Interesting Sports Magazine Sales – December 2023 Part 1

Let’s take a look at some interesting sports magazines that sold in December 2023
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Guaranteed to show some magazines you have never seen before let’s check out some interesting Sports magazine sales from the first part of December all right we’re going to start off with this absolute classic it is 1990 Becket basketball number one Michael Jordan it is a cgc 9.8 and is sold for $399 on eBay and following the same Trend this is Becka hockey number one once again we’ve got a goat it’s Wayne

Gretzky a cgc 9.8 and this one went for $265 on eBay here’s one that I’ve never seen before I love the sports covers from Newsweek this is from 1972 it is women’s tennis Legend Chris Evert and this raw copy went for $50 on eBay here we got 1956 Sports

Illustrated this is the third cover for Mickey Mantle it’s a cgc 7.0 news stand copy sold for $199 on eBay here we got the three match classic Sports Illustrated cover with LeBron James and Steph Curry it’s from 2017 it’s a cgc 9.8 sold for $375 who used to love the sporting news

Here we’ve got a sporting news from 1970 it’s got Legend Roberto centee sold raw for $49.99 sport Ma magazine number one from 1946 it got Joe dagio as well as his son Joe dagio Jr and this raw copy went for $150 on eBay from 2009 it’s a Kobe

Bryant cover that you don’t see too often it’s an SI presents it’s a cgc 9.2 copy sold on Heritage auctions for $222 from 1999 this is the first Sports Illustrated cover for Tim Duncan it’s also the second cover for Kobe and this is a cgc 9.8 copy that sold for $810 on Heritage

Auctions from 1996 the iconic first cover for Tiger Woods one of the most coveted especially from the modern era and it’s a cgc 9.0 copy sold for $54 on Heritage here’s another Tiger Woods cover this is one of his most collectible issues that’s a non first cover it’s the Masterpiece cover from

2001 it’s a beautiful cgc 9.8 sold for $960 on Heritage from 1964 Street and Smith’s baseball once again Mickey Mantle this is autographed by the mick it’s authenticated by Becket and it sold Raw on Heritage for $54 we’ve talked before about how PSA magazine has been putting out some cool

Variant covers and that’s what we’ve got here this is a 2023 PSA magazine variant cover featuring Travis Kelce a limited print run of only only 87 copies going along with his jersey number of course a lot of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Mania going on right now this sold for

$79.99 from 1978 Hall of Fame running back Earl Campbell this is Sports Illustrated it is autographed by Earl Campbell authenticated by JSA sold for $139.95 one of the most collectible covers out there it’s the very first cover for Michael Jordan from 1983 alongside teammate Sam Perkins with North Carolina this is a subscription

Copy label still a fixed this a cgc 2.0 sold For $52 this is extremely interesting and noteworthy because if you think about it this is literally the bottom of the barrel for what this cover could possib possibly be it’s a subscription it’s graded at 2.0 uh

Nearly at the very bottom and yet it’s still selling For $52 that just tells you that pretty much any copy of Michael Jordan’s first cover regardless of condition regardless of subscription versus New Stand regardless of grade is going to have a little bit of value and collectibility just to the status of Michael

Jordan next up here’s another of the most collectible covers of all time this of course is Mickey Mantle’s first cover this is also a subscription this one is not graded and this once again just tells you how collectible this first cover is for Mickey mantel even in a subscription it sold for

$488 189 ungraded on eBay with 26 bids tons of action and interest on this one and uh this was the centerfold variant which makes it just a little bit more rare but uh still extremely interesting to see that uh two of those top covers of all time the Mickey Mantle and the

Michael Jordan first cover regardless of condition regardless of subscription people are going to want those here we got a unique one from 1996 we’ve got GQ Japan featuring Dan the Man Marino and this is a cgc 7.0 that sold on eBay for $999.99 Steph Curry My Town my team this

Was a variant I believe a one of three variant cover from 2015 this copy has been autographed by Steph authenticated by PSA and sold for $250 here from 1962 this is a Baseball magazine of some sort this is from a tour in Japan when some United States players went and played overseas you’ve

Got Aline Hall of Famer for the Detroit Tigers Mr tiger if I’m not mistaken alongside shigo nagashima and this copy raw sold for $240 on eBay from 1998 I love Slam Magazine and here we have Penny artway it’s a cgc 7.0 the Revenge of Penny Hardaway sold for $180 on eBay

