CGC Unboxing Most Expensive Books I've Ever Unboxed

[@MarkDemeo]

Blue label, purple label,etc the fact that books like this still exist is incredible.

[@christianweatherbroadcasting]

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[@scottkernan5577]

wow WOW wow WOW wow WOW wow, awesome books . THANKS RAY.

[@saintsataniko2116]

IF I ever get an AF15 I don't want to see it arrive in a normal brown box, just like I don't expect to see a mountain of cash shipped in a box. I want them pulling up with a Brinks trucks, opening a vault in the back, and armed guards handing it to me personally at the door.

[@drancealot]

Seriously. At worst i'm driving a thousand miles just to pick them up in person.

[@christianweatherbroadcasting]

Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus. Romans 6:23 John 3:16❤❤😊❤

[@lennyserna2904]

Great video Gary! Awesome Job Erod!!!

[@geekimusprime]

There’s something different about seeing a purple label for AF15. Like it doesn’t matter at all like it does for other books.

[@michaelarisio9564]

Trouble is the average collector will never be able purchase these books, but at least we can live vicariously thru your videos...thanks Gary!!!

[@fabioturbay6346]

Michael, there´s still plenty of reissues, fac similes and foreign variants to work with. Waaay cheaper, and still brings up life in any collection

[@macorourke2222]

Great video Thanks for sharing Brother 😀 👍 ♥️ 🇺🇸🇨🇦🎉🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉💯💯

[@Jasonklein221]

I don't know what else could be said about that unboxing but just WOW. Not only 1 but 2!!!! 2 Amazing Fantasy #15 and who cares the label color it's just amazing history not to forget there was an ASM #1 also that was a 5.0. Just insane. Ray has just so many amazing books and his passion is also priceless.

[@ggmf]

Just Spectacular video, Gary. Congratulations on these amazing issues and grades! God bless!

[@toeknee1505]

I'm jealous that you are holding these 3 Spider-Man holy grails! To hold $85K worth in your hands? A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!! Thanks Very Gary! Entertaining!

[@williamhammock4821]

Wow, just wow. To think back on those early unboxing vids. Did you ever think you'd have a video like this some day. Its INSANE!!!! True believer you've made it come true. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@RayFromCarolinaComics]

Great presentation Gary. Thanks again for all you do. Kudos to ERod, best in the business and a great guy. The books really do look Amazing. AF#15 in all grades is a special book. And a worthwhile investment. Better then owning stock as it just keeps going up in value. Like fine art, it can be viewed, shown to and shared with friends and family and will be part of history for a long time.

[@cwwheelz]

Congrats, Ray! Those are some beauts!

[@amazingmurfinator6338]

What a rare treat! Congrats Gary, erod and Ray from Carolina! Awesomeness

[@wellreadcomics9246]

That amazing spider man 1. Just wow!

[@the_flushjackson]

Great video, congrats on some beautiful historical artifacts Ray.

[@qwickbeem]

love these cgc unboxing's of silver-age mega-keys awesome...

[@jimmyg.comicguy3621]

Hi Gary! AMAZING! Have a good one!

[@drock6287]

Perfect shirt for this video! 🍷 📚

[@larrygitlin6017]

Wow my favorite books I will never own . Purple and a slight trim on Amazing Fantasy would not bother me a bit. Great books!

[@smallTownCollectibles]

Just amazing books. No other word for it. Great Great Video!!!!!

[@scottsimon615]

Wow! I’d love to hold history like that. Just for a few minutes. Thanks for sharing, Gary. 👍🏻

[@uncannyswag8703]

Unreal books!! Thanks to Ray for sharing them with us!!

[@AlexSzostak13]

Gary: "My largest unboxing EVER!" Me: (Thinking "yadda, yadda, yadda!") Gary pulls out First Book...Amazing Fantasy 15. Me: JAW DROPS AND EYES BUG OUT ... "ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!" LOL!! Great video! Glad I watched!!

[@darrenmorin3084]

Hot damn bro!! Epic unboxing! Those are my two grails I may never own! I'd be thrilled to own a trimmed 4.0 AF 15!! Wow! Congrats!

[@joffrecastro1783]

Awesome grab that your friend got

[@seanl.7088]

great video thanks for sharing the experience

[@azb-comics]

Wow amazing unboxing great books 🔥🙌🙌🙌😍

[@drock6287]

Man, that was cool to watch!

[@nau97]

What a great experience. Great books!

[@nicholasdrossos652]

Another great video Gary. Some of us may never get a chance to hold those grails in our hands. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@randyslone918]

Love these books

[@leesmith6273]

Three great book i would love to have a one of those books for myself

[@shawndardbarbarbarian5061]

Amazing books way cool.

[@emeraldknight041]

Just WOW 🤩 Not one but two AF15’s!!!

[@lordruperteverton4963]

Sick books, and I love the shirt. Keep up the killer content!

