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Okay, just took a quick look at the Heritage offereings for tomorrow's auction action and the most notable shocker to me at this point is this: https://comics.ha.com/itm/books/overstreet-comic-book-price-guide-1-first-printing-overstreet-publications-1970-cgc-nm-96-white-pages/a/7246-94188.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 Already sitting at $37,200 including the BP juice and a definite record breaker here since I had thought the CGC 9.2 graded copy that they sold for $9K a few years ago was already a one-time outlier not to ever be outdone. Boy, was I ever wrong here!!!

The two runs that kind of blew me away as they were totally unexpected were the EC Crime Patrol's and the Schomburg airbrushed Exciting books. Loved the colors on the Crime Patrol's and nice to see a price of $8,700 for this non-highest graded and non-CGC 9.8 Schomburg beauty: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/exciting-comics-60-the-promise-collection-pedigree-nedor-1948-cgc-nm-94-white-pages/a/7246-92053.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115

Is that a new record price for a 2.5 #31? Quite sure it is since the last one managed to fetched only $56K back in April of this year. Then again I am quite sure if the the Slightly Brittle PQ which really knocked the price of that one down, whereas today's copy had CR/OW pages.

Yeah, I've also been on the lookout for a copy of this book here since I tend to view it as a poor man's version of Action Comics 13: Yeah, I guess the key words here are "Should be" because with grading, sometimes you just never know. Just checked Chuck's Mile High Catalogue and if I am reading his tiny print correctly, it appears that he had the Sensation 26 listed as a NM+ which would line up with your memory of the book. Then again, it's hard to tell because Chuck also had this Church copy of Sensation 39 listed as a NM+ in his Mile High catalogue and yet: Hard to tell from just a cover visual scan, but I will simply say that I wish all of the Promise Collection 8.5 graded books looked like this Sensation 39, but then I guess books with more natural rounded uncrushed spines are considered to be a defect in terms of today's grading standards.

Well, if you've been glancing through any of those endless posts on the WATA threads on the boards here without falling asleep, it's probably just a case of Brian trying to brown nose his way up the Heritage corporate ladder. After all, you have to remember this is in the state of Texas where pretty much anything goes and what happens in Texas stays in Texas, and rather quite literally in this particular case here. Definitely saves on the shipping charges though. I guess you are also definitely following the Covid protocols when you take yourself out for lunch on your lonesome, but not sure if this would qualify as an allowable tax write-off for IRS purposes. Yum, Yum!!!

Unfiortunatelyas all of us know here, grading is really nothing more than a subjective opinion (albeit a so-called "expert" one) at a particular time when a book crosses a grader's table, as opposed to being an exact science or anything even close to it.

I was the underbidder. Hey Richard; Sorry to hear that you just missed out on this one here, but like I've always said..............you've definitely got good taste and a sharp eye when it comes to these high end books. Actually, considering what the Suspense 11 went for at $132K and the fact that the next highest graded copies of Suspense 8 are several notches lower at 7.5, I thought this all-time classic spider cover by Cole might possbily have even gone for a bit more than the $60K it ended up selling for.

Yeah, I've also been on the lookout for a copy of this book here since I tend to view it as a poor man's version of Action Comics 13: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/sensation-comics-26-the-promise-collection-pedigree-dc-1944-cgc-vf-nm-90-white-pages/a/7246-92128.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115# Only problem is that this book doesn't seem to come into the marketplace very often with the last slabbed copy back in 2013 or a few years before I started to look for a copy for my personal collection. Although I had placed some bids earlier on, there was no way I was going to pay close to 5-figures or anywhere even in the vicinity of that ballpark for a copy with that huge and noticeable of a fugly miscut.

Yes Since I had time on my hands today, I would definitely agree with the two of you here although I am not sure if prices were as wild and crazy as their last Signature Auction with the first big load of the Promise Collection books.

Watched the auction on this book here and although it looked like the auctioneer was trying to pull teeth, at least he managed to get it back up there to the same level that their last CGC 9.6 graded copy had sold for at $66K back in the beginning of April. Still $22K shy of what CC was able to get for their 9.6 copy when it hit the auction block in the middle of April at $88K, but that was probably more of an outlier due to the irrational exuberance in the marketplace at the time, although it's probably still with us to a slightly smaller extent.

No idea at all, but is that one of those common as dirt Marvel books? Didn't you place something like 500 tracking bids on this particular auction right from the get go? The trick is that if you ignore all of those Marvels and DC's you see all the time along with the overgraded Promise Collection books, you won't run into this problem at all.

Was actually interested in bidding on the Promise Collection copy of Kid Colt #1 since I've always liked the Marvel Westerns and it's hard to beat a #1 first issue, especially when it's still going for less than condition guide at this late stage in the auction. Then I decided to take a closer look at the book, and I would have to say that Heritage was dead on right and giving us the straight goods here with the first line in their written auction description for this copy of Kid Colt 1..........."We were simply stunned to see this in high grade": https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/kid-colt-outlaw-1-the-promise-collection-pedigree-marvel-1948-cgc-vf-nm-90-off-white-to-white-pages/a/7246-92091.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515#

It really is… most of the Promise books are even being overshadowed this time. Just took a look at the offerings for the first day only so far and although I suspect the breadth of this auction is going to be quite strong on this go round after the first day, it would appear that their Platinum Session for tomorrow doesn't seem to have the same depth of quality as compared to some of their previous Platinum Sessions offerings. And not surprisingly and actually to be expected, their second major dose of the Promise Collection books are clearly not in the same ball park as the first shot that they gave to us back in June.

