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Definitely not a Larson since there are no Sky Blazers books listed in the Larson List that was compiled by Joe Tricarichi.

Well, then it would be tied for the record high for this grade as a CGC 3.5 graded copy also sold for the exact same $12K back in April: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/mask-comics-1-rural-home-1945-cgc-vg-35-white-pages/a/7270-93037.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

Not coming out of nowhere like this FC Mickey Mouse finishing up at $6,600; but I also thought this World's Finest was a bit of a surprise: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/world-s-finest-comics-9-the-promise-collection-pedigree-dc-1943-cgc-fn-55-white-pages/a/122218-11887.s?type=bidnotice-tracked-endofauction Especially since it finished up at $6K or over 8X condition guide value for a mid-grade copy with the census indicating another 25 copies in higher grade plus a further 5 copies in the same equivalent grade. Then again, even though it is a Hitler cover, maybe it's also the Promise label that makes all of tjhe bidders lose their sense of reality when it comes to bidding.

Haven't watched Moon Knight since I don't have the Disney Plus channel or whatever they call it, but feel your comment would definitely apply to the Doom Patrol show.

Yes, if anything, GA has expanded way beyond the big two (i..e. DC and Timely) with some of the biggest percentage gains in some of the 2nd and 3rd tier publishers, especially in some of the lower and mid grade copies due to their affordability. Heck, it's even gone into the pre-heroes with some of the early DC New Adventure/Adventure and More Fun issues selling for 20+ plus condition guide in raw condtion and including a few of them in Incomplete or restored condition.

Look again. $8500 now Keep on looking as it's now at $8,750 or $10,500 including the Heritage BP juice.

Get one of your employees or a buddy to bid for it on your behalf so that you can pay full market price for the book and see what it's really worth at the same time.

Talking about the seeming "abundance" of Mask 1 out there, it looks like we have another copy available in this weekend's HA auction: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/mask-comics-1-rural-home-1945-cgc-vg-35-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/122218-11629.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 Sitting at just over $5K before it closes on Monday, it appears that it is running at less than half of what an equivalent CGC 3.5 graded copy managed to fetched a few short weeks ago as posted above, but probably should get there in the end.

I'll call you for sure when it dips below my purchase price point that I had to pay for my copy because there'll be a lot of crying on the boards here if that ever happens.

I would be more than happy to paid their token "lost item" fee if it's for a copy of either Action 1, 'Tec 27, or any other valuable comic book.

From a pure arithmetical POV, this would be dead wrong as you have just made a round trip back to where you started from. For example, if a book doubled in value from $100 in 2020 up to $200 in 2021, and then dropped by 50% in 2022, you are now back down to your original $100.

I would most certainly hope so in order to drive out all of the industry insiders and the follow the sheep local speculators who buy multiple pre-builds with absolutely zero intention to live in or rent them out, but simply as investment chips to artifically inflate the real estate market for a fast profit, while our younger generation is left out in the cold.

Now, that's definitely a blast from the past and it's simply amazing how many long ago active boardies have seemingly left the comic book marketplace in the interim or not bothering to post here at all anymore. Interesting to read the posts from Brulato here as he certainly considers himself to be THE MAN in this marketplace while everybody else is just a sonny boy to him to be seemingly almost treated like a bug at the bottom of his shoe.

EXACTLY RIGHT, as their submission system makes absolutely no sense at all since it's based upon the submittors determining the vlaue tiers to submit when we don't yet know either the grade of the book or if it's been restored which would kill the value of the book being submitted.

Like a walk in the park on a sunny day with a lot of beautiful red roses in comparison to the 80% decimation which some of equity growth stocks in the stock market have taken over the past few months.

As I had alluded to in an earlier post, would they truly be comparable now since grading standards have changed rather significantly since Brulato got all of his still highest graded Marvel first appearance books graded some 20+ plus years ago. Especially since this was most probably before CGC got a chance to shall we say, "refine and fine tune" their undisclosed grading standards.

