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Indeed I have nice copy Bill...will look great with your Bat 1 its my book, I am just lending it to bill for a bit (under 6 months )

Indeed I have very shortly to be mine bwaaawaaaa

Ciorac does

Ain't that a hoot? Well it is definitely more rare. We will have to wait and see if it gets recycled as often. I hope not ! I'm sure being the highest graded copy obviously played a significant role in the final hammer price. All things equal would it still be worth more than the Marvel? if there was only one cgc 9.0 (and library of congress copy to boot) of marvel 1 brought fresh to market my guess it is would sell for way more than 281 (I know I would be willing to pay more for it than the whiz)

I'm out now. 182,000.50 was my max my 175 didn't even register

Yummy

I've enjoyed the first 5 episodes (thumbs u

didnt reveal anything from issue 4 did I

Ill still read it. But I am not going to "beg" my customers to buy a book they apparently are no longer interested in ...their choice and thats good enough for me (thumbs u

i know. But it was to the boy/cops son and wasn't nec "revealed". Alien/mutation/? That was their explaination to me as one of the reasons why they were dropping (that and too many tangents and story threads introduced but not expanded on in any kind of orderly fashion ) (thumbs u

the two that dropped said once it went alien it lost them. I think the story is ok but nothing great. And it is progressing very slowly IMO Yeah... I'm a fan, but Seeley and Norton need to pull an Emeril and kick it up "Another Notch!!" i concur. They have introduced lots of story variables but in 4 issues have developed virtually none (cops sisters "murder"....CDC involvement...mysterious horse death/presumed alien kill now...demon slayer ,etc)

the two that dropped said once it went alien it lost them. I think the story is ok but nothing great. And it is progressing very slowly IMO

simply a matter of talking to and getting to know your customers (and I know every single subscriber we have!) Diamond damages a lot of our comics, rarely an issue , as folks actually read and talk about the stories in my store (thumbs u

i think its more likely people following the price, because they are down, bailing out. I doubt its people dropping on the story, but rather speculators moving on. not at my stores. We don't have a single speculator buying these issues. All readers (thumbs u

now that issue 4 is out, I actually have several subscribers dropping the title...I think the story is ok, but nothing earth shattering...doesn't bode well for long term "health" of this title, methinks

I just sold one of mine for $2.99 less discount second one (we only got 2) I am giving away during Xmas promo

I will certainly be an active bidder on the copy!

All of our copies are cherry (thumbs u

at last count I believe they were upto 6 (thumbs u

Why the discrepancy? If it sells for $250K, why is that not its value? In the early days of fandom, whiz 2 and Action 1 went toe to toe, with action 1 being more available in higher grades. Both books hit the 1k mark first. But the new comic that hit the stands in the 80's sold very well the first issue, but lacked the punch of the marvel line, and began to drop off. If they had not brought in the new version then Capt Marvel would of have been the stuff of legend's and would of at least put up a good fight but the new books tarnished the value of the old and hence CM has been lost. As people forget the 80's crapp, the value is gonna come back and big time. For years in early fandom, the Whiz 2 book was so "good" that the second and following issues just did not measure up to that, when they ran the 12 issues or 10 issues iconic battle...they were back and an excellent hardcover reprint book full size in the 80's or 90's. CM has a long way to go, Only a sharp, and I mean really sharp veteran collection KNOWS the only way the book is gonna go is UP. BUT the short, quick sale, double your profit in an instant is not gonna work. It is gonna take time, more time to really let the book find its place in comic book value history. A great long term hold, a great book itself, condition is amazing....the best book of the year by far to be offered at auction. I stick by my estimate 251K, I stick by my value 457 9.0, 506K for 9.2, 539K for 9.4 with 1 million in the future for 9.0 or above, especially if the white back cover is super clean. This is gonna take BOTH a collector and Investor to pull the trigger. absent a hot movie series that wakes up interest in Capt Marvel, the book will always only appeal to serious collectors. based entirely on its faded status as one of comics early mega key books,,,,, like many other faded GA "gotta have" key books from back in your heyday in the 70s. Theres less and less reason to ever expect the values to rise sharply every year that passes. sorry. go ahead and buy another copy. better yet, sell yours now before it loses even more value... though its really doesnt matter for you since you are probably into it for 5K or less. hey, maybe this IS your copy! Aman, you sound like this book is just "another" book. This iconic book is an ultra key, ultra rare, and has lots of famous history in it (Beck art for one). Shazam will 4-ever be instilled in the hearts of MANY. The value will catch up in time. (thumbs u I personally like shazam more than superman My childhood of the 70s revolved around shazam tv show...my grandmother made me a shazam costume (and then Proceeded to beat my rear end when I lept from furniture to furniture...what'd she expect ) That said whiz 2/1 in general is a tough sell. Sure this phenomenal copy will do nicely and in general better results from unrestored copies reselling versus restored but over the past 10 years this book has been flat or even gone backwards. I would not "bank" on any major value increase short of some major rehauling of the character, which there has been no evidence of for decades As mentioned i believe I have owned 10 copies over the past decade and I struggled (with 2 exceptions) to even get my cost out when I sold. But I love the book and the character so never really concerned me!

I'm a catch and release kind of guy

here is a pretty copy I had the pleasure of owning

here is the book , when I owned it: