| The Usual Suspects - Top Universal CGC Submissions for Comic Books from the 1980s | |||||||||
| 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 | Wolverine Limited Series 1 | 2,793 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Amazing Spider-Man 300 | 2,110 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Wolverine 1 | 2,049 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Amazing Spider-Man 252 | 1,380 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | Daredevil 181 | 1,328 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 6 | |
| 6 | Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 8 | 1,174 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| 7 | Wolverine Limited Series 2 | 1,084 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 7 |
| 8 | Web of Spider-Man 1 | 1,066 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 20 |
| 9 | Wolverine Limited Series 3 | 998 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 10 |
| 10 | Daredevil 168 | 894 | 7 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 8 | ||
| 11 | X-Men 137 | 886 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 15 |
| 12 | Amazing Spider-Man 298 | 876 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 13 |
| 13 | Amazing Spider-Man 238 | 851 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 10 | 12 |
| 14 | Incredible Hulk 340 | 835 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 21 | 12 | 11 |
| 15 | Wolverine 10 | 816 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 22 | 18 | 23 |
| 16 | Wolverine Limited Series 4 | 792 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 19 | 9 | 16 | 21 |
| 17 | Uncanny X-Men 142 | 783 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 17 |
| 18 | X-Men 141 | 769 | 15 | 14 | 19 | 6 | 14 | 17 | |
| 19 | Amazing Spider-Man 200 | 633 | 24 | 19 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 25 | 19 |
| 20 | X-Men 140 | 632 | 17 | 20 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 21 | |
| 21 | Avengers Annual 10 | 599 | 19 | 21 | 25 | 19 | 3 | ||
| 22 | Amazing Spider-Man 299 | 560 | 21 | 22 | 17 | 15 | |||
| 23 | X-Men 139 | 467 | 18 | 22 | 22 | ||||
| 24 | X-Men 138 | 460 | 22 | 24 | |||||
| 25 | X-Men 129 | 452 | 24 | 24 | |||||
| 26 | Amazing Spider-Man 239 | 451 | 25 | 18 | |||||
| 27 | X-Men 135 | 409 | 22 | ||||||
| 28 | X-Men 130 | 404 | |||||||
| 29 | Uncanny X-Men 143 | 383 | 11 | ||||||
| 30 | X-Men 136 | 371 | 23 | 25 | |||||
| 31 | Batman: The Killing Joke nn | 364 | 20 | ||||||
| 32 | G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero 1 | 357 | 24 | ||||||
| 33 | Batman: The Dark Knight Returns 1 | 357 | 22 | 18 | |||||
| 34 | Uncanny X-Men 150 | 355 | 24 | ||||||
| 35 | Uncanny X-Men 248 | 344 | 23 | ||||||
| 36 | Crisis on Infinite Earths 1 | 335 | |||||||
| 37 | X-Men 134 | 334 | |||||||
| 38 | Uncanny X-Men 213 | 332 | 23 | ||||||
| 39 | X-Men 133 | 324 | |||||||
| 40 | X-Men 132 | 309 | |||||||
| 41 | Uncanny X-Men 244 | 308 | 14 | ||||||
| 42 | Uncanny X-Men 211 | 307 | |||||||
| 43 | Daredevil 182 | 305 | 21 | ||||||
| 44 | X-Men 131 | 293 | |||||||
| 45 | Batman 404 | 286 | |||||||
| 46 | Amazing Spider-Man 312 | 283 | |||||||
| 47 | Wolverine 2 | 277 | |||||||
| 48 | Punisher 1 | 276 | 23 | 25 | |||||
| 49 | Crisis on Infinite Earths 7 | 271 | |||||||
| 50 | Savage She-Hulk 1 | 264 | 22 | ||||||
| 51 | Daredevil 180 | 256 | 23 | ||||||
| 53 | Daredevil 190 | 254 | 20 | ||||||
| 54 | Daredevil 184 | 249 | 25 | ||||||
| 55 | Daredevil 186 | 247 | 16 | ||||||
| 70 | Daredevil 185 | 183 | 25 | ||||||
| 81 | Miracleman 1 | 164 | 23 | ||||||
| 87 | Primer 2 | 153 | 25 | ||||||