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In fairness, it's a niche these days, but within that niche that's a book I'd jump on. I text my friend last night and to my surprise he still sounded as though he was interested in the book even though it had now crossed over the $300 mark. I think he likes the fact that there are only 2 graded copies out there (for now at least as I told him) and this is the highest graded copy by a wide margin. Maybe I'll contact him at the end of this week to see what happened and if he finally made up his mind in the end.

+1 Very well said and the same sentiments on my part here.

Thank you! Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just go back to the email that CC sent to you back on February 26th for yesterday's portion of the auction. You would then have links to every single lot that was auctioned off yesterday.

Well, that's what happens when Rick's reputation scares away all of the other big money bidders. With Rick now out of the market, they all come back in thinking they now have a realistic chance at getting the books.

Well, if you are thinking about a BIGGER book, I don't think you'll be able to find many that's bigger than this one here: A 200-page whaler which is definitely much bigger than those scrawny SA books or even the standard 68-page GA books. Since it's only running at a shade over $200 right now, page for page it's probably a steal at only a dollar a page. Now if you are talking about nice, I just wish the front cover was as nice as the bulldog of a back cover here: Seriously though, I love these big squarebound books as the first vintage collectible comic book I ever purchased was a snow white copy of New Book of Comics #2 which was a 100-page squarebound book with the sturdy cardboard covers. Just couldn't resist it as the front cover was even better than this book here and the back cover was just spotless white. Unless of course, you are talking bigger in the sense of quality as opposed to quantity, then I can't help you there.

It was still at $2,800 about 10 minutes before auction end. I thought I had a chance! My bad then as it's hard to keep track of them all. It must have been one of the other early AMF's that was sitting at $4,100 and the rest of them (except for the should have been mine V1 #3 ) were sitting somewhere in the $3K range at the time.

A lot of eye candy in those two AMFs! Rick: did collector "S" have a lot of books? If so, why not a ped? Not too sure, but didn't somebody on the boards here once say that the "S" Collection was dispersed very early on in the life cycle of the hobby and even before collectors came up with the idea of pedigrees? As for the AMF V2 #2 eye candy here: Absolutely love this book here and so much in fact, that I was fortunate enough to snap up Jon Berk's beautiful 8.0 Conserved copy a short couple summers ago. Of course, my better half said to me at the time that I must be the only silly fool willing to pay that kind of money for that comic book. Took my cell phone up to show her when Rick's copy here was hitting 4X what I had paid for Berk's copy. My wife just said there must be an even sillier fool than me out there when the book finally closed at over 5X what I had paid for Jon's copy.

Was't this one already pushing around $4,100 yesterday morning and ended up only marginally higher at $4,655 by the time it was all said and done? The one which I am curious about and wondering if a boardie here brought it is this one here: Absolutely love the colors on this copy here and one of my favorites out of the entire AMF run and I was rather surprised that it was still running behind the rest of the early AMF's since it was still below $2K yesterday afternoon. Sadly, some good for nothing bidder with far too much time on his hands except to with me during the extended bidding once it got past $3K pushed it all the way up to $3,780 in the end. Maybe I should have gone up to $3,888 since that's supposed to be a lucky number. Oh well, too late now.

What did it sell for? If you are referring to the SF copy of All-Winners 12, it sold for $20,650. I guess you really aren't looking at any of the results yet.

No kidding. I expect them to triple where they are with 3+ days to go at this rate, easy. This definitely wouldn't surprised me at all as L.B. Cole's more classic covers seems to be scorching red hot in today's marketplace. On the other hand, if you are looking for something that's not going to hit nosebleed prices, you could shoot for something not as well recognized: Nothing like the Mask 1 or even Cole's highly sought after Captain Aero 26's more classic si-fi cover, but definitely hard to beat a Cole si-fi cover that's still sitting in the $300+ range or only about half of condition guide right now. So, bid on this cheap little L.B. Cole beauty here instead of trying to rocket my (hopefully at least ) Centaurs into the stratosphere.

You do realize that this is a GA DC book and an Adventure Comics at that. Unfortunately, that's 2 big knocks against it as many of the GA DC titles have been on the cool side for past decade or so in what otherwise appears to be a rather selective hot GA marketplace.

I'd love to see you and other Golden Age dealers make a top 25 list based on current demand. Well, since we are talking about Cap 3 here, any guesses as to where this copy will finished up at in the CC auction tomorrow: Already at $30,500 or close to 5X the condition guide price of only $6,250. I keep telling myself over the past several years that Overstreet will eventually wake up and smell the roses and finally realize that Cap 3 is a much more valuable book than Cap 2 in today's marketplace.

