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Well, all I can say is that I certainly feel for the winner loser of this book if it was just 2 crazed bidders throwing a Hail Mary pass out there at the end thinking there would not be another fool out there tossing out that kind of a bid.for a BA book like this. Exactly why I never really bother to bid in a CL auction, as opposed to a HA or CC auction wherey you know exactly what the next bid increment is and gives you the time to make a controlled and informed decision on whether to hit the Bid button or not.

Why, speak for yourself.....................................of course we have heard of Wagner:

Where exactly are you seeing this as I must be getting totally lost with the intricacies of these new boards here. Needless to say, shall we simply say that a certain Mod has absolutely zero sense of humor and will send you to the CGC sin bin for almost absolutely no reason at all. Somehow, I suspect I might be banished for the rest of this year just for posting this comment here.

Master list i think. Small collections like Allentown are easy in that case. Not sure how much the Master List really helps since it's still easy to lose the provenance of the book by the time it passes through a few hands unless their was some type of identification either on the book or on the mylar holder. The Allentown books being a perfect example here. Even though it is by far the smallest of the GA pedigrees at only 135 different books, I still remember a couple of different books selling as non-pedigree copies before eventually getting back its much treasured and prestigious Allentown pedigree status.

Thinking back to the sports card and comic book crashes from back in the 90's, this is what I would clearly call a manufactured collectible that if history is correct, will tend to fall rather dramtically in value over an extended period of time. Any bets that the Honus Wager card will be worth a whole ton more than this Mike Trout card before too long.

What's your source for this? Steranko said in a 1975 interview that he knew Gulacy personally and liked his work. https://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/david-bowie-as-black-widow-jim-steranko.html Well, you do realize that was from an interview way back in 1975 and being no fool, which he also clearly knew was going to be for public consumption. I remember talking to Steranko on 2 different occasions while getting a book signed by him. On both occasions, I remember bringing up Gulacy's name and shall we say that he seem to be rather snarky and virtually scoff at the thought that collectors would compare Gulacy to him from an artistic merit point of view. Then again, I always thought that although Steranko was an absolute creative master when it came to the layout and artistic side of the comic books, he did have a rather large ego and pretty high impression of himself.

Not sure about the ad banners since I never paid any attention to them at all anyways. As for all of this new crapola they are posting to the right, they need to ekiminate all of it as it adds absolutely zippo to the discussion in the thread, and serves only to take up valuable space resulting in a format that now looks like pure sheit garbage.

Well, unlike some of the pre-Robin 'Tec consignors who must have been down in the dumps after last night's auction results, the consignor of this classic cover book here must be feeling pretty ecstatic about the bidding on this book here: Managed to fetch $14,200 or something like 15X condition guide valuation and a whole ton more than the mere $5,800 it sold for in the big Jon Berk auction a few summers ago.

Well, some lucky bidder sure got a steal of a deal on a nice GA key book, even though it was in low grade condition. Then again, eBay would probably be the last auction site that I wiould be using to try to sell my GA books, especially when it comes to GA keys.

Yes indeed, as that's a rather surprisingly high retention rate at 28.5% for a card that's well over a full century old. Looks like there must have been far fewer collectors of comic books then since the retention rate for the GA keys are a tiny tiny fraction of the books printed back then.

Yes, you definitely can't go wrong with those 2 More Fun's which you identified. It's actually nice to see collector interest picking back up in the entire More Fun runas compared to a few years ago. Now, if only the same thing can happen with the Adventure run, or is that considered to be a bridge too far?

Not sure what you mean by nice stuff unless you are referring to their extended runs of Metamorpho, Moon Knight, the Gold Key/Charleton Phantom's, and the ubiquitous Mystery Tales that seems to show up in every single one of their auctions during the past couple of years. Although I will admit they do seem to have a nice extended run of HG Showcase books and the ever popular original Silver Surfer run of books in there.

I would tend to disagree with this point here since it's not everyday that you see CGC 6.0 and CGC 8.0 graded copies of pre-Robin 'Tec books available in an auction. Of course, there wasn't the usual copy of 'Tec 31 with its classic cover to bring in the crazed bidders, but on an overall basis, the prices definitely seem to be on the low side when compared to both expectations and other recent auction results.

