The regular edition Star Wars 1 has risen in price in the last year from the $600 dollar level to around $2500. It is not surprising that interest in the much, much, much rarer Star Wars 1 price variant is at an all-time high. This is the only mainstream Star Wars collectible to be released before the release of the first Star Wars movie. The CGC census of Star Wars 1 price variants currently has two 9.6 copies certified and lists eleven 9.4 copies. The number of 9.4s is probably inflated a bit because both 9.6 copies were a result of resubmits to CGC.
These numbers will give you an idea of the rarity (and the justification for the high prices) of Near Mint or higher price variant issues versus the regular issues of Star Wars 1.
There are 339 copies of Star Wars 1 that have been graded 9.8, 921 copies that have graded 9.6, and 861 that have graded 9.4. This is a total of 2121 books graded 9.4 or higher.
There are two copies of the 35 price variant in 9.6 and somewhere between seven to eleven copies in 9.4. In other words, there is about one NM or better 35 cent price variant of Star Wars 1 for every 200 NM or better regular editions.
Here is the information on the ComicLink auction. ComicLink does not report sales to GPA, but this blog keeps track of the important ComicLink variant sales.
Also featured in the ComicLink auction was a very nice CGC 9.0 Star Wars 1 price variant with Off-White to White pages. I think that this is the first time that two high grade copies of this book have been auctioned in the same event. This auction closed at $5764.
These two sales imply current prices of $18,000 to $20,000 for 9.4 certified Star Wars 1 price variants and $9000 to $11,000 for 9.2 copies.
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