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Folks there is not ONE board member that would perfer super dog to cap...that has to tell you something it, and its gonna hit a billion, and if anybody from warners is reading this , I challenge them to let me come to the studio and review the R rated version....before I buy it at best buy

Not sure if anyone posted this but it sure is funny

 

Nice Youthful Romance Dr. but I kinda prefer the more "adult" version...

 

He's getting a little handsy!!

Thanks Pat. There you go Adam. It was offered by Weird Tales in the '30's. It was free for an SASE. Too bad there wasn't a badge... I have seen only one other one that sold in a Hakes auction many years ago. I think part of the reason for it's scarcity is that it was a club aimed more at adults than children. Most of them really didn't care as they were more interested in the stories.

Latest Hakes auction had one link The card was made out to an "Eldon". I believe this is a different Eldon than the comic book one. How many Eldon's were in early fandom anyway?

These Baker books should be called banker books lately for the prices they are getting

Ain't that the truth!

 

Boy, sometimes it gets tempting to unload the pile of Baker books, but then the wife gives me that stern look, and the temptation quickly fades away.

 

Really? So, your wife is the one who says, "Be patient and hang onto the books because they'll be worth a lot more in the future?"

 

That's great. More often than not, it seems, it's the wife or girl friend who's... well, let's say, more in favor of liquidating the collection.

Well, she actually says, "you will never be able to buy them again, so why do you want to sell them?" Plus one book is her favorite, and if I ever kick the bucket, she would sell the collection, but keep that one book.

 

Which one is that

This one...

 

She has excellent taste

Also - there's a CL 26 1.8 on Ebay - $85 with 3 days to go. Now that's one to watch closely. It'll almost certainly break $100 and if it breaks $150....

 

 

 

Hey Andy, would you please send a link to the CL 26. I can"t seem to find it..

$141.50 with a little less than a day to go

WOW!! Unbelievable copy

Largest Monday in March

 

It crashed in china day 4 only 4.58 mil...record drop..check out Variety web page article B v S box office fall short in china...and based on the fact that march is not month in the history of the box-office in which blockbusters are dumped, thats right dumped..they chicken-out when going toe to toe with Cap civil war and put in march to save face..after Deadpool hit the jackpot they should have changed the release date OR and this is a better idea put the R rated version in IMAX for the fans and PG dumbed down version for the kids in the regular theaters...now which version would you have paid to see?..I know what 99% of real fans would see

What would make it R rated?....deadpool is an R rated character... Batman, Supes and WW are PG characters (right)...

Expanded bathtub scene with Lois and Clark

My copy. Hmmm.. maybe time to encase this one too.

 

 

Wow. Beautiful copy

Beautiful

And finding the "right" copies is even more difficult

 

So far, since the beginning of this year, there have been 39 St. John romance books slabbed. The average grade on these books is 4.16. However, of the 39, only one was a 9.0 and two were 7.0's. If we take these out of the mix, that leaves 36 books with an average grade of 3.87.

 

The common hypothesis is that a rapidly escalating market flushes out books. If so, what kind? It could be that they are predominately undercopies, to give eager collectors a chance to own Bakers at more affordable entry points. Which could drive high grade Bakers up even faster.

 

 

Here's the recent 9.0. Happy about the grade, although I sure wish that shadow along the edge wasn't there. But can't get too picky about such a tough book.

 

Beautiful book Tony

Fourfold increase over three years

 

Do you genuinely believe that book has increased in value 4X since 2013?

 

Sounded to me like a prediction of the next three years, not a statement of the previous three years. The latter doesn't necessarily follow the former.

Hmmm So the last GPA on a CGC 6.0 CL 25 was $2188 almost 3 years ago to the day... and last night some lucky soul won a book of comparable grade (although raw for approx. $2100) ... so I guess we'll just have to wait and see when the next graded book comes to auction....

 

That book last night was a raw vg. It had a lot of edge chipping.

 

That book wasn't a VG. The chips were very minor, made to look larger by the close up pics.

Looked like a 5.0 to me. But very well presenting with nice gloss

Congrats to the Cinderella Love 25 winner. I was the underbidder.

 

..... you should have sold the car, dawg GOD BLESS....

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

I could have gone higher without selling the car (probably), but I get sticker shock on anything above $2k these days. I don't have the gumption I once did, as a younger man.

It was a very good effort I knew that book was going to explode

Congrats to the Cinderella Love 25 winner. I was the underbidder.

Wow!!!. Great price on that one - $2102

Agreed that TLP 10 is a great cover that is underappreciated. Its problem is over abundance. I've seen dozens of them over the past 15 years. Another very common book is Pictorial Romances 16. At one time, Metropolis had something like 4 or 5 copies for sale, all at the same time. In the case of that book, though, it's additionally burdened by not being the greatest cover Baker ever did.

 

True about PR 16. Almost makes me wonder if there might have been a warehouse find.

Interesting. On a related note does anyone have a top 5 list of most common to find Baker romance books - even if they are not exactly falling off of trees

My bad, I am thinking of this one

 

Artwork was taken from the cover of Master #45. I think Raboy was gone by this time and they were using swipes and/or unused material

Well I'm hoping a boardie got it least. link My snipe bid didn't fire and I am bummed out

 

If anyone is wondering who got that copy of Giant Comics Editions #15, it's now for sale here on the boards. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=9148768&gonew=1#UNREAD

 

It was me...worked something out with the seller (but had to pay substantially more than that auction price)

 

Whoa! You mean he wouldn't honor the auction price? Very uncool of him.

No he was cool - remember I wasn't the auction winner there - but I suggested if he worked it out with the winner of the lot and pulled that one book that I would give him a very fair price for it. So everyone was happy ultimately.

Well I'm hoping a boardie got it least. link My snipe bid didn't fire and I am bummed out

 

If anyone is wondering who got that copy of Giant Comics Editions #15, it's now for sale here on the boards. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=9148768&gonew=1#UNREAD

It was me...worked something out with the seller (but had to pay substantially more than that auction price)

 

I have a hunch she will get her own water from now on

Well I'm hoping a boardie got it least. link My snipe bid didn't fire and I am bummed out

I enjoyed it. Appreciated the "Plastino" reference

Shame Ian Levine isn't around these days...I hear he has an obscure DC or two...

 

So rumor has it....

 

Wasn't one of the Leave it to Binky's among the last books he needed?

 

Buzzy 70 or something like that?

 

You could be right that it was Buzzy, not Binky.

Yes it was Buzzy 70. I'm the one that found it for him

Pretty strong considering not just the condition but that it was listed in the "wrong" category: Books --> Magazine Back Issues

Yes I noticed that too. It thought somebody might steal it..but not so

Thoughts on the CL 25 that just ended today?

I asked Stephen about it this weekend. He said that it became logistically difficult with Matt in FL now plus family, kids, etc.I think he said a third or so of the book is done but a third party company recently approached them to issue chapters electronically - to keep it alive to some degree and whet people's appetites. I hope something happens with it.

Claudio has just sent me a wonderful new GA rarity for my collection. Tops Comics (Jack of Spades). The transaction was entirely effortless. Without question one of my favorite boardies!!!