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I also thought this CGC 6.5 graded Cosmic Aeroplane copy of Wonderworld 7 also did quite well at $15,201: But definitely not quite in the same league when compared to the Wonder 1 at the astounding price of $56,015.

I have learned, I was sitting on the toilet watching the auction closes, but I will definitely need to tip the cleaning lady an extra $20. Well, you might have to tip her a whole lot more than just $20 because you probably dropped a pretty big one after seeing this astronomical result. Definitely in the CGC 9.4 NM pricing territory of a few years ago since you are talking about $56,015 for this CGC graded copy here:

Hammered at $365.00 That's actually quite a reasonable price to pay for such a fantastic cover. Congrats again on a superb pickup here.

Nice paper and nice grade +1 Couldn't agree more!!! What did the book end up going for since this is the email (i.e. Session 4 1/2) with the links that I did not received in the mail?

I believe you are pretty much bang on here since I seem to have noticed that prices for Police Comics have really shot up over the past couple of years or so, especially when you compare it to how moribund it had appeared to be for awhile there. In fact, you could almost say that Police Comics #1 appears to be getting a bit of a fire lit underneath it.

Well, definitely not GA, but I noticed this book going for the grand sum of only $320 or more than triple top of guide: The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this result was a copy of the Overstreet Update around the time that CGC first opened their doors and there at the front of their pricing update featuring a picture of a CGC 9.8 graded copy of Howard Chaykin's Shadow #1 (Limited Series) from 1986 that somebody had pay $2,500 for. Once again, to each their own, but I imagine that's definitely a case of buying the label, as opposed to buying the book. Especially since top of guide valuation for that copy of Howard Chaykin's Shadow #1 is now only at $4 after 30+ years since its publication.

True enough but the #13 CGC 9.0 at $25,500 was a far greater surprise to me. Yes, especially since quite a few of the boardies here were thinking of possibly the mid-$100K's for the PL 17.

Definitely wouldn't if I had been truly interested in either of those 2 Big Apple books. As I had alluded to, those 2 covers didn't really get my juices pumping, although that Wings 69 does look quite tempting at this price point. Better to save up my nickels and dimes though for a cover I really want though. Of course, it's always a case of to each, their own and congrats on your pickup of Plastic Man at what is assuredly a steal of a price.

Yes indeed, as it looks like Bat 1 for the Gold and Action 1 for the Silver, with the Bronze most likely being held by Spidey until he hands it off to Phantom Lady on Thursday afternoon. Way behind eating their dust and sweeping up the racetrack floor will be both the rare Italian and possibly even rarer Peruvian editions of Walking Dead #1, with both of them still sitting there at the astonomical price of $1 with no customer bids to their credit yet. Well, looks like it was much more of a squeaker than I had originally thought as Phantom Lady with her outstretched longer fingernails just manages to snatch the Bronze medal out of Spidey's hands with a bid of $121K over Spidey's top bid of $120K. Still at the back of the pack choking from all of the dust is the rare Italian edition of Walking Dead #1 at $1 and still unable to get out of the starting gate, while the super rare Peruvian version is now clearly ahead in second last place with a triple size bid of $3.

They never actually talked to her as a segment. They just showed her waiting to talk to someone with the books laid out. So I don't know what they told her. Well, I am quite sure he probably got enough of an inking from them that they must be worth some money. Especially since as you stated yourself, one of the reasons he didn't sell the books to you 8 years ago was because he thought your offer price for them was too low.

I believe #30 and #36 are the hardest to find in decent condition. If forced to pick, I would go for #36 as the toughest. Well, if the CGC population census report is any indication, I would have to agree with BB's assessment that GL #30 is real tough to find in decent condition. Especially since the census report indicates 1 and only 1 copy of GL 30 above a grade of CGC 7.0, while GL 36 on the other hand, has a total of 5 graded copies at a condition grade level of CGC 7.5 and up. Besides that, I also much prefer the cover for GL 30 over the cover for GL 36 featuring just Streak the Wonder Dog about to feast on a couple of baddies. Especially since the GL 30 cover features an impossibly proportioned femme fatale in the bright yellow dress. Makes me wonder how super tight that girdle must be that she's wearing and how in the world can she breathe at all if it's wound that tight around her waist.