[@seantmclaughlin]

🤯🤯🤯 crazy unboxing

[@sirrickthe2nd583]

Amazing books.

[@aheathholcomb4214]

Wow. Just wow my friend just recently picked up his copy of AF 15 and his is missing a little triangle in bottom right but still got a 2.5... he is so proud of that book I personally will likely never have any of those 2 books but the feeling of holding one of those books makes ur knees shake and buckle almost... ❤️

[@JesterJAC13]

Man, Gary, these videos are awesome! Just to hold those books would be an honor. I did get to hold some great grails (Incredible Hulk #1, AF15, ASM #1, and Daredevil #1 plus more) at Regie's Garage Con. It woulda been cool if you were there as well, haha!

[@comicbookman1319]

A dream. I am jealous

[@bronzevillecomics2581]

Some fun books to have in hand. Huge grails!

[@raulvera8469]

Amazing!!!!! Nuff said.

[@briannichols9811]

All I can say is Wow! :)

[@roywatson7916]

Awesome books.

[@crullt]

Those are awesome!

[@richardotero6724]

OMG those books mind blowing! Your friend Ray must be very well off! Last time I remember CGC does charge grading fees based on book value, as mentioned by other comments so $1,000 does seem out of range??? The Holy Grail of comic collectors everywhere 😁😁😁

[@jeanmalo7173]

Just to hold one of those books would be awesome!...stay safe and keep it comics Gary!

[@chewie1363]

I love these videos. You’re so lucky to handle these books.

[@dberik7558]

Great books

[@Kevinmj70]

Very cool. I am new/back to comics after 30 yrs and your videos are informative & engaging. My question - does having more of these graded “grails” in the market place drive down price due to perceived decreased rarity?

[@jessehelms3882]

Wow

[@imdronedout]

Looking like a big day today in the very gary household! WOW!

[@brucecarter5520]

For me, and perhaps most, on these keys, paper quality encased isn’t as important. When it’s one of these big boys, just having one would trump any page color problems!

[@steam3840]

wow, very nice...on the trimmed corner, if you pinch it and tear it (so it doesn't look trimmed) you will get a blue label, i know this from experience :)

[@CosmicRobb]

Love this! Insane books for one sub

[@rubencrespo3847]

Check or money order, congrats!!

[@Maximum.Spider]

It is a dream to own those two books. One day one day

[@FallenHeroEM1]

This is the reason I'm here. That's my grail. Doesn't matter what color label.

[@thetiger5883]

Question:Do you send all your books and other peoples books to EROD to get pressed & cleaned?

[@showingjewel9150]

Does anyone know if or when CGC's turnaround times are going to improve? It's 50 days fast track and 150 fast track for CCS.

[@florenceferdinand4717]

Where do you get them from

[@MrComics89]

I want to cry I want one of those AF 15s so bad!!

[@flashhogangaming2959]

My dream to own some of these one day 🙏🏻 amazing collection bro

[@toddmacleod5915]

Do you think $1200 is a good buy for Fantastic Four Annual #1 CGC 6.0 ? $1500 was spent on a CGC 7.0 do you think this was a good buy? thanks

[@rubennieves8248]

Awesome job buddy I'll take all of them 🤣😂🤣😂

[@Chaos-cosplay-is-bord-chaos]

Wow 😮

[@siriactuallysara]

That ASM 2.5 is by far the best investment book even at 35k that’s a great investment to buy

[@melw2100]

Wow!

[@Bryan-zx8cl]

I would have liked to have seen some closer camera shots of the condition, due to the rarity.

[@VeryGaryComics]

Sorry. I'll try and remember that for next time

[@Bryan-zx8cl]

@@VeryGaryComics No problem! These books are incredible! Excellent video.

[@joshw3968]

Stellar

[@blain2250]

Wow !!

[@copy801]

I am curious to know how many asm 1 and af15's currently exist, or estimated to exist. Yes, they are very desirable, but how many exist?

[@RayFromCarolinaComics]

CGC has graded approximately 3,500 copies of AF#15. Unknown how many raw copies still exist but likely probably a lot less then have been graded to this point. 50% 3.5 or higher, 25% 5.0 or higher, only 10% 6.5 or higher, and only 20 copies 9.0 or higher.

[@hotzonecomicshuey2194]

WOW. Can't imagine actually being able to hold two AF15s

[@RPRsChannel]

I regret so bad not getting Amazing Fantasy no.15 Restored *CGC 9.4* for $51,000.

[@Jay-Jose]

CGC notes the page color, as if anyone is ever going to see a page after it's encapsulated...?

[@ronaldbourgeois1255]

I’d take AMS #1.Garry someone selling AMS 252 on Facebook for $150.00 not sure of conditions as only front of book shown so what would you do.