Then again, there's the odd exception like this HTF copy of a book that seldom comes to market which should go for a reasonable price given its condition: Let's see if it's going to end up doing better tonight than what happened with the pre-Robin 'Tec books which definitely seem to underperformed on this particular go round.

That seems to have been the case with the comic book auctions over the past several years. Then I saw the results of the Heritage Auction last month and thought the abnormal 2020 pandemic year was going to be different with some of the sky high prices I saw in that auction there. This particular CC Auction here seems to be a bit weak on the GA side in terms of breadth as I seem to see quite a few runs of higher grade, but lower value common BA and CA books.

Not as bad of a hit that the consignor of the 'Tec 36 had to take, but it looks like the consignor of the CGC graded copy of 'Tec 37 also lost money on his book on this go round as it sold for only $35K or $500 less than its condition guide value of $35,500. Looks like the book was listed as selling for $38,240 or at 3X condition guide value back in 2015 when it was graded as being only a CGC 7.5 copy with "3 small pieces of tape on interior". Not sure how the book was able to get an upgrade if the pieces of tape had been removed, but potential bidders probably also had the same question and hence this might have had a negative impact on the result.

No doubt, but I guess the consignor has only themself to blame for this loss. Looks like his first mistake was overpaying for the book in the first place when he decided to bid that high for the book back in September of 2017. The second was hoping that somebody would come along and make the same mistake which he had made, although I will certainly admit that $30,200 does appear to be a bit on the low side for this nicely presenting copy of 'Tec 36.

Rather surprisingly, not much action on these pre-Robin 'Tec books. Probably not the best idea to have these books lead the auction off right at the start because a lot of potential bidders (like me ) might end up coming in late and not even be settled in yet. Prices were definitely not very strong on these books this time.

From all the space that crapola is now taking on the right hand side, all I can say is that it is a big time downgrade and this site is definitely "in serious regress"

Being a fan of Gulacy's interor artwork on MOKF and especially some of his well laid out splash pages, I made the classic collector mistake of not bothering to pick up the latter part of the MOKF run when Mike Zeck and Gene Day took over the artwork. I really should have continued with the latter part of the run as the Zeck and Day issues were also beautifully drawn and needless to say, as clearly evident above, the later covers were definitely far superior to the earlier covers.

Absolutely loved the early run of the MOKF series with the beautiful interior artwork by Gulacy as it reminded me of a poor man's Steranko artwork. I guess it was not a real secret that Steranko for some reason, didn't really cared much for Gulacy's artwork at all. I believe the MOKF run would have been a much bigger hit if it had Gulacy covers, as opposed to the pedistrian covers they had during the Gulacy run. It was not until Paul stopped doing the interior art for MOKF that he finally got around to doing the covers for a few random issues such as the absolutely gorgeous MOKF 64 cover here:

The right one looks better because it looks more centered. The one on the left appears to have a bit of overwrap. However, I'd probably go with the copy that has a deeper red color, with no production defect (jagged edges). Unfortunately, those are 2 key visual but apparently non-technical indicators which CGC does not take too much into account when it comes to determining the final grade. I guess this is supposedly where the CVA Exceptional sticker from CL and the QES sticker from CC comes into play.

I would have absolutely no idea at all as this type of question is best answered by one of those day traders or flippers who specializes in unrestoring formerly Restored books.

As the PLOD label clearly shows for the Action 13, it looks like there was more work done on the book than just a married cover. Interesting to note that if the work was limited to just a married cover and nothing more than that, the book would not receive the PLOD label as this type of work is no longer considered to be restoration. Doesn't make much sense to me, especially since CGC still has marrried cover or married interior pages listed as falling under the Restoration umbrella. They really need to update their website for their Restoration Grading Scale, although it's quite possible they themselves are totally confused as to what activities falls under Restoration, what falls under Conservation, and what falls under Qualified.

This appears to be an absolutely gorgeous looking copy, relative to its assigned CGC 8.0 grade, of the HTF and much in-demand Action Comics 13. Looks like the PLOD label took a rreal big slice to the value of the book as it ended up selling for less than 25% of its condition guide value. Looks like this book was slabbed back in 2014 before CGC changed their definition on what constitutes restoration. Not sure if I can keep up with all of their confusing changes, but with a few minor **ahem** "takeaways", would this copy here be sitting in a much more acceptable Qualified slab and possibly be able to fetch quite a bit more money even if graded lower in the end?