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In a way ... yes. They would have to be either 2nd or 3rd generation GA collections in smaller sizes. Forget the original owner status - this day was long gone. Maybe finding one of original owner SA collections is possible. Well, as a couple of boardies have already mentioned, there are at least a couple of OO collections dating as far back as the early GA time period. I guess time will tell. As for SA OO collections, I believe they are most definitely still out there waiting to be uncovered. Especially if you are talking about Marvel SA books since these were the books that spawned much of the comic collecting industry that we have to this day. Doesn't Joe Krolik still have a complete pristine Marvel SA original owner collection since the Winnipeg pedigree books were apparently only his under copies?

Smart move as it's much wiser to pay only 10% to either of the 2 big auction houses on the East Coast as opposed to trying to negotiate down from 30% with the other auction house. Especially in the case of a book such as AF 15 where it's been the 2 East Coast auction houses that have been setting all of the record prices with almost every new offering. Best of luck to you in your consignments.

I think that by 'shortly', Roy may have meant after a couple of years. I bought the Miller run off the rack, and don't remember there being any hoarding or hub-bub about the title at the time. Although the originality and quality of the story lines and art stood out right away. If I remember correctly, the Miller DD books were quite hot by the time the issues were into the mid 170's and definitely well before the big 181 Death of Elektra issue which which must have been one of the biggest hoarded issues of all time.

Strongly doubt that Overstreet would be of much help with respect to 1964 prices since its first edition was not until 1970. Speaking of that 1970 first price guide, it looks like they had AF 15 listed at a whopping $16 in Mint condition.

With the US Jones #2, I believe the consignor actually lost money on this book since it sold for only $4,885. After all, I believe this is the exact same copy that sold on eBay for $4,715 back in August or September of last year?

+1 You can toss my vote in for BB 52 also. Now, that's the classic girl in chain bondage cover, with the beautiful red, green, and blue cover to top it off.

That 8.5 went under the radar. I sure would have took a stab at if I had paid closer attention to it No, the 8.5 copy certainly did not go under the radar when it sold for $155K back in February. The exact same 8.5 copy and graded as such did went under the radar when it sold for only $77K a mere 5 months prior to its $155K resale when most board members here were implying it was a clearly overgraded copy that nobody in their right mind would even think of buying.

Allan; Hopefully, these freshly graded books are still owned by you and not by somebody who had purchased them off you and then submitted them to CGC for grading. If they are still yours, congrats on some wonderful graded books, qespecially with respect to the AF 15, ASM 14, and the TOS 39. At the rate which AF 15 prices have been going, it's quite conceivable that your copy of AF 15 could put more money in your pocket that what Magik was able to get from his much higher graded copy last summer.

Here's the thing about Science 2: she's naked! I tend to agree with Rick, I love the book, and it might my fav of the run (though my new Science 3 is making me rethink that!), but Science 2 is reaching that cult status, where Jon Berk's expressed fondness for this particular book adding to its allure. Not sure it will be the massive breakout book at the next auction, but I wouldn't be surprised to see its value holding at the $1.5K per point. All this talk about Science 2, 3, and 4. Makes me wonder if everybody here has forgotten all about Science 1 with that beautiful blue cover. Personally for myself, I prefer the Science 2 over the Science 4 as it just appears to be a more dynamic cover from my point of view. Even though it's a restored PLOD copy, it looks like the book will still go for big dollars as it is already well above the condition guide price for an unrestored copy at this early stage of the auction.

Richard; Absolutely beautiful copies you've got here! Are these your archived scans here since I thought you were liberating all of your books from their imprisoned tombs?

Congrats on a real steal here as this particular issue has been on fire lately, and yet you was able to snag it at a price point that is quite a bit lower than what the past few copies have sold for.