[@peepo1460]

Been so long snice the first Ray video, did you sell all his books or is he keeping some? It would be awesome to get a update on all the sale to see his total, if he wants to make that public, I know he may not want that.

[@VeryGaryComics]

He sold alot of the books. He has alot more though.

[@mikestukes801]

WOWWWWWWWWW 🤓😲😎

[@benji3455]

Man i want asm 1 just for the jonah 1st appearance

[@markbarr3733]

GREAT VID!! My question is how was your grading cost only $1000 for books which conservatively are over $85,000?? My experience has been CGC adjust the expense if books sent in obviously under valued. A 25k book alone would have been over $700...just wondering. Peace.

[@VeryGaryComics]

I've defend them adjust books too. No idea how these got by with only $1000 in fees.

[@psychedeliccomics]

Gary, $1,000 grading cost appears to be a good deal even tho cgc charges 3% FMV... Does cgc charge 3% FMV for them RAW and if so, where do they get that price since RAW prices vary considerably..... That Spidey #1 grading cost alone is almost $1,000 ($900=3%x30k)...??.. I take it you may be able to deal with cgc on the grading costs.....

[@uFELLA]

I think he was talking about the SHIPPING/INSURANCE cost, since that is the only invoice that comes in the package.

[@psychedeliccomics]

@@uFELLA You may be right, but he mentioned at the end of the video that the $1,000 cgc fee was trivial compared to the prices of all three books. Hoping to have some explanation as to the cost of walk-thru books ahead of time before getting surprised by the credit card charge from cgc upon receival. I heard that you could negotiate with them, but was wondering what that fee was for comparison. Gary mentioned on another video that he was going to start full disclosing all costs.....

[@basementbrotherscollectibles]

You would think an AF15 and Spidey 1 would earn a more sophisticated box from CGC…

[@TravisLaurenceNaught]

Not going to lie, every now and then I click away with a couple of seconds left in the video… I did not do that today! What an amazing (my pun was totally unintended) thing you are able to help Ray with!

[@jarredsmith9187]

Very Gerry, watching your video makes me think I will probably never be able to get my last 5 grail books TMNT#1,Cerebus#1, X-Men#1, Amazing Fantasy#15 and Batman#1 1940 cause they cost so much much but maybe I might be about to get a TMNT#1 2nd printing and X-Men#1 1963 but if not what other books can i get cause I already have all the keys I want from the modern age and AMS#129 CGC 5.0 so my question is what do i collect now cause the only big modern keys I don't have is Ultimate Fallout#4 and Walking Dead#1 so Gerry what do I do know since I have all the modern keys like New Mutants #98,Batman Adventures #12,X-Men#266,AMS#300,Ams#361,and all the other modern keys? So is there any keys worth getting for $2,000 or should I just keep saving up?

[@michaelemond7315]

It's like a "Fantasy" to own those. I loved that book the first moment I "spied her". Gary...I have more children than you. It is only fitting I would have worse dad jokes than you.

[@cchrisjordann]

$25k book, might as well splurge on the $5 custom label 😂

[@marcusmolyneux6422]

how much did the guy pay for each of the books raw?

[@RayFromCarolinaComics]

The AF15 2.5 was traded for way back in the 60's. The other AF15, ASM #1 plus an ASM #2 were purchased together about 30 years ago for about $3k

[@jayhays8267]

I was guessing it was $75,000 in CGC fees!

[@darthdebaucherous954]

Gary must be like a millionaire or something

[@mwkdirect]

sheeeeeeesh

[@jasonw3479]

Holy hell, talk about grails!

[@big_burly_bro]

Envy inducers.

[@AyyuBX7]

No doubt you can get $100,000+ for them

[@bobmatteis4130]

Hey Gary this is Bob in Connecticut I love looking at your videos and all of your input. And no I still didn’t get rid of my journey into mystery 83 6.0 I told you the same dealer made me two different offers and one of those offers you told me you liked it better than $25,000 because it was $9000 and.5 All-Star Comics 8. Remember I don’t work like you do so right now I am still contemplating but what do you think my amazing fantasy 15 8.0 restored no trimming pieces added cream to off-white. What would you think that would go for right now? I don’t think I ever want to sell it and I’m definitely not selling my amazing fantasy 15 6.0 Cream to off-white blue label. Yes I know you told me to take the first wonder woman other people told me the same thing and take the $9000 I don’t know right now.

[@chets4367]

Sell the comics and get some grammar help!! I have a headache reading that mess

[@bobmatteis4130]

@@chets4367 😂😂😂

[@bigbabysld]

outta my price range

[@michaell7809]

All I can say is damn !!!

[@halfdrawnpe]

These are monster books.

[@marklotinga]

AF #15 2.5 $35k + ASM #1 5.0 $25k + AF #15 4.0 $30k = $90k surely?

[@ericcampbell9553]

Books I will never own for 200 alex!