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I was a little surprised at that. $35k per point for that copy The brittle Bat 1 2.0 went high too Yes, that was definitely a very strong price on the Cap 1 from my point of view. Too bad there was no Cap 3 so that we could get a further confirmation of how strong the demand is for this particular book. Didn't think that was a fairly strong price on the Bat 1, but considering the Slightly Brittle pages, I guess it's a relatively fair price for this key book.

Yes, looks like the 'Tec 31 was the last book of the night as it slowly went up from something like $26K before it finally finished up at $40,444:

Yes. I'll wait until its all over except for the crying to air my postgame summary. I had 20 books in there for sale and for sure noticed some things Well, let's all hope they are tears of happiness and joy then.

Actually, before the CGC boards and the Carter CBM monthly magazines, I remember that I use to religiously go through the Overstreet Market Reports from the various dealers. Definitely not the case anymore as it seems to take me until the next guide now before I get around to finishing them off. Case in point, the guide is due out next month and I've only gone as far Al Stoltz's report with another 10 long long pages to go.

Since you seem to like the pre-hero More Fun's, are you planning to go after some of the pre-hero Detective books in a couple short hours from now?

That would make sense as I believe that Pat is no longer an active comic book collector. Too bad as I certainly did enjoyed those write-ups he had done on the Edgar Church collection back in the pages of the early CBM's #2 - #5.

Which brings up an interesting question and makes me wonder as to where the Church copy of this book is? I did see the Church copy one time in my travels a long time ago way back in the mid-90's. It was in the hands of Pat Kochanek down at one of the SD Con's and he was raving about how beautiful the colors were and how the blues, reds, and yellows were just the perfect blend of colors for a HG Church book.

I doubt this strategy would actually work that well. Especially when many of the almost invisible tiny non-color breaking creases for which they whack your book on can only be seen if you hold the actual book up at a certain angle to the light. There'as absolutely no way they can tell with these types of NCB creases through a simple scan. Besides, how would they be able to charge you for this service if you simply sent them a scan?

I can appreciate that you are trying to be fair to CCS but this is nuts. So the pressers don't even glance at the book, they just press, unless you pay extra? What other pressing service works that way? If this is indeed an official explanation it sounds like 'quantity over quality' is built into their business model. This makes them sound worse, not better. I am afraid you don't seem to understand that CCG is a business and as such, a good business model is to be able to take a simple task and break it down into as many component steps as possible and charge for each step accordingly. This only makes sense from both a top line and bottom line business point of view. If I remember correctly, haven't they already broken down the actuall pressing process into multiple levels whereby you pay different amounts based upon the level of pressing that is actually done on the book. After all of these complaints here about the quality of the end job, I would not be surprised if they decide to institute a paid post-screening process. This would then become a new additional service whereby you pay for them to take a look at the quality of the press job in order to determine if a subsequent additional paid pressing is required or not in order to truly maximize the potential of the book. And to all those people who were not worried about a potential conflict of interest when CCG purchased CCS and "seamlessly" linked it up with CGC's services. Why, this could be an endless cycle and go on forever as long as you keep paying.

Sheens old 6.5 sp is the 7.0 conserved that sold on clink last year for 450k That's good to know and I just found the following link from Bledding Cool on the book: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/15/scoop-charlie-sheen’s-copy-of-action-comics-1-is-a-winner/ Looks like poor Charlie managed to get only $45,100 for the book when it first sold as a CGC 6.5 PLOD back in 2004. Wonder who the purchaser got to "unrestored" the book by reopening the tear seals and "uncleaning" the cover. I guess they must have also opened the spine back up to get rid of the reinforcement which woudl not be that easy of a task. Must have been a magician if they was able to undo all of that work and still managed to get the book upgraded from a CGC 6.5 PLOD to a CGC 7.0 Conserved.

It wasn’t sheens, it belonged to Erik Roberts I believe ? correct Not sure if Charlie even owned a copy of AF 15 or not. I know that he owned a copy of Action 1 in something like CGC 6.5 grade which was also a restored copy if I remember correctly. Bet that one would be worth a ton of money by now.

terrific copy $23,655 A terrific copy indeed: I assume Claire must have really like this cover also since she apparently kept 2 HG copies of this book in her collection. Guess you should hurry before Steve puts his Claire Moe copy of this book up for sale before you.

Well, did the AMF portion managed to hit your expectations as it would appear that they all did at least a double from where they were? In fact, some of them such as the AMF V2 #1 and #5 managed to do even a triple or more from where they were when the 3-minute buzzer went off.

