{"id":179,"date":"2017-10-03T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:40:54","slug":"highest-graded-but-is-it-single-highest-graded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/2017\/highest-graded-but-is-it-single-highest-graded\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest Graded! But is it Single Highest Graded?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a natural desire to celebrate owning (or offering for sale) the “Highest Graded” copy of a comic book, which can be determined by looking at the CGC Census.<\/p>\n

There is also a difference between the “Single Highest Graded” copy of a comic book and owning one of the “Highest Graded” copies (are there 2 or 200?) graded (so far).<\/p>\n

Here’s a breakdown of “Highest Graded” for Universal and Signature Series CGC graded comics, as of October 3, 2017 CGC Census:<\/p>\n

172,631 different comic books on the CGC Census, 3,546,449 CGC graded comics, and 3,475,440 are Universal or Signature Series (about 71,000 are either Restored or Qualified grades).<\/p>\n

There are\u00a01,004,156 CGC graded comics which are technically “Highest Graded” – that is, 28.3% of ALL CGC graded comics, more than 1-in-4 CGC Graded comics are also “Highest Graded” copies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are 95,628 “Single Highest Graded” copies, and over half of them are also the “Only Graded Copy”<\/strong>… so 54,811 are single highest without any “competition”.<\/p>\n

That leaves 40,817 “Single Highest Graded” copies which have at least one other lower graded copy on the CGC Census. That means 4% (about 1-in-25) of the 1,004,156 comics that can claim to be “Highest Graded” on the census are also “Single Highest Graded” with at least two copies graded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is the breakdown of the 95,628 “Single Highest Graded” copies:<\/p>\n

54,811 are “single highest” and “only graded copy”<\/p>\n

13,101 are “single highest” and “one of two copies graded”<\/p>\n

6,108 are “single highest” and “one of three copies graded”<\/p>\n

3,668 are “single highest” and “one of four copies graded”<\/p>\n

9,330 are “single highest” with 5 to 10 copies graded<\/p>\n

4,165 are “single highest” with 11 to 20 copies graded<\/p>\n

2,775 are “single highest” with 21 to 50 copies graded<\/p>\n

797 are “single highest” with 51 to 100 copies graded<\/p>\n

804 are “single highest” with 101 to 1,000 copies graded<\/p>\n

69 are “single highest” with more than 1,000 copies graded<\/p>\n

The “Single Highest Grade” in terms of highest total Universal and Signature Series copies graded are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

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There is a natural desire to celebrate owning (or offering for sale) the “Highest Graded” copy of a comic book, which can be determined by looking at the CGC Census. There is also a difference between the “Single Highest Graded” copy of a comic book and owning one of the “Highest Graded” copies (are there … Continue reading “Highest Graded! But is it Single Highest Graded?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-info","category-case-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

\u00a0<\/caption>\n
Rank\u00a0as of Oct. 3, 2017<\/th>\nUniversal and\u00a0Signature CGC Submissions<\/th>\nHighest CGC Grade<\/th>\nComic<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\n13,301<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nNew Mutants 98 (1991)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n8,772<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nIncredible Hulk 181 (1974)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n7,556<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nWolverine 1 (1988)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n4,026<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nWeb of Spider-Man 1 (1985)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n3,792<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nX-Men 141 (1981)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n3,411<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nUncanny X-Men 142 (1981)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n3,067<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nAvengers Annual 10 (1981)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n3,008<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nNew Teen Titans 2 (1980)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n2,577<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nBatman: The Dark Knight Returns 1 (1986)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n2,573<\/td>\n9.8<\/td>\nAmazing Spider-Man 1 (1963)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n2,541<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nX-Force 2 (1991)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n2,516<\/td>\n9.8<\/td>\nAmazing Spider-Man 14 (1964)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n2,222<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nX-Factor 24 (1988)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n1,936<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nIncredible Hulk 271 (1982)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n1,930<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nThe Marvels Project 1 Sketch Cover (2009)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n1,874<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nWalking Dead 19 (2005)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n1,858<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nUncanny X-Men 244 (1989)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n1,842<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nX-Men 140 (1980)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\n1,815<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nAmazing Spider-Man 363 (1992)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n1,781<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nAmazing Spider-Man 316 (1989)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\n1,770<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nDeadpool 1 (1993)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n1,767<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nRai 0 (1992)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\n1,767<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nShazam 1 (1973)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n1,752<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nIron Man and Sub-Mariner 1 (1968)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n1,699<\/td>\n9.9<\/td>\nBatman 404 (1987)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n