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Any opinions as to whether this CGC 3.5 graded copy of 'Tec 29 that is currently in the CC Auction: https://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=758952 will surpass the $66K that the CGC 3.0 copy managed to fetch last March in CC's Event Auction.

Was watching the back end of the Heritage auction earlier today and it's definitely a good sign of a very strong and healthy marketplace when you see book after book in "non-high grade" condition go for multiples of condition guide. For example, just take a look at the VF 8.0 graded copy of Millie the Model #2 that sold for almost $18K or over 50X condition guide or the VF- 7.5 graded copy of Betty & Veronica that sold for almost $4K or about 36X Overstreet listed condition guide.

Maybe I want to do both. Maybe I have both and plan towards the end game too. Maybe I look at the options and pick something that both I like and will increase in value Definitely nothing wrong with doing both, that's for sure. If so, I wouldn't go for Disney stock though since it has gone absolutely nowhere over the past 3 years. Some of the health care stocks like the cannabis ones might do okay longer term, especially since they have all gone through a 40% to 60% retracement from their recent highs a few weeks ago. Of course, most of them are still a double or triple from where they were back in November, although there's always high volatility with stocks in a new and emerging industry as legalization takes hold globally going forward.

I take it back. Well that's good then, although there are a few issues there in the 40's that looks rather temptingly delicious, although Archie 46 would be the most obvious choice out of the group by far.

+1 Yes, I guess Geppi has a lot more confidence in his own Hakes auction site, as opposed to somebody like Schmell who didn't have any confidence in his own Pedigree auction site when it came time to auctioning off his own books from his personal collection. Highly doubt it would be due to potential conflict of interest concerns since I don't believe that Schmell would care much about that being much of an issue if it came down to maximizing his monies.

NO, NO, NO.......don't you dare say it!!!!

Steve; Big time congrats on getting some stupendous and well-deserved prices on your wonderful collection. From reading that little write in the Heritage catalogue, it sounds as though you have a pretty complete collection for all of the early Archie's. If this is the case, any idea when the rest of them will be coming out since there's a couple of early Archie's that I have been looking to acquire for several years now, but simply haven't seen them in the marketplace?

Well, I guess the trick is to snag these before the broader collector base deems them to be classic covers and runs them up in price. Like what happen with the Archie 50 which I was lucky enough to get for myself several years ago before it was recognized as a classic cover. For example, there's an Archie cover in the 40's that I actually like better than the 50, but it never ever seems to come to market anymore.

Well, Millie 2 is a ridiculously hard book to find, but still.. Correction......it's not like a piddly 40X Overstreet condition guide, but more like a whopping 51X Overstreet condition listed guide. Wowza!!!!

The artist that I thought he influenced the most was Paul Gulacy which was clearly evident from the layouts and artistic renderings which he used for his beautiful Master of Kung Fu run. Still remembered mentioning Gulacy's name to Steranko once at a comic book convention, and he did not seem very happy or impressed at all.

And it looks like this copy of Wonderworld 7 is back out there already: https://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=758840 Wonder if it will do better than the last time when it sold for $16,730: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/wonderworld-comics-7-fox-1939-cgc-vf-80-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/7166-91162.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 Wonder if the Heritage purchaser simply asked them to send the book straight up to Metro since the HA auction took place just a few months ago?

I completely agree with the tape reasoning. So we shall see the results of the Tec 35's offered by comic connect in a few weeks. Regardless of the tape, I strongly believe the fact that CC has a total of 4 copies of this book in their current Event Auction did not help with the final results for this HA copy. After all, the economic pricing model is basically common sense when you look at the impact of increasing supply, even on a particular product that is in demand.

+1 Would totally agree with you about opening up an office in London, but not so sure about some of their other locations mentioned, as follows: Seriously, do they really have that many collectors in Shanghai and Hong Kong dropping books off to be graded? Or were these 2 offices opened up just to keep Tim happy? And does anybody know the cities for these so-called 14 OSC's throughout the world?

