Red_Hood

If the back looks like that, the front will have the same issues. For a 1988 book, I would expect no higher then 4.0

Eh, I thought it looked decent enough. It would take a few paragraphs to describe all the flaws.

Is this a new record price for a Very Good? Sales Thread

To this day I still do not understand this complaint. Ensuring the product is good in favor of rushing out whatever they can on schedule is the entire reason we like this comic. Monthly drek is readily available elsewhere. 60 days to write and draw a "good" 16 page comic book is not rocket science. If they can't come up with compelling stories in a sufficient time frame then they are only going to hurt themselves. You lose your audience as the gaps widen. In today's "gotta have it now" consumerism society it's too easy to be hot and then not in the blink of an eye. The reason I say it's killing the book is because I and a few peers have seen the drop in interest and sales. People aren't asking for it.

When is issue 7 going to come out? These delays are killing the book!

Snagging collections "for cheap" depends entirely on where you are. Maybe in Canada, but here in SoCal, it's simply not possible. So true, up here I can throw a dead cat and hit high grade collections all day long. I was in California this summer and traveled up and down the coast and there was nothing but garbage to pick at. Mind you, my trip wasn't about finding comics, it was to relax so maybe there is stuff out there but the shops carried rags for back issues and everything was priced the highest I've ever seen. Interesting. We are fortunate here then with Copper and older collections. They pop up on a regular basis. For example, last night I picked up 700 or so book that included a NMish run of Sandman #1-75, a nice run of Swamp Thing #37 - 171, and New Teen Titans/Tales of #1-59 plus a bunch of other nice books (e.g. Transformers #1, 3, 4; Power Man & Iron Fist #56 up, Avengers #190 - 230, some Tecs, GLs, Spideys, etc.) You and I live parallel lives. I can't even get the material to CGC fast enough. For me, it's simply based on not having enough time to process the books and have them ready for submission. There are quite a few of us in town that are actively buying and selling collections. I can tell the health of the market here in Edmonton based on the number of keys/collections that stores are buying and selling as well - even the small ones have picked up and moved one or two nice collections over the past 18 months. My file LCS just landed a nice HG late SA/BA/CA collection that yielded a nice stack of CGC 9.4 - 9.8 late SA through mid BA books (including a 9.6 IM #55, 9.8 Dr. Strange #1, 9.4 Ghost Rider #1, some 9.8 ASMs, etc.). That's fantastic! There truly is no shortage if you're patient. I turn down collections quite often and look for inefficiencies in the market.

Snagging collections "for cheap" depends entirely on where you are. Maybe in Canada, but here in SoCal, it's simply not possible. So true, up here I can throw a dead cat and hit high grade collections all day long. I was in California this summer and traveled up and down the coast and there was nothing but garbage to pick at. Mind you, my trip wasn't about finding comics, it was to relax so maybe there is stuff out there but the shops carried rags for back issues and everything was priced the highest I've ever seen. Interesting. We are fortunate here then with Copper and older collections. They pop up on a regular basis. For example, last night I picked up 700 or so book that included a NMish run of Sandman #1-75, a nice run of Swamp Thing #37 - 171, and New Teen Titans/Tales of #1-59 plus a bunch of other nice books (e.g. Transformers #1, 3, 4; Power Man & Iron Fist #56 up, Avengers #190 - 230, some Tecs, GLs, Spideys, etc.) You and I live parallel lives. I can't even get the material to CGC fast enough. For me, it's simply based on not having enough time to process the books and have them ready for submission.

Snagging collections "for cheap" depends entirely on where you are. Maybe in Canada, but here in SoCal, it's simply not possible. So true, up here I can throw a dead cat and hit high grade collections all day long. I was in California this summer and traveled up and down the coast and there was nothing but garbage to pick at. Mind you, my trip wasn't about finding comics, it was to relax so maybe there is stuff out there but the shops carried rags for back issues and everything was priced the highest I've ever seen. so then why do these books sell for such a fat premium in canada (according to the convention reports here) if they can be found in bulk in every other igloo in the tundra? of course, the frozen lonely nature of igloo life would work well with voracious comic collecting, so, per capita, there may be more collectors up there. probably why there are a fair number up here in the northeast because we have a solid 4-5 months to hide in our homes too. i just don't see how a kid from florida or CA would ever get attracted to it with the lure of the outdoors and sun unless you are allergic to the sun. there are only so many days a year you have to hide in your hurricane (or earthquake) shelter reading comics. I think what you're probably seeing, in regards to fat premiums, are the lottery win stories. A great part of this hobby, and society in general, is that most the people are lazy and willing to simply pay up instead of working to find the material. For instance, I just sold a book on eBay today for $250.00 USD + shipping that I literally paid 7¢ and grading fees, and I still have another 8 copies to slowly sell off.

Snagging collections "for cheap" depends entirely on where you are. Maybe in Canada, but here in SoCal, it's simply not possible. So true, up here I can throw a dead cat and hit high grade collections all day long. I was in California this summer and traveled up and down the coast and there was nothing but garbage to pick at. Mind you, my trip wasn't about finding comics, it was to relax so maybe there is stuff out there but the shops carried rags for back issues and everything was priced the highest I've ever seen.

DC Comics Presents #49 is by far the most impressive with a classic looking battle cover featuring dialogue on the cover by Black Adam. In today's CGC-age of seeing only the cover. This one has the most WOW factor.

