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Sounds to me like you fell asleep in Boston's economics class instead of paying close attention to his words of wisdom when it comes to investing successfully in sure fire guaranteed highest graded winners like NM 98 .

Agree 100% Disagree 100% Unless you are able to day trade your books and miraculously time the shifting winds of the comic book market perfectly, it's just as easy to lose money on these highly speculative and hyped books as it is to make money on them.

My bad. It was on Heritage. https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/brenda-starr-14-2-superior-comics-1948-cgc-vf-75-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/7141-91071.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 I couldn't find the $12,800.00 copy. I was thinking of the 8.0 copy that sold on the ComicConnect. Oh, I see.........you must be referring to this CGC VF 8.0 graded copy that sold on CC for $16,866 back in 2014: https://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=544151 I would actually view that copy to be an outlier of a sale at the time for 2014, as I personally feel that the HA price of over $5K for the CGC 7.5 copy is relatively reasonable given the number of copies in equivalent or higher condition. It will definitely be interesting to see what amount the Church copy will be able to fetch in this rather hot GGA marketplace, given its pedigree designation along with its current highest graded copy status.

From a dollar point of view, it is almost never ever a good idea to buy a book when the price of the book is being driven upwards by movie hype or anything else of a temporary nature. It is almost a guaranteed money loser as history has shown us time and time again, especially if you are talking about common and easy to find books.

I wonder why they put "The Overstreet Price Guide lists this issue in the condition offered for $438." When I see that and the bid is over $800 then of course I am going to be really turned off from bidding regardless of GPA. Doesn't seem very useful to put in the description because then everything looks way overpriced. I find that it's actually quite useful since it saves me a lot of time from having to check the guide myself and have to calculate the in-between values. If a listing doesn't have it and I don't have a real affinity to the book, I usually would just skip right over it since I don't want to go through the trouble of checking the price for myself. In addition, maybe it's in there so that bidders will hopefully bid the price to at least guide levels since there are a substantial portion of these auction listings that do not achieve guide valuations.

That's most likely because you are primarily a speculator at heart and much more so than a comic book collector. If you was a comic book collector at heart, you would most likely take the opposite tack by buying the key book and hoping that it goes up in value over time.

ComicConnect. Would you happen to have a link for these 2 CC auctions since I can't seem to see them from their auction email links?

Less problems +2 For me, it would be the color breaking creases and the small hole which appears to be bigger problems as compared to the defects on Book A. But then again, that's just my own opinion for what it's worth.

You mean like this : It's quite possible that there are situations where 2 or possibly more bidders placed the exact same max bid. In this case, I believe it's the first bidder who placed the max bid ends up winning the book.

Both CL and CC use completely different auction formats. With CL's last second snipe auction format, it would only make sense to expect a lot more auctions to end at a dollar value which should be below your max bid. With CC's extended 3-minute bidding time auction format, it would only make sense to see a lot more situations where the auctions end at the winning bidder's max bid as it's usually down to only 2 bidders battling it out at the end. Unless the book is not highly desired in which case, it would not even go into the extended bidding time period.

Well, fortunately or unfortunately depending upon your point of view, comic books have had a long historical pattern of swinging between peaks and valleys in terms of market valuations. So, although certain genres such as GGA and classic covers might be smoking red hot right now, it's quite conceivable they could also cool off quite significantly in a few short years from now.

I don't imagine this one should have any problems blowing past these 2 guesstimates considering that the Church CGC 9.4 graded copy of the lower profile and less recognized Seven Seas 6 was able to fetch $25K in the recent CC auction.

Does this mean that we should all be stockpiling up on our issues of All-American 61 then since it features Grundy's first appearance and origin, along with an all-time classic cover to boot? Actually, the introduction of these comic book characters in movies and TV shows in most cases don't seem to have much of an impact on the GA books, unlike the BA and CA books which just seems to go ballistic. Especially when it comes to the use of Marvel characters in the movies, which I find rather kind of surprising considering the huge quantities of copies out there and in grade also.

Where did these 2 sales take place for this 7.5 graded copy of Brenda Starr #14?

Congratulations. All great, but this one's my favorite. Thanks for sharing. +2 Reminds me very much of the highly acclaimed and much sought after classic GI Combat 87 washtone cover done by Heath some 15 years later.

Never realized that Captain Flight was a si-fi cover as I always thought it was just another WW II cover. Guess I never really took a close look at it and definitely not in the same league as the more stylistic and classic si-fi triumvirate of Captain Aero 26, Captain Flight 11, and Contact Comics 12.

Needless to say, there's absolutely no better way to start off a run than with the Edgar Church copy of a book.

Cleaned!? Look at the cover, it's dirty.. I don't see what could have been cleaned. Yes, it's very easy to "unclean" a cleaned book by simply smudging dirt or some other guck onto the book. Has anybody checked with CGC if this is considered to be restoration or not, especially if done with intent to mask restoration removal.

Ebay only takes $250 + PP fees (if you have a store) or $750 + PP if you don't. Thus any item above $7500 you are paying less than 10%. An item of considerable worth call it $50,000 you would do much better on fees with eBay than Clink/CC. Already aware that there was some kind of threshold level that eBay fees would not surpass, but did not know what the exact amount. Nice to know that it's at $750. Only concern is that I bet the percentage of books in most of our collections that surpass $7,500 is only a very miniscule percentage of the total. The other concern is that the eyeballs that are looking at auctions on eBay are probably not the right ones and that is why collectors generally very seldom if ever put their books up in a No Reserve true auction format, as opposed to the ubiquitous BIN format you see throughout the so-called comic "auctions" on eBay.

10 percent Which means it's less than eBay once you add in the PayPal fees and yet you still have to do all of the heavy lifting (i.e. work) without the same concentration of targeted and focused buyers for your books. Not sure why anybody would ever list their vintage quality books for auction on eBay.

if you want. you can order what you want, just have to make the minimum of $450 a month. For what purpose? I believe he was referring to ordering only one of each book, as opposed to buying scads of the same book to speculate on them. If a collector buys enough books, this basically means that he would be able to set up a pull list with Diamond and get all of his books at 50% off instead of setting up his pull list at his LCS and having to pay regular retail price for them. In addition, he wouldn't even have to go down to his LCS anymore as Diamond would deliver them to his so-called on-lined business operating out of his home. This is why I think it's more than just having an on-line presence and filling out the application form.

I believe the winning email notifications are automatically generated and sent by the system once the auction is over and is not done manually by somebody after the fact. I am quite sure that CL was not even aware of this error until after the automated winning email s were already sent out.

Somehow, I strongly doubt you would feel the same way if you was the consignor of these books and they all sold at substantially less than recent market value because potential bidders could not bid for your books at the last minute in a snipe formatted auction that CL uses.

That's why I absolutely hate this auction sniping format that CL has in place and much prefer the extended time format that CC currently uses and some of the other dealers used to employ way back in the old days.

Men of Tomorrow is a fantastic read and highly recommended, especially in terms of getting to the dirt for the origin of DC Comics and the powers within.