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Detective Comics #421 FN/VF $20 Neal Adams

Detective Comics #419 VF- $25 Neal Adams Looks better, but there is a small tear/crease mid-spine between the D and E of Detective Comics along the spine.

Detective Comics #417 VF/NM $50 Neal Adams

Detective Comics #414 VF+ $30 SOLD Neal Adams

Detective Comics #413 FN+ $15 SOLD Neal Adams

Detective Comics #412 FN $15 SOLD Classic Neal Adams cover

Detective Comics #410 VF- $40 Neal Adams cover and interior artwork.

Detective Comics #409 FN- $12 SOLD Neal Adams cover Copy 2

Sorry for the late start, but here are the rest of the Detectives............................ Detective Comics #409 GD/VG $6

I agree to a certain point, but you are underestimating the number of collectors, both male and female, in their late teens to early 30s that have come into the hobby. These collectors buy discounted trades or digital comics for reading, and then spend their $$$ on keys at shows and online. Up until 2009 I was worried about the future of the hobby since it was basically males 35 and up that would buy the big books to fill their runs. It almost seems like the more technology oriented we become as a society, the more widely accepted comic book collecting will become. As far as big collection sales for comics, if you are talking collections that are mostly copper age and newer, then yes, there are plenty out there. However, OO bronze and silver collections have become much harder to find over the past 5 - 6 years. It used to be easy to land 3 or 4 nice OO collections each year here in Alberta. Now, they are either being passed onto the OO's heirs or have been sold off long ago. Even the assembled collections are not surfacing as readily as they used to. I think OA is an older market than comics due to one major factor - the cost of OA. You can buy a nice copy of almost any SA or BA key for $10K (except for AF #15, IH #1 and SC #4). That does not really get you into the game for anything of equivalent value in the OA market. You need deep pockets to play the OA game - dropping $2K on a mid grade Hulk #181 gets you the biggest BA book. With OA, that gets you a cover that came out last week.

The trends I have been seeing since 2010 at the local shows is that the average age of comic collectors is dropping, there has been a huge influx of female collectors, and they spend readily on keys at full sticker instead of filling runs. I think that this will keep the hobby run through the Millennials at least. The only difference I can see is that as the older keys get out of reach the money will pour into newer keys that are more relevant to the younger collectors. We have been seeing this the past few years with seemingly any CA book with a 1st appearance of substance hitting the $200+ range in CGC 9.8 even though the prints runs back then dwarf anything today.

They just buy ETFs? Sounds like they know just a bit more about investing than people still buying higher fee mutual funds only. You should be posting emojis at all of their conversations.

And that is it for tonight as I just fell asleep at the computer. I will be back with the rest of the Tecs through hopefully GLs tomorrow night.

Detective Comics #408 FN $30 SOLD Neal Adams cover and interior artwork Copy 2

Detective Comics #408 VG/FN $20 Neal Adams cover and interior artwork Copy 1

Detective Comics #407 FN $30 Neal Adams cover and interior artwork Copy 2

Detective Comics #407 FN- $25 Neal Adams cover and interior artwork Copy 1

Detective Comics #402 VG/FN - $20 SOLD Name written top of front cover and then on interior front cover (Becky Coleman) Neal Adams cover and interior artwork, 2nd appearance of Man-Bat.

Detective Comics #401 FN $15 Neal Adams cover Copy 2

Detective Comics #401 VG $8 Neal Adams cover Copy 1

Detective Comics #399 FN $15 Neal Adams cover

Detective Comics #397 FN+ $30 Neal Adams cover and interior artwork

Detective Comics #395 FN $50 SOLD 1st Neal Adams batman interior artwork in Detective Comics.

Detective Comics #387 FN $30 SOLD Reprints Batman story from Detective Comics #27, Joker cover.

Detective Comics #383 FN $10 SOLD