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I think what it means is that all of the deep pocketed collectors like the Dentist and the like who deals in $50K+ books like they were petty cash should be personally flying their books to where they want them to go instead of shipping them through the mail.

Reminds me of the days when collectors use to say that Bob didn't raise prices in his guide until he had already acquired the book for his own personal collection. I've always had the opinion thst it was guys like Fishler who had much more control of the prices in the marketplace back then. I remember being at Fishler's place in the mid-90's and commenting how I thought Adventure 210 with the first Krypto (who gives a care ) was a highly overpriced book. I remember him looking at me with that dead serious look and saying NO and that he had pretty much put that book into that price range with his sales. Of course that was at a time when he was trying to corner the market on Fantastic 3 by scooping up every copy that was coming into the marketplace.

Ahhh..............a fellow boardie collector with both exqusite and immpeccable taste as I am in 110% complete agreement with your post here. Yes, yes, yes, what more can you ask for than this amazingly great cover as it has it all from the classic Schomburg babe in bondage, the menancing snake, the hodded villians, and for the latest hot specualtive craze, the hanging skeleton and the buring cauldron with the skulls and bones: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/1004636 Although it finished up at only at only $6,850 for this nicely presenting copy, it's not necessarily a low price as it seems to be more a continuation of the slow but steady recent uptrend for this book as evident by the following mid-grade auction results at Heritage for this book during the past few years: a CGC 7.5 copy for $4,560 in August of 2019, a CGC 8.0 copy for $7,200 in July of 2020, a CGC 5.5 copy for $4,560 in November of 2020, a CGC 4.0 copy for $2,160 in May of 2021, followed by a CGC 4.0 copy for $3,480 in January of 2022, and now this CGC 6.5 copy going for $6,850. As for Subby 11, yeah it's got the same classic Schomburg damsel in distress right inside the mouth of the dragon along with the hooded villians, but nowhere near the stunningly gorgeous image that we see in Subby 13. Clearly a case of to each their own, but I feel what really helped to push Subby 11 into collecting prominence was when the CBM magazine had it as one of their cover features back in the mid-90's and then prices seem to go on a rocket ride after that with all of the resulting hype and demand for the cover. It seems that the collecting pickup in interest for Subby 13 relative to Subby 11 has been much more recent with Subby 11 having a 20 year head start due to the CBM cover feature. A fantastic pickup here for the winner of the Subby 13 and I feel this book still has a lot of room to move going forward. Reminds me a bit of the pairing of Phantom Lady 23 vs. the more established Phantom Lady 17, the more recent pairing of Seven Seas 6 vs. Seven Seas 4, or the still much under appreciated but absolutely beautifully rendered brightly colored Blue Beetle 52 vs. the long established Blue Beetle 54 GGA cover. Like I've said, clearly a case of to each their own, but I've always gone for the underdogs when it comes to these types of contests.

The impression I got was that some of the boardies/bidders here found it difficult to keep track of which lots had the 15% BP and which did not.

What I don't understand is why it's so hard for bidders to figure out whether there's a 15% BP on the individual lots or not. Especially since it's the first line in Bold Print in the listing description for every single individual lot if there is one. If there's none, then there is no BP for that lot. All I have to say is that it's not exactly rocket science that we are looking at here: In an auction lot with no BP in there, if you bid $1,000 for a book and you win it, you pay $1,000; and In an auction lot that has a 15% BP to be added in and CLEARLY denoted as such, if you bid $1,000 for a book and win it, you pay guess what.........$1,150 which is made up of your $1,000 hammer bid plus an additional $150 for the 15 BP. Is this really that hard to figure out?

For the Schomburg airbrush cover collectors here, it looks like they've got a nice run of these in terms of the later Thrilling issues, but most of all, some of those nice Schomburg airbrush Wonder Comics issues.

Highly doubt there would be much chance of making that type of mistake like that. My guess is that a lot of the newbie consignors who's trying to squeeze every last dollar for themselves would go for the 15% BP, while many of the older longer term collectors wouldn't bother with this nuisance of a 15% BP since the net gain is only a fraction of a percentage point. To tell you the honest truth though, I can't even remember how the convoluted 15% BP calculation works anymore, but I remember that the difference was pretty much insignificant in the grand scheme of things when they first introduced it a couple of years ago.

Well, well, well.................looks like they've got a near complete run of the GA Subby comics starting from the Churchill assassination #3 issue and including a couple of nice mid-grade classic cover issues: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/1004634 https://www.comicconnect.com/item/1004636 Not sure where they'll finish up at, but should be interesting to watch as Subby 11 is currently at $8,655 and Subby 13 is at a piddly $4,417 with none of that 15% BP nuisance to add on top for either of these two books.

