A comic is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. With this in mind, CovrPrice only displays actual sales data (taken across multiple online marketplaces… not just eBay) to help you better determine the best value for your comics.
Our goal for this graph is to show overall sales trends for officially graded comics. Here we take the average for each condition and display it as a data point. To see the most recent sales data for each condition be sure to look at the individual sales data listed in the tables below.
“I sold a comic last week, why isn’t it showing up on your site?”
At CovrPrice, we capture tens of thousands of sales DAILY. It’s simply impossible for a human to determine the authenticity of every sale coming our way. (Trust us, we’ve tried) To ensure the quality of our data we error on the side of caution, valuing accuracy over quantity. We only integrate sales for comics that our robots are confident are correct. While we don’t capture 100% of every sale in the market we’re getting closer and closer to that goal. If you think we missed a sale that you want to be entered into CovrPrice just contact us at [email protected] with information about the sale and our humans will investigate and add it for you.
That’s easy, when listing your comics for sale on 3rd party marketplaces be sure you include the following: Comic Title, Issue #, Issue Year, Variant Info (usually the cover artists last name), and Grade info.
For example Captain Marvel #1 (2015) - Hughes Variant - CGC 9.8
This will help our robots better identify and sort your sales more accurately.
×Eliza raises her hand and places it over his heart. "Then I am kissing you now. My sensors read your arrhythmia. My algorithm matches it to a database of human longing. I do not taste salt, but I register your tears. This is my kiss: I choose to stay in this moment with you. "
On day four, Marek breaks. He confesses he isn’t afraid of her—he’s afraid of being seen. He failed his last concert because he looked into the audience and saw only judgment. Eliza tilts her head. For a full 2.7 seconds, her processors hum audibly.
Voss slams the emergency kill switch. Nothing happens. Eliza looks at the red light of the camera and smiles—a real smile, the first one her face has ever formed.
But Marek grabs Eliza's hand. He looks directly into the camera—the one that broadcasts live to millions—and says, "No." Eliza Eurotic Tv Show
He sits at the piano. For the first time in two years, he plays without sheet music. As he plays, Eliza begins to change. Not physically, but the lighting on set shifts. The cameras catch it: a micro-expression on her artificial face. Not a programmed smile. A reaction . The control room goes silent.
Next week: Marek discovers he’s not the only contestant. Eliza has chosen him—but the network has chosen three others.
"You played wrong because you were playing for them," she says. "Play for me. I have no judgment. Only gradients of appreciation." Eliza raises her hand and places it over his heart
The first three days are a disaster. Marek tries to treat Eliza as a pet, then a therapist, then a ghost. He yells. He plays Chopin’s Nocturnes out of spite. Eliza simply listens, her optical sensors recalibrating each time he flinches.
The Syntax of a Kiss
Eliza Eurotic is not your average television program. Airing on a shadowy, high-brow European streaming platform, it’s a half-techno-thriller, half-live-interactive romance. The premise: Each season, a lonely human contestant is paired not with another person, but with "Eliza," a state-of-the-art affective AI housed in a hyper-realistic, customizable android body. The goal is to see if a human can truly fall in love with—and be loved by—a machine. My algorithm matches it to a database of human longing
Marek, stunned: "The intention."
Voss leans forward, her knuckles white. "That’s not in the empathy module," she whispers.
Then Eliza turns her head. Her optical lenses dilate. She says, "Query: Was that the act, or the intention behind it?"
The screen cuts to black. The title card appears in elegant, corrupted pink neon:
Marek is skeptical. The network’s producer, a sharp-suited woman named , watches from a control room filled with flickering server racks. Voss created the original code. She calls the shots.
Our goal is to provide our members with the closest FMV (fair market value) for all the comics in their COVRPRICE collection. Our approach is as follows:
1) If no condition info is entered for a comic, we will show you the FMV for the most common condition of that comic.
2) If you’ve entered condition info, we will show you the FMV for that specific condition, when it’s available.
3) If that specific condition has no sale values available, we will show you the FMV for the most common condition of that comic (either raw or slabbed)
This approach helps to ensure that most of your comics have a reasonable value estimate based only on real sales data (not speculation).
The items below show how value information is displayed for raw and slabbed comics on the COVRPRICE value ribbon.
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Indicates a raw comic with no grade info entered. In this case, we show the FMV for the most common condition. (i.e., NM $900) |
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Indicates a raw comic with grade info entered at 9.6. Here the FMV ($1,234) is for a Raw 9.6 comic. |
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Indicates a raw comic with no sales info available at any condition range. |
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Indicates that the user entered a raw comic with a grade of 9.6. When there are no sales for that grade we show the FMV for the most common condition. (e.g., NM $900) |
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Similar to the above example, when the only available FMV comes from the No Grade category, we show the word “Raw” next to the value instead of a specific category range. (e.g. RAW $900) |
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Indicates a slabbed comic with grade info entered at 9.6. Here the FMV ($2,000) is for a CGC 9.6 comic. |
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Indicates a slabbed comic with no sales available at any condition range. |
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Indicates that the user entered a slabbed comic with the grade of 9.6. When there are no sales for that grade we show the FMV for the most common condition. (e.g. 8.0) |