Bronty

Hilarious! Kudos on the original thread idea!

too much awesome for one thread!

such a great cover... and name! Someone helped out cgc with a prescreen grade near Orogo's foot as well.

maybe so and its a changing of the guard in a very real way as well; this is an estate sale after all.

I think All New 8 is an amazing cover, but something about the logo and the colors don't grab me as much as some of the others.

Awesome. May I ask which ones you own? I thought the whole run was with the Verzyl's.

Good point. Although I suppose we do have some idea of what to expect from the Timelys... come to think of it !

I agree. Who wants to get into a battle until 3am

I mean wasn't that basically the case for the first 15 years? CGC was at least partly owned by Jim H and Steve Ivy wasn't it? I think I remember reading that.

wow gorgeous

and being later than these books you'd think they'd only be in better condition if that's even possible.

You may be on to something there!

just a matter of how bad you want something. I bought something for a little more than that once, but only once. I sold something else to cover the cost. All you really need to bid 175k on something is a collection that has 200k in liquid items in it; its not that high a bar if someone has been collecting a long time and has items with FMV far above cost. Obviously if your collection has 5m or 20m of items in it, it gets a lot easier. Not every buy has to be you dropping 200k, it can also be a 200k sideways move. Only a few people can drop 200k every week like its nothing, but the market at that level isn't just made up of those people. Its also made up of those who will consign other items, those who are willing to go into debt for a while to pay it off, etc etc.

gorgeous! congrats.

more great ones. (although BCM50 is hard to beat).