Vince G

Man, a decent copy of that one is so elusive.

You have a copy of HoS 91? That's the one I need for my run.

Great job with your recent magazine sales thread. Books arrived in a timely manner and were firmly secured in the packaging. Excellent!

If no one already took this one, I'll take it. Tough to dig through the thread at this point so I may have overlooked a take here.

Any more coming?

Might as well add the special to my stack. Take.

Annual 1B take!

Drac lives 9+10.

I'm glad it didn't get to 10 because I made a deal with myself I'd sell if it hit 10. Nostalgia for me so I really didn't want to sell.

Is that GC's FMV values or the actual most recent sales data? In my opinion, the FMV number is useless..

Yeah, I tend to agree with you. 9.8 is an entirely different beast these days. I think we've reached a point where a subgroup of collectors/investors just have to have the highest graded copy. A friend of a friend is one of those guys who collected as a kid and just got back into the hobby two years ago. He grew up on Masters of the Universe, Transformers, etc.. And he's one of those guys who just has to have 9.8 slabbed books. 9.6s? No. Lower grade solid investments from GA or SA? Not a chance. Granted, we're talking about a collector who will buy moderns in 9.8 for 1-2k a pop, so not a comparison here to the collectors who are going very big, as we just saw with the MS 5. But, I think there may be more of these "9.8 or bust" collectors out there than we think. Just my two-cents.

What would be interesting to see would be the number of incoming subs of spotlight 5s from this point forward.

Damn, is the pull of having the highest graded copy of a book that strong? I could see it for a key GA book, but a bronze?

Slap that like button, boys!

If it sells, I'm sending my copy up tomorrow

I'm still kicking myself for not ponying up an additional $200 for a 9.4 copy two years ago. The difference between a 9.2 and 9.4 now is ridiculous. No idea the spread would ever get that big.

Unfortunately, we can't buy everything although many of us would if we had unlimited capital. Personally, once I saw prices shooting up exponentially, I bailed out on many of my want list items and changed direction, working on other books that aren't currently being eyed by hundreds of others. The strategy has worked out pretty well thus far. Still, going forward, I probably will try to obtain some of those want list items via cash/trade deals rather than bidding on auction books.

I can certainly see a press fixing that spine roll. Not a bad copy at all.

At this point, with all this new money coming in, I can certainly see this happening. How many newbies with tons of money as the result of the crypto/gamestop/robinhood bonanza are really out there, just trying to buy every key as quickly as they can? I have no idea but wouldn't be surprised if it was more than a handful.

By the way, you wouldn't happen to have a high grade copy that you'd be interested in selling, would you? I'm looking for HG as well

I've been debating. it's on my watch list..

Hey, it'a not my money Have at it bidders

I must have gotten lucky because I barely notice a jagged edge on mine, maybe just a tiny, tiny section of the cover.

Guess it was graded at 5pm on a Friday Do people have any idea what they are doing when they spend this type of money? I can see flippers not caring because, after all, it is in a 9.8 holder, but collectors? Heck if I know whose buying these books.

Sometimes 9.8s aren't really 9.8s