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Buyer’s Guide -
August 10, 2001 Issue #1447
CGC
300-issue Spidey run brings $64,250 bid
Gargantuan set still misses reserve, is broken up for sale at
San Diego
 Honolulu's
Ideal Collectables, which in June auctioned a lot of 180 X-Men issues
graded by Comics Guaranty Corp., trumped its own record in mid-July with
an eBay auction of the first 300 Amazing Spider-Man issues.
In addition to being
larger than the X-Men run, the lot was inclusive, as well. (The X-Men
lot had been missing 20 of the reprint issues.) It closed far too higher,
too, drawing a $64,250 final bid from "ummseven," a frequent
player in auctions for CGC-slabbed items on eBay. The X-Men run had closed
for $26,444.
But as with the X-Men
lot - also consigned to Ideal Collectables by collector John Inouye -
this new largest run of CGC comics in existence failed to meet its reserve
price. Company president Tony Yamada said that, as with the X-Men set,
the lot would be broken up for sale at San Diego and on his website, www.idealcollectables.com.
Incidentally, CGC's
population report, which includes everything graded up to July 1 (five
days before the Spidey auction launch), does not include any listings
for Amazing Spider-Man #206 or #220. That's why, in our initial report
on the census back in CBG #1445, we said that the longest existing CGC
run was #1-217 of X-Men/Uncanny X-Men.
Since Yamada displays
both a #206 and a #220 in 9.4, one might conclude that either the copies
came in at the very last minute - or that the CGC Census is not entirely
infallible. With more than 75,000 entries, that's probably to be expected.
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