Rick; Similar to the "S" marking on the AMF V2#7 posted above, I also noticed the exact same marking on both of these 2 AMF's: Based upon your experience, would you happen to know if books with this particular "S" marking all came from the same original collector or not? I remember seeing similar markings on several of the early Fox Mystery Men and Wonderworld books, except those appeared to have been done with a black grease pencil. If I remember correctly, all of the books seemed to be in relatively nice shape, especially considering the early time period from which they all came.

A 60% overnight jump means nothing in isolation. That could mean it was at $10 and is now $16. What did the price jump mean in terms of the book's FMV? You must think I am made up of money or something if you are talking about ten whole dollars. You should know by now that I can't play in the deep end of the pool where all of the big boys like you hang around. My end of the pool involves chart-topping books like this one here: Of course you would have to sort the chart by Lowest Price First since this one here is still sitting at a whopping $1 after all this time. Maybe if I play this carefully and dig deep into my pockets, I can mannup and bump it up by 100% when the clock runs down to only 1 second remaining.

In that case, you should probably stay away from this thread till the end of the week because we'll most likely end up talking about some of the final results here in the interim. You could ask the Mods to ban you from these boards for the rest of the week.

Happy a couple of super DEEP POCKETED collectors went after it Since we are talking about $54K+, I qualified your comment for you so that it would be a much more accurate statement. Congrats on your super first day auction results as I can't think of a nicer board member who deserves such a big winning day.

Yes, looks like I am going to have to step up my game a bit if I hope to have a chance of winning any of these Centaur lots. Hopefully, everybody will doze off at the same time and I'll be lucky enough to sneak a few through.

I believe the answer to the second question is this: Sounds as though it was courtesy of his mother.

Meeting him in person left no doubt in my mind. Maybe we should ask Deni for her opinion of Dave?

Just thought of something here. If you want, you could go to the current CC auction and do a sort from Lowest Price to Highest Price to see what comes up. For example, it looks like this perfectly beautiful book is still sitting there with a high bid of only a dollar for now: Well, look at this: It's now the week of the actual auction and this little photo cover beauty which I had identified last week is still sitting there at the top of the charts for only $1 if you select the Lowest Price First sort option on CC's Event Auction website. Maybe I should toss in a bid of $2, but I don't want to see this book lose it's #1 top spot with a bullet if I do that.

You say that the shop runs high in their pricing, so I would take that to be, as in the above post, they expect lower offers. Kind of like eBay's "make an offer". Don't EVER worry about "offending" a seller; by contrast, you are giving them a compliment in making an offer. I would start at 15-20% below their asking price, and see how the negotiating trends. If they won't negotiate, you have to decide if their asking price is what you could get as an owner selling it on eBay. If it's actually in the type of mid-grade condition that the OP was talking about, my main concern would not be on negotiating for a lower price, but rather if there is any hidden restoration work on the book. After all, most GA collectors (let alone a comic shop dealer) should know that GA Cap's normally sell at a sizable premium to guide. This copy here seems to be priced well below the going rate and would instantly raise some red flags to me. The best advice is to follow what Cat said in his earlier post here:

Especially impressive since it was able to fetch almost 4X condition guide for what was once deemed as a dreaded restored PLOD copy. Seems to be a continuation of the strong multiple to guide prices for the classic and HTF books that was so evident with the Jon Berk auction from a couple summers ago.

I hope Well, looks like you must have been a good boy and your prayers have been answered. Woke up this morning to find out the one that I really wanted took a jump of about 60% overnight while I was sound asleep dreaming about tucking it into my collection. Told you that you had nothing to worry about and best of luck to you in your auctions this week.

The really big lot that includes the best comics from Bangzoom's collection were purchased at Campbell Borthers, 8th & C Streets N.E., Washington D.C. Bangzoom once told this story about that collection: Bangzoom got the books because the owner's mother had tossed the collection in a garbage can and a neighbor rescued them. This was in the early 70s. Dave died in 1969. His mom cleaned out the house and moved out of D.C. in the early 1970s. How sure are you that they did not end up in Bangzoom's collection? After all, it sounds like the same city, same time period, and maybe the same mother and the same garbage can. I just wished it had been me passing by that garbage can back then.

I haven’t looked, but my bidding experience is last day things start to take shape Definitely a calmer and more controlled person than I am. I think if I ever have any books in an auction, I would be checking on them almost every day even though it could be a bit deflating at the start. Looks like the prices have gone up on the "A's" and the other books scheduled for the first day of the auction. I imagine they'll go up even more by tomorrow morning before the real action (hopefully at least) kicks in at the end.