I also love the sports covers on Time Magazine and here is an instance from 1951 it is Sugar Ray Robinson on the cover of Time Magazine this raw copy went for $159.99 from 2002 classic LeBron James first cover we got a cgc 7.0 blank box subscription went for $249 on

EBay from 2020 we’ve got slam kicks Shai gilis Alexander one of the top current players in the NBA this is a one out of three variant cover with slam kicks this is autographed by Shai and it is authenticated by JSA sold raw for $195 on eBay here we got another slam from 2017

This is I believe Joel embiid’s first slam cover it’s a cgc 9.2 it’s making a play on a previous um classic issue with Alan Iverson when Iverson was on the cover of Slam and this copy went for $91 on eBay allrise this is the first cover for

Aaron judge from 2017 it’s a cgc 9.6 sold for $ 23350 1988 Sports Illustrated cover featuring Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell The Vanishing Center this is a subscription copy with the label removed it’s been autographed by Wilt Chamberlain who of course passed away in the early ’90s there is no certificate

Of authenticity but it sold raw for $289 on eBay from 2004 Sports Illustrated presents we have Barry Sanders autographed copy and this is authenticated by JSA sold raw for $300 on eBay 1965 sport World magazine we’ve got Johnny unitis autographed authenticated by JSA sold for $149 on eBay here we’re throwing it way

Back to 1911 police Gazette Magazine and we have MLB Legend Honus Wagner this copy sold raw for $450 on eBay and here’s the steel of the month this is a 25 magazine lot of LeBron James seemingly all new stands taking a peek in there I can see his first slam

Cover with Sebastian Telfair his second slam cover you can see some nice copies of Si presents and this whole lot went for $22.50 that slam first cover alone will typically sell for at least three times that by itself from 1927 strength magazine we’ve got Babe Ruth and it sold for

$345 on eBay from 2004 I think this one is super cool another one I’ve never seen before this is dig magazine obviously some sort of volleyball publication and you’ve got here what I would consider to be the two most famous volleyball players of all time at least

In my lifetime we got Misty May trainer and Carrie Walsh the iconic Duo gold medal winning Duo and it’s been autographed by both there’s photo proof plus a certificate of authenticity it sold for $120 on eBay from 1962 Life Magazine on the cover you’ve got two famous actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

What’s interesting about this one something that I did not know is that there are some sports cards on the inside of this copy of Life magazine specifically you’ve got sports cards of the Eminem boys Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris and so because of that this one sold on eBay for

$60 here we have an awesome Bo Jackson cover from 1986 it’s his first solo cover this is a cgc 9.0 you’ve got him in his uh his T-shirt for the chicks the minor league baseball team uh after he chose baseball over football and this copy sold for

$500 on eBay 1987 Boxing Magazine Mike Tyson alongside Muhammad Ali that’s a pair you don’t see together too often on the cover of a magazine this one’s autographed by Mike Tyson authenticated by JSA sold for $19.19 from 1990 WrestleMania 6 you’ve got Ultimate Warrior and you’ve got Hulk

Hogan this is a cgc 9.0 and it sold on eBay for $650 from 1974 Sports Illustrated you’ve got Hondo John havich Celtics Legend it’s a cgc 9.2 sold on eBay for $138.4 by the way guarding him there as he drives to the rack you’ve got the great luel Cinder Karim Abdul

Jabar from 1953 Sport magazine Warren spawn the most wins all time of any left-handed pitcher beautiful cover autographed by Warren spawn authenticated by JSA this seems like a really low sale a good bid a good grab to me for the winner went for $49 on eBay from 1979 hockey Today magazine

Wayne Gretzky any Wayne Gretzky cover from the 70s is going to be extremely collectible this one went for $300 Raw on eBay from 1958 this is a copy of Sports Illustrated featuring Nan Tucket and this one went for $24.96 as a subscription copy and here’s what’s odd about this I’ve seen this

Specific cover sell for pretty strong prices similar to this multiple times and I’m not really sure why for some reason this specific cover seem to be pretty collectible I don’t really get it if anyone knows please drop a comment and let me know why someone’s paying 200 plus for subscription copy of this

Nantucket cover from 1992 Newsweek magazine you’ve got a great Trio here Larry Bird Michael Jordan Magic Johnson this has been autographed by bird and Magic got a cgc 8.5 qualified grade of course qualified because of the signatures and this sold for $29.50 from 1996 ESPN Total Sports this is not ESPN

