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Assuming you're referring to the miswrap that results in a white stripe down the spine, no, CGC never have. Otherwise, there would be a whole lot less 9.8 and 9.6 BA and CA books, since QP went out the window during that period. At least the white stripe here is relatively straight. There are plenty 9.8 and 9.6 BA and CA monstrosities where the white stripe (and the entire cover) is crooked.

I interpret "haven't seen the light of day since" to mean they haven't come to market, not literally that they haven't seen the light of day. So I don't think the fact that the books were bagged and boarded in recent decades makes the sentence false. And if the bagging and boarding was done in a basement with no windows, then they truly have not seen the light of day!

FTFY

The thing is I think they're still too expensive.

Almost no one who consigns on Heritage pays full boat. At a minimum, you should be able to negotiate away the 10% seller fee.

And yet a half splash with a babe, and Conan and Elric went for $8.9K. for a series/artist combo that is supposedly significant, the page went cheap to me. The one thing that almost all of the BWS Conan interior pages that have come to auction on the various auction houses have in common is that they actually don't have great images of Conan, including this page.

Everything you mention which makes Clink favorable for bidders is a reason why consignors should avoid them!

Is that a serious question? In 20 years, no one will remember who Campbell is.

Seller took a major loss on the BWS Conan piece The fact that he overpaid for it before doesn't mean that the current price wasn't strong. I think the resale prices on a lot of Promise books are still very strong (certainly too strong for me to have won any yet). But the sellers are taking baths for the most part (sometimes massive baths) because they way overpaid on the initial sales.

The $8900 price of the BWS Conan panel page shows that once again, rumors of the demise of BWS Conan pages have been greatly exaggerated. On the other hand, very weak prices for the two Frazetta Johnny Comet strips, even taking into account that there's no Frazetta Femmes. I will never understand selling any genre of OA on Comiclink that is way outside the scope of its very superhero-centric customer base.

If only there was a way to enter a date and time in a calendar on one's computer or phone and have it send you a reminder on that date and time! I think there's a fortune to be made by anyone smart enough to create such an app!

A mere 7% loss on a Promise book is like a 70% gain on another book!

Were you given a payment date ahead of time? HA takes a while too but it’s very explicitly stated well ahead of time on what date you’ll be paid. Maybe Rob Reynolds handled accounting too.

look for the backwards hat? Bingo!

YES! Welcome to the club!

I've told my wife literally the same thing.

Is there a difference between "factory trimmed" and "printed with proper quality control"?

Thanks, but do you have a scan that shows the edges?

Were Amazing Stories covers cut better than most other pulps? I was looking at a bunch of copies of the August 1928 Amazing Stories ("the Buck Rogers cover that is not really a Buck Rogers cover") in the Heritage archives and the edges seem to be uniformly pretty clean, with almost none of the overhang and resulting heavily chipped edges that's so common in many other pulp titles. Was there better quality control of the printing process or was there just rampant (and undisclosed) trimming of the book because it's so popular?

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?articleID=273156 Wonderful memoriam by Jim. Talk about hitting it out of the park on one of his first hires for Heritage's new foray into the comic business.

Wouldn't it being dirt cheap be one of the first clues that it's fake?

Funny, I've got the opposite opinion. For several of the last few weekly auctions I have not put even a single bid in, whereas during the past few years it felt like I was consistently bidding on 5-15 pieces each week.

It's totally understandable. OA pieces are unique and the OA market is not as deep and liquid as the comic market, plus on average an OA page is much more expensive than a comic. I can totally get why an owner of a Byrne X-Men page or Miller DD page or Watchmen page, for example, is going to immediately draw a very public price line in the sand for any comparable page that comes to market, effectively saying that no one's going to get it for less than this price.

Checking back on the most recent list, there have been some previous Timely superhero resales, but only a few compared to resales of almost complete runs of DCs and others. Mostly Captain Americas and Marvel Mysterys, along with a Sub-Mariner and All Winners. A few have actually been flipped for a profit, but for the most part most resold at a loss, although generally for less than the average loss on all books.