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I hope you’re right. I have a handful of GA books in the upcoming September Heritage Auction. It’s my first time selling in anytime of Auction Format and I’m a little nervous about it. There all classic covers but one never really knows... Well, it they are all classic cover books, then I believe you don't have much to worry about at all. Especially considering that this somewhat classic cover copy of Science Comics 4 managed to sell for $6K or almost 8X condition guide in yesterday's HA Sunday auction: From what I can tell, there must be a lot of people willing to throw money around when even commom books like Spidey 300 in CGC 9.8 are running in the $5K+ territory and signed copies are now going for well over $7K.

this is irrelevant. how many boardies have a hulk 181 in a grade less than 9.8? 99.9 percent of us. Then again, how many boardies have multiple copies of a Spidey 300 either raw HG or in a slabbed grade less than 9.8? I would say 99.999% of us.

From a true vintage comic book collector's point of view, what you are saying here makes absolutely no sense at all. Especially when the reasons to leave a book in its raw condition until it comes time to sell it far outnumbers the reasons to have it graded and slabbed if it's only going to be sitting in your safety deposit box at the bank or even in your closet at home. Then again, I imagine it's really a case of to each, their own; although the majority of GA collectors which I am aware of would leave their books unslabbed and stored raw in beautiful see through mylars.

I seriously doubt there are close to 2000 in existence that’s like saying there would be close to 3000 first print copies of Tmnt #1 and 2000 still in raw state because collectors like them raw Since you are claiming there is no more than 300 copies remaining in existence and Ryan claims that it is closer to the full 2,000 print run, then the mid-point of these 2 numbers would be 1,150 copies. Since this is the case, I would most definitely be leaning Ryan's way since there the chance of more than 1,150 copies still left in existence is clearly a lot higher than the chance of less than 1,150 copies left in existence. Especially since this book was distributed exclusively to comic shops only which is definitely the type of customer base that would hold onto their books, as opposed to simply reading and then trashing them. As for comic book collectors, they would definitely like their books in raw condition until it comes time to sell them. Now, for the CGC generation of speculators, flippers, and label collectors, they would clearly go for the slabbed copies, but this makes up such a tiny fraction of the true comic book collecting marketplace.

Yes, Usagi has cooled off since the announcement so I've been quietly buying more Usagi 1, Space Usagi 1s and other cheaper keys... once the show appears.... everything will boost significantly Hate to break the news to all of the speculators here, but as history has clearly shown us time and time again..............virtually all movie and TV or other media hype related book tends to blow up with the initial announcement and by the time they hit the theatres or your TV screen, they are already well on the way back down.

I believe everybody here already knows the exact reason why. CL is interested in only allowing selective auction results to be included in GPA and also the right to exclude auction results which does not "paint" the right picture. As we all know, this would most definitely result in very biased and skewed information which would give users a misleading picture of what is actually happening in the marketplace.

NO, no ugly mug shots in that picture there. Yes, I was on another one of my *ahem* "re-education vacations" for 2 fun weeks courtesy of the Thought Police squad as mentioned in the CC thread if you hit the arrow in this link here:

Yeah, tell me about it Peter........................you are nothing but a real trouble maker here. After all, you was the one that started it all by constantly repeating one of the countless much dreaded words which we are not allowed to post on the boards here. All I did was to quote you and warn you that the Thought Police squad here would not take too kindly to it and that we would all be partaking in this following activity going forward if you did not cease and desist: Looks like they decided to delete all of the related posts and you and @batman_fan definitely got the soft touch when it came time for your beating and whipping: Happily looking forward for the same soft touch, but instead I was rewarded with 5 warning points and then taken behind the woodshed for 2 weeks for my beating and whipping: Go figure that!!!

Any bets that this collection is now being marketed as the Quick Draw Collection in a special Wild West auction on CC scheduled to start on November 2: https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1014?ArticleID=246784 The little write-up from Scoop says that the original owner was a geniune cowboy who was a quick draw specialist and the consignor wants to remain anonymous.

I believe this was from the CBM dinner at one of the SD Cons in the mid-90's to honor the early GA DC creators from the 30's and 40's. I remember they did up one of the CBM issues with a special all-white cover which many of the fams got the creators to sign as this sadly turn out to be the last time so many of them were all together in one event. What made the whole evening even more special for me was that I got to sit down right next to Joe Smejkal who delighted me with some of his collecting stories and even showed me a few of his HG HTF Hawkeye pedigree books.

I remember starting up with issue #2 and then calling up Gary to sign up for an subscription to his CBM mag. Told him that I started my GA collecting with some pre-herio DC books a few years earlier after reading and rereading his DC Before Superman article over the years from one of the Overstreet guides back in the early 80's. Needless to say, I was totally ecstatic when I received a complimentary copy of the HTF CBM #1 in my mailbox from him a couple weeks later, especially when he had told me that the first issue was already a complete sell-out and no longer available anywhere that he was aware of. I definitely remember checking my mailbox every day back then for the latest issue to arrive and once it did, I would read it from cover to cover as it was definitely the go to fan mag for true comic collectors back then when it first started up.

