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On 4/12/2024 at 5:22 AM, WNY said:

Also, not sure I'd agree it's "common" as this suggests <7 books per year available on average. 

It's all relative.  Obviously it's not common compared to Hulk 181.

But for a GA mega-key, that's pretty "common"! 

On 4/12/2024 at 2:35 AM, october said:

A board member picked it up and we cracked it out together. Insane copy, was fun seeing it raw.

Yup, I dawdled and then it was gone. 

On 4/12/2024 at 11:47 AM, Silver Surfer said:

The pristine spines on these Church books. Incredible given that they are pushing almost 90 years old.

What blows me away on many of Peter's books, including the non-Churches, is how vivid the colors still are.

On 4/12/2024 at 8:49 AM, RareHighGrade said:

Issue #29.  8 Universal copies in the census.  Another action-packed cover:  A French Legionnaire is getting ready to body-slam one of his adversaries.

 

Love this cover, and you got it at a nice discount from Mr. Keller, if I recall correctly! 

On 4/12/2024 at 1:28 AM, MatterEaterLad said:

Do you think that book comes with the paperwork from it's journey from 9.4 to 9.8? I'm sure there's a paper trail, but would that be included in the sale? Seems like it's akin to a multi-million dollar painting that's been cleaned.

This post is so 2004.

On 4/11/2024 at 10:29 PM, jimjum12 said:

On 4/11/2024 at 2:53 PM, tth2 said:

The Frontier Fighters, on the other hand...  !!!  I know nothing about the book, is there anything that makes it desirable?

 

On 4/11/2024 at 2:53 PM, tth2 said:

it's impossible to find in grade

Yeah, but it's Frontier Fighters! 

On 4/12/2024 at 1:12 AM, batman_fan said:

This one is coming back on the market but now with the new and improved 9.8 designation

It's been one of my big regrets that I didn't buy this on one of the many times it came up at Heritage after its initial sale, as its price was spiraling downwards.

On 4/11/2024 at 8:07 PM, batman_fan said:

On 4/11/2024 at 3:11 PM, tth2 said:

Note to self:  enter punishment bid when bidding begins.

Yes but what piece 

Does it rhyme with Eanuts?

Es.

On 4/11/2024 at 2:41 AM, PhilipB2k17 said:

Okay, folks. Would you rather have a certified 9.8 copy of TOS 39 that just sold for $840,000, or the TOS 39 page that just sold for $552,000. Is there is a $290,000 difference in value?

 

 

Here's a mindboggling factoid:  the loss that the seller of the 9.8 TOS 39 took in this auction would by itself almost cover the new sale price of the 9.8 TOS 39 and the TOS 39 OA page.  

On 4/11/2024 at 7:57 AM, batman_fan said:

After looking at what has been posted so far,I have selected the piece to go "all in" on.  

Note to self:  enter punishment bid when bidding begins.

The Rudolph and Sgt Rock weren't big surprises.  The Sgt Rock is impossible to find in grade. The Superboy Annual was a surprise, because although I suspected it would go for a big price because it's impossible to find in grade, I didn't think it would go for that much.  

The Frontier Fighters, on the other hand...  !!!  I know nothing about the book, is there anything that makes it desirable?

On 4/10/2024 at 10:23 AM, adamstrange said:

Spine Stress - Heavy Metal

Deep Purple Label

P.L.O.D.

On 4/10/2024 at 1:21 AM, Silver Surfer said:

I wish those under bidders at $5M, $6M would post in these forums or elsewhere, funny how you never hear of or see any of these buyers.  

The whole point of being that rich is you don't have to hang out with the little people anymore.

On 4/9/2024 at 10:55 PM, RareHighGrade said:

The artwork reflects Flessel’s transition to covers with more mature and suspenseful themes.  The remaining issues in the run represent some of his best Golden Age work.

The Flessel covers throughout the run, including his Rockwell-esque covers, are really wonderful.

On 4/9/2024 at 11:57 AM, OtherEric said:

On 4/9/2024 at 11:18 AM, tth2 said:

My band's name would be Low Grade Drek.

Trying to think of others, it might be worth doing a thread in comics general for fun.

Bug Chew- Punk

Subscription Crease- New Wave

Dust Shadow- Emo

Church Collection- Gospel

Cream- I think somebody already took that one...

Brittle Pages

It just demonstrates that the things that are so very important to us mean absolutely nothing to almost everyone else on the planet.

On 4/9/2024 at 1:45 AM, Surfing Alien said:

On 4/9/2024 at 1:16 AM, OtherEric said:

Didn't Pukey Beaters open for the Dead Kennedys back in the day?

 Would be a great name for a Boardie Band

My band's name would be Low Grade Drek.

On 4/8/2024 at 9:51 AM, delekkerste said:

Today's live session has been going on for almost 9 hours now.  

It's a marathon, which is probably why it feels like I've won more today, at prices I'm very happy with, than I have in the last few years combined. 

My max bids, which I input before going to sleep, have more stamina than live bidders!   

On 4/8/2024 at 5:11 AM, buttock said:

I don't know why it always surprises me how much modern OA goes for, but it does.  There's just so much of it.  

Not as much as how much modern books go for.  There's even more of them! 

On 4/8/2024 at 12:32 PM, Darwination said:

Some of the dealers I see listing these books at drastically marked up prices know better and absolutely seem to be looking for suckers. 

I've seen fair prices on the graded pulps, too, so it's not like everybody is going for the throat on it...

It's the Wild West right now while the market is waiting to see what post-slabbed pulp prices are going to be, so I don't blame the dealers or sellers.  They don't want to end up selling pulps for what in retrospect will be seen to be way too cheap, like some of them did with slabbed comics in the early days of CGC.  

At least with comics in those days, there was Overstreet to use as a reference, and I remember people using rule of thumb pricing of 9.2 = 2x the OPG 9.2 price, 9.4 = 4x the OPG 9.2 price, 9.6 = 6X and 9.8 = 10X or higher in the early days.  But it quickly became apparent that early SA DC, for example, was priced way too low in OPG and I remember often paying 10X for 9.4 DCs and even higher multiples for 9.6s and 9.8s.  It took a while before there were enough market transactions for people to develop a database and stop referring to Overstreet.

Pulps have Bookery's Guide, but I don't think it has the same level of acceptance in the pulp market as Overstreet did in comics, and the most recent edition (2d ed.) came out in 2019, which is an eternity ago.

On 4/8/2024 at 12:32 PM, Darwination said:

Agree that sanity will be restored, sooner than later.

They've been saying that in the comic book market for about 22 years now.

On 4/7/2024 at 10:46 PM, Robot Man said:

Wow, that Strange Stories 3 blows me away.

A couple days before Covid shutdown in 2020, I picked up a decent copy for $150. At a local show. 

Well, condition matters.  I don't think the copy on Heritage would've come anywhere near its price if it had been a much lower grade copy.

On 4/7/2024 at 9:41 PM, RareHighGrade said:

My raw copy comes from the Church collection.

Of course it does.