RareHighGrade

On 8/13/2023 at 1:10 PM, adamstrange said:

Or with his name on the cover?

Yes, those are the best of all.

On 8/13/2023 at 3:19 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

I'm not sure I understand the appeal of the Larson books. Even if you can overlook the writing on the cover as a "pedigree marking," most of the ones that I've seen appear to have foxing or rust on the staples or both.

Many Larsons have some foxing and some have slight rust on the staples, but most books in the collection have white (or at least ow/w) pages and a freshness similar to Church books.  That freshness is what appeals to me.  I also prefer Larsons with the name written on the cover over those without, just as I prefer Church books with the distributer codes.

On 8/10/2023 at 9:06 PM, RareHighGrade said:

This was hilarious.  Was it an SNL comedy sketch?

Batman #12 in CGC .1 condition (I didn't even know CGC had this low of a grade):  "$10,000 easy!"

On 8/10/2023 at 12:40 AM, Cat-Man_America said:

While I don't agree with every brilliant philosophical utterance of the late great Stan Lee, he did make an astute observation (excelsior!) in suggesting that Alex Schomburg was the Norman Rockwell of comics.  

With all due respect to Stan, Creig Flessel was the Norman Rockwell of comics.  One need look no further than Flessel's covers for the early More Fun and New Adventure issues to see why.

Aa lot of nice copies of books we don't see very often on these boards.

That's a tough run to complete.  

Edit.

On 7/30/2023 at 8:45 PM, tth2 said:

Now I'm a bit confused as to what CVA is.  I thought they were basically a grader of eye appeal/QP, as opposed to a grader of structural defects (which is what CGC is supposed to be).  Are you saying that they are actually a grader of the grader and their primary role is to confirm the accuracy of CGC's grade?  If so, do they take the book out of the CGC slab to do this assessment? 

I'm not an expert on what CVA does, but my understanding is that, upon request (and for a fee), they will inspect a book that Clink has up for auction.  They don't take it out of the slab, but they evaluate whether the book looks better than its assigned grade.  At least one of the owners of CVA used to work at Clink.  Here's an example of a CVA certified book.  It looks like a 9.6 in hand.

As a buyer of books at auctions based on CGC grades and scans, I disagree with the suggestion that this type of certification provides no value.  Most of us have had the experience of buying an auctioned book that appeared to be properly graded, only to be disappointed with how the book looked once it was in hand.  On the two occasions that I purchased books on Clink that had the CVA certification, once I had the books in hand, they appeared to be one to two grades higher than that assigned by CGC.  Based on this personal experience, I am willing to pay somewhat higher for a CVA certified book.

I've never bought a book that was certified by QES, so I have no opinion on the value of that company's certification.

On 7/20/2023 at 6:06 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I didn’t notice any outlandish value changes, but I haven’t had time to completely analyze. Anyone notice anything unusual in any particular area or book?

Can someone either post a scan of the Top 100 GA page or give examples of a sampling of those books so we can get a sense of how OS views the market increases/decreases over the past year?

  Yes, now I see that I shouldn't have taken that sale at face value.

  Further proof why books like that should be sold through one of the auction houses rather than Ebay.  That was a fire sale.  Had it simply been listed here on the Boards it would have gone for much more.

I wonder what that guy would say if he saw Bedrock's collection.  He'd probably have a heart attack.

On 7/15/2023 at 4:43 PM, lou_fine said:

I was lucky enough to find a beater copy (probably G/VG) of the supposedly scarce More Fun 127 in a box at the local comic con last year and the dealer dropped the price down to the equivalent of roughly $105 USD for me to buy it.    

All of the last few More Fun issues are relatively scarce, especially in grade.  I think that DC issued fewer copies at the end of the run and even those that were issued were not snatched off the shelves by many buyers. 

On 7/15/2023 at 11:17 AM, Marty Mann said:

I've always liked the last 7 issues of the run with the Howie Post covers.  Do you have the other 6 Marty?

On 7/13/2023 at 8:56 PM, sfcityduck said:

not a finicky "rare high grade" guy.

Hey, I resemble that!  

On 7/13/2023 at 8:58 AM, sfcityduck said:

I can think of a lot of reasons:

• Heritage has many other priorities whereas PBA will likely make this a main focus;

• Many books are lower grade and PBA has been doing a good job on lower grade book auctions so far;

• They might like the people at PBA;

• PBA may have a much better cost structure;

• The advantages of selling through Heritage mainly apply to high priced and high grade books which most of this collection will not be;

• Heritage might have wanted to cherry pick;

etc. add your own.

These are good points, but even collectively they will not offset the massive disadvantage of going with a site that is unknown and unused by most GA collectors.

On 7/9/2023 at 4:04 PM, woowoo said:

With a December 1936 date? Detective 1 changed to a March 1937 when it hit the stands. I would love to see your whole 1935 to 1938 titles.

I've posted a lot of the New Comics and New Adventures earlier in this thread.  But here is another issue from the run with an ad for Tec #1:

On 7/9/2023 at 3:48 PM, woowoo said:

look at the date from the first Tec 1 add. I think it's more fun 16 the other one is more fun 33.

 

More Fun 16 and New Comics 11 both have ads for Detective Comics #1.