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Sold for $230K. By Price is Right rules, you lose. Sorry. I am assuming he was banking on the high side, considering that Heritage had recently auctioned off a nicely presenting lower graded CGC 2.0 copy for $222K back in September which was then followed by a NOT so nicely presenting CGC 2.0 Promise Collection copy that sold for $240K a few short months ago back in November. With this auction result here for $230K, it kind of makes me wonder what the CGC 2.5 graded copy will go for at CC since it is already sitting at $150K with another 2 weeks to go. This slightly lower price point in comparison to the Heritage results might possibly be due to the fact that CL is not necessarily the first or possibly even the second auction site to come into most GA collector's mind when it comes to the big key GA books, but then again the supposedly higher fees at Heritage can often certainly result in the same amount going into the consignor's pocket by the time it's all said and done.

Sadly, my windfall will come up a few zeros shy of Mr. Frommelt's. Well, a few zeros shy of Tim Frommelt's $100B mark is still $100M which is certainly nothing to sniff at.

Looks like some fool of a bidder just went and placed a new high bid on this POS book here. Took a second look at my analysis of this book here and definitely my bad here and hope that I didn't mislead any potential bidders here. Clearly one of the most OVERRATED GA books out there and now doubt that it's even a Lou Fine cover and clearly the reason why Overstreet doesn't even mention this in his guide. And to top it off, a Rockford copy which is the most overgraded pedigree out there and makes the Promise Collection books look like a poster child for examples of undergraded pedigree books. Hope nobody else falls for CL's much overblown hype that it's one of the highest graded copies out there. Especially since I just got an inside tip that there's a whole ton of HG copies sitting in CGC's pipeline just waiting to be graded and slabbed that would have no problems snuggling themselves in there between the Church CGC 9.6 highest graded copy and the CGC 8.0 second highest graded copy of this book here. So, absolutely nothing to see at all with respect to this CL lot here.

Went back and you are dead on correct here as it shows up in the latter portion of their auction archives where the straight sales are kept. It's hard to tell if you would have won the book anyways even if you had gone a couple more bid increments higher. Especially since the winner might have been willing to go several bid increments higher. Especially if the winner at the <$15K price point was Fishler himself who possibly knew he could find a buyer at a much higher price point if he was patient enough. Still, it would have been nice if you had won it and to see the book going to a much longer term loving home. Surprisingly, this Jumbo 11 still seems to be one of those very few still to be discovered and fully appreciated gems from Fine. Probably due in part to the fact that the collecting base is much more familiar with the Jumbo 10 with its highly popular classic cover which had been broken out by Overstreet decades ago. Not so much for the Jumbo 11 with no mention at all about the Fine cover artwork except for a tiny notation buried deep in the liner notes at the end of the title. Also interesting to note that Jumbo 11 is also actually a much tougher book to find with its census count at only 20 in total including restored copies, or running at just a bit more than half of the total census count of 36 for the much more pricier Jumbo 10.

I certainly wish and yet sadly, definitely not something which you would see out here where my kids are hoping to buy a home. With the crazy real estate market the way it is like the current vintage comic book marketplace, although this is more common on the west side of the city, you even see stupid transactions in the lower cost south east corner of the city where a house sells for almost a whole million OVER the asking price: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2450-se-marine-drive-vancouver Probably one of the trending strategies from the past few years of putting in a slightly lower than market asking price in order to draw a ton of competitive bids. Perfect case in point being this house from the news a couple of weeks ago with an asking price of only $1,598,000 and then only to be sold at $2,510,000 in the cheaper east side of the city. Still, a grossly egregious big move up from its asking price and yet, a darn good return for the seller from the $262,600 it had sold for back in July of 2000.

And yet in the Overstreet Guide, it clearly states that Double Action Comics 2 is NOT an ashcan. I guess that earlier article by Gary might be a bit out-of-date since it was written back in the 90's and states only 3 known copies of Double Action 2 and no verified copy of a Double Action 1. In the Overstreet Guide, it states that there are now 7 known copies of Double Action 2, with 4 of them in high grade. In addition, it also states that Double Action 1 exists as an ashcan copy.

It already has since the CL copy is now sitting at $211K with still another couple of days to go, while Magik's CBCS 9.0 graded Pennsylvania copy only managed to fetched $173,275 back in 2015. The question is will it be able to take out the CBCS 9.2 graded Church copy that sold for $262,900 back in 2017, which I think it will most likely do without not too much problem at all.

Have always love the bright blood red colors on this early Jumbo cover by Fine and thought it might have gone for a bit more than the $2,640 it did fetched: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/adventure/jumbo-comics-11-fiction-house-1940-cgc-vg-40-off-white-to-white-pages/a/122209-17644.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116# Then again, it has always been a much underappreciated Fine cover and seems to have gotten lost amongst all of his other great classic covers, I guess it doesn't help when Overstreet hasn't even broken this book out yet and simply lumps it in together with the later Eisner cover issues. I noticed that Heritage did managed to sell the CGC 9.6 graded Church copy of this book for just under $15K back in 2016 and then the book was auctioned off again by CC for $24K a couple years later in 2018.

I'm pretty sure whatever was going to happen has already happened. Yes indeed, where did that good old Tim Frommelt go to or did he find something else to spend his $100 billion dollars on besides just a Cap 1? Why, it's been almost a good 10 days since we last heard from him and his quest to acquire this book from the younger Verzyl kids.

Says the guy living in the world's most expensive city by a long shot in terms of unaffordability. At least we take only the silver medal as the second most expensive city in the world in terms of unaffordability. Then again, we are taxed egregiously to the max on 50% of our capital gains while you guys in HK live pretty much in a tax haven with ZERO percent capital gains tax.

