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This is exactly why this should not be a complete surprise that this particular SF Cap 1 finished slightly lower than the current highest graded copy of AS 8. From my point of view though, taking all known copies of the 2 books into account, it still means that Cap 1 > As 8. Especially now that the heightened frenzy over Wonder Woman appears to have abated for now.

The 9.6 graded Church copy of Startling 10 looks like a real steal at just a tad over top of guide price right now. Definitely a much better deal than the TMNT #1 at something like $75K already and still the live portion to go. Especially when you consider the fact that there are 24 copies of TMNT #1 in CGC 9.8 graded condition, and yet only a total of 15 graded Statling 10's with only 1 copy above CGC 8.0. From my point of view, it's a no-brainer as to which one appears to be more of a deal between these 2 books.

I thought you could get it as far down as around 15% if you have some real nice books, but I guess a SF Cap 1 is so much more than just a real nice book. Heck, if I was the consignor of the Cap 1 (that'll be the day ), I would expect them to pay me 10% as I would be helping them to hype and promote their auction for them.

No, not me. But both books are still steals at their current prices. They are still both about $80 to $100k low, I think. I may have to walk across the street tomorrow and witness the sound and the fury in person. Are you referring to the sound and fury of you robbing the bank across the street tomorrow in order to pay for your Heritage winnings?

This comment might make some sense if the first million dollar sale of Action #1 hadn't occurred six years before the release of the film, or that the two 9.0 copies both belong to the same collector who has no desire to put them back in the marketplace, and wasn't influenced in the slightest by what Hollywood does. While it might be true that Hollywood rumor can turn $50 books into $500 ones, no one hears that they are making a new Batman or Superman movie and says to themselves "I better go out and spend a million on a copy of their first appearance before it really takes off in price". +1 Yes indeed, as the Hollywood impact on a six or seven figure GA book is completely different from its massive impact on a much smaller three or four-figure BA or CA book. Completely different buyers here as the more recent and much more common relatively easy to find BA and CA movie related hype books are an easy target for the speculators and flippers to latch onto in the hopes of making a quick buck before the hype fizzles out.

....will never understand putting that much money into a vanity commodity with out the intent of 'sitting' on it for a 'while'. +1 Especially since the Wonder Woman frenzy has dissipated to a large extent already and moved onto greener pastures elsewhere.

Well, a sure fire way to help push it to $1M is for you to put in a hammer bid of say $850K and see if anybody will come in to meet or beat it in the live portion of the auction. Now, we would definitely see some fireworks here if you gave that strategy a try.

Compared to previous auctions, a lot of the prices still seems quite a bit lower than where they have been relative to the final day prior to past auctions. Especially since I am still high bidder on several of the lots at this late stage of the game, whereas I am normally long gone well before this point. I guess time will tell when we see the final hammer prices starting tomorrow.

Chicago isn't huge either, is it? I'm not sure. Not exactly sure about the size of the Chicago pedigree although it might just slot in there at the #3 spot. The one next closest to the Allentown pedigree would be the Denver Collection which came in at something like only 153 books or thereabouts.

+1. I would like to know the Overstreet nm value for #20 on the top 20 SA comic list to predict which comic/mag may knock it off the list by summer, 2020. Not exactly what Top 20 Chart you are referring to? If it's the SA Chart, Overstreet has been running with a Top 50 Chart for almost 5 years now. If so, the No. 50 book on the chart this year is Hulk #3 which has been steadily dropping down in the chart over the past few years and might just fall off completely by next year's guide in 2020.

Should be OK. The CC Event Auction starts September 9th and will probably run until Thanksgiving. Just took a quick look and it appears the CC Event Auction is open for bidding starting on August 19th with the lots hitting the 3-minute buzzer on September 9th. Maybe they are listening to everybody's complaints here as that appears to be 1 week shorter than normal for them.

concur Well, it would appear that they are slowly getting up there as it now has a total of 23 pages posted. Not sure if there's anything bigger than the AA 16 since I don't want to waste my time going through the pages when it's still not done yet. Looks like it's going to start late in mid-August. Just hope that it doesn't end on the same days as the CC Event Auction which they have done before and certainly didn't help the consignors or the bidders.

