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I believe you are correct. I don't remember ComicLink reporting their sales to GPA. Yes, you are definitely correct about CL auction results and sales not being captured in GPA. Now I remember, they were apparently willing to report their auction results to GPA, but only on the ones which they wanted to have reported and for GPA not to capture the sales which they did not want reported. Definitely a tactic on CL's part to influence the market going forward by always painting a positive and misleading movement upwards. I believe CL considers their auction results and sales to be proprietary knowledge and hence no auction archive or historical sales information available of any kind at all. As for ComicConnect, I believe they do report to GPA although some boardies here claim that some of their results are either missing or very late. They also do have an auction archive of sorts if you click onto their SOLD button to the left and do a search for the book you are interested in. Only problem is they also seem to be a bit behind in terms of updating this historical archive of theirs.

It was more innocent back then. Kids use to push each other in the schoolyard that way. Well, that's definitely what they would want you to believe back in the sweet and innocent days of wine and roses. Then explain what was really going through Charles Moulton's mind when he created Wonder Woman:

Oh that's bad. Robin in doggy position. Like I said the other day when I saw this cover...........I wondered how the editors ever let this one slipped by them? No wonder why they needed the Comics Code as Wertham must have had a field day when it came to this particular cover here.

This hammered for $6100. Will the winner please stand up? Well, from the expressions on their faces, dare I say that it's really much more to both Batman and Robin's little afternoon delight. And why stand up at all when Robin's already assumed his usual dominated position for Batman in jubilant anticipation of what's to come.

Yes, didn't a lot of the buyers at the time ended up giving books like these away for Halloween treats to the kids because they were so plentiful and virtually worthless at the time?

This sale didn't register on GPAnalysis? Is GPA normally this fast or is it based upon real time data gathering since this sale only took place last night? Even if it did, I am also not sure if it includes any of the completed auction results from the CL auctions.

So, are you telling us that Boston was right in the end, as long as you hold onto your books long enough? For his sake then, I hope he held onto his copy long enough to recoup his initial cash outlay plus interest.

Now, I remember picking up a high grade copy of TOD 10 in Toronto during one of my business trips there back about 20 years ago. Can't remember what I paid for the book, but it was cheaper than what I had to pay for the supposedly scarce Vampi 113. Only problem is I have absolutely no idea where the book is since I always assumed it was pretty much a worthless POS book and just tossed it in one of my now long forgotten boxes when I got back home from my trip. If I knew where it was, I would rent a steamroller and squish squash the living daylights out of it until it was good enough to be a CGC 12.0 graded copy with the crazy amount of money that's being thrown around nowadays.

As I had posted on another thread here the other day, If you missed Boston's initial lecture where he was so kind as to school all of us on the economic theory of supply and demand in the comic book marketplace, you can relive and enjoy it all here in the attached 56 pages of rollicking fun and good times in all its glory:

Are you referring to this piece here: Well, this should be considered as a steal at only $657,250 since you are really getting a 2 for the price of 1 deal here, in terms of having both Spidey and the Hulk in the same cover image.

In full agreement with you here as I personally considered anything that is married from another book onto your copy to be a Restored book. I guess it's really to each their own and you should really be buying the book anyways, as opposed to buying the label.

Wasn't this at pretty much the height of the late 70's/early 8-'s speculator's craze and the publishers were already well aware of this fad by then? As a result, didn't they print up millions of copies of #1 issues like this and threw them into the comic shops so that the speculators could claw and fight over them, simialr to throwing live fresh meat to a den of desparate hungry wolves?

Any opinions as to the pricing on these two Mask Comics which ended on CL last night: This CGC 3.0 universal graded copy of Mask 1 sold for $4,155 while the CGC 2.0 graded restored copy of Mask 2 below sold for $2,901: Seems like a very strong price for the Mask 2, especially considering that it was slabbed as a restored PLOD copy.

folks, its official, we have jumped the shark tank Boy, you aren't kidding and definitely an understatement on your part here. Yes, just imagine some wacko paying $85 G's for a Wonder Woman 1!!! I guesss it must have been that con job of a CVA sticker that pulled the price up so high. Now, as for that once in a lifetime TOD 10. It never would have finished so gosh darned low if I hadn't fallen asleep waiting for that lot to come around since I was going to put in my lucky $88,888 series of numbers for the winning bid.

Just in time for the end of the CL Auction earlier this evening. Anybody here the lucky winner or even luckier consignor of the Weird's, especially since 2 of them seem to have done relatively well from a pricing point of view: Looks like the Weird 3 went for a bit north of $4K, while the Weird 4 managed to fetched $4,777. That still works out to more than double the price for what the Berk copies managed to fetched for both of those books in CGC 7.0 graded condition.

