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GA 1937-1949 Atom 1950-1957 SA 1958-1970

I will second that request....give us real data....

these guys are not Ha or CC or CL who have vast experience in putting the good stuff first to draw attention to the collection......

I did a look thru on the PBA site on the Batman books....I am underwhelmed most of the early books are restored or in very low grade....I could not believe the number of .5 books there. Yes there is the quanity...but man the quality is just not there.....shocking in a way....besides disappointed

Those were the days...when $10 was a lot money and a Twenty is like wow!

I did not see it, but I have question for you. Are you going to bid on any of the books at PBA...if not could you give board members here a heads up on in your opinion the rarest and best you would buy in the auction coming up....for example had hard was to get the Phanton Stranger complete set, I know issue is tough to get!

Church Riley Promise

Not a big books over 10K....$100-250 all day long

some ultra rare DC books which he knows are very very rare based upon his vast experience bring together the collection

I noticed that Kirby/Ditko paved the way for the 1968 creative explosion....it is great to see how marvel evolved step by step...thanks for the great postings...it appears the other creators "got it" and went with it....

still no catalog......I wonder if Ian will purchase the real hidden gems of this collection?

WOW...I bought that off the rack when it came in...I have seen it for50 years or so and still remember some of the images, I think I remember buying another one. Thanks for the recollection from the past!!!!

spot on...what is your prediction for 1.5 restore coming up!!!

Final Result: TTA 1.8 unrestored is $9600.00 with a lot of day of bidding!!! Note: looks looks like a very nice TTA 2 4.5 unrestored is coming on the next big Ha auction...that copy looks great. One copy to go...coming the 1.5 next week on Ha

TTA annual 1 auction to begin at Ha in 20 mins. Overnight price movement up as price is $3800 (4500 with BP). I think it’s heading to 5k.

They are selling at the same time individually…. But putting a whole set in just a weekly auction does seem risky .. one every week better!

I have never seen this before.... a complete EC tales of terror annual set 1-3 in a weekly auction on Oct 22. They must be ramping up the weekly ones!!!

BREAKING NEWS... New copy of TALES OF TERROR ANNUAL 1 coming to Ha weekly auction Oct 22-24... As you are aware TOT#1 is being auctioned this Saturday on Ha and the current bid is $3100 plus BP.......However a complete set of TTA 1-3 are being auctioned off in the OCT 22 weekly Ha auction. the three annuals are graded #1 1.5, #2 5.0, and #3 5.5 are restored. Talk about a chance to get TTA 1...this is the greatest window I have seen in 50 years of comic book collecting and this will be affordable . In looking at all of those 1-3...I think the grading is solid on all of them. guesses on on 1-3 prices...TTA #1 1.5 has great contents also...COT17, TFC 20, WS 13, VAULT 13

History in the making...best move would of been getting Harvey like 50/50 but Al was a solid sub...and the rest is history...great summary thank you!!!! But Trump 1/2 were great, but not MAD....he sort of raised the baron those. One question is sales...does anyone know how issues 1 sold and issues 2....on trump.

Wi second that!!!, I have had lunch with Bill, but the whole gang....just wow

let's give the promise collection room to breath say 5 years....then look back....we are not even finished with 2023 yet

4 days to go in auction and its at $3100 (3700 with BP)....gonna be interesting to see where this goes

Apparently taschen books will be coming out with ASM vol 2 next...you should write the foward and set the world straight , by the way these books are worth every penny...outstanding quality and when larger you notice details you never knew.

I can remember early 1960-1 and they used have a thing called "gas wars" and my dad commenting on the fact we were paying only 25 cents a gallon. So I agree with you that money was hard to come by,scarce. We bought a single family house with a detached garage and nice yard house in Belmont California circ I think very early 1962..Jan for $17000. When we left to go to Sacramento cira 1964 we sold it for a amazing profit of like 5K...I think we got 21K or 23K. Today that house on Zillow is way over 3 million dollars....3.5-3.7. Which brings to me an interesting point. A point I have never addressed publicly about my purchase of the Action #1 for an astounding over 3x time price guide at the time. What in my DNA cause me to do that. Well it was something that was taught to me by my parents. something learned. My parents were avid coin collectors. Not jus the run of the mill "Red Book" go to the coin store typical collectors. They joined a local coin club, went to shows, and their best friends were big time coin collectors. Their Son older than me was a comic collector...big time, I was too I had say 300 and he had several thousand. I can remember a time of tension, and outright disagreement as to how dedicated collectors they really were. My father was the go for broke collector and my was too buy say 90%. Anyway my dad wanted to purchase a set one round and one with edges Pan Pacific Gold coin set which I think..don't hold me to it was $5000 at the time...maybe 10K....now Mom wanted a bigger house, a lot bigger house than we had, Dad wanted the coin set. They went back and forth on which way to go. Their coin collector friends sided with dad I was there like a sponge ....."saying that the value of the coins will never go down only up and they were in top condition and That is rare to get a set. It was a stretch all the way. My dad said something I will never forget....This is what a true collectors do...go to scary places sometimes....that was my understanding as best for my age. Well today they probably worth say 400-500K or something like that set wise. My dad did sell them when we moved to Sacramento to help pay for the more expensive bigger house with a giant yard in a quite suburb called Carmichael CA so it was a win-win in way for the family. I learned that, when I paid a absurd price at the time, and some say reckless price...I did not care if I lost all the money....if I was laughed at, if a comic book dealer at a convention refused to see me books because I ruined the comic book market so be it. True collectors, comic, coin,and stamp sometimes have to...take a chance and go with your gut....it seems when you do...the rewards for far far greater than the purchase itself.

I think 1953 is one is the least hardest. But coming for the 1970's those annuals, especially for CA collectors were just impossible. I think NY collectors were able to buy them off the newsstands much easier. TTA1 is a truly rare book and I think I the Ha copy coming up for auction is a great opportunity to get it.