RareHighGrade

On 4/27/2023 at 2:39 PM, Professor Echo said:

My two favorite Comics channels on YT. Neither focuses on any comics era specifically, but cover the whole spectrum. Unlike some channels I don’t find either host to be full of himself and both are knowledgeable, experienced, good natured and engaging. However, I’m not as into the minutiae as many here, so these channels may seem more for casual collectors, but I often find their observations and deductions intriguing and appealingly presented. YMMV. 
 

COMIC TROPES

This one in particular was well done and very entertaining.

On 4/10/2023 at 10:18 PM, Spyder! said:

My most recent acquisition.

I've always loved that cover, especially the Mini-Me.

On 4/4/2023 at 8:42 AM, buttock said:

I'm on my way!

Be sure to take pictures of Lou Fine's books while you're there so they can finally be posted on the Boards.  I can't wait, it will be like when Jon Berk used to post his books. 

The results on the books I was watching were strong and, in many cases, record-breaking.

On 3/31/2023 at 7:22 AM, tth2 said:

I think the Promise winners received certificates from Heritage promising them (no pun intended) a 10% net fee if they resold on Heritage.

Even with this discount, when you take into account a 10% auction house fee, the average economic loss is 30% in less than two years.  Ouch.

The Golden Age started with Action Comics #1, which was cover-dated June 1938.  There were hundreds of comics published between 1935 and 1938, the most notable of which were those published by DC and Centaur.  However, those books preceded America's entrance into WW II.

On 3/24/2023 at 3:32 PM, adamstrange said:

One of the nicest 9.4s in my collection.

Mike drop. 

Just think of what the demand for the New Comics run would have been like if the covers had been drawn by Flessel and Guardineer.

I remember there being a thread in the General forum about a very prominent collector who had some very high-end books misdelivered by Fed Ex.  I don't think they were ever found.

On 3/19/2023 at 2:07 PM, Point Five said:

Good eye! Never noticed that.  

 

Few people do, having been distracted by Veronica vamping it up off to the side.

Availability could be a factor.  MM #2 seems to come up for sale less often than #3 and there are fewer copies on the census.

On 2/22/2023 at 1:05 PM, MasterChief said:

Update!

Current Promise Collection ROI snapshot.

Chart includes data from January closed auctions, plus a new table with sales data broken out in a month-over-month trend.

(Source: Heritage Auctions, Comic Connect (CC), ComicLink (CL), eBay. Data sorted oldest to newest Sale Date)
 

Great and insightful info MasterChief.  Thanks for your efforts in putting this together.

On 2/21/2023 at 2:54 PM, MrBedrock said:

Just back from CGC

(Testing a new scanner...)

 

I like your old scanner better.  It made every one of your books look NM with white pages.  Well, now that I think about it, they actually were NM with white pages.

On 2/9/2023 at 3:07 PM, FoggyNelson said:

Nancy Wessner had great taste✔️‼️

Perhaps in books, but not so much when it came to deciding where to place her signature.

On 1/31/2023 at 1:07 AM, Primetime said:

On 1/30/2023 at 6:45 PM, aardvark88 said:

Is it the first football cover on a GA DC? Supa-hot, as a football may appear  in 'The Batman' 2 movie?

More Fun 50 was earlier (12/39)

And More Fun nos. 25 and 37 were even earlier.  

On 1/27/2023 at 8:51 PM, Frisco Larson said:

On 1/27/2023 at 8:48 PM, skypinkblu said:

Maybe you can get together with Matt Nelson and finish his pedigree book? Anything I ever learned about Pedigrees years ago was from his synopsis that he had posted.

I had been thinking the same thing and am hoping that some time can be put toward that later this year. 

The sad thing is that, as I understand it, the pedigree book was very close to being completed when the efforts were abandoned.  Almost all (if not all) of the GA chapters had been written and the pages were already laid out with applicable covers/illustrations.  But then, when they were at the 98-yard line, Matt and Steve took on new employment opportunities that prevented them from carrying the ball the last two yards.  If they had just published what they had at that point, all of us would have gladly purchased a copy.  

On 1/30/2023 at 1:58 PM, buttock said:

I have seen absolutely no evidence that it's down.  It's as hot as ever.  

Ditto.

On 1/25/2023 at 9:46 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

 Neither of those is my favorite Fox PL book, and for me PL 23 is close to the bottom of the list. I don't think that one has particularly good cover art. I don't think of myself as a GGA collector, though, so I'm probably not focusing on the same things as the typical GGA guy.

You are correct that many, if not most, GGA collectors focus on certain "things" that are prominently displayed in PL 17 and 23.

On 1/25/2023 at 3:27 PM, lou_fine said:

Then again, unless it was own by Metro, what is the owner's real rate of return after purchasing it for $3.18M and now after factoring in their discounted selling fees?   

This is a good point.  Taking into account sales tax and other potential additional fees, the cost of purchasing it from Heritage a year ago was likely over $3.2 million.  ComicConnect charges a 10% commission, so the original buyer would have needed to clear at least $3.52 million to break even.