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That's because you are only seeing the upper portion of his body which is already as large as the drawbridge itself. I imiagine you would much rather prefer a cover like this one here where he is disproportionately larger than the boat itself:

$47k or thereabouts. The book was strapped to a missile at the end I guess it must have been this copy here since it had a whopping total of 45 bids on the book by the time it was all said and done: Most definitely a very strong price on a classic Shomburg cover which some have called one of his best WWII covers. This book was on fire a few years ago and then I got the impression that it was taking a bit of a breather during the past couple of years. Looks like this sale is probably an indication that the flames of the fire on this book has been fanned once again. Then again, maybe it's due to the old label goodness as this copy was graded way back in 2003 before maximization of potential was even known in the comic book marketplace. Maybe the bidders were thinking this copy might just be optimized enough to put it into the 9's and possibly even the highest graded copy, although I don't personally think so from looking at that top edge.

Well, you never know as this place here is always a possibilty, especially since this is often what once hot, but common as dirt recent books are really worth in the end:

Yes, but if you really strain your eyes hard enough, can you see Cap, Bucky, and Hitler in this even earlier picture here:

Slight improvement I would say... Well, if you really want to get technical about it.............here's an even earlier picture of this Cap 1 book here for your viewing pleasure then:

Now that a lot of the newscasters are interviewing guests directdtly from their homes, it's rather interesting to see how some people stage their rooms for the viewers. I was watching a newscast featuring an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci the other day and it's interesting to note that their were a couple of slabbed vintage baseball cards clearly visible on the bookcase right behind him. Same with Anthiny Scaramucci who had a copy of the Superman / Muhammad Ale oversize comic book framed and hangling prominently on a wall behind his desk. Or Bob Pasini from CNBC with his constant revolving wall of vintage collectible posters that he changes out constantly for the TV viewers. Seems like there's a lot of various types of collectors out their from the celebrities that we see on TV all the time.

Its time CAT....this is one....great copy, now you detectives out there, where did this come from? All you need do is to ask and ye shall receive:

we paid $15,000 cdn Yep, any bets that although a humongous collection of low demand drek that guides for $60K might net the seller only $15K due to all of the ancillary costs, time, and hassle to sell it, while a HTF in-demand GA classic cover book that guides for $15K might have a chance to net the seller close to $60K in a high profile auction without much problem at all. Guess which one I would much rather deal with when it comes to selling.

Yes, especially the ones who didn't really need to make use of their stimulus checks and decided to throw it into the stock market.

Although most board members thought the exact opposite would happen, virtually the entire comic book marketplace has been extraordinarly strong ever since the impact of the Coronavirus started up back in March of this year. Go figure that, as I assume it's a lot of people sitting at home on their computers with no where else to travel to or other things to spend their money on.

You can certainly say this when a book like this with another 35 copies graded higher than this copy here can sell for $2,911 or almost 4X condition guide: At this price point relative to the grade, it makes the CGC 7.0 graded copy that sold for $5,520 at HA only a couple of weeks ago seem like a steal in comparison.

You really aren't serious with your post here, are you? Okay, from your profile Join Date of only 2019, I guess you must have missed the whole pressing and micro-trim fiasco that took place here on the boards back in 2005 when both of these neferious practices were first outed to the absolute astonishment of most board members here. Although trimming should indeed be caught by CGC, like pressing, the art of micro-trimming a book would most likely not be completely detectable if the work was done properly. From a certification point of view though, the difference was like night and day as CGC then decided to retroactively deem Pressing as nothing more than "maximization of potential" for a book, while micro-trimming was deemed to be destruction of a book. Like how Dupchak, @Red Hook, @MasterChief, etc. was able to identify these manipulated books, CGC should indeed be able to catch these micro-trim jobs if they are provided with before and after scans of the exact same book magnified to the 64th degree. If I remember correctly, CGC tried their best to do a recall on these uber HG books and Tom Brulato/Via Collectibles ending up making some kind of payment back to the many buyers of these books. For Brulato's sake, I certainly hope that his famous uber HG early Marvel SA collection (all CGC 9.8 and 9.6) doesn't contain any of these so-called "destroyed" books. Like they said at the time, if you are a collector of uber HG 9.8 or possibly even 9.6 graded books, you should probably simply assume that some of them have been pressed and possibly even micro-trimmed.

You really aren't serious with your post here, are you?

