| The Usual Suspects - Top Universal CGC Submissions for Comic Books from the 1990s | |||||||||
| 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 | Spawn 1 | 1,585 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | Spider-Man 1 Silver Edition | 1,388 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Uncanny X-Men 266 | 1,185 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Spider-Man 1 | 870 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 5 | X-Men 1 Special Collectors Edition | 453 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 20 | 7 | ||
| 6 | Amazing Spider-Man 361 | 420 | 17 | 20 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 11 |
| 7 | X-Men 1 | 388 | 6 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 3 | ||
| 8 | Spider-Man 1 Gold Edition | 364 | 10 | 7 | 9 | * | 16 | 25 | 10 |
| 9 | Amazing Spider-Man 328 | 362 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 5 | ||
| 10 | Witchblade 1 | 357 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 17 | ||
| 11 | New Mutants 87 | 337 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 5 | |
| 12 | Daredevil v2 #1 | 326 | 25 | 20 | 4 | 18 | |||
| 13 | Spider-Man 1 Platinum Edition | 306 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 20 | |||
| 14 | John Byrne's Next Men 21 | 270 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | |||
| 15 | Venom: Lethal Protector 1 | 262 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 24 | |||
| 16 | New Mutants 98 | 251 | 2 | 8 | |||||
| 17 | Uncanny X-Men 283 | 242 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 23 | |
| 18 | Batman 497 | 236 | 8 | 14 | |||||
| 19 | Uncanny X-Men 268 | 234 | 20 | 6 | 16 | 16 | |||
| 20 | Uncanny X-Men 281 | 219 | 24 | 11 | 23 | 12 | |||
| 21 | Spawn 4 | 204 | 7 | 19 | |||||
| 22 | Spawn 2 | 194 | 11 | 13 | |||||
| 23 | Magnus Robot Fighter 1 | 191 | 24 | 5 | 14 | ||||
| 24 | JLA 1 | 178 | 16 | 15 | |||||
| 25 | Spider-Man 1 Poly-Bagged Silver Edition | 174 | |||||||
| 26 | Harbinger 0 Pink Variant | 161 | 18 | 14 | 9 | ||||
| 27 | Amazing Spider-Man 363 | 155 | 15 | ||||||
| 28 | Incredible Hulk 377 | 154 | 19 | 19 | |||||
| 29 | Amazing Spider-Man 362 | 153 | 25 | 24 | |||||
| 30 | Tomb Raider 1 | 151 | 19 | 18 | |||||
| 31 | Uncanny X-Men 282 | 151 | 21 | ||||||
| 32 | Solar, Man of the Atom 1 | 151 | 8 | 13 | 14 | ||||
| 33 | X-Men 25 | 146 | 15 | ||||||
| 34 | Spawn 3 | 140 | 12 | ||||||
| 35 | Marvel Authentix: Daredevil 1 | 140 | 12 | ||||||
| 36 | X-O Manowar 1 | 139 | 7 | 19 | |||||
| 37 | Rai 0 | 136 | 16 | 18 | |||||
| 38 | Marvel Authentix: Amazing Spider-Man 1 Marvel Authentix Sketch Cover | 132 | 8 | 22 | |||||
| 39 | Uncanny X-Men 267 | 128 | 10 | ||||||
| 40 | Amazing Spider-Man 375 | 125 | 21 | ||||||
| 41 | Harbinger 1 | 125 | 22 | 15 | 23 | ||||
| 42 | Ghost Rider v2 #1 | 122 | 22 | 25 | |||||
| 43 | X-Men Annual 14 | 122 | |||||||
| 44 | Rai 1 | 120 | 11 | ||||||
| 45 | Spectacular Spider-Man 200 | 117 | |||||||
| 46 | Uncanny X-Men 300 | 116 | 24 | ||||||
| 47 | X-Men 2 | 114 | 25 | 23 | |||||
| 48 | Amazing Spider-Man v2 #1 Sunburst Variant Cover | 109 | |||||||
| 49 | Amazing Spider-Man v2 #1 | 108 | |||||||
| 50 | Spider-Man 2 | 108 | 21 | ||||||
| 51 | X-Men: Alpha 1 | 107 | 14 | ||||||
| 52 | Superman 75 | 105 | 20 | ||||||
| 53 | Witchblade 1 Top Cow Collection | 105 | 9 | ||||||
| 54 | X-Men: Prime 1 | 104 | 20 | ||||||
| 55 | Witchblade 25 Speckle Holofoil Edition | 104 | 20 | 17 | |||||
| 57 | Amazing Spider-Man 330 | 103 | 9 | 15 | |||||
| 59 | Solar, Man of the Atom 10 | 102 | 20 | ||||||
| 60 | Superman: The Wedding Album 1 Collector's Edition | 102 | 22 | ||||||
| 61 | Catwoman 1 | 100 | 19 | ||||||
| 63 | Magnus Robot Fighter 12 | 96 | 22 | ||||||
| 63 | Baseball's Greatest Heroes 1 | 96 | 13 | 24 | 17 | ||||
| 66 | Authority 1 | 95 | 10 | ||||||
| 70 | Fathom 9 | 91 | 17 | ||||||
| 74 | Shadowman 1 | 88 | 17 | ||||||
| 75 | Nightwing 1 | 88 | 20 | ||||||
| 76 | Witchblade 2 | 86 | 18 | ||||||
| 80 | Lady Death Limited Series 1 | 83 | 22 | ||||||
| 85 | Daredevil: The Man Without Fear 1 | 81 | 21 | ||||||
| 88 | Uncanny X-Men 257 | 80 | 22 | ||||||
| 90 | Spawn 21 | 78 | 8 | ||||||
| 95 | Danger Girl 1 Chromium Edition | 74 | 20 | ||||||
| 95 | Hulk 1 | 74 | 24 | ||||||
| 106 | Spider-Man 1 UPC Gold Edition | 68 | 17* | ||||||
| 133 | Magnus Robot Fighter 0 Mail-order Edition | 59 | 13 | ||||||
| 181 | Uncanny X-Men 284 | 47 | 14 | ||||||
| 195 | Uncanny X-Men 270 | 45 | 21 | ||||||
| 202 | X-O Manowar 3 | 43 | 17 | ||||||
| 266 | Purgatori: The Vampires Myth 1 | 35 | 11 | ||||||
| 286 | Amazing Fantasy 16 | 32 | 17 | ||||||
| 295 | Namor, the Sub-Mariner 1 | 31 | 21 | ||||||
| 389 | Amazing Fantasy 18 | 22 | 17 | ||||||
| 487 | Amazing Fantasy 17 | 18 | 23 | ||||||
| * The inclusion of Spider-Man 1 UPC Gold Edition and exclusion of Spider-Man 1 Gold Edition may indicate an error in the census identification of those issues, late 2003. | |||||||||