Well, of course there's an exception to every rule and TTA 13 would clearly fit the bill here. Especially when you consider the fact that this book is actually super rare in grade with only 2 copies graded into the 9's to this current point in time. Very much the opposite situation from SME 15 which I believe might have even be part of a large warehouse find way back in the day. I remember seeing so many copies of this book in the LCS's for years that it seem like you had to fight your way through them in order to get into the store and then fight your way through them in order to get back out of the store.

You definitely can't go wrong when you've got veteran and very excellent actors in there like Tony Leung and Michelle Yeoh who have both been around honing their craft for decades. Leung definitely showed his versatility when he was cast as the male lead in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution which is probably as close to an Asian mainstream porno movie as you are ever going to see. He really got to "horn" his skills in that one there with that absolutely beautiful Chinese actress who ended up getting banned in China and losing all of her endorsements for a few years after taking on that female lead role in the movie. I guess she really outdid herself in that role there, even though it was nothing like Madonna au naturel who really went above and beyond in her role for Body of Evidence which from my point of view was cleary a soft core porno movie with a storyline in there. Hard to argue when it had Madonna in her much younger days showing her lusty and agile bedroom skills and just giving it to her lawyer not only in the bedroom, but also in the parking lot and everywhere else possible. Definitely nice and rather shocking to see an Asian based and Asian cast movie like Shang-Chi do so unexpectedly well from both an audience rating and box office point of view though.

Any guesses as to whether the next CGC 9.8 graded of SME 15 will surpass or drop below this record $18K mark which a lucky consignor was able to fetch on their copy in the Heritage Auction last night: https://comics.ha.com/itm/bronze-age-1970-1979-/special-marvel-edition-15-master-of-kung-fu-marvel-1973-cgc-nm-mt-98-white-pages/a/122136-11746.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515# Wonder if it would have graded higher without that rather obtrusive looking grease pencilled in arrival date on the cover?

Not sure about Iron Man since that was too long ago, but if I remember correctly, didn't the prices for CGC 9.8 graded copies of FF 52 dropped back down by about $30K from the mid-$80K's and $90K mark which they hit back around 2016 which was a couple of years prior to its actual release date? Not sure where a copy would finish up at now with the craziness that we are seeing in the current marketplace, but I wouldn't be surprised at all to see it hit 6-figures now, based more upon the crazed market for comic books as opposed to the direct impact from a movie to this point in time.

Like I said, absolutely nothing to worry about as this is old news for us old fogies as we are just simply seeing the usual rinse and repeat cycle here with the video games, as per this post from our very own Masterchief in the other thread in Comics General:

Haven't actually read all of the posts in that other thread since it seems to be pretty much of a dumpster fire between the same 3 or 4 boardies there, with one of them apparently doing his best to get the thread mess down completely. I believe he's not referring to the fact that they are basically grading the quality of the box and the seal wrap only, with nothing to do with the actual contents inside when it comes to the grading of sealed video games. Probably more to do with the billowing smoke that connected insiders with their vertically integrated fingers in the whole grading and auctioning of video games and artifically manipulating the prices upwards might just clue into the likelihood that this might also be taking place in the comics, coins, and trading cards collectibles field. Hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but this is probably not when it comes to this issue here, and I highly doubt it will get picked up by the mainstream press here to any significant degree, if even at all.

Not a very good batting percentage when it's only 1 out of how many hundreds of movie and TV related books that's been hyped all the way up to the nether regions of your wazoo.

Yeah, those were definitely the days back then when I picked up my MOKF 15 and I used to dream that I would find some collector fool one day who would be willing to pay me full guide for my books. Fast forward to the past few years and now I dream that I would find some fool dealer who would be willing to sell me some vintage quality GA books at full condition guide valuations.

Generally, if you are on their mailing list and simply wait a few days after the end of their Event Auctions, you should be receiving an email from the CC Support Team which has a link in there that allows you to see all of the individual auction results from their just completed Event Auction.

Yes, but as comic book collectors, the real burning question that we have here is whether the movie is good enough to prevent the prices on MOKF 15 and the likes from dropping like a boat anchor as it hits the surface of the water? Based upon recent history, I would have to say a resounding NO since I can't remember a single Marvel movie where the prices for its associated books have actually been able to hold, let alone go up after the release of its movie.

And I guess that's why we had David Carradine playing the lead role in Kung Fu back in the 70's, instead of Bruce Lee who had to go back to Hong Kong to fine fame and stardom in the movies before his untimely death.

Like they say........................a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially in this case here in their very Steve Jobs like pose, where this one particular picture alone clearly tells us a whole lot more than all of the words that Haspel can put together, no matter which way he tries to spin and contort them.