Too bad the Negro Romance run wasn't yours since it looks like the consignor pick them up from a Heritage Auction back at the beginning of 2011. Based upon the prices from then until the results last night, it looks they went up by almost 150%. Not too bad at all, especially when you also get the enjoyment of owing a very tough run in the interim. As I was saying, I was hoping the PLOD label for Negro Romance #2 would scare already some of the bidders as I really like this photo cover here: You also gotta give credit to the consignor that they didn't bother to resub the book for a new label since the new grading and restoration definitions means that CGC would have taken it out from the dreaded PLOD holder and placed it into a much more desirable Conserved holder.

Yes, they sure don't look as nice or seem to stand out as much in real life as when they sent out that email message introducing and hyping the new pedigree labels. I wonder if they went and borrow the biug huge spotlights from Heritage when they did up the initial pictures for the new pedigree labels.

He told me he Thought he had owned the Superman #1 at one time but over the years it disappeared. He had never sold any of the books. You can see he concentrated on just a few runs. Too bad he didn't get the Actions and Detectives also........ Most of the books were in decent shape. Oldest ones were around the 3.0 mark then gradually went up in grade. No pieces/chuncks missing which was great, just technical things bringing the grades down. Only one WF was missing pages with loose pages also. Paper was really nice on all books. Light cream to off-white with most being in the off-white area. Wowza.........what a score and definitely worth the wait. Seems rather strange that just the first 2 issues would be missing from the big Supes and Bat runs. Nevertheless, you certainly can't complain about being able to lock down what probably amounts to the find of a lifetime for any collector. I would most definitely be on if I ever managed to acquire a find like this. Any idea if the so-called experts from the Antique Road Show provide the wife with some useful data about the potential worth of the books or were they clueless as per usual when it comes to some of these finer details?

I think we've all been there! So, you are saying it really is like this: The San Francisco copy of Cap 1 from Heritage's scan: As compared to the colors from the picture from Gator's lousy camera: Looks the same to me, OR NOT!!!

I guess it depends on your definition of "for a while"? I've set up a separate sub-directory in my email box for the CC auction notices and I've got them back to February of 2014 so far. As far as I can tell, all of these links are still active and availble for you to view. I haven't yet gone back into my email box to search for the earlier ones in order to move them to the auction sub-directoy yet since I figure that's pretty old data anyways. So, I guess you do have some kind of historical archive with respect to the CC auction results. If you want to do a search by book, however, I believe it's probably better to search on their Sold Items icon on the left hand side of their website. The only problem here is that it appears that they are possibly quite a few auctions behind in terms of updating this part of their database, so hopefully they can take care of that going forward.

Interesting. I would usually dismiss such a comment if it came from someone else. i have many old label GA books. A bunch are top census or were when I bought them. I love them as old label for obvious reasons including greater likelihood they have not been messed with. Moreover, given what the old label represents to me, an old label slabbed book is IMO aesthetically superior. But if these slabs are unequivocally and significantly damaging the books, I will seriously consider either freeing them or reholdering. I’m sure I’m not the only one in this situation. Well, let's hope that Richard responds here, because I am actually not sure if he meant this seriously or if he said it as a joke which is the way that I took his comment, as evident from my follow-up response to his comment. See if he got the Allentown copy of Wonderworld 13 reholdered since I know that it was originally graded way back in the early or middle part of 2000. I believe Richard ended up buying that copy subsequent to the Manning auction and it might have already been reholdered at that point. Can't remember since I know he has posted pictures of it a few times on the board here before.

Yeah, my Green Lanterns did pretty poorly. Yes, that's the problem with collecting runs nowadays when the focus seems to be so much more towards keys, classic covers, and the HTF issues. Especially in terms of the DC's, where most of them generally have pretty lame covers and tend to go for less than condition guide. The latter part of the GL run seems to generate more interest since they are apparently a bit tougher to find. It looks like you did alright with the D copy of GL #33 since this one here managed to sell for multiples to guide , although my favorite issue of the entire GL run is this one here: From reading some of the other threads here, it would appear that some of the other extended runs in the auction here such as the Frankenstein run and the Miss Fury runs are also from your collection. Would the Negro Romance run also be yours because I tried real hard to acquire issue #2 figuring the PLOD label might have scare some of the bidders away? No such luck on my part as the book kind of went ballistics during the extended bidding time periods and ended up at somewhere well over $2K. Anyways, I guess everybody has to cash out a part of their collection at some point in time and I hope you did well with all of your consignments on this go round here.

