darkstar

When you wrote this in response to another user stating the modern market was in a bubble: "How long have people been saying that?" And then the bubble burst...and the book continues to fall in price... https://www.ebay.com/itm/266461731083 https://www.ebay.com/itm/335082197715

There is no corresponding market for the first available direct editions because even if someone has done the legwork to figure that out those books aren't known to any significant segment of the market to the point where market prices would be noticeably affected by the market depth. The final modern newsstand issues and production years are known. The only reason later modern newsstand collecting isn't bigger right now is due to the proliferation of atrocious cover art and largely insignificant and forgettable stories. You're left with a whole lot of low print run books, but little reason to collect them. Still there are exceptions though like Deadpool Kills Deadpool 4, Venom 42, etc.

Right, which means the topic creator should have sold the book sometime in the past three years, you know when we were in the bubble that you suggested wasn't real. I never understood why this book sold for what it did and was watching a video on Youtube yesterday where the creator talked about buying up all the available copies whenever he could because the original ones he owned were lost in a flood. Then I came here and did a search for the book and this topic popped up and I thought it perfectly dovetailed with where we currently are.

Just post a video to Youtube about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VCEoZcq0v4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P8EQ2ATFtE

what about the ashcan?

Including a label that at one time may or may not have belonged to the book in question has no impact on the price the book would command at the point of sale. Ranting about dealers with great reputations getting more money for their raw books is basic knowledge that doesn't even merit one's time and is immaterial to a discussion about the inclusion of an outdated piece of provenance impacting a book's value. Also it doesn't matter how great a dealer is at grading or how aligned they are with CGC's grading. If you are paying the graded price for a raw book, you overpaid. Grading a book is a value-added service and if it hasn't been done to the book in question, or if it's been negated by de-slabbing the book, you shouldn't be paying for it.

What's the turnaround time for mags?

I don't care about collections or pedigrees, I just find that notation to be funny whenever I see it on a label.

If you remove a book from a slab keeping the label with the book does nothing to increase the price at which the now raw book would sell. The book is no longer graded and encapsulated ergo if you are buying a raw book at the market price it commands when graded, you overpaid for the book. For some reason you are fixated on whether the dealer is reputable or not, which is meaningless to the discussion at hand.

The Stan Lee's Personal Hairdresser Collection was the nail in the coffin.

What do solid raw book sellers have to do with de-slabbed books selling for graded prices?

Almost nobody is paying the graded market price for a raw book. A de-slabbed book could have incurred additional damage, or it could've been subjected to attempts at restoration or pressing, etc.

It's actually atrocious and off-putting.

Swag uses gocollect to start with a top 100 by volume for a specific era and time period. He also includes additional books that fall outside the top 100, but should be included anyway. I'm guessing because spec books have a tendency to push books that are traditionally more sought after out of the top 100, especially when the period of time is relatively small. He then uses GPA for each book to find which grade of said book had the most sales during the time period in question.

He's on record saying the Golden Age is finished because all of the boomers that collect it are dying off.

Remember when you downplayed comic art that one time and called it commercial garbage?

The Wrightson Treasury has the original Curse of the Yeti art on the cover if you are looking for more snow monster art.

because it's useful data that they can sell. because the illusion of items selling for full price benefits them.

it would look even better in mylar.

If you click the blue print button with the option you've already selected in that screenshot it will save the file to your computer as a PDF, it isn't actually going to print anything.

Go browse the This Week Back From CGC thread. People love to slab garbage.

It is humorous watching him interact with shop owners and dealers as he demonstrates a total misunderstanding of how things work within the hobby. He's like Baby Huey with disposable income. Surprising that CGC reached out to him though as his Youtube channel is quite small. Of course releasing his private phone conversation with Harshen along with his emails and mailing address is par for the course with this insufficiently_thoughtful_person.