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TC33

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  1. On 2/3/2023 at 6:13 PM, Point Five said:

    Uhh... nope, nope, nope. 5.5??

    Nopeity nopeity nope.

     

    With thousands of CGC books owned and far more passing through my hands over the years, I have Never Ever seen a book with creases that big get a 5.5!  I have a ton of 4.0s that look just like that and I have 4.5s that blow that book away with far less wear and creases!  If I could ensure I could ever get 5.5 on books like that, I would be re-submitting dozens of keys tomorrow! :facepalm:

  2. My Grades...

    Batman #2    3.5

    Mystery in Space #53  5.5

    Amazing Spider-Man #9  3.0

    Blackthorne  3-D  #75   8.0

    Transformers #1   8.5

     

    OK, so Batman  2 was not specified as detached cover from the staples that you can't easily see from the scan or I would have hit that dead on, not really fair to not mention that since we cant hold it in our hands to know this.  Mystery in space would have been a 6.5 but the color breaking stress lines along the top edge of the cover are too long and 5.5/6.0 (I was on the fence) is more accurate than that 6.5.  Transformers 1 I had at 9.0 and changed it last second because the color breaking corner crease on the upper back corner is way too big for a 9.0, it should not matter that its on the back cover or the front, either way should not be allowed in 9.0.  Yes the front cover is a 9.0 but no way that back cover crease keeps it at 9.0, its a sharp 8.5, so again I will take my grading all day vs. those grades.  2 of my grades were spot on and fairly easy, Batman 2 at 3.0 would have been super easy with basic cover detached info, they were off slightly on the other 2, I was spot on. ^^

  3.  First :takeit:wins the prize! PM also welcome, but first to take gets the win!

    No returns on CGC books, raw books can be returned within 14 days Grading & Satisfaction Guarantee for any reason, I accept paypal, venmo, money order/personal check.  I have been selling huge mega keys on the boards for many years, check my Kudos feedback below.  USPS boxed Priority Shipping with signature confirmation is a flat $15 on CGC books no matter how many books you buy ($7 for lower value 1st class/raw in a box or envelope with boards with bubble wrap and signature confirmation), Canadian shipping will be actual shipping costs.  Anything in the ball park of $2-$3K and up give or take and I prefer registered/fully Insured mail for your and my protection, so registered shipping with full insurance on major keys will be just $35 and I will cover the rest (typically double that cost).  All books are priced Well below GPA going market prices to pass good deals/savings onto my fellow board members so jump in now if you see something you like!

    All purchases $300-$3,000 are also given optional payment terms up to 4 months, Above $3K gets 6 months +/- with a 10% or more deposit to help you out with timing of funds, getting your next bonus/pay check/tax return/big sale etc. 

    Please PM me with any questions, comments or to requests/additional scans etc.

    Check out my extensive major Key Kudos/Feedback! (Many Keys Bigger than these!)

    SOLD FANTASTIC FOUR #48 CGC 9.0 ULTRA SHARP WHITE PAGES!  Out of 10 submissions, I feel confident it is a 9.2 at least half the time you submit this!  Board Price $9,950. Mega Key 1st Silver Surfer/Galactus storyline!  Marvel is doing the Fantastic Four with the mega budget blockbuster treatment and more importantly Galactus/Silver Surfer are announced as the Next Major Avengers Story Arc with Avengers Age of Galactus officially getting the multiple movie Thanos type treatment!  The last 8 sales are averaging $12,376 with a high of $15,600. Most recent sale just a couple days ago at a major auction house went for $10,800 Before 7-10% state taxes, 3% CC fees and much higher shipping.  This seems like the optimum time to buy this book as its at about the lowest it has been in many years and with multiple Avengers/FF movies and once the economy improves in a year or two, the recent $15.6K range might even be long gone based on what happened to the 1st Thanos book after all those movies.  

