DarthBane

That 44 looks incredible. One of my fav GA covers. 48 is a monster issue because I think from recollection that is the actual 1st full blown bat cave appearance with origin. Sweet pickups. Thanks! I should take pictures from my raw 48. Need to see about digging it out soon. That would be stellar. I believe there is a 2 page color map view of the bat cave inside. If that is what you are getting at and able to post that

That 44 looks incredible. One of my fav GA covers. 48 is a monster issue because I think from recollection that is the actual 1st full blown bat cave appearance with origin. Sweet pickups.

Any idea what happened to your uncle's comic book collection? Hopefully, you was or will be the lucky recipient of them.

I was very lucky as a kid to read the AM books from my uncle's collection. That was a neat little trick starting #1 @ #5. And always thought the premise of how he was "selected" and given superhuman training was very very cool with those epic & unique physical challenges in the premiere issue. I would say AM covers/art work are my fav out of the whole category. Thanks for sharing this.

Nice haul.

Random tidbit. I was contacting the seller of an auction. Wrote two sentences about item description. To close the message I started typing "Cheers" and at that point C h e --->> noticed the box outline changed from a purple/blue to an orange/yellow and it said "sharing contact info is not allowed" So I deleted cheers, color change went back, sharing contact info blurb went away, and message question sent no prob.

You also have to wonder how much the zero interest rate monetary policy over the last 6+ years (since thread started) has potentially influenced comic book prices. Interesting tidbit, if you go back to 8/24/2010 here are the prices of well known company stocks: JP Morgan $36.21 --> Today = $86.50 Disney $32.14 ---> Today = $104.30 Prudential $50.61 ---> Today = $104.96 Home Depot $27.78 ---> Today = $135.07 Amazon $350 ---> Today = $772.13 This is not an attempt to start a between stocks vs. comics; merely some landscape for perspective. There were clear outliers like that Luke Cage slab discussed a couple pages ago but for the most part it seems nearly everything appreciated to one degree or another. So it is all relative. Will be interesting to come back and bump this thread again in another six years.

100% agree. Before TPG's, COA's or letters detailing/summarizing work carried enough legitimacy and weight. But of course, the tamper evident case and label notes cemented it's place and won out, and the people doing the work faded to the background to the point where most of the slabs bought and sold in the last 10+ years no longer keep any information on who did the work originally, just what was done. Actually, what is detected to be done. And that is the basis of the entire disagreement between CGC and the Meyers. Acc. to my understanding, CGC could not comfortably detect where the resto started and stopped. Did those early adopting buyers (before thread) know exactly what they were getting? Perhaps that thread served as an educational purpose. And such, whenever you have the dissemination of public information in any marketplace; price will adjust accordingly. Does a stock sell off dramatically because a few folks on the yahoo finance boards are bashing it? Of course not. In a different life time, I worked for a broker of exotic autos.. There is a big big disparity in price between a restored lambo and a replica lambo. Even if said replica lambo utilizes some authentic parts from other lambo cars. Sure at face value they look pretty identical. But there is no comparison whatsoever and price will reflect that reality. Historically everyone and their brother knows that all PLODs are not equal. Depending on what revisions have been made to a book will dictate a specific price point. My impression all along was that CGC could not see where X began and Y ended so how could they put a grade on something like that, much less put it in a plastic slab with their logo?

That is because you operate in your own little universe of rapid time realm Stopped by thinking the Centaur was the big news update. But much to my surprise; that Catman completion run taking only 6 months is absolutely ridiculous. And I never knew you were in toys so far back in the day. Very nice.

the market doesn't accept extensively restored books at the value IGB was expecting.

VIP on Santa's list for sure.

90 day GPA average: $6233 Better than one of your biotech stocks no? Better than most, but not better than all of them. And not better than a bunch of them when taking into consideration the scale of the investment that is possible. You just couldn't make that same return on investment by trying to buy and sell tens of thousands of dollars of Hero For Hire #1s in cgc 9.6. Right figured a 6+ bagger is not too shabby for the most part You have a good point also on the supply side with respect to liquidity. The only slabs I can think of off hand that have the population and "daily" ability to make a market in for multiple buyers without tanking the price would be an ASM 300 or NM 98.

You could do some damage in GA with that for sure.

90 day GPA average: $6233 Better than one of your biotech stocks no?

Great find. Perfect spine and presentation. You can tell the underlying pages line up basically perfectly with the front cover so no overhang issue in the corners.

fyi - the old label went away in 2004, according to cgc data there were five 9.8 & one 9.9 throughout that year, I wouldn't imagine any of them would have been cracked out. Hulk 181 census history That is really surprising there were that many 9.8's only 2 years into the CGC legacy. I just peaked and now the census is at 96. So I would have been wrong on both fronts, meaning how many I thought were in the census in 2004 and how many would be in 2016; definitely would have taken the under on that one. No, what I find surprising is that there was 1 9.9 copy just one year into CGC's legacy, and now 16 years later, there is still only the same 1 9.9 copy in the CGC census. I would have expected at least another 9.9 copy to have surface somewhere along the line in the past 16 years. Wonder what this one and only 9.9 copy looks like in comparison to the other 96 9.8 copies out there? Think the 9.9 sold for $150K in the CL marketplace when it was listed or was it $100K?

I can't find where he mentions when tonight's listing starts? 10pm would be perfect for me because the kids will be asleep!

hard to distinguish between his mistakes and his hits Don't knock this sub. This is one of my best one in years. Are you selling that IH 130 9.8 slab or for your own run?

fyi - the old label went away in 2004, according to cgc data there were five 9.8 & one 9.9 throughout that year, I wouldn't imagine any of them would have been cracked out. Hulk 181 census history That is really surprising there were that many 9.8's only 2 years into the CGC legacy. I just peaked and now the census is at 96. So I would have been wrong on both fronts, meaning how many I thought were in the census in 2004 and how many would be in 2016; definitely would have taken the under on that one.

takeit! Nice!

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Bought a bunch of raws from Dale in the last mega sales thread. His grading is tight