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Price protection bids are not just put in by people on their own stuff (which would be shilling). Price protection bids are put in by people who are not the owner but who own similar pieces and want to protect the value of their pieces.

Par for the course for the Promise books. However, I need to check Master Chief's list as this may be one of the first super hero Timelys to be resold. If so, it shows that they're not immune to the standard Promise price correction either.

Not aware of any. I only became aware of what it was like in the early years from reading the early strips that came on Heritage.

CC are going old school, back to when CGC first came into existence and dealers wouldn't provide scans of slabbed books because "You've got the CGC grade, that's all you need to know."

Ehhh. You could say the same thing about any strip that’s been running 40 years. As we’ve discussed, refer to exhibits Patty and Marcie. I totally agree. I would've made the same revisions if someone had posted the same thing about Peanuts. It's why I really only collect most comic strips from the first few years of their runs, because that's when you can expect that their creators were still really doing the work and the stories/gags were still strong. For example, having read "Blondie" since the early 1970s, I always thought it was a terrible, stale strip. But seeing strips from the early 1930s when they've been auctioned by Heritage, when Chic Young was still doing the work and there was a really interesting story between Blondie and Dagwood unfolding, has been a revelation. I have massive respect for Bill Watterson because he walked away while C&H was still going strong rather than continuing to milk it, even though I'm sure he left many millions on the table as a result.

FTFY

Yeah, for me the absolute floor was $100M. It would have to be enough to not only cover all the inconveniences, but also to still be a life-changing amount afterward. Being 5'6", I would definitely prefer to err on the side of being too tall than too short. (Obviously setting aside major health issues, but it's not like short people can't have health issues too.) I would certainly rather be 7' tall than 4' tall.

I had to doublecheck to see if I hadn't somehow opened a thread from 2003.

I am absolutely gutted. I've been working with Ed for over 20 years, such a great guy and a class act. My condolences to his family. RIP.

RIP. The only comic artist ever mentioned in an episode of "Entourage".

A fair number of slabbed pulps are going to be in the April Signature Auction, including a 7.0 copy of the Weird Tales batgirl issue.

The Watchmen page is getting the obligatory early "price defense" bids.

I've read that 25% of all 7-footers in the world have played in the NBA. For a 25% chance to play in the NBA, I would've thought that most people would be willing to pay to be 7 feet tall, not have to be paid.

Don't forget the GarfieldBirthers.

Which makes the selection of Goldin as the auction venue for such a niche book even more puzzling.

If his job scope at CC included scanning books, it's not surprising that he decided to jump ship.

Heritage should reimburse you for the time you wasted, and, more importantly, the trauma you suffered. You get me.

I just went to check out the previews for the upcoming April Signature Auction and there were so many low grade GA books that for a second I thought I had accidentally opened up the ComicConnect auction.

Good luck with that. It's clear from OA bidding across all platforms that there are bidders who put in what I call "defend the price" bids right from the start on OA, particularly high profile pieces. Bidding patterns are very different from most comics, where even high profile books will typically see pretty restrained bidding at the start and there's no concern in putting in a tracking bid, while OA prices jump so quickly from the start that there can be some trepidation at putting in a tracking bid.

Congrats on quitting smoking.

I don't know if the absence of a watch list makes that much of a difference. Most people I know put in a tracking bid on Heritage, even though they do have a watch function, because it's a pain to toggle between a watch list and a bid list. It's easier just to consolidate everything someone is watching on one page, which ends up being the bid list. In addition, many OA owners feel compelled to put in "defend the price" bids from the start to establish floor prices for the art and to goose the bidding. This is true on Heritage as well as as Clink. Combined with the tracking bids that many bidders put in, this quickly drives the prices up, but then they'll usually sit for a couple of weeks after the initial flurry.

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Just take a pic or scan without the label showing.