+1 Well, that's definitely good to know then and certainly appreciate the feedback. They probably tookme off their email list since I haven't brought anything at all from them as I haven't brought anything at all from them since the Jon Berk Auction. Either that of I probably accidentally hit their Unsubscribe button by mistake.

Well, hopefully it's only an one-off for this particular auction as you do normally have access to all of their final auction results through the email they usually send out about a week prior to the auction end with links to all of the individual lots. Somehow, I believe the zero communications from them about this auction had a negative impact on some of the auction results. Especially if potential customers and bidders are not even aware that there is an auction going on, unless you follow the market very closely and get your information from boards such as these or from the Diamond Scoop newsletters. Definitely a very poor job on CC's part with respect to this particular auction.

Yes, not a problem with the AF 15 book because it is a big item which is obviously being talked about. The problem is with the rest of the other 1,900 lots for which the auction history will no longer be there once each lot wraps up. Hopefully, this is just an one-time glitch and not their new strategy going forward. Especially when failing to communicate their upcoming auctions to their customers should at least be an absolute minimum or else nobody is going to bother consigning with them going forward.

I believe Peter said that it sold for something like $33,500. Don't you hate it when CC never got around to sending out their email with all of the individual auction links. It means that we won't have access to any of these auction results after each lot finishes.

Wow! Thanks for sharing! I was wondering what happened with this. Well, I guess if the Da Vinci painting is knocked off from its top spot throne, then this must mean Roy Lichtenstein's Masterpiece moves up a notch in the Top 10 list: After all, this painting by Lictenstein did sell for $165M back in 2017.

I am pretty new to the hobby, but my understanding is that this has been extensively done for years. Many years. As I am sure you should be aware, this manipulative practice only became widespread after CGC rationalize the pratice as nothing more than "maximizing the potential of a book". Needless to say, I am sure that it was in their business game plan right from the get go. Especially when it meant additional streams of revenues for both their top and bottom lines and an obvious easy buy on for the collecting base after the fact, once they could see how much money was being made previously by the lucky few who were in the know.

Hey Peter; Are you trying to steal Tim's signature line here?

It wasn't, in my opinion. The pages stick out from the covers more than they did before, and the top cover edges have been flattened into the starched collar look, both of which are remnants of pressing. How dare you say that you can identify the remnants of pressing on a book. Especially when CGC has stated with absolutely no uncertainty that they cannot determine if a book has been pressed or not, and would not want to be in a situation where they have to guess. Hence their rationale for giving the green (i.e. money) light for pressing to go full steam ahead.

That was a very unattractive 5.0 that actually sold for more than the last 5.0 auctioned. I would say that it's a positive sign that bidders are paying more attention to the book, as opposed to just the label. On the other hand, I would tend to agree with Peter that the market for mid-grade AF 15's does appear to have softened a bit. Especially since a $20K+ dropoff from what CC was able to get a couple of years ago for that nicely presenting CGC 5.0 graded copy. Maybe we also need to get the boardie with the Visa shares who managed to get Bob Storms to sell his CGC 5.0 graded copy for him in the low $50K's to put in his 2 cents worth here. Although if I remember correctly, he's a bit shy and never really wants to talk about this magnificant AF 15 sale of his.

Did you managed to snag it in the end? I was the underbidder when it was around the $6.5K mark at the end of the initial auction period before it got ramped up to $23,655 at the end of the extended bidding time periods. I guess that's a fair price and might even be a tad on the low side considering that it is a CGC 9.0 graded Larson pedigree copy. This is in comparison to a CGC 8.5 graded non-pedigree copy that sold for $19,401 from Gator's collection in the last CC auction a few short months ago. Either way, congrats to GCG on what appears to be a record setting price on this gorgeous book here.

What is that, 1.25 x Guide? I don’t normally track this book. Would it get a greater guide ratio at lower, more affordable grades? It's about 21% above top of guide (i.e. CGC 9.2 NM-) right now, but of course it could possibly go higher at the end in the extended bidding session. Well, looks like it finished up at $598K or about 60% over top of guide. Not being an avid follower of AF 15, but this would appear to be a pretty strong price to me.

No, don't believe you are doing anything wrong at all. It looks like CC is very far behind when it comes to updating their Sold Items as it looks like they are a few auctions behnd. Myabe they need to hire a couple more people in order to keep on top of everything such as these auctionupdates and sending out their auction advisoryemails.