Internet had nothing to do with the demise of this magazine. It was entirely editorial. Most definitely and the best issues by far were the very early ones done by Gary and Lisa Carter before they fell under the Diamond umbrella. The best issue by far in the post CBM 20 run after Diamond took it over was issue #32 which was the Pedigree issue and pretty much as close as collectors will get to ever seeing the long awaited Pedigree book.

Try telling that to the Hunt Brothers who tried to corner the Silver market back at the turn of the 80's. It most definitely didn't turned out very well for the brothers once Silver Thursday hit them.

Well, with the way that this wole Covid-19 is playing out and the shuttering of most of the movie theatres, I strongly believe that the impact of movies is going to be far less significant going forward once the economy does open back up in whatever version it does.

Yes, that was pretty much the case until some lucky consignor managed to time the auction perfectly and sold this undergraded looking copy for just over $54K or at 4.5X condition guide back in the spring of 2017 when there was only 1 other nice pre-Robin 'Tec book in that particular CC Auction: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/676931

Are you trying to imply that comic book speculators are rather dense and don't have much commoin sense? I believe most collectors would know that Newsstand copies are far tougher to find in grade as they are generally just shoved haphazardly onto those 2-sizes too small comic book racks for younger purchasers to read and enjoy. The Direct copies, on the other hand, are placed neatly onto the shelves of the LCS's to be carefully cherry picked by the OCD collectors who places them right into a mylar bag with backing board without even daring to open up the comic book to read.

I think both will hit 100k but the 31 will win the race Not necessarily so in the case of the 'Tec 29 at least. Especially since this superior looking copy and slightly higher CGC 5.5 graded copy here managed to fetch only $102K just a short month ago at HA: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/detective-comics-29-dc-1939-cgc-fn-55-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/7234-91038.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Inventory-BuyNowFromOwner-ThisAuction-120115

Until it comes time to sell it because a Conserved copy will sell for much much more than the exact same book if it's residing in a Restored PLOD slab.

Unless the buyer proactively opts out of the HA Make Offfer to Owner feature which they have, I believe that there is an automatic 30% markup which gets tacked onto a book. If somebody makes that offer, HA then sends that to the buyer and it's their decision as to whether they accept the offer or not. It should be pointed out that the new $172,380 make an offer is exactly 30% above the second sale price of $132,600. the $172K money, that is.

Since this is sitting in a blue Universal slab, I believe I read a thread somewhere today where Gator mentioned that a detached cover or detached centerfold usually knocks a book down by a couple of grading notches. Hence, probably the reason why it has a CVA sticker and presents so nicely relative to its assigned grade since the defect is not visually obvious.

And I would say to that: where are they? Haven't seen a 9.9 in a loooong time. and by the way, why are there so few 9.9's of this book, given the number of submissions? Well, since you put it that way, I guess I would have to say it's most likely because I haven't gotten around to sending any of my copies in for grading to this point in time yet. Seriously though, it's all good as long as I can recoup the money that I paid for them when I cherry picked a few copies off the shelves of the LCS's when the book first came out. Definitely not something that I would normally do, but this was an anniversary issue and I was also planning to have them signed by the hot local comic book artist at the time at one of the local comic cons that he usually attended back then. Ended up not being able to find them when the con finally came around and had to fork over another $2.50 at the time to pick up a back issue copy at the con.

I would assume equivalent graded Newsstand copies should be going for signifcantly more money as compared to the Direct copies from the LCS's.

+2 As I had posted in the other thread, definitely a case of changes in grading, whether intentional (i.e. changing standards) or not (i.e. lack of consistentcy), when comparing grading from significantly different time periods.

I think both will hit 100k but the 31 will win the race -1 When it comes to a battle between equivalent graded copies of 'Tec 29 and 'Tec 31 with the same PQ, I guess it's really a case of to each their own. And in my case, it would be 'Tec 29 since not only is it an earlier and relatively much rarer book as compared to 'Tec 31, I also tend to prefer the more detailed Batman in motion cover over the more classic Batman over the castle poster cover. In this particular case with these two copies here, I also think the 'Tec 29 seems to present nicer relative to its assigned 5.0 grade as compared to the 'Tec 31. Either way, you can't go wrong with either books, so why not just go for both of them.

Yeah. Pep 22 , AS 8!and Archie 1 definitely lost its steam but I love Pep 22 - the rarest of the Mega keys I would agree with you on the AS 8 and Archie 1 since they seem to show up relatively often, but would tend to disagree with you on the Pep 22 which still has more room to go from my own personal POV.