| The Usual Suspects - Top Universal CGC Submissions for Comic Books from the 1970s | |||||||||
| Overall Rank | Comic | Total Universal Submissions | Top 25 Rankings | ||||||
| 2000-Early 2001 | Late 2001 | 2002-Early 2003 | Late 2003 | Early 2004 | Late 2004 | Early 2005 | |||
| 1 | Incredible Hulk 181 | 2,121 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Giant-Size X-Men 1 | 1,860 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | Spectacular Spider-Man 1 | 1,552 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | Amazing Spider-Man 129 | 1,500 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | X-Men 94 | 1,471 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 6 | Star Wars 1 | 1,010 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 7 | 10 | |
| 7 | Iron Fist 14 | 866 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 6 |
| 8 | Amazing Spider-Man 122 | 808 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 16 |
| 9 | Amazing Spider-Man 121 | 755 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 12 |
| 10 | Amazing Spider-Man 100 | 735 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 15 | |
| 11 | Conan the Barbarian 1 | 730 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 21 |
| 12 | X-Men 100 | 585 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 12 | 17 | |
| 13 | X-Men 121 | 556 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 24 |
| 14 | X-Men 95 | 534 | 12 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 11 | |
| 15 | X-Men 101 | 529 | 18 | 22 | 23 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 7 |
| 16 | X-Men 96 | 519 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 24 | 18 | 24 |
| 17 | Daredevil 158 | 491 | 12 | 20 | 20 | ||||
| 18 | Incredible Hulk 180 | 491 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 19 | 17 | |
| 19 | X-Men 108 | 464 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 13 | ||
| 20 | Amazing Spider-Man 194 | 430 | 22 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 18 | ||
| 21 | X-Men 119 | 413 | 21 | 14 | 20 | ||||
| 22 | Spider-Woman 1 | 384 | 18 | 13 | |||||
| 23 | X-Men 99 | 383 | 20 | 24 | 14 | ||||
| 24 | X-Men 97 | 372 | 22 | 22 | |||||
| 25 | X-Men 125 | 369 | 23 | ||||||
| 26 | X-Men 109 | 368 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 25 | |||
| 27 | Incredible Hulk 182 | 368 | 20 | 13 | |||||
| 28 | X-Men 118 | 362 | 24 | 21 | |||||
| 29 | X-Men 127 | 360 | 24 | 16 | |||||
| 30 | Swamp Thing 1 | 350 | 13 | 25 | 23 | ||||
| 31 | X-Men 98 | 349 | 21 | ||||||
| 32 | X-Men 117 | 344 | 23 | ||||||
| 33 | House of Secrets 92 | 341 | 17 | ||||||
| 34 | X-Men 126 | 340 | 24 | ||||||
| 35 | Marvel Spotlight 5 | 340 | 22 | 23 | 9 | ||||
| 36 | Amazing Spider-Man 98 | 331 | 23 | ||||||
| 37 | X-Men 120 | 329 | 25 | ||||||
| 38 | Amazing Spider-Man 97 | 322 | |||||||
| 39 | Ghost Rider 1 | 322 | 14 | 8 | |||||
| 40 | Daredevil 131 | 319 | 16 | ||||||
| 41 | Tomb of Dracula 1 | 316 | |||||||
| 42 | X-Men 128 | 311 | |||||||
| 43 | Defenders 1 | 303 | 17 | ||||||
| 44 | X-Men 105 | 302 | |||||||
| 45 | Marvel Premiere 15 | 302 | 23 | ||||||
| 46 | Iron Fist 1 | 300 | 19 | ||||||
| 47 | X-Men 124 | 298 | |||||||
| 48 | X-Men 110 | 283 | |||||||
| 49 | Godzilla 1 | 281 | 21 | ||||||
| 50 | X-Men 123 | 279 | |||||||
| 54 | Amazing Spider-Man 136 | 274 | 23 | 22 | |||||
| 56 | Batman 232 | 262 | 15 | ||||||
| 57 | Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth 1 | 260 | 20 | ||||||
| 68 | Marvel Feature 1 | 231 | 25 | ||||||
| 86 | Man-Thing 1 | 186 | 18 | ||||||
| 169 | Amazing Spider-Man 196 | 117 | 14 | ||||||
| 422 | Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth 3 | 45 | 19 | ||||||