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Taking all 5 haunt of horrors. Take on #5 here.

The Vampi Frazetta covers are great. Definite hard to come up with a consensus best but 7 is worthy of consideration for sure.

I haven't even tried going after 9.0s and up. I figured a sold mid to upper mid grade collection of raw Warren Frazettas was a better option than trying to hunt down high grade copies. Spent the last 10 months working on it. Just missing a couple now.

It'll be interested to see if the Frazetta covers start selling for premiums, particularly after the Eerie 23 buzz around this time last year. Maybe people are starting to catch onto mags, particularly Frazetta books?

Struggling with those same questions.

I'm in.

I believe he was referencing MyComicShop (MCS), not Heritage.

What I do find interesting is that MCS (based in Arlington TX) lists their own books at auction, but their website indicates if it's an mcs book or a consigned book. So bidder are informed where the book is coming from. Final sale prices at auction seem to be more in-line with what is expected. Such a reputable company. That's how you create goodwill.

Got it. And yes, I have heard some chatter about this specific issue - some of the auction houses bidding up their own books. So if that were the case, the motivation would be to artificially inflate the market, thus providing larger commissions to those same auction houses when cosigned books sell for those new elevated prices at future auctions. Considering the insane run up with the AF 15s recently, I wonder if that's what may be happening here?

So are you saying they are bidding up their books that they own and have listed for auction, or consigned books that they are interested in owning? Or both? If their bid is the final high bid on a consigned book, then I get that. However, if it's already their book and they win it, all that does is artificially inflate the price since they aren't paying themselves to keep the book. It just remains in the inventory. Am I missing something here?

No idea. Could be the fine art people moving into comics, but I still think dumping 20k into a book is a lot of money. Now many of these books are dropping for high 5 figures. That's still quite a large sum of cash. 50k is a downpayment on a house or a fully loaded SUV purchased outright.

I'm still trying to figure out where all the money has come from. If anyone can shed light on this issue, do share!

Yes, that was on another thread (I forget exactly where) a while back. One or two mentioned using crypto profits to buy books. I'm just wondering if we're now at the point where the fractional shares companies are the ones who are going after these books, and are driving the prices?

I wonder how many of the fractional share companies are all piling in for these auctions, particularly on Heritage, just bidding on and buying up everything? The 5.5 AF 15 realized a ridiculous price. I'm still trying to figure out where all the money is coming from so this is simply another guess on my part. Also, I'm wondering if the crypto money is still flowing in or are those guys trying to get out? All highly confusing, and complete speculation on my part.

Congrats! Such a cool book!

Love this book. Would be a great upgrade from my 2.0 but not in the cards right now.

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I hear ya. I have as well. I got back into collecting in 2011 and only recently (last few years) have started to go after minor keys and interesting books from the golden age. I've been able to grab some on my want list but in looking back, I went about this all wrong. With reintroducing myself in 2011, I started on bronze and some silver, only moving into GA later on. If I could have a do over, I'd have grabbed GA and silver keys back then, and saved everything else for now. Honestly, it took me a long time to truly appreciate GA, and now that I have, I've been mostly priced out. My bad.

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