DanCooper

Might be thinking of this pic? - on the cover of Overstreet Comic Book Price Update #21 - Anderson holding the Detective 27 (sorry, bad photo quality. Taken from an ebay listing)

Hi Tim, the White Mountain Amazing Fantasy 15 was in the third Sotheby's auction (June 1993). There was a non-pedigree AF15 in this first Sotheby's auction, that graded out to a Fine + though. I don't think H. Anderson was around the comics scene after that inaugural Sotheby's auction in 1991. Whether it was the fading debacles that Lou Fine alluded to or the constant barrage of the sharks circling, who knows? (I don't think I ever seen so many business cards given out to one individual after Anderson won all those lots at Sotheby's!)

This what the current Overstreet is showing on Famous Funnies Frazetta:

From a December 19th, 1991 NY Times article: "The superhero at Sotheby's first auction of comic books yesterday was Harold M. Anderson, the owner of a traveling museum of baseball memorabilia based in Florence, Ala. Mr. Anderson bought many of the most important properties and paid a record price at auction for a comic book with his $55,000 purchase of a copy of Detective 27, the 1939 issue in which Batman appeared for the first time. The price Mr. Anderson paid for Detective 27 far exceeded Sotheby's top estimate of $28,000. It was the exception at this sale, in which many works went unsold and many others brought prices below Sotheby's expectations. In an auction of 362 items, 265 were sold for a total of $1.2 million, below the house estimate of $1.4 million to $2 million. "I think comic books are on the ground floor of an explosive market," Mr. Anderson said minutes after he acquired the rarity, 1 of about 100 copies of this issue known to survive. "We have a baseball traveling museum and compared to baseball memorabilia, comic books are somewhat underpriced right now." On Display: Bam! Pow! Zap! Mr. Anderson is the president and owner of the Treat Company in Florence, operator of the baseball museum, which shows its exhibits in Wal-Mart stores. He said he intended to expand the museum's displays to include comic books. Most of the other major comic-book properties in the sale were also acquired by Mr. Anderson. He bought many of the first issues of comic books, paying $29,700 for a copy of Action No. 1 from 1938, a 10-cent comic book in which Superman made his debut. And he spent $28,600 for a first-issue copy of Marvel Comics from 1939, showing Human Torch on the cover. Sotheby's had estimated it would sell for $40,000 to $80,000. Toward the end of the sale, at which he spent $229,845 for 21 items, Mr. Anderson said that not all of his money went for superheroes. He spent $4,675 for a copy of "Funnies on Parade," a 1933 compendium of newspaper comic strips featuring characters like Popeye and Mutt and Jeff. "It was one of the neatest things I bought," he said."

Apologies if this has been mentioned somewhere prior, but it looks like Overstreet is going to put out a guide next year (Fall 2024) devoted solely to war comics. Ad running in current Overstreet #53:

Here's a question I've always pondered, if John Jones/Martian Manhunter's debut/origin was in, say, House of Mystery #44 instead of Detective 225 (both November 1955 issues) would it be a $50,000 book in NM- 9.2? The Batman "bump" can't be that great, considering Detective issues 217-224 are $1,400 in NM- 9.2 in Overstreet.

Found this online. https://www.hagley.org/research/news/hagley-vault/1954-comic-book-george-w-helme-snuff-company-featured-snuff-salesman

I think someone mentioned this earlier, but it looks like that "bridge" era between Gold and Silver (aka "Atomic Age") is being ignored by Overstreet, which means books like Detective 225, Adventure 210, etc. fall to Golden Age.

Probably high 70s to high 80s. Saw Steve Borock in his OS advisor's report wishing Bob O. a happy 85th birthday!

Sorry for the photo quality:

"Dr. Balls" is just a CGC handle name. His true identity and how he acquired the card can be explained below (for you "Zodiac" aficionados!)

Sotheby's did 10 comic/comic art auctions from December 1991 to June 2000 (one per year). Jerry Weist was involved with all 10.

Buzzy 70 was also one of the last remaining books to be found in Christine F.'s complete DC collection (Girls' Love Stories 56 was actually the final book). Joe Vereneault was instrumental in helping her complete the DC collection. I would ask Joe occasionally, to share with me a list of remaining books needed for the collection, in case I stumbled upon any in my journeys. One day, while searching ebay, the Buzzy 70 surfaced and was in an auction format. I alerted Joe about it and was looking forward to seeing the results. The auction went on, with nothing crazy happening until the final moments. The book hovered around $20 or $30 most of the auction time. I remember watching the auction the last couple of hours and there was an ebay bidder whose name was "jimcorrigan" or "jimcorrigan1" (this was back in day when everyone could see bidder names on ebay auctions). Joe would place a small increment bid and then "jimcorrigan" would come back and raise the bid a few minutes later. This would go back and forth for the remainder of the auction. I asked Joe if he knew who "jimcorrigan" was and his response was something along the lines of "Dumba**, Jim Corrigan was the Spectre!" DUH! Needless to say, Joe's side placed an incredible high snipe bid at the last second and secured the Buzzy 70 for the collection! (don't remember the final auction price, but I think it was around $100 or so. Still high for a VG/VG+ Buzzy 70 then, but well worth it for the purpose!)

878 Broadway NYC.....hmmmm Directly across the street from where Metropolis Comics was located at one time! (873 Broadway) Now we know where Stevie and Vinny got that massive Indiana Jones-size inventory from! By tunneling underground and finding some time capsule hidden away in some wall across the street! Can you say "From the Bengor Pedigree Collection" coming soon to a theater near you?

I could use words Richard... but these fit better

I had asked about it's whereabouts/status, here on the boards, back in September 2021. Richie Evans (Bedrock) and Tim (tth2) had mentioned the following back then (see below) I believe it is still with the original European collector, who got it through Heritage originally (as Mark Wilson as an agent) It has not. Same guy still owns it. But not for lack of trying. It was being actively shopped around a year or so ago, along with the 9.6 B&B 28 (formerly my 9.4 copy).

Believe that is Disney collector Dave Yaruss next to Naiman on the left

Someone (Dark Knight) had posted this in the Goldin Auctions thread. Book is now an 8.5 in a Pedigree holder, but still has color touch note on label (also retained it's original CGC certification number)

I think John owned the Mile High Pep 22 and Archie 1 at one point. (I believe those are now with Dave the Dentist. Like everything else!) John was definitely one of the unique and colorful characters that made this hobby of ours great and interesting!

This, and what RareHighGrade mentioned prior, are the most plausible answers to the "million $" question! Maybe all will be revealed on the next episode of Goldin's Netflix series!

Tom French at 1974 San Diego:

Looks like there is another DENTIST! https://www.visitkenosha.com/listing/inner-child-comics-%26-collectibles/289/