The magazine this was quite a bit before ESN the magazine even came into existence but it’s some sort of variation uh of you know some sort of one-off magazine that they put out uh a publication I don’t know anything about I’ve never seen one of these covers

Before but it’s Tim Duncan in college with Wake Forest it’s a cgc 9.6 and it sold for $89 on eBay 1995 more MJ returns it’s kind of funny you can find a lot of Random Oddball magazine covers of Michael Jordan from the early to mid99s and this

Is an example here it’s a cgc 8.5 copy and it sold For $52 on eBay from 1984 I think this one is super cool never seen it before inside the Auburn Tigers that is the round mound of rebound or as they’re calling him here Mr crunch Charles Barkley it’s been

Autographed by Charles Barkley uh there’s photo proof to go along with it and this sold for $100 on eBay here’s a xerx ad so don’t forget that cgc will slab single Pages I’ve been seeing people start to do that from time to time because there are some

Really cool um old school ads or just single photo Pages within some of these magazines and uh this one’s not graded but it’s just a single page with bartar autographed by bartar sold for $281 going back to police Gazette magazine this is 1911 and we got another

Hall of Famer here it’s morai three finger Brown and this copy sold raw for $500 on eBay got to give my guy Raphael and the doll some love this is Deuce Magazine from 2005 it has been autographed by Rafa sold raw for $99 on eBay from 2003 slam presents street ball

You’ve got rayer Austin and uh if if you are if you are uh if you’re hip with it if you know your pop culture then you may know him better as Skip to My L and this copy sold raw for $50 on eBay from 1979 Sporting News You’ve Got

Magic Johnson cutting down the nests with Michigan State and this is autographed by Magic Johnson authenticated by Becket sold for $399.99 tough stuff magazine popular magazine for sports card collectors this is from 1996 got Broadway Joe namoth on the cover this has been autographed the authentication is by VSS autographs

Never heard of them not sure of the validity but this copy sold for $50 on eBay love this cover super underrated in my opinion 1968 Sports Illustrated is the first cover for Earl The Pearl Monroe and this one’s been autographed it’s a new stand autographed copy great

Pickup authentic by JSA sold on eBay for $150 from 1991 WWF magazine we’ve got the Undertaker it’s a cgc 9.0 sold for $700 on eBay from 1997 this is an iconic slam cover it’s the first slam cover for Kobe Bryant also some other good players you got Hall Famer Ray Allen you’ve also

Got Sharie abdor Rim who is an All-Star you’ve got Stefon Mar B who is an All-Star you got Marcus cambi who I looked it up was actually never an All-Star but very long produ productive career and uh there’s even more great players from this class of 96 on the

Inside cover if you open up the page but this is a cgc 9.4 extremely strong grade for slam which uh these magazines are really condition sensitive tough to find the slam copies in a really high condition and that’s why this one went for $750 on

EBay from 19 65 Time Magazine one of the greatest football players of all time Jim Brown and this was a steal for somebody they bought this copy raw for $39.99 1959 Sports Illustrated golf legend Bobby Jones and this is his first cover and this one went Raw on eBay for

$689 how about our boy Uncle Sam on the cover of Baseball magazine back in 1914 and this copy went raw for $224.50 I’ve always loved this cover from 1973 Sport magazine it’s George Foreman this is right after he took down Joe Frasier the classic Dow goes Frasier

Call from Howard coell and this copy sold raw for $22.50 and here we got a hoop magazine this is from somewhere between 1983 and 1987 they didn’t have an exact year on the listing but uh you’ve got Kurt rambus there in the background with the Lakers and based on the fact that

Drexler started playing with the Blazers in the 80 in 83 and rambus last played with the Lakers in 87 I narrowed it down somewhere within that window but uh love these hoop covers that often served as game programs back in the day and this particular copy has been autographed by

Clyde the Glide authenticated by JSA sold for $94 .99 and we’re going to finish with this Oddball 1966 wrestling Review magazine Batman and Robin and yes that Batman has two T’s and apparently that was the correct spelling for this Batman wrestler actually took a really deep dive researching into this magazine and

Uh found a really long and interesting article about uh who the people actually were on this cover so if interested check out the Slam Wrestling website and read the article titled holy mystery Batman who was Robin this copy sold raw for $28 on eBay all right that is it

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