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Does anyone know what page rate Baker was paid? and for covers?

Ugh, this business trip is killing me! Again, I'll post some clean scans of the #1's when I get back, but in the interim I stumbled across this pic on my laptop that I took a while back of my 1-20 run.

 

 

Unreal archie collection!!!

Mighty impressive!!!

FF#50 9.8 $44,000 Eeeek.

New news to me.

 

I did not know a 7.0 sold last year.

Sold at a CC auction about a year and a half ago. Something like $65,000

What is the CGC 7.0 worth that was sold last year?

201k

So how did a Whiz #1 get stolen??

Someone took a whiz.

was a ring of thieves last year at NYCC

So how much you quietly pay the thief?

So how did a Whiz #1 get stolen??

The (to date) highest graded unrestored Whiz Comics #1 will be up for sale in the next ComicConnect auction in November/ December. The unreal 9.0 ( ) with off-white to white pages was just graded on Oct., 23rd

 

Not sure if this copy has been around in a different grade, but it looks great!

 

Link

 

 

 

 

George.

Very Impressive.

I'm pumped up about three books that I bought recently. Sorry for the lame pictures.... I don't have a scanner. These aren't super high-grade like many of the museum pieces that I've seen here recently on the boards, but for what they are, Farrell pre-code horror, the condition is stellar. They all belonged to a single collector who spent many, many years putting togeter an Ajax/Farrell collection. One reason I am very excited to have these books is that they are in very similar condition with vibrant colors and good page quality. Each has a cover crease, but not much in the way of edge tears, chipping or chunks. It's very difficult to put together a nice run, and unless you're a multi-millionaire, you have to go for books that are less than NM to do so. And that means finding books with similar defects and appeal. The collector of these books did an admirable job.

 

The first book is Haunted Thrills #5 with what I consider to be a classic skull cover. I love this one...

 

What a great cover!!!!

Written at the Dwelling of a Recluse

 

 

Even though you have a brushwood door,

it hasn't been shut for a long time;

 

a few clouds, a few trees

have been your only companions.

 

Still, I suspect if you stay longer,

people will learn of this spot;

 

we'll see you moving

higher on the mountain.

 

--Chia Tao (779-843)

"Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City sailor wana hump hump bar or is this getaway day, and your last shot at his whiskey. Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here."

Wall Of Flash . . . .

 

Wow, very very cool.

 

Great group of some great covers.

Wonderful

Read it on Scoop.

Saw that an Avengers #1 9.6 sold for $250,000

I think he is overrated and unoriginal. I don't understand the fascination about him. Lichenstein copies a panel, including the text. Where is the art in that?

 

A comic artist on the other hand only has a rough story or plot or even tight scripts to work with then he has to use imagination, originality, composition, to create a scene and tell a story.

 

Comics is a dying breed. Digital are is the way to go to meet deadlines. People buy comics digitally, but the new generation of kids don't even read comics anymore. They just want for the movie adaptations.

 

Once comics will be on life support and the printed page will be a thing of the past, original comic art will be accepted to the mainstream art and values might keep rising the same way that pop art is quite high now. But I don't think it will ever reach in the millions.

 

The difference is that Lichtenstein was marketed to wealthy collectors where as comic book artists were marketed to kids.

Went to a garage sale a few year ago in Maine. Found a pretty nice Hulk 181 for $50. Sold it on ebay the next week for 400.

What Marvel needs is a G.A. Human Torch/G.A. Subbie movie that culminates with a battle ala Marvel 9.

100k is a killer sale for a killer book.

From the link below:

 

http://www.vcstar.com/photos/2011/apr/10/124397/

 

Looks like the Cage copy is a bit more miscut and less wear. The new ComicConnect is amazing even with a lt PQ.

 

The book in the article is the 8.0 Kansas copy. So that is not Cage's copy.

 

Metro has recently added a CGC graded 4.5 unrestored copy of Action Comics #1 to their website.

 

http://www.metropoliscomics.com/load_bookDetails.php?id=411122&enlarge=0

 

 

Given the "Classic cover" notation on the CGC label, it would have to either be a relatively recent submission or a re-holdered book.

 

Still, I don't recognize this copy...could this be the famous Nicolas Cage Action #1?

Not sure which book that is. I do not believe that this is Cage's copy.

L.B. Cole estate auction is ending soon. Never really paid much attention to Cole books before. Having said that, those covers sure are pretty.

What happened to all the LB Cole Star original art?

I'd love to upgrade this someday, but it's not an easy book to find. Still, I wouldn't mind having a copy with more red in the logo and blood.

 

brutal

Jeez Joe.

 

Five copies of the same book with a total of 13 covers.

That's a lot of covers. Was it something about the printing of this book that lends itself to having double covers?

What about #88? #89?

I remember talking to a collector in 1996, he paid $1,000 for a NM Fantastic Four #1, and $800.00 for a NM Green Lantern #1 out of the comic buyers guide in around 1982-1984 or so if I can remember.

 

And you actually saying this is the same thing?

 

No one is disputing that a high-grade copy of NM 98 has some value and that Deadpool is popular character.

 

What is so incredibly humorous is that someone is willing to pay such a huge premium for a totally arbitrary 1/10 of a CGC grade difference.

 

It's interesting isn't it that we choose to use information in whatever way suits our purpose.

 

Because another way to look at it is that, if in fact what you are saying is true, that it is "totally arbitary", then there would not be only 1 9.9 and 396 9.8s. If it was "totally arbitrary", then statistically there should be many 9.9s as well as many 9.8s.

 

A single 9.9 versus 396 9.8s would lead one to conclude that there may be something about that book that is different from the 396 9.8s.

You know. I don't think that is true.

The sad part is to get it to $12000+ there had to be more than one insane person bidding.

In an auction, it sometimes takes one to tango.