Well, based upon how the Fox Mystery Men books did in today's Heritage auctions, do you think there's any chance that we might find some "Foxy" deals in this upcoming CC auction since they do have quite a few nice looking ones on this go round? Hoping so at least since the Fox books generally don't seem to fetch top dollar with the CC auctions since they don't really seem to showcase or hype them at all in terms of their rather skimpy and/or generic lot descriptions.

If you don't mind me asking, which books were you selling? Oh, he's probably referring to something like the CGC 7.5 graded copy of Archie 50 which managed to fetched only $5,975 or just over 11X condition guide: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/archie-comics-50-archie-1951-cgc-vf-75-off-white-pages/a/7177-91002.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 After all, this is a drop of almost $300 that another similarly graded 7.5 copy was able to fetch only a few months earlier in the last Heritage auction.

Yes, as you can see from the attached link, the exhibition did indeed take place as evident from the many pictures here: https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2016/03/23/the-impossible-collection-over-1000-of-the-worlds-finest-comics-on-display-ahead-of-the-batman-v-superman-release/

Sweet score on the National 7. Congrats! That's one I was gunning for hard until last week when I picked up a GA key. Sweet book and tough in any grade, it' +1 It's good to finally see National 7 get some long overdue and well deserved respect as this copy managed to fetched $11,350 or something like 3.8X condition guide. I hope this puts to rest that whole fiasco with the Church 9.6 copy of this book that sold for just over $20K at Heritage in 2004 and then was unable to resell in subsequent auctions over the next several years even though the reserve price on the book was dropped on each successive attempt. With the current focus on classic covers in today's marketplace, my bet is that the Church 9.6 copy would have no problems fetching multiples of the last $11,500 reserve price that it was unable to hit way back in 2007.

Although rather impressive, my personal preference would have been an invitation to view Ayman Hariri's Impossible Collection in the absolutely gorgeous St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London a couple of years ago: http://www.orbitalcomics.com/multimedia-3-the-impossible-collection/ http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinion/the-impossible-collection-batman-and-superman-s-secret-history-revealed-2942993

Well, I thought it was nice to finally see a copy of PL 23 managing to hit some big dollars at over $14K, since I have always felt this book to be both undervalued and under appreciated relative to the much more highly acclaimed PL 17.

Yep. Interesting that a phone bid won it too. Congrats to the buyer. Well, that would depend on your feelings with regards to books with married covers or married pages as it still sold for over condition guide. Personally, I have always put them on the same level as restored books due to the work that would have to be done in order to "married" them together. On the other hand though, I don't have much problem with a nicely presenting book that might have a clipped coupon if it doesn't drastically affect the story or key character. With this type of qualified defect, I feel the book is often a true bargain sitting behind its Green GLOD label. So, I guess to each their own.

No surprise here as I believe this is one of Fishler's very few must have books, apparently similar in vein to his love for Fantastic 3. I still remember him having it on Metro's Most Wanted List in all grades along with a few other real HTF books like Master 27, Ace Comics 11 with the first appearance of the Phantom, and Fantastic Comics 3. Somebody probably knew about this and decided to bid it to nosebleed levels (condition wise) knowing that he would pay for it in the end anyways.

Opinions differ, but I think you are right. Their great catalog and their international reach are a real plus. Having auctions in the afternoon US time is a bit of a drawback, though, imo. I also feel that their individual lot descriptions for each book doesn't hurt either, especially when you compared it to the big white blank space that usually shows up on virtually all of CC's auction lots.

So did the Cosmic Aeroplane copy of AA 27............really not that much of a surprise when it comes to these more common DC hero books since they seem to have drifted over to the cool side of the market over the past several years. Definitely not the case with AA61 though since this CGC 5.5 copy sold for something like $11,651 or over 3X condition guide. No cooling off with respect to the heat that's been burning in the classic cover market during the past few years.

Yes, although I believe that once apparently HTF book (but not so much anymore) has cooled off a bit due to the number of copies that seems to be creeping into the marketplace with each passing auction.

Yes, now I remember seeing that auction in one of my comic related emails. All I can say is that if I was the consignor of this book, Hake's would definitely not be the first or even second auction site that I would think for selling a book of this magnitude.