ASM 316 is rocketing Depending upon your luck if CGC happens to be going through a tight grading or a loose grading time period when your book goes across their grading table, the only other ones that might possibly be a safe bet would be the Spidey 298 and the Hulk 340 from my own personal point of view. Especially when you have to factor in the additional ancillary charges that comes with grading and the whole hassle with sending the book in. Although I do believe reading on the boards here that the Spidey 301 is apparently extremely tough to find in uber high grade and tends to go for good money when you are able to squeeze a nice grade out from CGC on this particular issue. Then again, the CGC Census Population Report indicates almost 200 copies in CGC 9.8 graded condition, so that probably doesn't apply anymore unless you can luck out and be the first one with a 9.9 or 10.0 copy which surprisingly has not yet been found to date so far.

Well, if it was done by Jason, he would have been astute enough to do the micro-trim on a book that started with the full "300" and it would most likely still have the "300" look after it was done. If it was done by Dupchak, it would most likely have the full "30" look without the last "0" by the time he was finished hacking the book.

Definitely not a pedigree here from a condition grading point of view, but this copy of Subby 3 sure did seem to go for a pretty strong price tonight: Sold for $4,560 or something like more than 5X condition guide, although I will have to say this book seems to present quite a bit nicer than its assigned grade, although I somehow suspect there's possibly a pretty significant spine split there. Especially surprising since there's 29 higher graded copies of this particular issue and I also thought that Subby was one of the Timely titles that was more on the cool side except for the classic covers like Subby 11 & 13, but then again maybe it's hotter than I thought.

Pedigree? Well, from a old school collector's point of view, I wouldn't really call the Harold Curtis booksto be much of a pedigree. Especially since they are nowhere close to passing one of the most important criteria for a pedigree which is namely, Quality, or a collection noted for its high grade condition.

Once you knew it could get the sticker, was there any temptation to crack, press, and try for the 9.8? Yes, my thinking also in that a slabbed book with either a CVA Exceptional sticker or in particular, a QES sticker with the right qualifying criteria met should in theory stand a much higher chance for a successful upgrade through a CPR or if you are lucky, even a straight resub. After all, if it comes with a QES sticker and states tjat it has perfect staple placement, deep color strike, perfect edging, etc. or whatever, the biggest thing that might be holding it down then from hitting the next incremental grading level might either be due to overly tight grading or some near invisible NCB creases which CGC has applied their usual punishment grading to, and something which can be easily taken care nowadays.

My concern is that with the current grading regime in place, they have seemingly made near invisible NCB not only a greater part of the technical grade, but possibly the biggest part of the technical grade. Needless to say, this is being done for very obvious reasons. To reinforce this new grading or business strategy, it would appear that any defects that might inadvertently occur during this maximization of potential process has now moved much further down their Hit Parade when it comes to grading defects, as stated by other board members here before in the past also: Yes, originally nicer but with lower grades, and now not as nice with possibly other types of more visible defects but with a higher grade.

Ditto I am getting lost in this big maze of books here. Exactly what book are we talking about here? Is it this absolutely unimprovable amazing copy here:

Ah yes, original art, where nothing shady ever happens. Yes indeed, as I believe some collectors have said that the OA market is just as bad as the comic book market, if not possibly even worse.

The way the book is going now I expect to see this happen sooner rather than later... within a year or two or around the new movie reboot release. With how recent the book is and the huge number of high grade copies slabbed already relative to its price in the marketplace, I would also not be surprised to see this even if there was no new movie release coming out. I believe all it would take would be one ot two well timed and shall we say, properly "priced" auction results or "sales" and I could easily see the flippers and day traders jumping onto the speeding TMNT 1 $100K+ bandwagon like there was no tomorrow.

Since you sold it at auction, I assume the book must have had a CVA sticker on it both times then? If so, the fact that the book sold for a third more a whole year later could simply be attributed to a rise in the value of the book itself. Especially since the prices of certain books as we have seen over the past couple of years (and even in these few short months since the pandemic started in March) have shot up by a significant amount.

It did ! And it sold for 15.5K https://trendingpopculture.com/new-mutants-98-1st-deadpool-cgc-10-0-sells-for-15449/ Any chance this might be our old economics professor, Boston Corbett, going for an upgrade on his CGC 9.9 graded copy which he picked up in the Sale Of The Year for only $12,250 way back in 2009 and then proceeded to lectured all of us on his purchase and how it was a 100% guaranteed sure fire winner: Needless to say, Thus endth the lesson.

Well, I would say that this comparison here is probably a bit too close to call, especially since the higher price one is with a so-called brand name auction site, as opposed to the other one which is more questionable and subject to various types of potential scams.