Now I have to check my copy's PQ and determine it's richness on the tomato/coral/pink/fire engine/stop sign scale. Well, since we heard all about "strawberry blonde" yesterday, maybe this is really a "strawberry red" cover. No doubt I will now sadly be sent to the CGC sin bin to comtemplate and have my mind washed of all these evil sinful thoughts for the different color variations of strawberry.

As @Professor K had correctly posted, the numbers you are seeing ALREADY INCLUDES the 15% BP juice in there. So, the Mask 1 hammered at $47,500 with a final price of $54,625 while the STT 11 hammered at $29K with a final price of $33,350 which I would tend to say are both very strong prices given the condition grades.

Ask and ye shall receive, although suffering from a rather bad case of expanding Marvel chipping:

Yes, their top tier was called a Walkthough when it had a much higher dollar value theshold and meant for high end premium books. Now that they've lowered this top tier threshold all the way down to only $1K which pretty much covers everything "worthwhile" that's sent in for grading, can they really call it a Walkthrough anymore. Especially since it's probably not worth the time and hassle to send in anything that's worth less than $1K in the first place.

Now, now, now...........if you are expecting a drop of some 80% from last year, you must think this is one of those former no profit high flying Nasdaq speculative stocks from 2021 which were so red hot and popular with the speculators back in the Covid time period. This is the first appearance of Luke Cage after all, with a tough black cover to boot, so a drop from the $102K price point of last year to the $64K price point this year is already a sizeable drop for this book here.

Totally agree with you as I thought this copy here would have taken a bigger hit on its way back down, especially considering how much "relatively common" key BA books like this one here has fallen in the past year combined with the bad off-centered QP on this particular copy here. Although a drop of some 40% from last year, but still a relatively strong price considering the marketplace we are currently in for BA books like this one here, as compared to the crazed crypto like marketplace that we had last year.

Like I already said in my above post, not sure how the whole CGC submission valuation process works? So, are you saying that you submit all of your books under the "High Value" tier which supposedly has a max valuation of only $1K per book. I find this rather surprsing since I think almost all of your books would be worth more than $1K even by Overstreet guide valuations. If so, does this mean that the Max Value Per Item colum doesn't really mean much and submittors should just select the tier they want based upon their desired turnaround time instead?

Not exactly sure how the whole CGC submission valuation process works, except I know a fellow collector/dealer who submits all the time and he simply uses the Overstreet guide valuations and said that he has never had a problem to date so far. If it's in the grade range of 2.5 to 4.0 as he has stated, I highly doubt that setting a max value on this Famous Funnies 1 would fly. Especially since the Overstreet valuations for a Good 2.0 to a VG 4.0 ranges from $3,400 to $6,800 in the Guide. A check of both the Heritage and CC archives indicates the only copy selling in this grade range recently was a CGC 4.0 graded copy for $7,800 back in May of 2022. So I would think that setting a max value of only $400 is almost a guaranteed lock that it's going to get pulled and "revalued" by CGC, unless you happen to get real lucky with your submission here.

Most definitely an once in a lifetime opportunity and certainly one that any true comic book collector would never ever pass up. Was the #1 first issue priced substantially higher than the other issues and possibly the reason why the guy in front took a pass on it?

Is this the first newsstand comic book version with the Mutt and Jeff cover or is it the Carnival of Comics issue or the rarer Series One issue?

Yes, although I don't know whey they went and compressed the size of these videos as compared to their previous auctions?

Does it really matter if on one can actually detect it, especially in this day and age of rampant "maximization of potential" where all sorts of other so-called undetectable former restoration activites are now not only allowed, but actually encouraged to be performed on books without any disclosure at all?

Well, since the buyer's fee is already included in the original $10,500 purchase price and the 15% seller's fee somehow comes out to slighlty less than a 10% auction fee for the consignor, it looks like the seller should clear over $15K for his Promise copy of Cap 2 meaning a net profit of over $4,500 or over 43% on his original purchase price.

Looks like the consignor of this book here made out out like a bandit on his flip of 'Tec 40 which sold for $25,198 earlier today: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/1012479 Especially when this exact same copy was purchased for a "mere" $16,800 in a Heritage Signature Auction as a Featured Book back in September of 2022: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/detective-comics-40-dc-1940-cgc-vg-fn-50-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/7279-92066.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 Now, who says you have to go to Heritage in order to get maximum top dollar on your books for auction.

Speaking of in demand PCH classic cover books, looks like this Bobby Blue boy also went for a relatively strong price: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/1006341 Sold for $31,050 which seems to confirm a continuing strong trend in the prices for this book, given it's condition grade.

Likewise, the slabbed copy might also have hiden flaws not apparent in the images of the slab and the raw copy might have the hope of a higher grade. Will agree with you though with regards to the grading fees involved and the tougher to resell factor.

In all seriousness, Famous Funnies 1 is a truly super important book in the annals of comic book history, and as such, I personally feel is both a highly under aprreciated and undervalued book where the hype in this day and age is all about the spandex superhero who wears their underwear on the outside.