Alzabar

It looks like the exhibitor list is available.  I see CGC Grading listed as an exhibitor. It would be great if they were taking submissions.  Anyone know for sure?

Al

I think we can all agree that it is a great book.  I will definitely do whatever it takes to win it.  I didn't know how I would pay for it, but then I realized that the answer was right there on the book itself ... American Seeds!

When I win the book, I'll just put it on my credit card.  Once I have the book in hand I will crack it out, cut the coupons (one goes to my buddy who will give me a 10% cut of whatever he sells) and before the end of April I should have enough to pay off the credit card bill.   You have to admit that this is prime seed selling season.  The only thing that I'm not sure about, and I would like your input on is whether I should get:

a) All Flower Seeds

b) All Vegetable Seeds

c) Mixed Vegetable and Flower Seeds

Thanks for your help.

Al.

OK, how about this.  Are any boardies planning to attend? Any dealers on the boards attending?

I think the last time I went was in 2006.  It used to be a good show for comics.  How has it been more recently?

Hi,

    Does anyone have information on the dealers/exhibitors who will be attending this year?  Thank you.

Al

Got an email today from Heritage that said that the April 7-10 auction will be  "Our final Signature auction of the Promise Collection."

When I search Promise on Heritage I find that they have sold 2601 books from the collection and have a further 630 at auction now or coming up soon.  That's a little over 3200 books.  I thought the collection numbered about 5000 books.  Can none of the last 1800 books warrant being in a Signature Auction? Thoughts?

Is there a list of exhibitors available?  Thank you.

4 hours ago, szavisca said:

I know there’s no answer to this but its interesting to ponder... how much more if anything is this cap 1 worth as a highest graded due to it being a 9.8 vs what it would be as a 9.6 or 9.4...

To me this book isn’t just the highest  graded cap 1, it is the highest graded GA megakey...and I think it’s the only 9.8 among them all.

I’d personally have HA seek out buyers on my behalf and solicit offers, and see if they could pry an insane offer out of anyone.  I suspect they’d allready be taking offers on it at this point anyway even if unofficially.

Anyway I suppose if the owner is worried about not getting full value for it at auction they can just put a ridiculous reserve on it.

  

I think that if the Church Timely books do come to auction through Heritage they would probably do something like what has been done with prominent coin collection like the Gardner collection that Heritage auctioned or the D. Brent Pogue collection that Stacks/Sotheby's did.

The books would be spread out over a series of auctions as opposed to being all in one auction.  There might be reserves on some of the major books just as there were on some of the Pogue coins.

I'm sure it would be marketed as the John Verzyl collection of Mile High Timely Comics.

How about this:

1) List the book on the boards.  Set whatever price you want (?$12,995.) See if you get any interest or offers.  If it sells, then you avoid any fees.

2) If the book doesn't sell here, then check out the auction houses as Moondog suggests (great advice on how to deal with the auction houses.)

According to the census there are 163 other copies in 4.0. It seems likely to me that you could find another one for less than $35K.  That said it is not a book that I follow closely, so maybe that is where the market is now.

It was a nice 4.0, but is $35K a bit high for an AF 15?

My impression is that Heritage is working to further set itself apart from the comic auction competition with things like the first Platinum Night and auctioneers who are celebrities in the antiques world.  I don't think that this will make any difference for the core comic collecting community, but it might be an attempt to lure collectors from other categories into the game.  I do agree that with the really important books (e.g All-Star 8) something should be said about how wonderful the book is.

Nicholas Dawes of Antiques Roadshow fame. I'm noticing a theme here.

The auctioneer is Elyse Luray.  She's been on History Detectives on PBS.  Do you think she is getting lower final prices than someone like Barry who might talk more (and maybe know more) about the books?

I have often wondered what other people think the key issues are in the Sensation Comics run.  The ones that come to mind immediately are:

 #1 - for obvious reasons

#2 - First Etta Candy

#6 - first lasso

#13 - Bowling pins cover

#68 - first Huntress (although not in the Wonder Woman story)

# 94 - First "all girl" issue

Any others?

A related question is what are the "classic" covers.  Two of my favorites are:

#26 and #35

A pickup from the Comiclink auction. I love the symmetrical composition of this cover.

Here are a couple of pickups from the Comiclink auction.

I can't say that I really like the romance issues of Sensation, but I seem to remember an article by Michelle Nolan that appeared in CBM that said that of those issues #97 was the scarcest, so I thought I would pick this up:

The #106 I like a lot more. The building in the background reminds me a bit of Rockefeller Centre. I realize that I don't really know what city Wonder Woman is most associated with. I guess it is Washington D.C., but this cover doesn't remind me of that. Did she "live" anywhere else (aside from Paradise Island of course.)

This is my first purchase from ebay in about 2 years. There are a few gems there every now and then I guess. The Big Apple copy just went for over 3K (I saw the book in San Diego and it was beautiful) which was more than I could afford, then this appeared on ebay, so I felt very lucky. Of course, I could have bought the Mile High copy in San Diego - it was also a 7.5 like the Big apple copy and the asking price was only $12K. Anyway here it is:

A couple more pick-up from San Diego.

The Mask 1 I just could not resist. I bought it from Jamie Graham just as the show was starting on Thursday.

And probably the best score from the show - Blue Bolt 105 from Ted at Superworld.

Just thought I would post some of my San Diego pickups. It was a great con and it was nice to connect with a few of my fellow board members.

First is Sensation Comics 35. I bought this from John Verzyl. It is one of my favourite covers of the run and couldn't resist the white pages. The Okajima pedigree has such a great story behind it too.

The Wonder Woman 18 I got from MrBedrock. 18 has never been one of my favourite covers, but now that I am going to complete 1-20 I needed a copy. Thanks Richard.

And thanks to Bob-a-loo (and his recent purchase) I was able to get a #1.

Congratulations Bob. How many more of the Crippen copies do you need now?

Here's a pickup from the Heritage Auction.

Nice pick-ups. Both of those were my books. (thumbs u

 

Hi Skybolt,

I knew the #3 had been posted on these boards a while back but I couldn't remember who had it. I had a post in WTB looking for a #3, but I did not find a copy that appealed to me. I see that Comiclink is featuring it as a one of there record setting prices in their e-mail about their recent auction. Oh well, it is a book I expect to have for a while, and I would have been disappointed to have lost out on it.

Al

Well I finally got my books from the recent Heritage auction so I thought I would show them off (the other one is in the Wonder Woman thread.)

I really like this cover: