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Definitely best content out of all of them. I hope you are not including Bat 1 in your list here? Especially since Bat 1 is seen by most collectors as being the top GA book out there from a pure content point of view. You just have to read Overstreet's detailed description for batman 1 and compared it to his detailed description for any other comic book in his guide, including Cap 1. There is really no comparison at all.

If it hasn't happened by now with all of the media attention laid squarely on the Marvel and Cap related movies over the past decade, I highly doubt that Cap 1 will be overtaking Bat 1 going forward. Especially since the big Marvel character led movies seems to be winding down now and the studios appear to be moving in the direction of drawing on the secondary characters from their huge library for movie ideas going forward.

This is shocking Not really, as this is a perfect example of how taste and sentiment can change in a marketplace over an extended period of time. I am shocked that the newspaper strip reprint books had already fallen off the list so quickly because I remember books Like Feature Books #26 with the Hal Foster Prince Valiant reprints used to be near the top of the charts when the Overstreet guides first came out. Definitely not the case anymore as it's now sitting way down there at only $2,550 in top of guide this year, while Action 1 is sitting in top spot now at $3.8M. I personally believed the Duck-centric craze in the 70's was really driven largely by Overstreet and some of his close advisors like Bruce Hamilton who was really into them and had a big influence on the guide prices at the time. Wasn't that long ago when nobody would touch a romance comic or any of the female led titles like Millie, Tessie, Nellie, etc. and yet some of them are selling for 5 figures in today's ever changing marketplace.

Highly doubt this is a temporary market situation since Cap 3 is clearly the second most valuable Cap book by a long shot and has been that way for several years now.

I just want to know, if we've got the East Coast and the West Coast covered in this thread, who's the big tall man of the South?

You most definitely are. The whole intent of this program is for you to resubmit your already slabbed books back into CGC for the new labels. After all, why would any company want to make money on your book only one time, when they can come up with so many different services whereby you will keep resubmitting the exact same slabbed book back into them on a continuous basis. It's all about the money and the big dollar sign.

Sold it. Bought a Bat 1. Then sold the Bat 1 to get another Cap 1. Well, hopefully you managed to get an upgrade on your Cap 1 in the end after all this horse trading.

I remember buying a 3.0 from you for 14k about 9 years ago. Any chance that you made the right call and decided to hang onto it? Or did you managed to convert it into some other high dollar quality books which ended up being worth even more than 8X what you had initially paid to Gator for the Cap 1?

It probably also has something to do with the fact that black & white books are so much easier to counterfeit, as opposed to full color books.

I remember winning that cap 1 3.5 ss in a clink auction about 10 years ago for 14k. I imagine it will go for 8x that now? So, since it's only about 6X now from what you paid 10 years ago for it, I guess that means it has about another $30K upside to it before it's done. I think I would tend to agree with you here.

Are you telling me that those long forgotten Kree/Skull Wars issues including the once smoking red hot Adams Avengers run is finally going to get their day in the sun again after these long suffering decades buried deep down in the shadows of darkness?

Yes, I would have to say that the Qualified copy seems to present much nicer from a strict visual cover point of view. It might possibly finished on top by the time it's all said and done, but at this current point in time, it's running behind by about $7K. I guess we'll just have to wait a few more days to see which copy comes out on top in the end.

Woah That's rather interesting as I knew a comic book broker who had started out as a National coin dealer back in the day. Being a coin collector who was used to collecting rolls of coins, he told me that he had purchased 50 copies of ASM 252 when it first came out. Got the feeling that he must have turfed them out in the end or gave them away as Halloween treats since they had never gone up in value by then after all those long years.

Maybe this book has leveled out as it's now been 10 whole months since the last post in this Iron Man 55 thread here. Rather surprising for a supposedly once hot book, especially considering that the soon to be released Avengers: Endgame movie is just right around the corner.

I remembered attending a special event during one of the SD Cons back in the mid to latter part of the 90's whereby CBM was hosting a special dinner for all of the GA DC creators from the 30's and 40's. I remembered many of the attendees there happily lining up with their Limited Special CBM Edition to get their FREE autographs from those GA greats like Vin Sullivan, Julie Schwartz, Creig Flessel, Fred Guardineer, Jack Burnley, etc. Needless to say, that unverified autographed filled copy of CBM will always be worth more to me than any CGC verified Signature copy could have been worth. Especially since most of those GA DC founding pioneers are sadly no longer with us today.

