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Making The Grade: 37.5x Leads This Month’s CGC Upside
By Steve Roop
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July 15, 2026
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A raw-to-9.8 multiplier of 37.5x on Zap Comix (1967) No. 6 (Second Print Cover) tops the board, with Daredevil (1964) No. 8 close behind at 20.83x.
When you’re on the fence about sending a book to CGC, think like an investor. The cleanest way to do that is to compare what a raw copy trades for versus its CGC 9.8 value. That raw-to-9.8 multiplier is a quick-and-dirty proxy for potential upside before submission costs, pressing, shipping, and time risk. Grade-to-grade premiums matter too: if a market pays dramatically more for a 9.8 than a 9.6, that gap can justify hunting for ultra-high-grade candidates. All figures here are straight from th...
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