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I was hoping the incomplete Contact 12 would've been more reasonable, but no...  

I saw a 105 for sale at C2E2 last year in about 1.0 for I think $1100 or $1200.  So this seems like a deal in comparison, and I think this one presents nicer too.  

13 minutes ago, domuhnator said:

I actually attended the auction. If you bid live the BP is 20% But you pay 6% PA sales tax unless you have a resellers state sales tax ID number on file. So He got it at just under or just over 40K since The winner of the tec 1 was live. I had the misfourtune of bidding against him on a few books I wanted. He cost me $600 extra on the adventure 42 . The most surprising book to me was the tec 24, It sold for around $4800 with BP. I think it went to the same guy as who bought the tec 1.

Congrats on the Adventure 42, that is an awesome book!

Fantastic images from Matania, Flex.  Many thanks for sharing all this!  And your pictures from your India/Bhutan trip were great as well.  I just returned from the actual island of Serendip (Sri Lanka) over the holidays.  It was a magical time.  

2 hours ago, jimjum12 said:

GUNS AGAINST GANGSTERS 3 …………….. 1.8 …………………….. OW ………………………. $ 75 …. Beat but complete.... stains, crumples, tears, but still attached. Classic GGA cover.

 

I'll take it.  Note it is Gangsters Can't Win, not Guns Against Gangsters...

24 minutes ago, Artboy99 said:

quite the duel, but I was victorious.

Bondage cover, soti book, I am happy to own it and accomplished my goal of owning a Church copy of the title I own the complete run of.

 

Congrats on this beauty Karl!  What a capper on your run!  

3 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Oh.. and I got my Number 2 target as well...even though I had to defy any sense of reason to do it. 

 

 

Wow, congrats on this and the 17 Rick.  Absolutely superb!  Somehow I knew you were in on this one.  And apparently so did a few others!

Seems like it will be a challenge to get many of these under $5K 

Good luck to everyone bidding this evening!  Hope a few of you are able to bring home some of these beauties.  It will be a thrilling evening for sure.

14 hours ago, Spyder! said:

I believe the “big 4” (as I like to call them) will finish ahead of all the others, and in the following order:

Planet 1

Planet 15

Planet 2

Planet 14

(that 9.8 planet 8 may throw my prediction off though)

3 and 10 looking very strong too.  Wondering how many finish in five figures?  1 looking like it will break six...

3 hours ago, Spyder! said:

I wonder if all the covers attributed to Doolin were truly drawn by Doolin.  But it's one sweet book regardless!

I feel like when there is any doubt on a FH cover, they just attribute to Doolin.  That 65 is great, that is the first issue that grabbed me and sucked me into the Planet madness.  

Fantastic run Jay!  Been a pleasure watching your saga unfold.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Detective-Comics-35-DC-Comics-Golden-Age-1940-Hypodermic-Needle-Cover-CGC-2-0-/233028904946

I thought this was a nice presenting 2.0.  But $13,901 seems pretty soft.  GPA shows another 2.0 in 2016 for $19,120.  But the other 2.0  had no tape, so likely a factor, and this same 2.0 went for $12,755 in May 2015, so really not much increase in 3.5 yrs.  But you have to question the wisdom of a seller with less than 100 feedback and an auction ending on Thursday morning.  Hopefully someone here got a nice deal!

Well remember Atomic 1 swiped cover from Tec 8, and also contained reprints from early More Fun stories.  So they have a pattern...  But Atomic was a weird series with not much coherence from issue to issue (other than some Baker art), and I can't find much info on the Publisher. 

In the same vein of swipes, I noticed mstrange had a Dynamic Comics 3 for sale, which has the below splash.  Which is also the cover to Bull's Eye Comics 11.  I believe those are both Chesler though so makes a little more sense.  

1 hour ago, Spyder! said:

This book arrived yesterday. Thanks to these boards, I was finally able to land a copy of #1!  Completing the run seems so possible now.

Congrats Spyder!!  What a book! 

I'm still hoping someone on here has another one laying around...  

I'll take Rangers 12.  I'd take that sensational 28 as well, but it is a little bit out of my price range...

Knew it was too good to be true, esp with low feedback buyer with one sale in last year.  @Action252kid, what did that book grade out as, out of curiosity?  And do you still have?  

Take Ghost 7 and 11 per PM!

16 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

And with this sparkling gem, courtesy of the benevolent King @Ricksneatstuff, the run is complete.

Congrats on completing your run, Jay!  What an achievement!  And the capper is such a beautiful copy of an iconic book.  Cheers! 

What a nightmare.  Glad to hear your family is safe, so sorry for the loss of property and irreplaceable items.  My best wishes to everyone suffering through this.  

I love all of the early Flessel Sandman covers and have chased them for years. 40 is obviously the grail, so yeah, put me on the want list too, but I know finding one that is also a reasonable price is a major long shot.  That said I met a collector last year who'd found one two years previously for only $5K (seller didn't quite realize what he had, I think), so you never know what you'll run in to and when.   I've managed to acquire 42,44,47,51,and 60, so I only need the 40 and 46.  I stumbled across this 44 4.0 at a random flea market last year, with a dealer set up in a giant room otherwise full of junk.  He knew what he had but I still got a fair deal, as I think it was a slow weekend for him.  One of my fav books (sorry about the dark/grainy scan, it really pops in hand).  I love the adventure-oriented covers too, would love a 41 and 43, and the pre-40 books are just so fun as well.    But the rebooted Sandman does absolutely nothing for me.  Adventure Comics is really an under-rated title, for sheer variety if nothing else, and I wonder if anyone has managed put together a run of the first hundred issues of title (including New issues)?  Talk about a challenge...