ChasingKingKirby

Tony is a great guy to deal with. Fair prices. And Spot-on Grader.

That's just shrewd marketing if you ask me. :thumbsup:

I THINK this was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was four in 75, so it was probably early 76 when I saw it. It was NOT a movie that I should have seen at 5. It was a full week before I would get in the bathtub without shrieking.

Dear Lord. I keep looking at that Cap 1 expecting to see "Reprint" on it somewhere, because my mind can't accept that its real. Unbelievable. Wow!

Lots of stuff on the horizon for Hulk. Rumored to be in Civil War, breakout performance by Ruffalo. Hulks stock has never been higher. Wolverine is another story.

If this thread is still going on, I'll on a bundle of short boxes.

Flash 139 is ON FIRE. Look at GPA. Way up in all grades. You could get mid grade copies 2 years ago for 20 bucks,

Can't believe mine is still the highest graded SS in the club.

Yup. That is always the case. GPA is about 60% of the puzzle on most books. DD1 is a pretty heavily traded book in most grades though.

Prices don't seem to be jumping up as much as I thought in the 7.0/7.5 range. Heat looks to be on lower grade and higher grade.

You lost with elektra being "decent", I can accept DD being "decent" but not Elektra, god that movie suuuuuccccked. GL was bad, but not nearly as terrible as Elektra.

Hmm? Noticed my copy didn't port over from the old thread. Had this copy since 2012. Here it is:

It didn't happen then, because that poop stain of a movie ruined Daredevil for years. Just like the Green Lantern movie sent prices tumbling for GL keys. When movies are done well, (or series), then the books take off. This also applies to speculative fever before the product is released. (See Flash, Avengers, Iron man etc.)

I, fortunately, was able to hold onto my DD 1 7.0 SS copy. Very curious to see what keys shoot up in response to this. I'm betting on ASM 50, DD1 and perhaps DD18 if it becomes "relevant".

Haven't started watching yet, but I hear the series is phenomenal. DD keys are in for a surge...

I separated in 2013 and finally got the much needed divorce late last year. It's a rough ride. Hang in there Matt. It gets better.

DC Camp. Either love it, or hate it. Batman survived it, why not Aquaman. :shrug:

It was. Sorry. I'm just curious as to what opinion is about it. Is it because that character is Earth 1 Aqua? is it the ridiculous Octopus?

Seems to me if someone is (now suddenly because of a movie appearance) an early Aquaman "key" collector, the books to have are Adventure 260 and BB 28. Despite all the requisite ebay mis-information and carnival barking Showcase 30 is not an important book (from a substantive point of view) and is superfluous. -J. I would not characterize Showcase 30 as superfluous. It is certainly a key because DC is testing out the Aquaman character in his own full-length book for the first time ever. I think it's fair to assume that a lot of kids in 1959 didn't get around to reading the back-up feature in Adventure 260 where Aquaman's origin was tinkered with, so Showcase 30 on those spinner racks targeted and won over a lot of readers. In addition, Showcase 30 is published about a year after the launch of the revamped Green Lantern, one month before the launch of the revamped Hawkman, and a few months before the launch of the revamped Atom. Historically speaking, the book comes at a critical point in time during DC's superhero rebirth. Interesting discussion. Any thoughts as to why Adventure 229 is given little to no weight? Collectors basically disregard it, though it seems to "truly" be Aquamans first silver age appearance. I realize that 229 is "Earth 1" aquaman, but isn't this comparable to Swamp Things first appearance in HOS92? That wasn't the character that is now the mainstream Swanp Thing, but rather the introduction of the concept.

+1 That's also a modern looking Stan sig. It's placement looks very "CGC Signature Series-ish" to me. I'd wager it's a signed PLOD as well. Definitely one that's probably best kept raw at this point. Still a nice looking book though. -J. Have to admit, that URC looks unnaturally sharp... Wonder if this has had the ole razor treatment.

