There Must be a Million Stories Out There

Saw an interesting auction yesterday on EBAY. There was a 9.0 CGC graded copy of All American Men of War available that I had some interest in. Sometimes you can get a real nice bargain on an EBAY auction and I was going to bid up to $100.00 (It's guide priced at $190). I thought things were looking decent for me and I even went a few bucks over $100 in the last few seconds when all of a sudden to my shock the auction completed with a winning bid of $780.00. WHAT!?!?! My first thought was that someone in their haste completely put in the wrong number but actually someone had put in a max bid of $770.00 and then in the last moment another person exceeded it by $10. I have never seen an issue go for so much over guide price. An 8.0 CGC graded copy of issue 31 went for a much more reasonable $272.67 (close to guide price) at the same time. The seller must have been partying last night after that bid came in.

I was looking on Comic Connect and came across an issue of World's Finest Comics #6 non CGC graded VF+ (8.5) for $75 and #10 non CGC graded VF (8.0) for $100. Those prices are amazing, unbelievable... completely unbelievable. Then I noticed an 'fc' tag. I hovered my cursor over it and saw that fc means 'front cover' i.e. you GET the front cover. Oh and the Superman story is there also, it's just not attached. How in the world could someone label a front cover as VF+ Does Comic Connect have no quality control? I have to wonder if at some point someone will be duped into buying that junk.

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