That bleed through into the cover's interior is 100% amateur color touch. Tough to price a restored key book like this, especially without knowing an accurate grade for the book and prices fluctuate drastically between grades on this book in particular.

From what your photos show. That's a first print. The blood splatter in the middle " T " of on the front cover is correct for a 1st or 2nd printing. The front inside cover would show the turtle holding a sign with Second Printing indicated in the sign.

Made a recent purchase. Fair pricing, good grading and excellent communication. Easy to work out shipping to Canada as well. Excellent transaction from start to finish.

Unfortunately, if it's not #22 it pretty much brings guide price in the current condition. The big thing is that the large circular logo has Whitman in it. If I recall correctly, what makes #22 so scarce is that it had the DC logo in it. I think there's a Warlock and Sgt Rock issue with the same DC logo but Whitman variant as there's no issue #, just the whitman logo in the upper right corner.

I just pooped my pants

I believe "Nova Scotia" may have some nice pre-hero books as well. I may be wrong though, I know it holds some nice DC titles in the era. These are just wonderful to look at, thanks for sharing the collection, guys! My wheel house for grades on pre-hero books is around 6.0 to 7.0. Prices seem to soar sky high once 8.0 or higher comes along. This is a genre worth collecting for eye appeal, especially if you collect other books too.

The series ended on issue #72. Issue #55 to #72 had ridiculously low print #'s and there are also Canadian Price Variants of these issues. Add to that, that they are tough to find in high grade as they weren't consider true Turtle books by the Mirage Studio turtle collectors. It's no surprise that these issues will be sought after.

Who knows, I really don't care what their reasoning is. People are gaga over anything being optioned these days. There is a cut off point. Even during it's popular days, Danger Mouse was pretty crappy and didn't have a large following and just doesn't have what it takes to get the speculating sheep too excited. This is like speculating on Black Belt Hamsters #1 or some similar junk.

I'm not surprised. #98, #99 and #106 are very tough to find in high grade. Very overlooked and underappreciated, as are the issues around #138 which I believe started reprinting Spidey in Amazing Fantasy #15 and Spider-Man #1 and so on. Again, another group of books kicked around in quarter bins for years and never collected as investment quality books.

No. GPA gets their eBay data through the eBay API which provides the actual purchase price (including the correct price for accepted best offers) - it's a different set of data compared to what you can see when you're just browsing completed auctions. You're wrong and I'll continue to take advantage of this loophole. For instance, I purchased a book for $600 from a guy's eBay store that he had listed as $900, but then he discounted the book to $600. GPA recorded the sale at $900 and it's still logged on GPA as $900.00. I will not talk specifics as it's not my job to create the software for GPA to record things accurately. I'll say it again, GPA is very flawed. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by taking advantage of this loophole. he buys is at $600, then quotes GPA of $900 when he flips it at $750 Just want to update that George and I have spoken and I provided him with some specifics and he provided me other examples of the data recording correctly. I do want to apologize to George for saying GPA is flawed. Rather, the information being provided to GPA appears to have some flaws. I told George I would make that statement as I know in business we are sometimes at the mercy of our suppliers and other outside influences that we can't control.

Perfect! I have about 100 Canadian Edition 75¢ copies in 9.8. Will be on eBay in about 3 months

BINGO!

No. GPA gets their eBay data through the eBay API which provides the actual purchase price (including the correct price for accepted best offers) - it's a different set of data compared to what you can see when you're just browsing completed auctions. You're wrong and I'll continue to take advantage of this loophole. For instance, I purchased a book for $600 from a guy's eBay store that he had listed as $900, but then he discounted the book to $600. GPA recorded the sale at $900 and it's still logged on GPA as $900.00. I will not talk specifics as it's not my job to create the software for GPA to record things accurately. I'll say it again, GPA is very flawed. Nope. Here's a good example: 1) Book was listed at a $500 BIN with the best offer option: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=141202284570 2) Best offer accepted by the seller for the book was $420. 3) GPA shows the correct $420 sale price: Not saying that there aren't bad sales data in GPA - with the amount of items they record, there's bound to be mistakes from time to time. But to claim that GPA doesn't record a sales price that includes seller discounts, accepted best offers, or any of the other stuff that influences the final selling price on eBay is flat out wrong. You and I are talking about 2 separate things so there's some misunderstanding between what we're trying to get across. Yes, when someone has a book as a BIN or best offer and the best offer is accepted then GPA does record the best offer price at the correct sale. BUT.... When an eBay store has a book listed at x amount and then puts a discount on the book at a lower amount and you buy it at the discounted price then GPA records the sale at the original price and not the discounted price.

No. GPA gets their eBay data through the eBay API which provides the actual purchase price (including the correct price for accepted best offers) - it's a different set of data compared to what you can see when you're just browsing completed auctions. You're wrong and I'll continue to take advantage of this loophole. For instance, I purchased a book for $600 from a guy's eBay store that he had listed as $900, but then he discounted the book to $600. GPA recorded the sale at $900 and it's still logged on GPA as $900.00. I will not talk specifics as it's not my job to create the software for GPA to record things accurately. I'll say it again, GPA is very flawed.

GPA is very flawed and easily manipulated. For instance, any book that is sold through an eBay store and the seller/store owner puts a discount on the book and you buy it, GPA records it at the seller's original asking price which is false.