Oh yeah, I'm loaded on this one Bob; I hope you was indeed all locked and loaded in on this one here and managed to snap it up for a measly $85 big ones. Bad news for me though, as I was all ready to put in my lucky number of $88,888 but ended up falling asleep waiting for this lot to come around.

And even much more of a differnce if you compare it to this copy here: Of course this was the Church copy which managed to fetched $101,575 back in the summer of 2016, but that's still a hugh hugh difference!!!

Looks like they've got a nice little run of the Moon Girl comics coming up for auction tonight. Nah, better not............gotta save up all of my little nickels and dimes for that once in a lifetime irreplaceable TOD 10.

I'm shocked how low the Captain America Comics #23 San Francisco Copy went for. 9.2 guide is $8500 & it sold for less than guide! For a San Francisco? Crazy! The previous owner wanted $5000 for it back in1999 or so... and sold it! Well, like I've stated on here before, if I was the consignor of a key or pedigree GA book, CL would most assuredly not be my go to auction venue. Now, if it was a Tomb of Dracula 10 or a Marvel Super-Heores 13 in uber high grade, I would be dialling Josh's number already. The other factor that might also be affecting the lower than normal result for this copy here is the fact that they had another nicely presenting CGC 6.5 graded copy right below this one here. It is never a good idea to go into an auction with other competing copies to face off against you. Seeing that it is one of those old label slabs, this is probably right in the sights of somebody like Ritter who's on the ball and has a habit of snapping up old label slabs from these auctions, crack them out, resubmit for a higher grade, and then magically have them show up on his site at substantially higher prices, with buyers then seemingly more than willing to beat down his doors to pay for the book at that point in time.

It is graded. One of the 2. Any chance that it might have been caught up in one of CGC 's tight grading time periods and might possibly grade out higher on a straight resub? Strange that so few of them have come to market over the years, especially considering that a total of 46 copies are listed on the CGC census. I guess a book like this tends to be a definite keeper and locked away longer term in private collections once a collector is lucky enough to get a hold of one of them.

Then it's probably time for you to have it graded and placed into an auction to hopefully pull in some big dollars.

Great book. Not a fan of the freaky Fighting Yank, so I actively avoid his cover appearances. Price seems strong. Since I am way too lazy to retype what I just wrote, this is a copy and paste of what I just said on the CLink thread: Just took a quick look at the Heritage archives and it looks like this book doesn't really come to market that often. In fact, there's only been 2 graded copies that have sold on Heritage with one of them being a CGC 8.0 graded copy that sold for $2,390; with the only other graded copy being one that sold way back in 2002. Looks like Metro has had more luck with this book as their CC auctions indicate a total of 5 graded copies auctioned off over the years. Looks like the Fighting Yank 21 is indeed much scarcer as their census count comes in at half of the count as compared to the Fighting Yank 23. In addition, it looks like Heritage has scored only a big fat ZERO when it comes to graded copies of this HTF book here, although they did have a couple of raw copies way back in 2004. Once again, it looks like Metro has had better luck with this book in terms of 3 copies on their CC auctions, but all 3 only in low to mid-grade range.

Time to bring my 8.0 to market. Just took a quick look at the Heritage archives and it looks like this book doesn't really come to market that often. In fact, there's only been 2 graded copies that have sold on Heritage with one of them being a CGC 8.0 graded copy that sold for $2,390; with the only other graded copy being one that sold way back in 2002. Looks like Metro has had more luck with this book as their CC auctions indicate a total of 5 graded copies auctioned off over the years. Looks like the Fighting Yank 21 is indeed much scarcer as their census count comes in at half of the count as compared to the Fighting Yank 23. In addition, it looks like Heritage has scored only a big fat ZERO when it comes to graded copies of this HTF book here, although they did have a couple of raw copies way back in 2004. Once again, it looks like Metro has had better luck with this book in terms of 3 copies on their CC auctions, but all 3 only in low to mid-grade range.

For all of you Nedor aficionados on these boards here, what is your impression of this result last night for this book here: Although there were no last minute bids at the end, I thought it was still a pretty stong price at $4,700 relative to its assigned CGC grade. Personally for myself though, I've always preferred the seemingly harder to find Fighting Yank 21 GGA cover over this particular KKK cover myself.

Although there was no last minute run up on the price for this book here, I personally thought it sold for a strong price relative to its assigned CGC grade: Although I have always personally preferred the Fighting Yank 21 cover over this one here, the price still seems surprisingly strong to me at $4,700.