mikefeen

Both her and my parents, who never seemed to care at all about my comics for the most part, are sure a lot more interested this week when many, many dollars are suddenly pouring in. My dad wants me to call him every night when the session ends to update him. My wife has my spreadsheet up and watches every single auction close. I always told them they were worth a lot and good investments, but I guess they didn't believe me!

Planet #71 was my wife's favourite comic in my collection. So she was happy it went for a price well above the expected one I gave her!

No worries on my end.

Wish I hadn't cheaped out on this book many, many times back in the early 2010s. It's a warehouse find! "Why is it so expensive?", I asked myself. Oops. Also, doesn't the Tomb of Terror #12 seem so cheap by comparison. The dude is going to get a smiley face branded on him by a zombie!!!

Nearly everything has crushed it. I'm happy with basically all the Timelys and Nedors. And lots of weird obscure war covers like the Eagle 4 went crazy. The Eagle 4 went for more than 3X the price I would have been happy with.

Extremely happy with this result! I bought this book on the boards from Filter81!

It's kind of hard to believe I started collecting Planet because it seemed like a cool Golden Age series that was quite affordable. Boy has that ship sailed! For those that are still working on runs, I wish you the best. They're amazing books, but certainly not overlooked anymore.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with the Planet results. A few underperformed by 2021/22 levels, but even those were good results in you even look back 2 years.

You should have bid!

Congrats! Those were two of mine (I think there was only 1 Planet in this round that wasn't mine). These were two of the better deals, so good job! If someone was getting my Planets 'cheap', I'm glad it was a boardie!

Look at how much 'paper' has accumulated at the bottom of that slab. It will be interesting to see what this goes for (disclaimer: this isn't one of my Caps in this auction). I sadly never owned a copy of this awesome book. I think the slabbing of books has really give the brittle and slightly brittle books out there a chance of remaining as collectibles a lot longer than they would have if they were still being stored in traditional mylars. Good chance a book like this would be in much worse shape.

It's mine for a few more hours! Planets have been jumping up in price all day. A lot more action through the day for day 3 than there was on either day 1 or day 2. At least for my books. Yesterday especially, it felt like all the bids for the entire day were in the last 30 seconds of each auction.

Quite possible, but not something I plan to second guess myself over. I also know with nearly 100% certainty that if I waited another 5 years I would get prices that make everything selling right now look like incredible bargains. But for a variety of reasons, I chose now and I'm happy with the decision. If you have books selling this month as well, then I hope you also end up being happy with the results regardless of what happened last year or happens in the future.

So far out of 141 books that have closed for me in the current CL auction, 130 have exceeded my pre-auction expectations and only 11 have fallen below. And only 1 of the 11 has been more than 10% below. Some of those 11 have been less than $100 below on a 5K+ book. So in my opinion, prices remain strong. A few books have more than 3X'ed my expectation number. Maybe my expectations were a bit conservative, but I used the most recent GPA info available a few days before the auctions started closing. I did throw out a lot of the Promise results in my calculations, as some of those just seemed too crazy and unrealistic. Always good to under promise and over deliver, even to yourself!

I live in Canada, so I will sadly be paying all my tax on these sales.

I've never seen this one before! Awesome stuff!

Heritage also has books that slip under the radar. The Cap 2 8.0 below went for $26,400 just 11 months ago, and my 6.5 sold for $31,000 last night. Similarly, this Chamber of Chills #23 CGC 6.5 sold on HA for $5280 a few weeks ago, and mine got $10,500 for a 7.0 last night. So you really just never know what the best time/auction house will be for any given book in my opinion.

It's also impossible to ever know how much factors outside the comic market affect any given sale. Back in November, crypto was still going to the moon, the stock market was similarly on a major bull run, war in eastern Europe was on almost no-one's mind. Even a few weeks ago in the last Heritage auction, there wasn't a war and major stock market instability looming over the sale. Even if none of my books get another single bid the rest of the way, my total is already above the number that was going to make me happy, so it's all gravy from here. That's the great thing about having 315 books in this auction, no single sale makes or breaks it and it should average out in the end.

I was happy with all of these results. The only Batman that went under my (somewhat conservative) estimate was the #12. And it only missed a few percentage points.

The Vancouver real estate market might be the one thing more crazy than the way this thread started!

As the custodian of this copy of Jumbo #11 for the last 10 years or so, I must agree with lou_fine. You do not want to own this clearly undergraded copy. If you add a 7.5 like this to your collection, you'll begin to think all your 8.0s and 8.5s are overgraded and you'll feel terrible. Also, the colours on this one will give you an unrealistic expectation on your future purchases of Fiction House books, as very few can match it. Hopefully a wealthy board member can step in and save lou_fine from the travesty of owning such a comic. Act quickly, as there are less than 11 hours until bidding ends over on ComicLink!

The 6.5.

Sadly, my windfall will come up a few zeros shy of Mr. Frommelt's.

In related news, I'm pretty ecstatic about the auction results so far!

Sold for $230K. By Price is Right rules, you lose. Sorry.