Likely a former SS that somebody cracked out? Either way it would never be a blue label now so it's pretty obvious why it's being sold raw. -J. Why wouldn't it be a blue label? CGC will downgrade for the sig and slab it blue if there's no resto or other issues. Sure, they could qualify it. But doubtful the seller would want that.

If 10K is all that's left, then Baby Boomers destroyed almost 95% of the extant copies. Damn you baby boomers!

there certainly could be 20K....I'm just reporting what every major dealer I've spoken to seem to think (myself included)... Joe V told me , at one point, sparkle city had, what must have been 500 copies of af15 in their inventory (must have been in the 70's?)... so 10% could be out there...but keep in mind, collecting really surged around 1965 or so, so there was a small window where comics might have been lost/disposed of at a higher rate.... but, who knows...about the only conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a "lot" of af15's in the wild....but how many, we will never know with any real confidence... It's true, we'll never know for sure, but it is fun to speculate. This thread has been so popular, maybe we should do similar threads for some of my GA Faves like All Select 1. The census number on that is only 80 copies.

You certainly have your finger on the pulse of the collecting community more than I do, but I just feel it's difficult to reconcile that there would only be roughly 5% of the print run left in existence for a 1960s book. Collecting was ramping up at that point. Just doesn't feel right logically, but that's just my "gut" feeling.

Joey I was simply paraphrasing you, as even my estimate of 3-5k would still technically be "thousands and thousands" but certainly not on the level of 20k which I believe to be pie in the sky. To address one of your points and another rfoii brought up earlier...let's look at what we see at any given moment on the market. The ratio of slab to raw is in fact the exact inverse of what many are claiming they believe the ratio to be. If there were 20k raw copies still out there that would be a 10:1 ratio, and there would be (should be) at least some semblance of that in the market, and yet there is not and never is. Not even close. Are people seriously saying with a straight face that the "only" time people slab a book is to sell? And that that is the "only" reason we almost exclusively see slabbed copies for sale? Geesh talk about abject speculation. Because no, the only people selling copies are not the owners of slabbed copies. There are raw copies hitting the market all the time. They don't hit often, but they do. Could that possibly be because there are far fewer than 20,000 of them out there? Hmmmm... And as I pointed out earlier, only about 1 in six copies available on the market right now is raw. Am I saying that this means 84% of copies are slabbed? No that's not what I'm saying. But guess what? It's just as likely that at least half have been slabbed at some point as it is that there are 20k still raw. It's also very likely that a significant number of copies have been cracked out and re-circulated and perhaps even re-slabbed. The notion that people are only hoarding raw copies is also nonsense. And wouldn't it be just as likely that people would also hoard slabbed copies? And in comparable ratios? Yes it would be. And yet we see plenty of slabs for sale all the time. The fact of the matter is, regardless of what speculation a person can divine based on anecdotes, and how many copies they might have seen at one point in their lives, no one knows what became of those copies, where they are now, or if they even still exist. All we "know" is what we all can see (and have seen) on the market. And I posit that at any given time we will be lucky to see more than a handful of available raw copies at any given moment, and, as a relatively small percentage of the slabbed copies available at the same time, not because they are "rare", but because a very significant percentage of them have been slabbed. My 2 cents. -J. ....that's where you're wrong, bro. All YOU see is what's on the market. I can take a drive North, South, East, or West and see raw AF 15's...... Just. In. This. Area....... Today. And yes.....as has been mentioned by numerous people in this thread...... MANY people do not slab until they sell. So when you look at books for sale in the open market for pricier books..... of course it is slabbed copies that you find. To assume, as you have, that someone who has kept a book raw all these years will not slab when the time comes to sell is very illogical and very lazy thinking for someone as sharp as you are. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u ...slabbing for protection, I get it....... but my Safety Deposit box is pretty good at that also....... Totally agree with Jim on this. Not everyone I know has an AF15, but a LOT of people I know do. I think there are thousands of collectors out there with AF15s, that a) don't care about slabbing b) don't care about these boards. c) don't care about selling. No one "knows" how many are in the wild, but it is readily available even now for the right price. I truly think at least 10% are still around. Meaning somewhere in the neighborhood of 20K.