    Fantastic Four #2 CGC 5.0 1st Skrulls, 2nd FF!  Skrulls are featured in the very fast approaching Invasion Live Action series storyline!  Lowest Price in the past several years was $2,880.  Board Price $2,875, THE SINGLE LOWEST PRICE IN YEARS! :jawdrop:   And unlike those other prices you are not stuck paying $300+ more in state taxes, buyers/CC fees or massive shipping costs to get it!!!

    SOLD Fantastic Four #5 CGC 1.8  Key 1st Doctor Doom, the main arch enemy in the upcoming FF reboot movies!  For years, one of the hardest books to find in any complete grade for under $5K!  Very respectable copy for only $4,750!  I sold an incomplete .5 last summer for exactly $5K!

    Fantastic Four Annual 1 Very Early Spider-man appearance (also on the cover!), Origin Sub-Mariner, 1st Lady Dorma & Krang!  2 copies, a CGC 4.5 & undergraded CGC 1.0 (No sizable pieces missing!) Looks like an easy 1.5/1.8 had someone dry cleaned/erased the back cover dirt? Honestly it's complete, no huge missing chunks like you would expect for these grades and is more presentable than quite a few 1.5/2.0 books I have seen!   Last sale of 4.5 trending up at $674! Board Price just $570 Over $100 BELOW most recent sale!  No recent sales for the 1.0 for 1.5 years but a .5 Incomplete with Back cover missing had 2 recent sales at $150!  Board Price Just $149 BELOW THE MOST RECENT POOR .5 PRICE!

    Detective Comics #225 CGC 7.0 Slight(C1), Small amount of color touch, pieces added and small glue to cover.  1st John Jonzz, the Martian Manhunter! I never see anything but low grade rags offered on this book, this is the nicest book and even they sell for thousands!  The last 4.5 sold for $6,000 last year, the last 6.5 sold for $8,280 a lowly restored 5.0 sold for $3,400 recently.  Without the slight work this extremely Rare book is well above $10K in 7.0 condition!  Other than a 5.0 sale, that is literally all the sales above 3.5 for the past couple years, this book is RARE!    You will likely never see this nice of a presenting book anywhere near this price offered ever again and it only has C1 slight work!  Board Price Just $4,495!

    Avengers #4 1966 GRR somewhere in the lower VF range +/- give or take, back cover corner bend does not break color.  Ultra Rare Bonus, 99% of the time you don't get the record it came with, this one comes with the original record and packaging in respectable mid range condition!  Most recent sale for this book anywhere near this grade was $700 for a 7.5 in January (without the record)!  This is the rare 1% that comes with the original record on top of that making it an ultra rare to own complete set that should be worth close to double, but I will offer both for just $650, ONLY $595 WAY BELOW the most recent sale price of the book by itself! 

    SOLD Amazing Spider-Man #50 CGC 2.0 1st Kingpin! Solid, complete, attached, looks similar to many 2.5/3.0 I have seen but needs a clean/press badly.   This Fair/Good RESTORED copy just sold for $354 last week!  https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemID=56449250  This Unrestored 2.0 that presents far far nicer is worth way more than that one!  Board Price $425 

    HULK #2 CGC 1st Ever Green Hulk!  Cant afford $15K-$20K for the #1 in this same grade, own a true piece of history with the 2nd Ever appearance & 1st Green Hulk appearance for just $1,725, THE SINGLE LOWEST SALES PRICE in many years! Save Hundreds from the over $2,200 recent 2.0 averages!  A similar looking 2.5 just sold for $2,200 last week and even a lowly Rag of a 1.0 will set you back nearly this same amount at a whopping $1,500 for the last sales price!

    X-MEN 10 7.0 1st KAZAR O/W WHITE PGS, 1st Kazar!  $1,000 book early this past year, Most Recent GPA sale $849!  Board Price just $800!  $775

    DAREDEVIL #4 CGC 5.5 1st Purple Man (major enemy from the TV series)  Most recent GPA sale $389, also the same sale exact price on the last 5.0, so you are getting a much better deal on this nicer 5.5!  Board Price just $369 $349!