With the volatile and uncertain global economic situation out there right now, I believe they are kind of caught between a rock and a hard place with this Larson copy of Bat 1 at this current point in time. I see it as a rather tough sell with a market cap set at $1.8M and possibly even harder to sell it complete on its own in a regular auction format and be able to make money on it since it was purchased at a price point of $1.47M dollars.

Well, that didn't seem to hurt the sale of the Church copy of Superman 1 because didn't that as you would say, so-called "restored" copy sell for over $5M. Besides, with the ongoing refinement in CGC undisclosed grading standards, isn't it pretty much a given that most books (even if they are residing inside a blue Universal slab) would have been considered to be "restored" if you go by the old definition of restoration that was in place prior to CGC being outed on these boards here back in 2005 or thereabouts.

Nolan Ryan Yes, you are indeed correct as I just Goggled it and although Dave Parker did signed a 5-year $5M contract back in January of 1979, the deal was actually made up of a $650K base per year, with the rest comprised of deferred payments and incentives with posssibly some of them unearned. So yes, Nolan Ryan was the first million dollar player as the his contract starting for the 1980 season at 4 years for $4.5M was not laced with either deferred payments or incentives.

As @comicjack had already mentioned in his post up above, probably nothing more than a case of too many copies coming into the marketplace in too short a period of time. Probably need to wait until prices consolidate before they take the next leg up, which also happened to AF 15 a couple of years ago and now take a look at it taking off like a rocketship during the past years\. Another book that has seen a lot of copies coming to market over the past few years at rather astronomically high prices is Chamber of Chills 19 with the classic PCH cover. Not sure if this one has plateau yet or not, but would expect it to, especially considering the high number of copies out there as I believe it was part of a warehouse find back in the day.

Nolan Ryan Although Nolan Ryan is indeed acknowledged to be baseball's first Million Dollar Man, I find this to be a bit strange since I thought Dave Parker had already signed his multi-million dollar multi-year contract earlier that same year back in 1979?

I still find it rather surprising that it would take something like 22 long years for a second copy to finally join the first CGC 9.8 graded copy of Spidey 1. In fact, as per a post from another thread here, I found it rather interesting that ALL of the highest graded early Marvel first appearance keys were all graded pretty much right when CGC first opened their doors and have yet to be surpassed save for 2 of them: Makes me wonder if this has anything to do with how grading has changed over the years since grading is seemingly different today from when CGC first opened their doors. Especially with respect to their shift in focus on various types of defects as time has gone on. I also wonder how much longer we will have to wait before we see more of these highest graded Marvel first appearance keys from 20+ plus years ago be surpassed since we have yet to see if with all of the large number of these key books certified over the past 2 decades.

I guess it's pretty much low those raw low grade copies of the pre-hero Adventure and More Fun Comics with some of them even in restored condition that were still selling for thousands of dollars or 20+ condition guide value in a few of the Sunday auctions back in late February and March. Contrast that with the graded copies that came out in the April Signature Auction and they surprisingly did not do anywhere close to what the raw copies managed to fetched.

Any idea if they managed to sell the remaining 80% of the IPO shares for the Larson copy of Batman 1 at the market cap of $1.8M? If not, is Rally on the hook themselves to cover the unsold shares or do they return all of the IPO money to the investors?

Well, probably not at the time it was originally sold as I believe the Action 1 ended up selling for something like $25K while the Church house was sold for $30K back on June 1 of 1977: https://www.redfin.com/CO/Denver/2331-Julian-St-80211/home/34082948 Definitely worth a whole lot more then just 5x the value of his house taody since it sold for only a relatively piddly $625K with a list price of $610K back in September of 2020. Looks like home prices have not done very well over the interim with this house selling 7 different times during this time period, but I guess still a nice return on the original $30K, but nothing at all compared to what was stored in the basment.