Wow, looks like you've got yourself a real winner here.........not only the highest graded copy, but an Allentown pedigree copy to boot. Looks like this copy was so far ahead of the Church copy from Berk's collection that they didn't even bother to list it in the catalogue. Probably not much chance of a copy that will grade higher than this since this particular issue is also absent from the Larson List. Only one other copy that's been graded out at CGC 9.0, but probably locked away somewhere since I haven't seen it surfaced after all these years.

If you remember the particular book you are curious about, just google Comicconnect and the name and issue number of the comic ( use the # symbol) and it will come up. I find it a lot easier to simply go back to the individual daily session emails that CC sends out to you about 1 week prior to the start of their auction. This will give you direct access to every single one of their books that have been auctioned off.

Missing one of my favorite threads here as I've been away for the past month and just hate working the boards off a mobile phone. Yes, lots of low to mid grade Fox books in this past CC auction here. Not that surprised at all and actually expected the lower than normal recent prices on the Fox books due to the Berk effect with the massive volume of Fox books being made available in the upcoming CC auction. Felt sorry for the consignor of these books as this was definitely a far less than perfect time to be unloading a large collection of Fox books. Perfect time for me to get back home though in terms of bidding on some of these books from the Berk Collection. Just hoping to be lucky and able to snag one or two of these books that falls through the crack since I expect the majority of the prices to be well beyond my reach.

My thoughts on this are also simple and just comes from basic mathematics and common sense. I hope you do realize there have been only a handful of nosebleed prices paid for these mid-grade copies of AF 15's versus hundreds of them that have been brought at fractions of these record prices over the past decade or so. So, if prices on AF 15's are taking a pause or dropping off slightly, guess which group would have s much larger impact on prices going forward.

How many times have we heard this before, and yet........guess what.

In terms of exceeding expectations, would it not be Guardians of the Galaxy that has set the bar here. Even in the case of the Guardians books here, it looks like prices have still not come back up to the same levels as they were at when the first movie came out.

Yes, they generally have a nice write up for all of their key books and also with most of their harder to find classic cover books. On the other hand, I find the listing descriptions for the other 90%+ of their lots to be rather "wanting", with only the title and issue number, condition, and picture. Definitely a case of the book having to sell itself, although this method probably makes the books very easy to be missed by potential bidders as they are scrolling through the countless pages of scans.

Maybe Metro have been sending the catalogues out to all of their customers, both big and small. It's just that all of their wives or girlfriends have found them first and turfed them out.

+1 Would definitely agree with this point as the last Heritage Auction had a huge number of books that fell far below what I was expecting. With some of them even failing to hit condition guide prices which is definitely not the norm when it comes to nicely graded GA books.

Exactly why I said that Jon tended to lose interest in the mainstream titles as time went on. Adam: Any idea if this 18,000 comic book collection is referring to what Jon had over his entire collecting life or what he has left at this current point in time?

Don't believe Jon was really that much into the mainstream D.C. and Timely GA titles, except for the keys, as time went on. Books like that were really left more to collectors like Ayman Hariri when he was compiling his "Easy to Buy If You Have Money" collection while Jon was busy compiling the true "Impossible Collection".

Oh drat, I knew I shouldn't have brought that up again. Just let Fishler know that my word is still good and I'll be sure to pay off my invoice once the market catches up to the astronomical prices he was so noted for charging back in those days.

Well, then my copy of the catalogue should be arriving any day now since I brought something from them in their #One Auction. Or has my good customer status already expired since that was back in the early 90's?

What you are seeing are the full extent of the complete descriptions for the various auction lots. Unlike Heritage which have complete written descriptions and associated "embellishments" in order to help raised the potential bids and selling prices on their books, CC basically expects the books to sell themselves given their strong customer base. The only exceptions to this would be key books, classic cover books, or some HTF books that rarely ever comes to market. Almost a case of "underselling" their books in a lot of cases when they are probably deserving of at least some attached written description with them. Not exactly the best scenario for consignors of non-key or non-classic cover books, but it is what it is. Especially when you are looking at auction fees of only 10% versus HA almost 30%.