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darn sure aren't many kansas city books; i've only ever seen @4 for sale. Yes, although the Allentown is indeed the smallest in terms of size at only 135 books, both the importance and the extreme high grade condition of those 135 books makes it a true standout pedigree that's highly sought out by collectors. Next up in terms of size would be two of the pedigrees to contain #1 issues only, namely the Denver at something like 153 books followed by the Carson City or Comstock pedigree which had nearly 250 books in total. If I am not mistaken, the next one up would then be the aforementioned Billy Wright collection which had something like roughly 340 books in total.

Really not that much of a surprise as all of the Wonder Woman related books have not been hot for decades except for a very short time period when all of the hype about the first WW movie with Gal Gadot came out.

Most definitely as I can't believe how low these 3 books are at this current point in time.....well, at least 2 od them in terms of the 'Tec 29 & 38. Especially when you compared it to a few short years ago when CGC 3.0 graded copies of these 2 books sold for something like $66K and $54K respectively. Then again, if I remember correctly, both of these books were also at less than half of their final auction results as the 3-minute clock rang on the CC auction, so maybe it's just a matter of waiting to see if there's similar fireworks here at the end when it comes to Heritage and pre-Robin 'Tec books.

Makes me wonder if they are a bit too lackadaisical and carefree when it comes to their page counts as I have heard complaints about detached centerfolds when the submittors were sure this was not the case when the books were submitted to them?

Oregon was so tied to the Fed tax system, that they created a schedule A for use with state returns this year. So, no, I used the standard deduction for Feds, but could claim charitable donations on my state return. Can't you simply claim them all as a capital loss to offset any capital gains you might have from your other investments? Especially since the tax department apparently expects you to report capital gains on any books which you end up selling for at a profit.

I saw that book in person at a dealer's table and couldn't believe it. Why not, because if a customer pays multiple times for more services to be performed on a book, should they not be entitled to a better grade in the end?

I guess it really depends on who's doing the restoration removal work.

It's really maddening that this is now not only acceptable, but it's ignored in the grading process. It's clear that the graders have deliberately chosen to ignore the chunks dug out of books like this. If you want to get rid of the restoration, then that's on you I guess. But for CGC to encourage defacing by giving gift grades is just unethical. I believe it's called conflict of interest and we all knew this was exactly what was going to happen when CCG bought out Matt Nelson's Classics Incorporated and turned it into CCS and another key component along with CGC under the CCG umbrella. In the corporate world, it's called "business synergies" as opposed to being called unethical behavior. It would be rather naive to think that CGC would put in grading standards that would go against the business model of their parent company.

I did buy a few books, some things that I will later flip on eBay. its all good. I have buyers for this kind of stuff. Well, if I wasn't asleep at the switch, you definitely would have had to pay a bit more for that Roy Rogers Annual.

Well, I guess old FD must have done alright in the end since the Roy Rogers Annual went for just a measly $440 plus the 15% BP which is still peanuts for a supposedly super super rare book.

I have no idea, what the buyer was using as a guide, I do know know the book was stunning and did have both signatures on the inside and a sketch ( not a yellow label). I assume the sale was based on the HA sale but the last time I talked to the buyer ( over the summer) they were still very happy with the purchase ( with not giving to much info as its was not my purchase) I know a lot of the funds came from multiple sales of high grade 9.8 ASM #300 which the buyer had bought new back in the 1980s and never touched. Well, it would appear that the private buyer at $95K might not have the best sense of timing since the book had been selling only the mid to high $30K's prior to that rather dubious and nowhere close to being repeated again in terms of the $90K Heritage auction result. Even doubly so if he funded a portion of the purchase with sales of CGC 9.8 graded copies of Spidey 300 at the time when it was selling for nowhere close to the $5K figures which it apparently is selling for in today's hyer crazy market for this rather common CA book.

NO and does not include shipping costs either, can you guess what that would be? cheaper to fly someone to pick it up.... Well, if it's brought by a foreigner living outside the U.S.A, they would be able to avoid the sales tax, but just imagine the hefty Customs duties which would then most likely have to be paid by the buyer of the book as it goes across the border.

