action1kid

Absolutely 

And I took that picture 

I’m the person who sold them to him . 

On 7/24/2023 at 6:03 PM, action1kid said:

Former club member

6.5/6.0/6.5

On 12/11/2013 at 8:58 PM, thedude said:

 

sure does Bill.

Former club member

On 7/23/2023 at 6:19 PM, DanCooper said:

From a December 19th, 1991 NY Times article:

"The superhero at Sotheby's first auction of comic books yesterday was Harold M. Anderson, the owner of a traveling museum of baseball memorabilia based in Florence, Ala. Mr. Anderson bought many of the most important properties and paid a record price at auction for a comic book with his $55,000 purchase of a copy of Detective 27, the 1939 issue in which Batman appeared for the first time.

The price Mr. Anderson paid for Detective 27 far exceeded Sotheby's top estimate of $28,000. It was the exception at this sale, in which many works went unsold and many others brought prices below Sotheby's expectations. In an auction of 362 items, 265 were sold for a total of $1.2 million, below the house estimate of $1.4 million to $2 million.

"I think comic books are on the ground floor of an explosive market," Mr. Anderson said minutes after he acquired the rarity, 1 of about 100 copies of this issue known to survive. "We have a baseball traveling museum and compared to baseball memorabilia, comic books are somewhat underpriced right now." On Display: Bam! Pow! Zap!

Mr. Anderson is the president and owner of the Treat Company in Florence, operator of the baseball museum, which shows its exhibits in Wal-Mart stores. He said he intended to expand the museum's displays to include comic books.

Most of the other major comic-book properties in the sale were also acquired by Mr. Anderson. He bought many of the first issues of comic books, paying $29,700 for a copy of Action No. 1 from 1938, a 10-cent comic book in which Superman made his debut. And he spent $28,600 for a first-issue copy of Marvel Comics from 1939, showing Human Torch on the cover. Sotheby's had estimated it would sell for $40,000 to $80,000.

Toward the end of the sale, at which he spent $229,845 for 21 items, Mr. Anderson said that not all of his money went for superheroes. He spent $4,675 for a copy of "Funnies on Parade," a 1933 compendium of newspaper comic strips featuring characters like Popeye and Mutt and Jeff. "It was one of the neatest things I bought," he said."

At that time Funnies on parade was considered the first comic book which I’m sure he knew.

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I think anyone who served White Castle hamburgers at his wedding reception is real cool!  That goes for the hair too.

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On 7/19/2023 at 12:19 PM, Robot Man said:

Exactly! The “big boy books”, seem almost down tight common these days. Show me the stuff that nobody ever sees…

High prices bring out the Big books.

On 7/16/2023 at 3:17 PM, Professor K said:

https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/auctionschedule.asp#Past Auction Results I didn't see the Spectre. 

I always though Comic link was more geared toward Silver age books.

On 7/14/2023 at 7:19 PM, MrBedrock said:

I sprained my ankle in 2003.

A worthy story for Double Action Rich.

It’s probably already in Silicon Valley.

I had a double Action 2 in 1999.fair condition, unrestored. Pick up from D.A

I agree with the last 2 posts above. Spot on.

How many of those books are purple label or conserved?

thank you

Being it’s such a small collection of 135 or so books I thought it wouldn’t be very difficult.

Can you name them beyond the Heritage Archives?

I paid $100 for a fair- complete copy unrestored for AF15 in the early 90s in Brooklyn. I think it’s easier to find today if you got the bucks. In any grade I consider it a very easy book to find. Obviously the demand is incredible.

After I bought all my Golden age books , with the money I had left I bought the inexpensive stuff( lol) AF15 and a few silver age keys. This was the early 90s

True. I did

You can’t even get tickets anymore. Anyway, I’m not into the Hollywood thing. Just the books. Anyway, it’s attracted much bigger audience, more interested in movies.

I think so. Hollywood has taken over and the con has lost its roots. The vintage comic section keeps shrinking. The Big books are on display for auction only. I don’t need this yearly pilgrimage anymore. All you need is a cel phone now.