cheetah

You are very welcome, Garry!

C'mon Jeff. Go for the 9.8. You know you want to. Then you can sell your 9.6 undercopy to me!! (thumbs u Wanting and being willing to pay are two different things. I don't want it THAT bad.

Get the tissues ready.....your going to be crying a lot!!! Clink Feb/Mar auction has the very first Avengers #57 9.8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rocky Mountain ped to boot. no scan yet, your only hope is a fugly miswrap I'm not too fussed since I know what I paid for this one and it was cheap. I'm guessing the 9.8 sells for $20,000+.

Fresh from CGC today. My scanner glass needs cleaning.

Torpedo is a good place to buy slabbed books. I've bought a few and their prices tend to be reasonable. I've not bought non-labs, though, so don't know much about their grading scale.

I picked up a few of them but don't have them yet. Here is one that looked really nice.

He is a board member. User name is 'Marc Wolfe'.

So how do I go about making the case to add Marc Wolfe to the probation list? The story is, I purchased a book from him through the Signature Forum and PM on May 7, 2008. I paid the $55 the same day and also bought a Vision sketch. As with a LOT of other people who bought from this guy, he never sent anything. Monthly PMs and emails were never returned. Finally, oneasian (Raph) gets the guy to bring the books to a show. He brings one of the two (the Vision sketch) but I've got to cover $16.50 shipping from Canada (not Raph's fault, he just lives there). Second book is a no show. He says he will send it from home but never does. Don't know if he sold it to someone else, used it as a coaster, or just can't be bothered with little details like the mail. I know the guy is a decent artist and does nice work but he ought to be held to the same selling standards everyone else is.

Kudos to BronzeBruce13 for the UHG WCA. Arrive promptly and in good shape!

Beautiful book Drew. Gotta wonder if you are just one press away from a 9.9.

I didn't know Doug had sold them until now. $105K and I was the next-to-the-last person to hold them before they got sent to CGC and entombed forever. FWIW, I undergraded each of them, except the #3, by 0.2 just because I couldn't believe a book that old could get a grade that high without manipulation. I got the #3 right, though.

Good request on some good data. I'd never looked at the other titles so was just going n my own perceptions. I'd love to some some HG copies get flushed out as the best ones seem to be all locked up. Nice work, Drew.

I've wondered if there are more collectors and fewer speculators with Avengers books than there are with titles like FF or X-men. I think there are fewer HG copies for the early issues than there are for other main line titles. Either that or I am just impatient.

Getting there. Still missing 25 books (I think) in my 1-100 set, and I would like to upgrade another 5 or 6. It's a decent collection, but it pales next to sets like cheetah's. He's got two Avengers sets in the top 20: the #6 set AND the #17 set (with completely different copies in each set). Thanks, Drew. I do have a passion for the Avengers and hope to be the first to get a 1-250 set 100% complete. I think I'll have everything between 130 and 250 secured before Christmas. But issues between 1 and 30 seem to be non-existent in high grade anymore. I shudder to think what #1 and #4 in 9.4 would go for nowadays.

I can't think of the last time an Avengers I was looking at didn't go for a new GPA high.

Thanks Andrew. Kudos back attcha for the quick payment but boo-birds for not trading me the Avengers I needed!

I'm going to add, I actually own a JLA 193. It is one of just two DC books I own. If any real JLA collector needs it, let me know.

I'm really interested in what they draw. Doug's never been afraid to ask for a big price. I'm enjoying the vicarious thrill of just imagining I could have mugged the guy before he came into the store! I'm bigger than he is...

Well done, Andrew!

eBay's got a 6.5 but it is c/ow. Avengers 6.5

I was thinking you guys should go for this! Any predictions on what it will go for? $25k. will be interesting to see which goes for more the jla #1 or the b&b #28. the jla #1 and the B&B #28 went for exactly the same. $30k + juice. I think the call of $60,000 or better will be met by the JLA 1 9.6. I think it will get bought for $75,000. What do you think would be the best route to sell it? Heritage, CLink, Pedigree or just a private sale?

I've always been sure that the folks at Heritage hang on my every word. But really, do you think CGC would actually let Heritage know about a book of this quality before it got listed in the census?

These are some of my recent additions. Drew, you and I need to get together sometime cause I think we step on each other's toes a lot when it comes to grabbing HG Avengers books. And my best purchase in a while. I didn't cost me the left testicle I thought it would.

Wow! He should do the deal if he's got those offers. Those are really high prices for the #2 and #3. Tim, that JLA #1 would look great next to your BB #28.... Agree with the offer on the #2 and #3... (Cheetah, you did really mean 20K each...not 20K for both) Just reporting what I was told. I told him I thought it was a good price on the 3. I think he likes the books so much that he doesn't want to sell them right away. Kinda like basking in their reflected glory. I think they'll be gone by this time next week, though.

It's a collection almost exclusively from 1959 and 1960 from Covington, Kentucky. As I understand it, a guy collected a bunch of books from a grocery store that closed down then stored them in the closed store and his basement until he died 10 years ago. The collection includes some of the best available Tales to Astonish, Tales of Suspense, Space War, Strange Worlds, Konga and Gorgo you could ever ask for. It also includes a world class collection of Mad magazines. I got to look at the first portion of the collection right after it came in and bought a lot of stuff I'd never even seen before. Of the 50 or so books I got, I'm guessing 60 percent will all grade as the highest graded. The JLA books for sold by the man before he died and I think they are the best condition books in the series. A lot of my stuff has dust shadows that must have come about after the man died because the JLAs don't have any of that. I think all the good stuff is now in either mine or Paul Mullins' (of Comic Book World) hands. There might have been a half dozen or so that were sold elsewhere in Cincinnati but I'm not sure this is true. I say in all seriousness that it you know anyone who collects Mad, they need to call Paul because some of the colors on the covers are as deep and rich as if they were just printed.