G.A.tor

and a coverless copy but there will be no purge

Love me some spidey 1s

I must admit, while I have always pursued centaurs, some of your recent posts have reignited my interest!!! (thumbs u R, keeping or selling any of those AMFs? i am back to full fledge collecting the publisher....all buying... I made an offer on a nice grouping of centaurs this week that I hope is accepted Good for you. I sincerely regret selling my Centaurs 15 yrs ago. i sold over 200 of mine a couple of years ago... No regrets , though , as it is always fun to collect them back!

I must admit, while I have always pursued centaurs, some of your recent posts have reignited my interest!!! (thumbs u R, keeping or selling any of those AMFs? i am back to full fledge collecting the publisher....all buying... I made an offer on a nice grouping of centaurs this week that I hope is accepted

I must admit, while I have always pursued centaurs, some of your recent posts have reignited my interest!!! (thumbs u

I got a fun little box of centaurs today...

Pq= page quality, not color But you might be right. Maybe I am just on a roll !

There are a myriad of things we, as a comic community, can do to increase that percentage. Just going to take some more effort !

Wow Gator, how did you managed to accumulate so many BB28 in OW PQ. From my experience and what I have seen out there...the average BB28 PQ are cream/off white pages. I admit, I typically recall most SA dc keys as being cr/ow with ow or better being the minority... I have owned dozens of bb28 over the past few years....it is "strange" that the last 6 copies (and the current 3 I have) are all ow or better... I believe it could be the result of a few factors, maybe a softening of cgc pq stance

Supply + demand= price. Since demand remains relatively stable for hg sa keys, the main variable becomes supply...that is not fixed. More and more hg copies either surface or are "created" so I see a continuing of price softening unless something leads to an increase in demand. True or False and why?: The world's population increases daily. Therefore, the population of comic collectors increases daily. Thus, demand for comics increases daily. The increased demand for comics > increase in the population of comics false... There is no correlation between an increase in population and increase in the percentage of that population that enjoys comics Wouldn't have to be an increase in percentage. Same percentage on an increased # = a bigger # Example: Pop: 5 billion % collecting comics: .01% # collecting Comics: 500,000 Pop: 6 billion % collecting comics: .01% # collecting Comics: 600,000 if the percentage were to remain constant, then naturally more folks would result in a higher percentage... but the percentage of comic book fans is not a constant, so elevating quantity of folks still does not necessarily equate to an increase in the number of collectors...

to be honest...maybe at 1/2 price I would get excited buying a copy... it always seems to be available in the market...there is little challenge in obtaining a copy, and in a cgc case, the cover is kind of "bland/generic"... still a favorite of mine, just not a lot of excitement procuring one interesting if that is the majority feeling of the masses? Outside of those that hail the first told origin as a grail (which normally is a big deal in comics). Agreed though, it doesn't have the jolting power of a 29/31 cover that grabs one. The balance of supply and demand is interesting. Everything is quite available at the right price in our Internet society. Rick, comment, if you will, on the following assessments. I'm not really looking at CGC census data but just my overall exposure to copies. Bat 1--decent supply, non stop demand, but at cyclical times no blue copies available for sale. Tec 33---probably less supply than Bat 1s, less demand than Bat 1, always available copies Tec 31-- rarer than 33s and Bat 1, non stop demand, not many blue copies to public market for several months to my knowledge Tec 29--tougher than 31s, high demand although prices seem to be not as crazy as 31s and 35s (did the over exposure of the BW copy affect FMV?), several low grade copies have surfaced for sale and traded hands privately the past year. Seems to be a lot of 3.0/3.5 copies circulating. Tec 35--people say its tough but I don't think it is at all. I say that loosely keeping in mind we aren't living in CBG/mail order/cons only days. Demand non stop and has been moving very strong FMV for several years now. pretty good analysis

I believe the population will remain relatively constant...as new books are rediscovered/discovered, a number will be locked back into collections... with all the modern knowledge and technology today, we are not losing that many books to natural causes....

Supply + demand= price. Since demand remains relatively stable for hg sa keys, the main variable becomes supply...that is not fixed. More and more hg copies either surface or are "created" so I see a continuing of price softening unless something leads to an increase in demand. True or False and why?: The world's population increases daily. Therefore, the population of comic collectors increases daily. Thus, demand for comics increases daily. The increased demand for comics < increase in the population of comics false... There is no correlation between an increase in population and increase in the percentage of that population that enjoys comics

Here are a few pics from our FCBD event last week:

to be honest...maybe at 1/2 price I would get excited buying a copy... it always seems to be available in the market...there is little challenge in obtaining a copy, and in a cgc case, the cover is kind of "bland/generic"... still a favorite of mine, just not a lot of excitement procuring one

my long term experience has been more cr/ow than ow or better.... but as I got to looking at my inv list and recent sales list, I did discover all 6 copies ow or better... and I just sent a lower grade copy to cgc that should come back ow or better...

That's yet another thing folks are going to have to try to get past when looking for those old DC Silver keys.....alot of Cream, tons of Cream/Off White. I disagree with this, and I don`t think everyone should lower the bar so easily. It reminds me of the classic Jon Lovitz skit on SNL telling women to lower their standards. I don`t think it`s that hard to find most early DC silver keys with decent PQ and QP. I`ve seen plenty of B&B 28s with decent QP. It`s not even in the top 10 of hardest early DC silver keys for QP. B&B 34, on the other hand, is a genuinely hard early DC silver key to find with good QP (probably the hardest), but with a little perseverance and patience I was able to find one. I've had 6 bb28 in the past month (3 sold) all with ow or better pq

i have an elliptical in mine

That is awesome. Cardstock cover on that one? Yes. I think all of them through #13 or so are heavy stock covers. thats a pretty 8.0

Can I have one since it is a dead title? the title is generally dead, but issue 8 is on the rise big time! (36 not too shabby either)...

before they all disappear

I prefer 29 over 31. But both is better!

I like it