    SOLD Strange Tales 138 CGC NM 9.2 Key 1st Celestials who had a big part of the storyline from the last Eternals movie and are likely to return in future movies!  You don't find these NM range investment grades often on these SA Keys!  Last Sale in late summer 2022 was about $1K and a 9.4 sold for $1,400 and a 9.6 for $8,200 at the same time.  Board Price just $849!

    Strange Tales #89 1st Fin Fang Foom (Marvel's famous Dragon) Both a strong 3.0 SOLD and 4.5 copy available.  JUST $1,675 $1,595 for the 4.5!  3.0 has has multiple sales at $2K in the last year or so and was averaging $1,400 just a couple months ago and even $1,260 over the last 90 days for the all time lowest average in years that I am still beating by over $100!  The most recent (lower grade) 4.0 recently sold for $2,600 and 6.0 for $3,600, last 4.5 average was $2,900 last year with only 1 low outlier sale since then, Save nearly $1,000 compared to many recent similar grade sales!   

    Marvel Spotlight #5 CGC 8.5 WHITE PAGES! (looks nicer!), only slight pro B1 color touch only note!  There are only 2 good comparable sales, an 8.5 trimmed/restored that sold for $3,500 and an amateur restored 8.5 with a cracked case that sold for $1,500.  Board Price Just $1,500 $1,449 on this far superior only slight pro color touch WHITE PAGE COPY!  Presents awesome, like a NM- right off the Newstand copy!

    Marvel Spotlight #32 CGC 9.8 White Pages! 1st appearance of Spider Woman, with a big budget Spider Woman movie in production!  I paid well over $3K for this book quite some time ago when it was averaging about $4K.  The most recent GPA sale was just a few weeks ago at $2,900.  Will sacrifice at $2,495 $2,395 ($500 BELOW THE MOST RECENT GPA SALE!) With the tremendous upside this Investment Grade beauty that is a crazy LOW PRICE!  If the Movie does well and spawns sequels like the Venom franchise did you will regret not grabbing this way below market price copy today!  With a hot Jessica Drue Spiderwoman costume and cool origin story, how can it not explode in popularity like the Venom movie did?

    Marvel Super Heroes 18 CGC 6.5 1st Guardians of the Galaxy, New Awesome Guardians movie hitting soon! Grab this monumental 1st appearance & Origin for a song at just $349, Well below the most recent $380 GPA sale!

    Silver Surfer #3 1st Mephisto, very attractive & solid 4.5 mid range looks a lot like some 6.0+ that I have, perhaps just a bit of dry erase/pencil mark on the back cover?  Average GPA $379 and a bargain compared to the $582 averages from a year ago, 5.0's were averaging $722 at that time & what goes down always comes back up!  Board Price Just $349! 

    Sub-Mariner 1 CGC sharp 8.0 with WHITE PAGES! After his big Marvel introduction in Black Panther, only matter of time before he gets his own movie!  High sales price of $1,500, Averaged just below $900 late last year with a crazy Bargain Basement get it while you can drop to $665 past 90 days.  Board Price just $649 On a 8.0 High Grade White Page Premium Silver Age #1 Key Origin Issue!  Grab it before it heads back up to the previous highs!  

    Journey Into Mystery Annual 1 CGC 4.0 Key 1st Hercules getting the Marvel treatment in upcoming movies as an adversary to Thor!  Board Price Just $288,  Below the 90 day GPA and even below the 3.0 $291 90 day GPA!  Rock bottom pricing right now, Don't wait for the Next Hercules movie appearances to hit. Looks like an amazing clean/press candidate for a sizable jump.