Or if you want to try on the posh ritzy West side of the city, this even dreamier looking house sold for $80K over the $2.4M asking price: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-teardown-real-estate-1.3449869 With the backyard being listed as a landscaper's dream (love how real estate agents phrase things as I certainly wouldn't call it that): Not sure how much it would go for in today's hot real estate market, as this sale took place way back in 2016 long before Covid rocketed prices further up into the stratosphere. Of course, being on the West side of the city, it's going to cost a whole heck of a lot more than a piddly mllion dollars to put up a new house there as the building trades charge according to what the market will bear which means pretty much close to double since you also have to keep up with the Jones's next door.

Where's "here" ? Right here where you can buy this "beauty" of a dream house on the East side of the city for a cool million dollars: https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/metro-vancouver-real-estate-this-is-what-1-million-buys-you Okay, my bad as it was listed last year for $100 less at only $999,900. Then again, it did end up selling shortly after that for $1,105,000!!! I guess we shouldn't forget that it's going to cost you another million to tear it down and put a new house up there to replace it.

You forgot to add in a key third point point here: - submit it with half of a discontinued $1,000 bill along with a note saying they'll get the other half of the $1,000 bill if it comes back encased in a slab with the "right" grade.

Sadly, with the way the real estate market is flying right now, it's pretty much the Bank of Mom & Dad if your kids ever hope to buy a home of their own. It's definitely family first when it comes to these gut wrenching tough choices and shows just how great of a parent you are when it comes to crunch time. Depending upon where your daughter is looking to buy a house, I guess the proceeds will either be going hopefully towards a good portion of the cost of the house or if not, at least a good portion of the down payment for her dream home. Will definitely be cheering your book on as your copy of Bat 1 closes in a couple of short weeks from now. Perfect timing for this book with how red hot the entire collectibles marketplace has been with the pandemic and now coupled this with the long awaited release of the new Batman movie later this week which certainly can't hurt either.

Wowzas! Just checked the bidding history and it looks like the book jumped from $151K up to $211K with 7 additional bids in less than a minute. Looks like somebody is trying to go on a preliminary fishing trip to see if they can scope out the high bid from their competitor.

Well, if they are indeed trying to make their record breaking sales invisible to potential sellers, they are definitely doing a poor job of it. Especially since every one of these record breaking sales can be easily found in their auction archives which is open to everybody, unlike GPA or GoCollect where you are required to pay a subscription fee to access the sales information. My thinking is that non-auction sales results are probably not being transmitted over due more to the crapola dollar store website system which they have in place with all of its subsequent shortfalls and limitations.

But yes, what a cover, all that gorgeous red and a close up shot of Blue Beetle and unlike Batman, no qualms about using his special gun at all.

Probably more like "This had better work out...." Well, having had the distinct pleasure of meeting Tim's much much better half, I don't think he would have any problems at all and certainly need not worry about finding his suitcase packed outside the front door of his place. On the other hand, after getting that quarter of a million dollar cheque or whatever from Heritage for his latest handful of books, I do believe somebody's going to be busy going down to Harbor City or Causeway Bay to shop for the latest in fashion Hermes bag.

Yep, for some odd reason, issues 7 through 9 of the Mystery Men run seems to be quite a bit tougher to find than some of the other early MM issues, especially if you are trying to search for them in grade for an upgrade to your personal collection. Compared to the Mystery Men 7, at least with the Mystery Men 8, you've got the Jon Berk Church copy in CGC 9.4 and according to the census, it drops down to a CGC 7.5 after that. Looks like there's also a Larson copy out there, although Tricarchy indicates that the Larson MM 8 has a light stain halfway down the spine on both the front and back covers. There's also an Allentown copy of MM 8 which Payette had graded as a VF/NM copy and as we all know here, Payette generally seems to be a much tougher grader than CGC on these books here. Strongly doubt that either of these 2 copies will be graded or coming to market any time soon, as they are most probably locked up tighter than a drum in some lucky collector's long held personal collection. Looks like it's also pretty much the same thing with the Mystery Men 9 as you've got the Jon Berk Church copy in CGC 9.0 and then it drops all the way down to CGC 5.5 for your next highest graded Universal copy. Not as bad with the Larson MM 9, as Tricarchy indicates only a dust band on the front cover right margin and also a dust band on the top of the back cover, which in theory should hopefully not deduct from the CGC technical grade too much. Once again, Payette has the MM 9 listed as a VF/NM which probably means that it might possibly grade out somewhere into the 9's.

Looks like he done even better with the Amazing Mystery Funnies if he has them, since they sold for an even higher mukltiple to condition guide value as compared to this A-Man 6.

Well, I imagine it must have been the light multiple creases which knock the grade right back down all the way to a CGC 8.5 grade. I imagine CGC figured the submittor didn't pay his full dues yet because I can't see any creases from the scan no matter how much I blow it up. And yet eye gouging rat chews and much larger and darker dust shadows on the Promise Collection books which can easily be seen with just the naked eye seemingly gets a free pass.

The strong price on this go round might be due in part that this copy here certainly does present a whole lot nicer than its assigned CGC 9.2 grade. Wonder what the Graders Notes would say on this copy here, but unfortunately it seems that I don't have access to the notes here.

Yep, I think you will,especially with respect to the BB 106 since it presented so nicely relative to its CGC 3.5 grade and at only $600 to boot. The Blue Bolt 111 with the classic L.B. Cole cover didn't present quite as nicely relative to its CGC 2.5 grade, but probably reasonable at $720.

Well, looks like the rarity factor must have kicked in here as the book move up not a bit more, but actually quite a lot more at the end as it finished up at $10,200 or at a relatively strong 5X condition value for a non-pedigree copy of this extremely rare book.