And yet, did you see the price tags on some of the comic bags? If those are the price tags which the OO had paid for the books, then it looks like he must have gone above and beyond top dollar to acquire some of those books.

I know of at least one guy who is planning to bid by carrier pigeon Well, maybe it just depends on the racing pigeon, as this little gal might just be fast enough to do the job: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-kim-racing-pigeon-sells-record-1-9-million-belgium/ Especially since she was just sold for $1.9M which is probably more than what this copy of 'Tec 27 is going to sell for:

No reason to assume but yes msybe in this climate there won’t be live bidders It would indeed be rather strange and abnormal for there not to be abids coming in either live or over the telephone at the end. Especially since this is the usually point at which many books are run up when it comes to auction sites like HA and CC. Furthermore, during this current pandemic related climate, there sure seems to be a ton of record prices being paid for books nowadays, as it would appear that some people are making a whole ton of money with pretty much not too many other places to spend it like they have before.

That sale took place about 2 weeks after the HA sale. Well, that's definitely very interesting then since it would seem that the $95K private sale was based primarily upon the then just completed $90K HA public sale. Did the buyer not realized that the price for copies of CGC 9.8 TMNT 1 were selling only in the mid to high $30K's prior to that HA $90K sale. Has anybody ever consider the possibility that the high profile $90K sale was done just in order to jump start and light a fire in the TMNT 1 market which it certainly did as prices on CGC 9.8 graded copies moved into the $50K plus range for the next few sales after that. Especially when that exact same $90K HA copy was then resold for $59K several short months after that in an non-auction format sale.

Even more so if I was the actual consignor of the book.

This would be mathematically correct (in theory only) for just the buyer's premium portion of the sale because it's really indeed coming out of the seller's pocket. The other half that you forgot to include would be the seller's premium which in theory is something like another further 10% or 15% off the hammer price. In reality though, when it comes to big books like these as many other boardies will tell you, Heritage is very very flexible and will take a substantial portion off these standard auction commission fees.

Fine art is insane! Sells for sooo much. Why, dear sir...........would you be referring to art pieces like this one here which was actually lifted from the pages of an actual comic book: Just a change to the words in the caption and yet this so-called Masterpiece by Roy Lichtensteing was able to fetch $165M big ones.

Hi, I personally know of a 95k private sale of a stunning WP 9.8 over the summer and if I recall there was a 90K sale at Heritage about a year or so ago. So when I say 100k I was off a few grand Still blows me away. Well, all I can say is that I certainly hope the buyer of the $95K private sale did not base his purchase price upon the $90K Heritage public auction sales result. Especially when the HA $90K purchaser ended up reselling the exact same copy several months later for only $59K in an non-auction resale: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/877988?tzf=1 There have been quite a few CGC 9.8 TMNT 1 sales after that HA $90K outlier of a sale and all of them fell somewhere in the $50K to $60K range of thereabouts.

What sale are you referring to in terms of a TMNT 1 selling for $100K?

Why would you say this when it's become quite apparent that many high demand books have been selling for huge unheard of record sums of money ever since this whole pandemic took hold back in March of this year? Then again, I am not sure if this same scenario would apply to possible 7-figure books like 'Tec 27 and the like.

Absolutely true, as I simply can't believe there would be any collector in the world who's willing to spend even $50K on a comic book. And yet, believe it or not, there actually are.

I believe he really meant it more as his opinion with respect to the condition of the book (i.e. best that it can be) and not really asking how to improve the book. Of course, being comic book collectors which he clearly is not, we all know that his opinion as to the unimproveable condition of the 2 books are incorrect.

So it’s not for the entire auction? I suspect that the consigner stipulated they had to sell everything. CC obviously knows a lot of this stuff will go for nothing. The 15% is probably a nusance fee. Unlike HA, I don't seem to see anything in there about a minimum BP fee of $15. Must be an oversight on their part as 15% of $1 works out to only 15 cents if they can find a bidder for some of these lots here.