Spiderturtle

For the 7.0-8.0 unrestored nice appeal non marvel chipping copies: 7.0 $45-50k? 7.5 $65k? 8.0 $80k? Good estimation of current market values?

I think Joey D. sold a copy for about $50k few months back. And I'd wager that even if someone made a full price offer for that copy on comiclink that it would be conveniently "unavailable". -J. Thanks for the heads up

Per gpa last 7.0 blue sold for 41k in 2014. Cant find any recent transactions. Anyone know of recent transaction. See the $57k listed on ebay and $50k on comiclink

Per gpa , Last 4 sales of 3.0s have been 10k plus, with the last at $12.5k.

Ok. :shrug: truly don't exist in abundance and few select real individuals have been created into an urban legend that drives many of these discussions into even greater levels of speculation (highly likely). I agree with your urban legend thinking

Back to the topic of af15, please!

Ive sold a total of approximately 30 af15s since 2009. Mostly low grades. None of them was sold for a loss. Also they sold quickly, about less than a week after trying to sell them

Famous last words. If Af 15's go down then the hobby is obviously dead as well. Speaking of "long lines", there are, as I type, 25 copies of Fantasy #15, in various flavors, on eBay alone. If there were people in line to buy them, why would so many copies be available for sale? That there are lots of people who would pay "for the right price" or "if they had the money", but that doesn't really count, does it...? I would buy one for the right price. Am I "in line" to buy one? No. There are long lines for Fantastic Comics #3. There are plenty of people in line for a copy of that book....any copy. And there have been times...hard though it may seem...that even the "third most important comic" has gone down in demand, and therefore value. The ones on eBay are only Buy it Nows with well over market value asking prices. Just because there is a line to buy them doesn't mean people who have 1% of a brain are going pay 5.0 money for a 2.5 copy. Dealers can't keep them in stock. They come in and sell very quickly. That illustrates the point. Price IS a factor that is preventing these "long lines" of people from buying one. If the price was ever spiraling upwards, what is "5.0 money" today would be 2.5 money in time, right...? The point, of course, is that there IS price resistance, which means the people lining up to buy them aren't willing to do so "at any price", which would tell you isn't *as* desirable as some may believe. And who are the people buying them? Are they people who want them because they want them? Are they people who want them because they believe they are good investments? Are they people looking to flip them? I would like one for myself, but they are far beyond what I think is reasonable to pay, in any grade. If one comes along that is substantially under current market, obviously I'm going to buy it....but not to keep. And I am part of that "base of demand" which will keep the value of an item above a certain level...but that base is always changing, and never as solid as one might think. Gators 2 steps forward 1 step backward makes sense. Ignore the buy it now listings since those are overpriced and also the seller probably sells it off ebay to ssve on fees. If af15 crashes then the whole silver age and later market will also crash. Safest long term investment i can think of. Even if did crash or is stagnant thens its a good buying opportunity to flip a year or so later

Sold bunch of my lower grade af15s to get these 2. 5.5 and 5.0

Famous last words. If Af 15's go down then the hobby is obviously dead as well. That makes sense to me, most desirable book for me since i cant afford the other 2 top books

On what do you base this conclusion? Not saying a disagree but why do you see prices continuing to perform well? When the 5.0s was at $10k 5 years ago, i had posed the question if it would ever double to $20k in 5 years. Some well respected boardies including gator said no b/c too many copies in existence. The last 2 sales were 17.4k and $18.75k

I feel the 5.0 and above af15s will have a strong stable upward trend in prices even if theres more than 10x currently graded in existence. The demand side will hold up once more supply becomes available. 5.0s with no mc is a good benchmark for good eye appeal

Nice, a definite keeper!

Its definitely not a rare book, but collectors are keeping them for longer periods rather than flipping them and so there are less copies on the market and demand only seems to increase. Hence the price escalation. Good sumary

Great eye appeal!

David paid super fast. Very easy to work with. Thanks!!

Jeff, bought a key and everything was super smooth, great to deal with!!

Ron, gave me a super deal on a hulk 1. It was shipped super fast. Packacking was super secure!!

+1

Sold an avengers 1 to Brad. Had a super smooth transaction. Thanks!

Nice!

newest 5.5, a keeper unless I can upgrade to a better 6.0

Prices look about right to me. the pence 5.5 looked nice.

Jared Super fast paymfnt snd super smooth, highly recommended!! (thumbs u

just picked up recently, best 1.0 ever? 1.0 b/c coupon cut off of back cover and last page the 4.5 I picked up 6 months ago