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Sixth Street collection?

So what is the explanation for this healthy price? Are Baker books in 8.5 that rare? Is there something about this particular issue? Or is it just the Promise bump?

Congrats, that was indeed a nice pick-up!

I was also surprised the 3.5 MF #35 didn't go for more in light of the earlier sale of the low grade raw copy. It's probably due to the 3.5 having brittle pages and a taped spine. I think the best pre-hero DC buy in the auction was the Cosmic Aeroplane copy of MF #47, which went for only $3,120. Now that was a deal for the buyer.

Apart from the brittle pages, which I know is a big deal, that copy presented very nicely for a 5.0.

And can you post a Polaroid photo of it?

Recently, most of the action on big books has been occurring during the live HA auction, often driving the price to 3-10 times the earlier highest bid. I suspect we will see big jumps on all of these ashcans during the live bidding. This auction will likely raise the values of all GA ashcans, including those that are not in the auction. I wish I had bought the Action ashcan when it was auctioned.

I know where the #26 is hiding, it's not in Northern Virginia.

Even more surprising is that these two low grade pre-hero issues each went for over 20X Guide ($4560 and $4800, respectively). Seems like the pre-hero issues have suddenly caught fire.

Great set Rick!!

MF 122 and 123 each have only two CGC graded copies, despite having in-demand Howie Post covers. Lou, we would love to see some of the HTF books you picked up in the old days.

I must have been looking at a crystal ball when I made my statement. It ended at 6x condition Guide ($7800).

it's already at 6x condition Guide with 4 days to go.

It's interesting how different Novick's artwork on that cover is from his other covers, such as Zip 19. Were the covers not both signed by Novick, I would think they were by two different artists.

In my experience, Tec #24 is the rarest. but Tec #3 is the rarest (actually non-existent) in high grade.

Talk about WHITE pages!

I just noticed that HA has an extremely nice looking Tec #24 (CGC 3.5) that will be in tomorrow's auction. That issue is one of the rarest issues in the entire run; some folks say the rarest.

Gotta love those oversized books from the early years of comics.

A lot of folks are just accepting the premise that the Promise collection's backstory is the basis for the record breaking prices. I'm not convinced. I think it may be due more to the fact that this is the first collection since the Church find that has so many books in such high grade (including ow/w page quality). That, combined with the opportunity to buy in at the ground floor as well as the unique societal circumstances (shutdown, bitcoin, booming stock market), created a perfect storm for these nosebleed prices regardless of the backstory.

What is the financial incentive in this for Rally Road? Does it retain 50% of the 180,000 shares? Thus, when the 90,000 available shares are no longer available at $10 per share and buyers become willing to pay $20 a share, Rally Road has just made $900,000? My point is that Rally Road must be holding onto a large number of shares in order for this venture to be profitable for them. And it's possible they could make this profit based solely on consumer demand for shares rather than on whether the actual value of the book has increased. Can anyone here shed light on this issue? Knowing how RR makes its profit would be useful in evaluating the safety of the investment.

6x Guide? That seems to be the standard markup these days.

CC scans are always darker than the actual book. Sometimes the dark scan makes the book look better, sometimes it makes the book look worse.

How did this thread drop to page 3??!

The fact that they don't calculate the total cost including premium during bidding is a big turnoff for me. When I'm bidding, I don't want to have to consult my calculator each time there's a new bid. If Heritage can provide that minor service, CC should be able to as well. The only rationale I can come up with for not doing this is one that reflects negatively on the auction house.

Based on the front and back cover scans, which show the edges of the interior pages, it seems to be largely intact despite the "slightly brittle" designation.