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Yes, my understanding is that the whole collection had the penciled "S". Here are some more examples: Wowzers, that's an absolutely amazing group of pre-hero books you have here. Any idea if the original owner had the entire early run of these New Comics and New Adventure Comics in the collection and if there were also any of the other pre-hero DC runs like New Fun and the early More Fun's in there? Did you purchased all of these raw or were they all graded copies which you have simply released from their emtombed slabs?

Yes, Chuck can definitely get quite verbose when it comes to telling a story. It should also be pointed out that this is his side of the story and it would be very interesting if we could have also heard from the other side. The family probably thought the books were worthless since they contacted several of the shops and nobody was interested in even coming out to take a look at the books. Except for poor Chuck who was probably still living out of his vehicle at the time and then he had to go borrow the $2K from Burrell Rowe in order to pay for the books. Burrel didn't do too bad as he apparently got to cherry picked the first $10K worth of books based upon the current guide price in return for the $2K.

Any idea if all of them had the pencilled "S" on the covers or were they only on some of the books, but not necessarily all of them? Were these also the ones that Mark Wilson had acquired and then subsequently sold off back in the very late 80's or thereabouts?

Definitely a sad and upsetting story as DC certainly did dropped the ball with respect to your book here. Is this the Taschen book which you are referring to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx6uWt8klIY Did they even used the book in the end as it's hard to tell from this YouTube video here? Hopefully, they sent you a complimentary copy of the Taschen book at least for all of your troubles.

did they ever get wise and come after him for more money, like the Spokane people did on the 7th St. collection? Rumours had it that they went after him in a court of law, but didn't have much of a case: The Church family did take him to court and lost. They made the mistake of not asking how much the comics were valued. Chuck knew this and offered them pennies for their collection even though he knew what the collection. The Overstreet Price Guide had just come out and Chuck had been a dealer since 1969. Not sure if the second sentence up above is correct or not since I thought they had lost the court case because they had come up with the amount of compensation for the collection, as opposed to Chuck determining what the proper compensation would be. Big legal difference between them making an offer which Chuck simply accepted, as opposed to Chuckles making a low ball offer (i.e. knowing full well the value of the collection) and hence taking advantage of the family since they did not know any better.

That Church family wasn't very informed, were they? Well, at least they weren't dumb enough to PAY Chuck to haul all of the books away. They probably figured that Chuckles was some idiotic loser hippie who didn't know any better and were able to scam him by making him pay full cover price (i.e. 20,000 books times 10 cents = $2,000) for what amounted to nothing except some old used funny books.

CL stands for ComicLink which is one of the 3 major auction sites along with both Heritage and ComicConnect. I believe the fees for both CC and CL are pretty well set at 10% of the final auction price.

Any reason why you did not bothered to pick up the New Comics 2 since it is supposedly the rarest out of this run of rare books or did you already have a copy? Especially if it's in grade as the CGC census indicates only 5 Universal copies, with all 5 in CGC 2.0 or lower.

I would certainly have second thoughts about loaning out a super rare book like New Comics 4. Especially to a large comic book comglomerate like DC who probably doesn't have the same appreciation for it as a true comic book collector. I would certainly hope that DC made some financial compensation to the collector for the damage incurred to the book. Definitely cannot argue with you about the sheer beauty of RHG's copy here.

That's strange as I received this warning about a data breach not from Google, but only when I tried to sign into my CL account yesterday.

Considering the small print run for Cerebus 1 and the fact that it also came out well over a decade earlier than the other 2 books, I am actually rather surprised that it seems to be the most easily available out of the 3 books here.

I prefer to see it as a rescue mission That's also exactly what Chuck claimed when he acquired the Mile High Collection before the Church family could finished turfing it out with the rest of the trash before selling the house.

Forgot to take a look at the Restored part of the census. Of course, a tear seal is very easy to shall we say, have it unrestored. From a strict front cover visual appearance without having the actual book in hand, it certainly seems to present much nicer than a VF 8.0 grade. BTW: That pencilled in "S" mark seems very familiar and I believe this book might have come from a collection in the late 80's with a HG run of these very early pre-hero DC New Comics.

The other alternative is that you could simply consign it with either CC or CL and you should be able to net $900 after the fees are taken in account. If you choose either of these 2 alternatives, you also don't have to worry about doing any of the associated tedious work in terms of auction listing and shipping.

Your Board moniker is definitely appropriate when it comes to this book here as it is dfinitely super RareHighGrade. Just took a quick look at the CGC census and there's only 3 graded copies of this particular book here. One in CGC 9.2 NM- with the other 2 copies substantailly lower at CGC 5.5 and CGC 2.5 grades. Would this happen to be the CGC 9.2 graded copy that has now been freed from its imprisoned slab for your reading pleasure or is it still a raw ungraded copy that has yet to cross a grading table?

Now, that's a superb looking copy of New Comics #4. Especially considering that books from this early part of 1936 is virtually impossible to find in any kind of condition, let alone a copy in as stunning condition as your copy here.

Yes, SS1 is going strong but THIS particular comic is an outlier. The very next month an SS1 9.4 sold for $4500. I still think for short term growth SS1 will outperform SC22 Yes, if CGC 9.4 graded copies of Silver Surfer are approaching 5-figures on a regular basis, I would definitely be tempted to put my copy up for auction. Since I was dumb enough not to keep a second copy when it first came out, definitely hard to sell this one off since it would break up my SS 1 - SS 18 run. BTW: Where did the SS 1 9.4 graded copy sell for $4,500 the following month?

I got one about a month ago, which is strange, because I have never directly consigned with them before. Well, since we are dealing with Big Brother here, you should know that their tentacles reach far and deep and they certainly also know all about any INDIRECT dealings that you may have.

This is shocking What part..............that Heritage's auction fees are not egregious enough? If it's the IRS portion, that is only my assumption from simply looking at the form.

I just Googled this Form W-9 and it appears to be a document that you complete for the IRS with your Tax Identification Number. Based upon this, I assume you must be consigning books for auction with Heritage and this is probably their way of ensuring that all of your sales proceeds are captured by the IRS for your tax reporting purposes. So, I assume it must be Heritage's way of saying that since their auction fees are not egregious enough, they just want to provide the IRS with all available info to ensure that you pay every single penny owing on any gains you might have realized from the sale of your funny books.

Wowza, it looks like somebody here has a very discerning eye for key classic cover books. Tough to beat those nifty nine and big congrats on your fantabulous pickups for this year.

Well, don't you absolutely love the disproportionality of his head to the rest of his body here?

Although this comic book character had a relatively short life with Street & Smith, it looks like it did have some legs as I assume this must be the same character that was resurrected by Marvel in the early to mid 70's, then by DC in the latter part of the 80's and once again about 9 years ago, before finally landing at Dynamite about 5 years ago. Looks like it has landed in the hands of a few other publishers in between those dates. I guess it must have 9 lives like a cat does. Maybe the book will finally see some life if it ever hits the silver screen. Oh, looks like it already has, and it didnt really help at all, much like the silver screen of the Phantom didn't really helped the comic book version of that character also.

Wowza, I would have to say that this is a much more than acceptable copy of a really HTF in-demand issue, especially in terms of the high grade which your copy is in.

Anybody else noticed that the CC website has been down for what appears to be a major overhaul for the past week or so. Was trying to pull up some of their past auction results and everything simply links back to the main Metro page stating that they will be unveiling a new and much improved website very soon. Hopefully, this means that we won't lose access to all of CC's historical auction results once the new site goes live.