs. Book is sharp, vivid colors and glossy! With a tiny scrape off a small discoloration near the back staple it would look much closer to many 8.5 to 9.0s I have seen! This book is going up and up! Latest 8.5 sale was $13,500 the highest yet, prior sale before that was also well above the averages! Most recent 7.5 also set records with the last sale at $5,500. No 8.0 sales for a long time, but last sale was $8,700 and the last 8.5 sale has gone up $3,200K in the latest selling price over that same period from that $8,700 sale. However, I will Sacrifice my copy at the 2+ year old $3,200 Below that prior sale market price, Offered here at The Lowest Recorded GPA Price on record at ONLY $8,695 but even better with Zero Fees, Zero Sales Tax and Free Insured Shipping! This is Thousands BELOW the current Market Price! Fantastic Four #67 Origin & 1st Warlock! CGC 9.6 and it looks as close to a perfect 9.8 as any book I have seen, perfect centering, near perfect page quality! BEST DEAL IN RECORDED HISTORY, ONLY $2,995 Many hundreds below the lowest price ever paid for one of these near perfect 9.6 Investment Grade copies (SINGLE LOWEST PRICE EVER PAID WAS $3,300 plus sales tax/shipping), far Below what I paid for this book and Thousands below what almost every other copy of this book has sold for for the past few years, EVERY AVERAGE SALES PRICE RANGED BETWEEN $4,053 AND $6,190 plus tax/fees/shipping! After looking at this book, it's either the nicest 9.6 I have seen, or its a 9.8 in waiting for a re-submit! Daredevil #1 CGC 1.5, Hot Key with a new Daredevil series/episodes being released right now! Presents far nicer than many 1.5's I have seen, book has never been pressed! $1,395 Bargain Priced for a monumental 1st appearance Key Grail! Giant Size X-Men 1 CGC 3.5, 1st appearance of almost all the New Major X-Men characters, monumental Key for any X-Men fan! Marvel is rebooting the X-Men franchise the right way with great stories, directors, producers and big budget releases that tie into all their current Avengers and other blockbuster movies! 90 day GPA $1,328, 2022 Average of 21 sales was $2,246 and is sure to bounce back when the Marvel movies hit and economy improves a bit! Only $1,275 Shipped, No Fees, No Sales Tax! X-Men #94 CGC 5.5 Looks like a 7.0+ structurally, very tight and great condition, hit for slight color fade 1st New X-Men begin in the title, 2nd appearance overall, Huge X-Men Key! 2022 Average $664, 90 day most recent Average of $454 plus tax/ship! Low Board Priced at Just $439 Shipped, No Fees/Tax! MORE KEY BOOKS GETTING POSTED TOMORROW, SO BE SURE TO CHECK BACK!
  4. Funny, I thought I saw a lot of similarities in those books, they all looked about the same or maybe 1/2 grade or so apart, but until now they never had 2 grades the same in the same round, so I felt the need to change a few just slightly. Still, ill take the 4 points, better than my other rounds. That Famous Funnies does show better than the rest though, just shows not all 5.0s are created equal.
  5. Mopsy #1 3.5 Revealing Romances #5 5.0 Dotty #36 4.5 Cutie Pie #3 6.5 Farmers Daughter #2 4.0 2 Bulls, 2 off by 1 and Cutie Pie off by 2. I knew I should have bumped that Cutie pie a little more.
  6. If this is anywhere near as bad as that 1st round, I will be tapping out of this competition!
  7. That comet book has massive spine wear on the back a large back corner crease and a sizable corner chunk missing. I have some Key 5.0's that literally look WAAAY better than that book assuming you grade the back cover and front cover defects the same! ARGH! Also that HOS has an upper left corner crease where the whole corner was bent back at one point that breaks the color that is fairly sizable, that 9.0 grade ignores that all together, so I had that book several grades lower. Seems like I have a few hundred books to resubmit for grading if these defects are going to slip by in those high of grades.
  8. That Pep Comics is multiple full grades nicer than that 4.5 Kid comics (not a lousy 1/2 grade nicer) and nicer that some of the other 6.5's we have in prior rounds in my opinion! The CGC grading guide allows for light staining like that in 7.0!
  9. Those last two rounds were certainly tougher ones, harder than the first two in my book.
  10. 9.8 does not mean perfect. It is allowed a very minor defect or two and keep in mind that tiny ding is still non color breaking. While many people might agree that one defect is more in the realm of a 9.4/9.6 range defect if the rest of the book is as nice as it seems on the surface, but it is what it is, a beautiful very high grade book graded 9.8 by CGC. Many people buy the label grade more than the book, and the book still presents really sharp even with that tiny non color breaking ding, so you should not have a hard time selling it.
  11. Can be hand pressed or pressed by only the most well known pressing people, don't trust it with anyone else.
  12. Surprised on the Lack of Silver/Bronze/Modern into the mix. An all Golden Age ish start is a bit of a curve ball as the grading criteria is sometimes a bit different on golden age. Maybe it weeds more people out early? I have not seen any perfect or near perfect scores reported, so I am guessing a couple of those were tough to grade accurately.
  13. Most people ignore the most obvious and likely answer. It could be the exact same book and different graders at CGC can go from 8.5 to 9.6 depending on who you get and what kind of day they are having. I and a few of big time pressers I have talked with have found excellent pressing candidates with significant bump potential based on back cover dirt/dry cleaning, removing waves and bumps at the spine etc, and guess what they still came back a lower grade because we probably got one of the toughest graders having a bad day or something. I had an X-Men 121 9.4 I sent in for pressing to get a 9.6, came back 9.0, so based on notes with finger bends, I had it pressed again, it came back an 8.0 with similar notes, go figure! Instead of all these handling damage scenarios, guess what most of us know..... different graders are not going to be all that similar on different days and you are taking a risk that it may go down even if the book appearance and grade went up significantly and no damage was done! If a book is already high grade, you are taking a real chance of a downgrade every time you crack it open and send it in even if you improve some minor flaws first.