Think it's more the latter... the page quality really hurts the books. Though the Big Apples from the mid-1940s (stored separately when the collection was found) are as nice as any pedigree I've seen. Based upon your comment here, I just went into the CC website to check on their current auction and it looks like they have the following 2 Big Apple books: Looks like the consignor decided to get the Police 57 reholdered into the new pedigree slab since it still indicates the book was graded back in 2012. The consignor of the Wings 69 didn't bothered to since it is still sitting in the same original slab when it was graded way way back in the early part of 2001. With less than a day to go for both these books, if the current high bids are any indication (which they most likely are not), you are probably right in saying that this Big Apple pedigree might not have much of a premium attached to it. Especially since both of these books are still running at pretty large discounts to condition guide right now, and probably more so with the Wings since it is sitting at just over $120 or well under half of condition guide at this point. This is even in light of the fact that both of these books are from the supposed primo PQ time period of the mid-40's for the Big Apple books, as evident by their White Pages here. Probably has something to do with the not quite so classic covers for both of these books here, especially the one with Plastic Man.

please do not post stuff like that without including a "double depends" warning! Although it is definitely incredible, at the same time it is also not totally unexpected since this book has been one of the latest go to hot books in a genre that's already red hot and on fire. Actually, the one that I found even more surprising and INCREDIBLE was this book here which finally managed to find some much deserved loving: An absolutely astounding price of $12,900 for a historically very important book since it is acknowledged to be the first comic book ever published way back in 1933 with a print run of only 10,000 copies to be given away. This is the one that started it all and gave birth to the industry and hobby which we all love and enjoy so much today. Unlike the Chamber of Chills 19, this record setter here was an absolute shocker and totally unexpected since it is part of the early newspaper reprint era of books that have been pretty much stone cold dead for so many decades ever since the comic book collectors started to chase after the caped superheroes who wear their undies on the outside. Even though this is a real tough book to find, prices have always tended to be rather anemic on them due to the low demand for these types of books. From my own personal point of view though, being an old time collector who's in this hobby for the longer term, I guess it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which book I would rather have in my personal collection given the almost similar price point. Especially if you take into account the fact that one of these books already has 82 Universal slabbed copies with 23 of them in better condition than this particular copy here. In comparison, the other book has only 14 Universal copies slabbed in total, so it's also really no contest there. So, kudos to CC for being able to finally stir up some interest in this hugely under appreciated book because it is long overdue and much deserved.

The Miss Fury #2 sold for $2,050 and the GCE #12 sold for the absolutely astounding price point of $24,000. In terms of the Miss Fury #2, I have always thought that cover was the best in the entire run due to it appealing combination of bright colors set against the full moon. You can check on all of the realized prices if you simply go back to the auction notices that was sent out on a daily basis a couple of weeks ago for the various sessions. Of course, that's assuming that you have subscribed to receive all of the "junk email" from Metro and CC. BTW: Did anybody else get Set 1/2 for Session 4 from them since I seem to be missing that one from my inbox?

This was most definitely the scenario which I (and probably a lot of others) found myself in during the wild, but fun and crazy Jon Berk Auction a couple of summers ago.

Nice looking copy, but that does seem like a strong result. The census lists 23 copies with higher grades. Bang on and definitely the reason why I would be much more in the mindset of selling this book right now, as opposed to paying this kind of ridiculous money to pick one up during this time of irrational exuberance for this particular book. right now. The only problem with that sound strategy is that I don't have a copy in my collection to sell off.

Well, that's because the Cap 1 cover was so apropos for the times, while the Bat 1 cover was so ahead of its time in terms of its hidden message and subtlety. After all, not quite so generic and mundane if you consider the prurient thoughts they must be having about each other and what's to come later that night. Definitely the reason why they are looking so happy while "swinging together" and eyeing each other with those big cheshire cat grins on their face.

Told ya! I really think it depends on the particular book in question and also a bit of luck in terms of the eyeballs that's on the book. Based upon what I have seen for the first 2 days of this auction here, there seems to be a larger proportion of books that appears to be heading right straight into the finish line without pausing to grab any of those 3-minute bonus money packs down the stretch. Maybe it'll ust work out for me in this case then since virtually all of the books which i have a bid on for the last 2 days have not even moved up a single dollar in the past couple of days. Especially surprsing is a couple of books that's still sitting at sizable discounts to condition guide valuations, when they have normally always gone for big premiums, if not even multiples to guide in the past. So, I guess we'll see if my luck holds out til the end here.