A question for all of the Crime comics aficionados here since I personally don't own a single crime comic in my collection yet. A fellow collector friend of mine asked me the other week if there was much collector interest in the following crime comic book or not since it was made up of mostly reprints or rebound issues: I I think he was trying to figure out if it was one of those worthless Blazing Comics type of rebound books or something that might have some actual value like the EC Annuals. I told him that I was probably the worst person to ask, but since the book was sitting there only in the $20+ range, it was most likely the former as opposed to the latter. Now that it's sitting in the $200+ range and starting to approach condition guide price, maybe I was wrong and might have pointed him in the wrong direction. Especially since there's apparently only 2 copies of this book graded, with this being the highest graded copy and the other copy way further down at only CGC 3.5. Or is this simply another case of a book that really has no collector interest and hence the reason why nobody bothers to slab their copies?

OK, I'm done with comics. PM me your best price for the lot. Yes, looks like it's got all of the hot flavors of the month covered when it comes to comic book covers and postage stamps. Namely, Hitler covers, Beatles cover, skeleton covers, devil covers, and those luscious and beautiful sexy GGA covers. What more than one can ask for!!!

Why is Planet #33 going for such big dollars nowadays anyways? I imagine it must have something to do with the "dumb as a blonde" dunce look that the leggy girl has on the front of the cover.

Now, this one here must have cost you a real pretty penny. Welcome to the GA and congrats on your beautiful Planet pickups here.

Well, there's at least one other - the underbidder On the day after now and with some sobering second thoughts, what's the chance that the underbidder is actually ecstatic that somebody else fortunately came in and took out his high bid? Which brings to mind this following not quite so perfectly wrapped book here: Any bets as to who's happier today...........the lucky winner of this "once in a lifetime" CGC single highest graded copy in the universe (at the time) who had to fork over $15K for this copy back in 2016 or the not so lucky underbidder who unfortunately lost out on this book here?

That ship has sailed for pretty much everybody. I'm so glad I picked up most of that stuff while most people were chasing "men in tights". Well, if the Seven Seas 4 ship has already sailed, how about this following book herethen: Absolutely love the brighter colors on this book here and you can probably look at picking up a HG copy of this book, while it's still sitting in dry dock , at a mere fraction of what you would have to pay for a much lower graded copy of Seven Seas 4.

Congrats on the pickup. Hopefully, you was able to pick it up at your best offer instead of at his full asking price.

Not to worry, as with CC's auction format, a lot of the serious bidding doesn't really get done until the 3-minute extended bidding sessions kicks in. Especially if you have an in- demand book. Since it sounds as though you have several books listed in this auction, if you give us an example of one of them, we might be able to give you a better idea of where the book might end up.

Well, there's at least one other - the underbidder On the day after now and with some sobering second thoughts, what's the chance that the underbidder is actually ecstatic that somebody else fortunately came in and took out his high bid?

No I’m talking about comic book collectors not the entire world. If something came out today with a print run of 18 copies it would be next to impossible to get one if it was a highly desired 1st appearance. I know of some statues that had only 400 created I used to collect and those were extremely hard to find let alone for a good price. Time will tell if the 50k price will stick....how long will it be until another one even comes up for sale? Again showing my first point or how rare this book is in 9.8. Clearly moon knight has a dedicated following. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Personally, I have never really found record setting prices for "highest graded copies" as impressive as say stratospheric prices achieved for say the 20th highest graded copy or the 50th highest graded copy of a particular book. For example, although I was certainly surprised and impressed with the $50K WWBM 32 auction result, I was actually more impressed by the CL auction result for the following book here: This book managed to fetch $5,526 for what is tied for the 22nd highest graded copy and with a condition guide value of only $850. A result like this indicates that it's really more about the book itself, as opposed to the so-called "highest graded copy" when it seems to have so much more to do about the label instead of the underlying book itself. But, it's really a case of to each, their own, I would have to say and whatever floats your boat as it's you that's paying for the book.