Well, it certainly seems to have worked for the MCU related characters (for a short time at least) and for some of the DCEU characters.

Well, if the news is already out there and on the boards here, it's probably way too late as history has clearly shown us the long term price trend for movie hype related comic books and it's usually not a pretty picture if you happen to buy at the wrong time.

That's exactly why I said it would have to be a decent version of the movie. The Billy Zane movie version also came out in 1996 when movies had a much smaller impact on comic book prices relative to the near insanity that takes place now.

To phrase it more correctly, Scooby actually dropped from Spot #6 down to Spot #7 as HOS 92 took the big jump from Spot #7 last year at $2,400 all the way up to Spot #4 this year at $3,200. Poor Scooby managed to go up by only a C-spot as it went from $2,500 up to only $2,600 for a mere 4% gain.

My personal preference would be for a decent movie version of the Phantom myself. Like the Black Panther, I feel the African backdrop along with the long history and storyline involved with the Phantom leaves a lot of potential for a successful movie if done properly.

Why in the world would you even think of doing this. What you've got is the super rare 1 in 10,000 copy variant copy that every other comic book collector and speculator in the world (except apparently yourself) is absolutely dying to get their hands on.

And here's sweet and innocent Betty finishing off a song that vampy Veronica couldn't get all the way through:

Not sure what you are talking about here. I imagine you certainly can't be referring to books like this one here: After all, this copy here did managed to fetch over $1,300 in a recent Heritage Auction from last year. Especially since after almost 80 years of publication, I believe that absolutely all comic book collectors here would know how sweet and innocent little Miss Apple Pie Betty Cooper would never ever partake in anything salacious or titillating at all.

This...is...LIFE! Love these humorous WWII propoganda covers. Since the Church copies appear to be locked away in a private collection(s), it would appear that the Chicago copies of the Jackpot's are about the best that you are going to get. Especially since all of the Chicago copies of the Jackpot books that have come to market so far have been at or tied for highest graded copy. Looks like this Chicago copy of Jackpot 5 is no exception as it is tied with only one other for highest copy on the CGC census report.

It seems silly to reholder them just to get a new label. +2 Especially if you don't plan on selling them anytime soon. After all, you never know how many more iterations of label changes CGC will be going through over the ensuring years in hopes of keeping their green money machine running at full max.

Personally from strictly a collector's point of view without any thought to valuation, I would definitely take Spidey 121 over ASM 101. From a strict valuation point of view though, hard to tell since there's absolute thousands of graded copies of these books out there plus what I am sure must be a far even higher quantity of raw copies out there sitting in private collections. Honestly though, I would take Avengers 93 over either one of these Spidey books. Especially since I still remember it being one of the top, if not the #1 BA book out there decades ago.

99.5% Yes I thought this book was selling pretty much around last year's condition guide prices earlier this year, if not even slightly under in a couple of the major auctions. I would have to say this book has definitely dropped down quite a bit from where it was selling for a couple of years ago. I guess it really shouldn't be that much of a surprise though, when there's an absolute ton of graded copies out there, with a large portion of them in HG condition.

There's actually a very simple explanation for this and you have already nailed it with your earlier post. The failure to list WWBN 32 is nothing more than an oversight on Overstreet's part. Looks like the oversight took place in last year's guide when they went from a Top 10 BA Chart and expanded it into a Top 25 BA Chart. Another book they missed when this change took place was Marvel Spotlight #5 even though it should have been there in Spot #18 with a top of guide valuation last year of $1,250. Looks like they also missed Hero for Hire #1 in that changeover year since it should have been slotted in at Spot #18 with a top of guide valuation of $1,300. I imagine it's easy to missed the odd book here and there when you are expanding the list,but to miss it 2 years ina row. Interesting to note that the MS #5 took the percentage gain on the Top 25 BA Chart this year by far with a 60% gain as it moved from $1,250 right up all the way into Spot #8 with a top of guide valuation of $2,000. Now, that seems like a pretty huge percentage gain and rather un-Overstreet like when you take his long acknowledged slow and conservative approach to valuation increases.