    Brave & Bold 29 2nd Ever JLA appearance in very sharp & nice presenting mid grade 4.5.  Very recent GPA average for lower grade 4.0 was $550, a little higher for 5.0, 4.5 had a low one slip through, but a sharp 4.5 like this is worth far more than any 4.0 book!  Honestly the front cover looks like a FN/FN+, the back is in drastic need of a dry cleaning for a major bump! Board Price just $449, OVER $100 BELOW the 4.0 recent average and this book could easily be a 6.0 after a clean & press!

    Looking for honest advice by PM, where would be the best venue to sell these one of a kind Super High Grade Major Pedigree, Schomburg Cover Art, GA Startling Comics?  Its my understanding the Cosmic Aeroplane pedigree collection is the first truly major Pedigree find in all comic book history and is extremely hard to find any of those Pedigree books offered anywhere.

     

     

     

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  4. On 1/18/2023 at 5:03 PM, Shivabali said:

    I purchased X-Men 14 9.6 for a great price. He’s a generous seller.  I sent him a personal check (which was my preference) and once it cleared, he sent the book out immediately-great communication throughout. Book was expertly packed. Don’t hesitate to purchase from Terry!

    Most people can't grasp the magnitude of this 5 figure purchase without seeing this scan to know how truly rare this book is in this grade!  :jawdrop:   Congrats, that book is a real beauty!   (worship)

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  5. Strong 7.0 if not for that staining on the back cover spine area which looks like it might go through to the interior front as well.  CGC hates stains, I would like to say they should only hit it to a 6.5 because it still presents so nicely, but they might deduct even further for those stains, perhaps 6.0 or even 5.5 on a bad day but still deserves at least a 6.5 IMO.   There are some pro pressers out there that have techniques to minimize (absorb) much of those stains without full liquid immersion (NO cover cleaning note and if it comes out well you should be able to get it back up to 7.0)

  6. AMAZING SPIDERMAN #129 CGC 5.0 1st Punisher.  Looks like it was never pressed with some bump potential.  GPA was averaging $1,600 much of last year, $1,313 past 90 days.  Board Price Just $1,195 rivaling the lowest anyone has paid for one of these in years! (plus you save a ton not paying the mandatory auction house collected state taxes, CC/buyers premiums nor typically massive auction house shipping costs!) 

    SOLD WEREWOLF BY NIGHT 32 CGC 7.0 1st Moon Knight.  They are making another TV season for the Dark Knight of Marvel!  This was a $2,500 book on many sales averages just over a year ago!  It dropped steep at the end of last year but it appears to be heating back up with a 7.5 currently bidding up to $2,025 with several hours of bidding still left to go at mycomicshop!  My Price just $1,475 insanely low compared to the $2,025 CGC 7.5 price that is still likely to keep going up before the end of the auction!  https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemID=57794093  I don't need to tell you where this book will be going up for sale if someone does not jump on it fast at this price!

    TOMB OF DRACULA #10 CGC 4.0 1ST Blade the Vampire Hunter! Ultra Rare UK price variant! Only several graded copies in existence!  The only UK copy sold was over 2.5 years ago before the huge 2021 market explosion but the best comparable was a lower 3.5 pence copy that just sold in December for $650.  Board Price $649 lower than the last extremely recent Lower 3.5 sale and this is one of the nicer presenting 4.0 copies I have seen!

    SOLD DAREDEVIL #7 CGC 6.5 Classis Sub Mariner vs. DD Battle Cover!  Sharp!  A $1K book most of last year, $834 90 day for those bargain hunters looking for this Classic battle Key for a bargain before the rebound.  Board Price $749!

    DAREDEVIL #4 CGC 5.5 1st Purple Man (major enemy from the TV series)  Most recent GPA sale $389, also the same sale exact price on the last 5.0, so you are getting a much better deal on this nicer 5.5!  Board Price $375

    GHOST RIDER #1 CGC 8.5! High Investment Grade Key 1st Ghost Rider Ongoing Book! 1st Damian Hellstrom/Son of Satan appearance!  Most recent GPA Sale just hit last week at $1,150 so looks this book could be trending up this year!  Board Price just $999 to the first person to jump on this! :headbang:

    Strange Tales 138 CGC NM 9.2 Key 1st Celestials who had a big part of the storyline from the last Eternals movie and are likely to return!  You don't find these NM range investment grades often on these SA Keys!  Last Sale in late summer 2022 was $1K and a 9.4 sold for $1,400 and a 9.6 for $8,200 at the same time, no sales since.  Board Price just $875!

