Mr. 10%

cool article bro - do you even have an Af15?

 

Yes. Two copies.

 

Do you own a lot of original art?

 

No

 

So you're not the member formerly known as Krazy Kat?

 

You're obsessed with this belief. For the gazillionth time - no !

 

 

Sure, but to my knowledge you've never addressed it directly.

 

You certainly do post A LOT like him.

so are you ABSOLUTELY sure you are not crazy cat ?

First one that came to mind:

 

disappointingly distatefull sig placement.

but hey, what can you expect. its the exelsior dude making $$$$$$$

It seems high grade 9.2+, well wrapped copies are being held onto by collectors. I haven't seen many copies at auction or even on ebay lately.

 

I agree. I think part of the problem is not many HG copies actually exist. SPJM was not the most popular title and I don't think it saw the same speculative interest that other bronze titles did.

 

The census (while only a poor proxy) is interesting in this case. Only 558 graded copies total! Only six in 9.8. and We haven't seen a substantial rise in those numbers since the book's price started to climb. So my feeling is the census won't ever explode.

 

As a comparison IM 55 has 1969 copies with 53 in 9.8 and ASM 129 has 6320 copies on census with 89 in 9.8.

Thought provoking figs ...

I might just go get my HG copy soon ....

I just need to flip my beater first.

Wow that is an awesome run of Tecs. I hope one day I will have a collection like that!

Impressive. A complete pre-robin bat tec run. Very rarely seen these days.

must've run you a truckload of green. Well done!

My collection is worth....*drum roll*

 

Tree fiddy

 

I need about that much.

ahh "tree fiddy" is a board classic

I'm done!

 

 

Now just need to upgrade my 34.

 

I dare not even speculate on what kind of price tag the market will currently dictate on a book of such magnitude. Wow ...

Chucky smokin crack ?

at the end of the day youll be real happy with the ownership of that book.

congrats

 

Mods off probationary period!

it was removed due to obscenity

Cap 1 right now is infinitely more hot

Marvel 1 in the greater scheme of things is superior in terms of historical importance.

as a collector il have to go with M1

I wouldn't sweat that $1250. I keep looking looking at the book and I know it has that whatever-it-is on the lower left corner but it's such a sharp looking copy.

 

By the way, and you might already know this, but I was looking for comparison copies on Heritage and found the same book sold for $23,302.50 in 2014.

 

And the back cover looks amazing.

 

 

Stellar copy man.

Thats a keeper

Looks like now I have 2 copies

 

 

what it go for?

The reason art continues to go up is because there is a different and wider appreciation for the masters and the key factor is, there is only 1 of each piece. The exact opposite can be said about most comic books. I feel we have only seen a fraction of the books on the census, there are a lot of unslabbed keys out there and many who choose not to publicize what they have.

look at it this way:

if you want an authentic picasso his total output would be around 900-1100 pieces from which you choose.

if you want a 1st batman well there is about 50-100 tec27 copies known to exist.

which one is scarcer?

To me, a better gage of which book is top dog is to compare sales in the low grades.

 

If an Action #1 and Tec #27 both came to the market, CGC blue label 2.0 with say, off-white pages, both presenting equally well...

 

How much would each sell for?

tree-fiddy

I prefer the new guy.

 

 

 

That's OK, good taste isn't a prerequisite for posting here.

 

My apologies, your opinion must be right.

whether you are right or not depends on your number of post Counts ...

Yeah a little . And thanks, Darkseid is by far my favorite villain so I love this book!!

As I've preached on here an number of times: Darkseid is imho the singular severest bad aZZZZ across the MCU as well as the DCU. No competition.

End of rant.

Two recent AF 15s sold by consignors (should pop up in GPA within a day or two):

 

AF 15 CGC 2.0

 

AF 15 CGC 3.0

2.0 = 8 K

This is not funny anymore.

Il have to suck it up and get a copy soon. This book is only goin one way.

I figured i could wait it out. But c est la vie.

Just got back a nice looking Hulk 181 in 9.0 but it has (B-1) color touch on the front cover. What would a fair price for this book be today?

Tree-fiddy

Hate to say it, but I thought his DC work (from Jimmy Olsen to Kamandi to New Gods to Mr. Miracle, etc.) was garbage, as was his Captain America run in the 200s.

 

The one exception to this was his incongruously _awesome_ work for DC on the Losers in Our Fighting Forces.

so lemme see if I get this right? everything from Jimmy Olsen to Kamandi to New Gods to Mr. Miracle, etc.) was "garbage"?

Huh?

X-Men #1 CGC 9.6 (white pages) has been sold on ComicLink asking price was 350 000$!! Last time I saw a 9.6 (although not white pages) sell was in 2013 for 250 000$.

insane

Hey I got one of those! Can I join the club?

 

and two boxes of undercopies ?

Back in the early 80s, I got my first exposure to Kirby's work. It was his 70s stuff. At first I didn't care for the block fingered, squiggly line style but it slowly grew on me. I think the turning point might have been when I went to my LCS and bought all 16 issues of the Demon series. (for the princely sum of $12)

 

I opened up the first issue and saw the image below

 

 

 

 

I was blown away. Still am today.

I consider Kirby as the undisputed King of superhero comics. No one above him. No one beside him.

I take off my hat for Kirby. Now and for the rest of eternity. God bless him!

That stack of OA haunts me-over and over.

I remember one of the covers was Strange Tales 178

say no more.

I cant bear reading this ...

Darksied is surely a fascinating villain.

Hands Down, the singular severest bad azzzz across MCU as well as DCU imho ...

I think JO 135 is still underrated because if falls in-between the other books but is very significant

yep its the Tec 28 of the bronze age