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This kind of reminds me of Iron Man 30, another non-key mid-run issue of a title, which CC was able to auction off for a rather astounding $15K back in 2016 when it was the "only 9.8 in the universe": https://www.comicconnect.com/item/689571 Needless to say, when a second 9.8 graded copy showed up after that in 2017, it managed to fetched only $6,300 with a third copy fetching a substantally even lower price than that in 2018. Not sure what it would go for now that there's 6 CGC 9.8 graded copies of this book in the entire universe. Personally, I prefer buying books where I look forward to having additional copies come into the marketplace over time to not only reinforce the price which I had paid for my copy, but also to drive the valuation even higher. Now, that's clearly a much better senario than buying a highest graded copy of a book and then living in fear that the eventual slabbing of additional copies in equivalent grade will result in the cratering of the valuation for your copy.

Huh, the TT#12 there is a single 9.6 copy, and has been for 22 years, and the issue never comes up for sale!! It's a strong result but not surprising in this era. The same for issue #13. The census numbers on these issues are right next to non existent in grade. Have you considered the possibility that the reason for the low census numbers for these non-key mid-run Teen Titans issues is that most collectors would not consider them to be financially worthwhile to be sent in for grading and slabbing in the first place?

Which is why people pay more for 9.8s This would make sense only if grading was objectively accurate, as I believe the crux of his point here is that grading really boils down to nothing more than just a subjective opinion and as such, subject to both human error and condition defects that might not be viewed the same way by all collectors:

Your's and my definition of the word subtle are not well aligned friend. I'd say the HA scan is more likely to be accurate. Although HA seems to juice the colors a bit imo as well, CC takes it to a whole other dimension. More than just the word subtle, but those 2 pictures of the exact same book would indicate to me that our eyesight are also not aligned here. Especially since the colors on the HA copy to the right looks artificially bright while the colors on the CC copy to the left looks more washed out than anything bright to me. Well, at least that's what my eyes are seeing when I look at those two pictures on a side by side basis.

yes. and double that if he was married and the first to die passed her 12.9 onto the husband. In essence NOBODY pays Federal estate taxes now (but may be liable to state estate taxes on a state by state basis). Only estates (of married couples) worth more than (this year) 25.8M pay the any federal estate tax. Thats all of us except the .1 to 1 percenters. An estate with more than the max exclusion amount (the 12.9M) pays fed estate tax on only any amount above 12.9 (or 25.8). And heirs receive the assets with a cost basis "stepped up" to current market values. Greatly appreciate your detailed response to my enquiry here, as it clearly shows that it is a huge tax advantage for collectors and their heirs in America to hold onto their books until they go to the big comic shop in the sky, as opposed to selling them while they are still alive and kicking. Unfortuantely, nowhere near the same for Canuckleland up north of the border where all of the assets of the deceased is viewed by the tax department to be a deemed disposition upon death which means full on capital gains to be paid by the collector upon their death before anything can even go to the heirs. Well, it really depends on what the true story is with respect to the disbursement of the Promise Collection, as I've received a few PM's from boardies postulating that the family members themselves might have sold off the collection right after his death and long before Heritage even got a sniff of it.

I tried making the site more accessible to mobile users a couple months ago, but there's just too much data to display it easily on tiny screens. I think I fixed your scrolling problem (by rolling back my changes). Hey Greg; Sorry for the late response as I've been away for a few weeks of nice relaxed crusing, but greatly appreicate you taking care of this issue while I was away. While @Professor K's Zoom solution certainly did work, I didn't really care much for how small everything was and definitely hard on the eyes.

As I had clearly stated in my earlier post, although it goes contra to what the Overstreet Guide says in terms of valuation, it would be Funnies on Parade all the way for me here. Now, if you are asking me my preference between Famous Funnies: Series One and Famous Funnies 1, I would once again go contra to what the valuations are in the Overstreet Guide and go with Famous Funnies 1. Reason being that Famous Funnies 1 is the first monthly newsstand comic book while FF: Series One is really nothing special except for its rarity and from my personal POV pretty much nothing more than a "quasi-promo" book that was sold in chain stores. The other negative with FF: Series One is that although it is a 68-pager, it really has only the first 16 pages of "new" content as the rest of the book is a reprint of the entire 32 interior pages of Funnies on Parage plus another 16 pages from FF: A Carnival of Comics.

Famous Funnies 1 or Funnies on Parade? Now, that's an absolutely excellent choice and can't go wrong with since it's really the one that begat all else and started the whole enchilada. And to top it all off, Funnies on Parade is definitely much rarer than even Pep 22 or Famous Funnies 1 at only 14 Universal graded copies with the highest graded copies being only a CGC 8.0 after more than two long decades of certification.

Sadly, absolutely true as lack of market activity and price reinforcement over time can certainly slow down price acceleration going forward relative to other much more readily available books.

Besides just upside potential going forward, the other key factor is rarity as the chance to ever acquire a copy of Pep 22 in any grade is so few and far between which is certainly not sommething you can say about a book like Bat 1.

Yes, why in the world would you take some dealer's low ball offer of only a cool one million, when you can have a hot two or three million.

Based upon PM's which I have received from a few boardies here in the past, this would definitely appear to be the case. Having never dealt with Heritage from a selling POV, but I would believe this is really dependent upon both the quality and the dollar value of the books you would be consigning with them. I've heard cases whereby the SP is waived right off the bat and consignors have even gotten back a small piece of the 20% BP without much negotiation at all, but never ever down as far as the CC and CL fees of 10%.

So, since the movie is already out now, shouldn't they be selling the Darkhawk's like there's no tomorrow and moving onto the next so-called red hot movie hyped spec book by now?

Yeah, not sure why Marvel wants the MCU to take all of their characters and turn them into some silly stupid ongoing series of one-line wise cracking jokes. If I wanted to watch simple silly comedic characters, I would simply watch reruns of Jack Tripper from Three's Company or Al Bundy from married With Children.

Does this basically mean that all of the flippers and day traders who speculated on the Warlock hyped books at sky high prices from the very early FF issues right through to the later Marvel Premiere issues just saw their money disappeared into the cosmic abyss?

Well, well, well......................looks like the Promise Collection copy of Cap 1 is already coming back into the marketplace so soon: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/captain-america-comics-1-the-promise-collection-pedigree-timely-1941-cgc-vg-35-cream-to-off-white-pages/p/7340-280002.s?ic16=ViewItem-Inventory-BuyNowFromOwner-OtherAvailable-081514 Any bets here and will be interesting to see whether this Promise book here will be able to beat the long odds and come out ahead of its first round auction result of $240K back in November of 2021? Unless there's a surprising turnaround in the sentiment towards the Promise books or a resurgence in the demand for Cap 1, I would place my bet on the UNDER for this copy here. Especially considering that CL was only able to fetch just over $200 K for their CGC 7.0 copy while CC was able to fetch just over $300K for their CGC 7.0 copy.

4% I guess that means CGC had placed a value of $1M on that copy of Action Comics 1. With having to pay that kind of money to have a book graded, it's no wonder most collectors don't slab their books until it comes time to sell them.

Not sure if this is the peak price or not as I thought there might have been one at $260K, but this copy here sold for $250K in October of 2021: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/929799 This was right after CC had sold another copy in another non-auction format sale for some $245K a month earlier and which was then followed by a auction sale at just over $230K for another copy in December of 2021. Not sure what CGC 9.8 graded copies of TMNT 1 would be selling for nowadays, but I would suspect a lot closer to the $100K mark than the $1M mark that some boardies were hoping for during the FOMO driven pandemic days of 2021/22.

Depending on the crease, it could potentially be pressed out so long as it's not color breaking. Not so sure about this since he stated in his original post that he Paid to have his books sent in for pressing, cleaning, and then grading: Not sure what the cost for all 3 processes would be and I guess it's always a case of to each their own, but clearly something that I would not chance if the expected sale price for the slabbed book is only going to be $100 if it comes back in CGC 9.6.

Great! All the credit goes to my 16 year old self who took such good care of his comics. Big congrats to you on the relatively nice grades that you managed to get on these books of yours. You should check the Graders Notes for your Thor 337 to see why it came in as only a CGC 8.5 graded copy.

They don't keep their sales info for very long. More than likely due to the same reason that GPA does not incorporate CL auction results.....................namely the fact that CL likes to submit only select auction results to these reporting sites which of course results in misleading and biased information to the users of these sites.

That's it EXACTLY, as it's never ever going to be a case of "one shoe fits all". If it was original art or a first run of a new pedigree collection, I would definitely be knocking on the doors on Heritage and negotiating my fees. If it was GA books in general, I would be deciding between CC and HA depending upon the type and value of the GA books that we are talking about. And if it is the highest graded copies of realtively hot and in-demand BA or CA books, I would probably be running towards CL as fast as my little feet could take me.

I would think that if you are submitting books valued at only $100 in CGC 9.6, you've basically left yourself with no meat on the bones, especially in light of the fact that CGC's acceptable margin of error for grading could easily put you in the red by the time the slabbed book gets back to you after paying for pressing, grading, shipping, and packaging fees.

Well, let us not forget that the job of a President of a comic book publisher is completely different from the job of a mere comic book artist.

Well, I wouldn't be so sure about this since I just checked the Overstreet guide which states that "Early issues were full-size, 32 pages, and were printed with and without an extra cover of slick stock, just for the advertiser. The binding was stapled if the slick cover was added; otherwise, the pages were glued together at the spine. Later, it goes on say that "All pre #79 issues came with or without a slick protective wrap-around cover over the regular cover .............". So, bottom-line...............you just MIGHT hopefully have something real good here and best for you to check it out.