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Especially this round. There are really good graders who would be practically guessing how CGC would downgrade some of these defects. Toro is a grading stud and even he had a rough round.

Ugh - so close but so far. I was 1 off everyone except I under graded the Dotty by 2. 6 points in a tough round is a win.

Don’t worry it sounds like all got the same emoji so we are all in the same boat.

Just kidding around. I do get good anxiety with these grading contest but your emoji is enjoyable to see what you come up with.

Grades recorded. I don't like the three stooges emoji that he sent me Some reason it makes me paranoid.

Which is a shame since the art is pretty good and the story is not bad either. I enjoyed the Spawn McFarlane run. The million copy print run definitely makes it easy to find.

There are three CGC 3.5 up right now on E-Bay for between $20,000 (2 copies) and a $22,900. The Heritage copy has slightly better page quality but I think the $20,000 copy sitting in an old design case is looking pretty nice. Auctions can be strange with strange outcomes but since all 3 copies currently up on E-Bay take offer and I'd expect them to take a decent discount the $24,000 plus 20% buyers premium seems a tad strange.

Decent 1st round for me. Only 1 bullseye but I was really close on the rest. Racket Squad - had it as a 5.0/5.5 - went 5.5 Iron Man - had it as a 9.0/9.2 and went with a 9.0 Comet - had it as a 6.5/7.0 and went 7.0 House of Secrets - looked really nice so had it as a 9.2/9.4 and went 9.4 (doh). Must have missed something Fear - had it only as a 8.5 so went with that 5 points and still in the running

Cash is flowing to the harder to find end of market which is allowing those higher grade books to keep prices up. Lower grade (but still not easy to find) books are taking a thrashing which you can see in all the red in the first column. It’s disheartening since the last auction is usually the low point in the year with all the Christmas spending. Next one will be telling since spring and the tax refunds typical cause a surge. No surge (which would not be shocking) will highlight the current market.

Grades submitted. Run out of lower grade Golden Age books to sub?

I can't make it this year but it's always been a great buying con with a wide variety of books in not that big a room. Miss you guys!

There are 3 other copies out there so I'm wondering if this is just hard to find or is impossible to find ok to use?

My guess is the two parts of Rebel Moon will do about 66% more views then this flick which will make them about equal in value to Netflix. I’ve not seen Lift yet but I’m sure I will eventually. A Kevin Hart flick has a massive appeal to about every demographic out there where as a sci-fi flick has much less. I’ll reiterate that I thought Rebel Moon was not great but it was decent and it will be considered far from a complete dud when it is all said and done. Maybe part two will blow us all away?

I got a message from CGC Mike about the grading contest and my heart dropped thinking I had said something in this thread. Never like to see a message from him

I sometimes forget I'm writing on the CGC message boards where a book that has 50 copies in that grade is considered easy to find. Never mind that is for the entire world and 50 copies isn't many in the grand scheme of things.

What's wrong with She-Hulk 1? 1st appearance of a long time character. It's very plentiful but I always thought it deserved better. This thread is about how prices have cratered compared to the insane prices realized in 2020 - 2021 since it was started in 2021 when things were looking less rosy and a select few seem to love coming in and demanding that prices have not completely fallen off a cliff for 95% of all books in the market place compared to the extremes we all saw in those fantastic couple years. Nobody has said there are not some bidders jacking up prices on a select (usually uber high grade or hard to find books) but the data that gets published continues to show quite a bit of red even when compared to last sales never mind 2020 / 2021 prices. The market isn't crashing (well maybe if you compared it to 2020 / 2021) and it appears things are quickly getting back to how it was in 2018 / 2019 except speculation is a pittance compared to what it was even back then. Way more sustainable from a hobby stand point for sure.

I don't think I've looked at a ComicLink auction since maybe 2021 and it does bring back memories of staying up late trying to snipe a few books to keep shipping low. FF looks really weak but some Batman books look like nice prices. Avengers look ok to weak except for a few ultra high grade copies (Kang books sure have dropped). Spidey looks to be doing just fine with some good prices but Spidey always does well (but good to see). AF 15 mod restored CGC 5.0 went for the same price as an ugly CGC 0.5. I don't deal in restored book so I'm always shocked to see how big a drop in price restored books get. I'd definetely be picking the nice presenting CGC 5.0 if I was a collector.

Definitely wasn't the FF 94 CGC 6.0 that went for $75! I think it was more then that before Agatha became a spec. Definetely wasn't FF Annual 6 in CGC 7.0 which went for $250. I think it was going for $500 way back in 2017 - 2018 when I was selling off copies I had gathered. FF 65 in CGC 6.5 for $47 seems like a steal - 1st Ronan! Have FF 67 CGC 8.0 dropped all the way down to $235?? I see a couple CGC 9.0 and better books that look like decent prices but the filler Silver Age books look to be taking a beating

Like what? Giant Sized X-Men 1 easy or Hulk 181 easy or X-Men 266 easy?

Just don't look at the GPA data for She-Hulk 1. I graded 9 copies of CGC 9.6 and 2 copies of CGC 9.8 a few months before the hype (2019ish) really started up and I've been kicking myself for selling the CGC 9.6s for $180ish and the 9.8s for $400 but it looks like it has even gone back to less than the prices I sold at. Heck I think that book reverted all the way back to 2018 values

That is actually good news if we can settle back into the 2019 prices for most key books since I was a bit worried we would regress back to 2018 (or lower) so only reverting to 2019 seems ok. Not great if you bought books over the last 4 years (going on 5 years) but could be worse.

All three copies on E-Bay that have sold are via auction and they all sold for between $458 and $490 so it does appear that is the going price for that book in auction. A few copies available for $899 which must have been the price people were getting last year and people are holding steady for now.

I look forward to the summary which shows anything not insanely hard to get is dropping while a few unicorns do very, very well.

Maybe cracking down on account sharing and raising prices wasn't a deal breaker for people after all. People can afford to pay an extra $7 a month to add people to their account after all?

It's the dead of winter with the wind chill below zero from a good part of the US. Do you think people are out hiking through the snow? Viewings go down in summer but right now it's pretty much what everyone is doing.