    Fantastic Four #2 CGC 1.8 Presents extremely well (much nicer) for grade, I would say at least 2.5 and probably 3.0 with a nice dry clean/press, but must have been hit hard with a small margin piece out from page 4 that doesn't even affect the story.  The 2nd Ever appearance of the FF, but also the 1st ever appearance of the Skrull who are staring in the highly anticipated star studded Secret Invasion Marvel TV series storyline coming up very soon. 1 year GPA $1,724 and most recent sale was $1,648.  For some reason many people must prefer 1.8's to 2.0's so they tend to go for a little more often times, but even though the most recent sale was $1,648 and it presents like a 2.5+, I will blow this out at $1,295! :jawdrop:

    Fantastic Four Annual 1 Very Early Spider-man appearance (also on the cover!), Origin Sub-Mariner, 1st Lady Dorma & Krang!  2 copies, a CGC 4.5 & undergraded CGC 1.0 (No sizable pieces missing!) Looks like an easy 1.5/1.8 had someone dry cleaned/erased the back cover dirt? Honestly it's more presentable than quite a few 2.0 books I have seen!   Last sale of 4.5 trending up at $674! Board Price just $573 Over $100 BELOW most recent sale!  No recent sales for the 1.0 for 1.5 years but a .5 Incomplete with Back cover missing had 2 recent sales at $150!  Board Price just $175!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  7. The graders for the McFarlane signing were a total joke! I cracked open several books, had them pressed, came out nicer and still got 3 full grade drops! Never paying a premium for a signing again!  I have some near perfect looking books that outclass some of my 9.6/9.4s and they only got 8.0s to 9.0!  I have held and owned thousands of CGC books, so I am pretty sure I have a good handle on what approx grades books should get. 

    To be clear, this was only for the McFarlane signing that I encountered this absolutely insane non sensical beyond tough grading.  I submitted a good amount of high dollar Standard/Express books and I was pretty happy with the results, I even got a super rare 9.6 back on an early S.A. Key I was surprised on, but for some reason it took an act of congress to get even close to that grade on near perfect 80s McFarlane Spidey/Hulk books!

  8. SOLD! FANTASTIC FOUR 52 CGC 2.0 1st Black Panther, nearly perfect page quality O/W-White, Presents extremely well for grade, 90 day average $550, Board Price just $495!

    X-MEN #2 CGC .5 CFO, Fresh back form CGC!  Presents like an attractive VG range book, go find a centerfold & make it complete!  Similar (but from experience not nearly as nice presenting) .5 with a page/centerfold missing have been selling for between $305 to $400 in the most recent sales. A 4.0 which this would look very similar to averaged between $875 - $1,160 90 day and prior year GPA.  Board Price just $325  $299!

    X-Men #4 CGC 2.0 Key 1st Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver, 2nd Magneto, the 2nd Biggest all time Key in the X-Men!  Book has no large tears, no marvel chipping, no big pieces out just a fairly small one and a corner/edge chip, a tight and fully attached spine at both staples, this should have gotten 2.5/3.0 IMO when comparing to all my other CGC books in this range vs my much uglier 2.0 or even 2.5 range books.  2.0 90 day average $950, 3.0 90 day average $1,564 and the most recent 1.8 even sold for $1,425 fairly recently. Board Price just $950 $899 Best Price on the Planet for any complete & graded Key X-Men 4 1st Scarlet Witch/2nd Magneto, at least for one presenting even close to this well for a lower grade!

     

     

     

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