Opening the Seal on Dr. Doom's Revenge

It’s an age outdated dilemma for collectors and buyers, to maintain sealed or to open. The excessive state of affairs exists with a CGC slabbed comedian. Open your graded comics at your individual peril and expense! But there are different occasions when collectible contents are sealed however possibly there’s a affordable risk-reward to open the seal and take away contents. That is the query I’ll pose to you associated to my buy of a sealed Commodore 64 Dr. Doom’s Revenge pc recreation. Inside the seal, a possible 9.8 candidate of the giveaway comedian ebook “Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom’s Revenge”.

Examples of the Dilemma – ThunderCats

I assume you don’t have my precise drawback, however let’s have a look at another examples the place the seal/open dilemma arises. I searched eBay for “three pack”. These comedian 3-Packs, usually with a thriller ebook in the center, have been round a very long time. I discovered two units attention-grabbing, significantly as a result of they current the open/keep sealed dilemma.

The first is ThunderCats, the place in 1984 somebody may have picked up the first three points for 1.99 or much less at the low cost shops. Recently, the ThunderCats was on the Hot List; they might have cooled currently. Many of the ThunderCats three-packs are at present supplied on eBay for Buy It Now costs starting from $350 to $699. One factor we don’t know is the precise situation of the contents of those sealed packs. And we will’t make sure that subject 1 is a primary printing. From the cowl, it may very well be a primary or third printing. In this case, it doesn’t appear to matter an excessive amount of as a result of the CGC 9.8 FMW is $800 and a third printing offered in April 2021 for $1,500. With these forms of costs for #1, and good demand for points 2 and three, wouldn’t it be advantageous to interrupt the seal? After slabbing, it seems the worth of the people ought to exceed the worth of the set. Especially for these sellers asking lower than $500. What would you do in case you owned this sealed 3-pack?

Sealed or Sold Separate – Dune

I reviewed Dune artwork after the film got here out. I didn’t count on to speak about Dune once more BEFORE seeing the blockbuster. The film adaptation in Marvel Super Special 36 was re-packaged as a 3 subject mini-series with new covers. The reprint set discovered its technique to shops for a $1.69 (or 69 cents right here). As a sealed set, a vendor is asking $400 OBO. Sealed like this, probably they’re all 9.8 candidates. The ungraded uncooked set sells less expensive, CGC 9.8s promote a lot increased. GoCollect FMV: $325, $220, and $170 for points 1 to three in CGC 9.8. If you owned this, would you are taking an opportunity on breaking the seal? There’s NO going again! Personally, I’d decide up a high-grade Marvel Super Special 36 because it was the first printing.

Opening the Seal: Dr. Doom’s Revenge

I fell on the horns of this dilemma whereas writing my preview of online game field artwork. There I seen some preliminary cowl artwork by John Romita, Sr. of Spider-Man fame. The sketch laid the basis for Paragon Software’s Dr. Doom’s Revenge field artwork. This is an OLD recreation (1989). Apparently, recreation play wasn’t that nice, however graphics weren’t unhealthy for the time. Now, this recreation is appropriate with a Commodore 64, which I don’t personal. So, I’m undoubtedly not breaking the seal to load the recreation. But is there one thing inside that is likely to be price greater than the $77 I paid for the sealed recreation?

The Mysterious Comic Inside

The reply to my earlier query is, I hope so. Paragon Software packed an authentic giveaway comedian inside every of those 8″ x 10″ containers. With cowl artwork by John Romita and inside artwork by Rich Buckler, it’s a cherish-worthy story. Plus, it doesn’t seem to have ever been reprinted. Given that, what do you suppose it’s price? Overstreet lists it at $50 in NM 9.2. GoCollect calls out 25 comics in the CGC census, with the most up-to-date 9.8 sale in 2018 for $289. That sounds promising. Might a comic book sitting in the field for thirty+ years doubtlessly grade CGC 9.8? If so, my $77+tax may simply internet a pair hundred % return after bills.

Deal or No Deal on the Revenge Seal?

We nonetheless haven’t concluded on whether or not it Deal or No Deal on breaking the seal. One different piece of data: a sealed VGA 80+ NM IBM PC appropriate model of the recreation simply auctioned by means of Heritage. As finest I can inform, this recreation was marketed at the similar time as the Commodore recreation. I don’t suppose there may be any distinction in the comedian ebook inside. It offered for $660 together with the purchaser’s premium. At that worth, the dilemma of whether or not to maintain sealed or break open the field to market the comedian is REAL! Also, I did learn Grading Your Video Games by Sarah Thomas. Based on her article it could run round $100 to get my sealed recreation graded. So, what would you do?

In case you might be curious, the Romita preliminary artwork offered for $526 in 2015; the Rich Buckler giveaway comedian artwork above offered for $42 in 2009. Given the state of affairs I described, would you open the seal on Dr. Doom’s Revenge? And why not chime in to share YOUR seal/open dilemmas!