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Giant-Size Creatures 1 CGC 8.5 OW/W ..............$89

Ghosts 1 CGC 9.0 White Pages .....$145

Defenders 4 CGC 9.0 OW/W .......$69

Defenders 3 CGC 8 OW ..............$34

DEFENDERS 2 CGC 8.5 OW ..............$59

Beware issue 1 CGC 9.4 OW/W...............$69

Hello, Normal rules apply. No HOS or Probies, must have completed at least one successful purchase before with Kudo's, US shipping is 12.00 USPS to the US only, Foreign shipping is based on country so please ask first (not getting rich off it, will be inline with postage). Payment is due within 1 day of agreeing to price, failure to pay in that time nulls the deal. Payment by Paypal only and shipping only to confirmed addresses (this protects both of us). First to say has first dibs. I looked up GPA and public sales and priced all items below current market, so if you want any of these books now would be a good time to buy them since ive set everything 5-25% current confirmed sale prices....Lets do it.

First show Im gonna have to miss in years, hope to see a lot of great pics.

Well not speaking for Bob's copies, but I tend to follow ebay closely. I looked at all BIN copies (only ones with prices) on ebay and i found around 30+. Every single copy for sale right now has some common elements 1. Is priced for 10-150% over GPA Chipped copies are being offered for prices at or substantially above highest sale price of unchipped exceptional in grade copies from major auctions (aka worse copies being offered for over the selling price of superior copies) Unchipped superior copies are being offered on average around 100% over known high level mark prices (there is one example however of a clean unchipped mid-grade being offered at just 5% over record, that's the best value it seems) 2. Are generally lower examples in grade across board, very few high PQ no chips copies out there (only 2 i see now in BIN). Rest are copies that most collectors would love to have but arent exceptional in grade or with exceptional eye appeal. Basically ebay is filled right now with books with lesser eye appeal and structure issues for substantially over high GPA prices. Anything higher quality/exceptional in anyway is being offered for multiples of GPA/fair market (one exception maybe). It looks like a bunch of guys fishing with lesser copies hoping to find someone who doesnt know how to read GPA properly who dont mind setting new record high prices...they are doing this because there is little to no risk for them cost wise. Its lazy "i hope you will overpay even in a strong market" offerings. Those normally stack up, not surprising at all (at least to me).

All respect to Comix4Fun, but this is my new favorite gif now.

That cover on 110 really kills it, even TTA27 has Pym on the cover (albeit in his bowling shirt and buster browns but still). Not saying its below Fury 1, but wow it's like just a shade above it in the Marvel silver age hierarchy somewhere around 12th.

Just curious how seller bothered to report sale to GPA yet an all-time record breaking high sale goes unpublicized. A headline such as that would be welcome by any dealer/consignment site. I guess I just dont get GPA...the 57k (among others it seems) sale of a 5.0 changed the conversation on AF15 isn't on GPA after nearly 6 months....and it seems other CC sales after that sale are (still need to confirm that), and the reason is do to "Manual Entry"...how exactly then did later sales make it and not this clearly important one? This make sense to anyone? Im not asking as some gimmick, really trying to figure out how this works.

Yeah, there's value. The newton is cool cause you never see them due to his passing so early, but it is a bit rough and its not overly well colored. I would imagine it would be worth 150.00 US range just on oddity alone but if it goes to auction total gamble. I don't see the Adams but of course nicer the better.

You have to, because it seems GPA isnt keeping very accurate records of public sales these days. Anyone else notice that many 5.0+ sales of note arent showing up on GPA? The 57k one still isnt there, and that was like 6 months ago I believe.

The SWG sets (and this piece in particular) along with the TZ novels with Thrawn are probably some of the biggest reasons why Star Wars survived the early 90s when it was just us diehard fans holding it up. People forget how truly dead and niche SW was before the prequels came about. Honestly if you were ever going to find an "important" piece of star wars illustration art to come up for sale, this painting would be it. Short of a Zahn Thrawn Trilogy cover, this would be tops.

So, i think the last 20+ pages of replies has shown we are off the idea of this being some temporary bubble but more like a dramatic uptick in a price with about a 10% giveback from high water....and its slowly working upward to get that 10% back as we speak with each sale. That sound about right?

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Could be because of a lot of fakes and reproductions? I notice all the hobbies that have certfication are doing just fine,and it's the old hobbies that rely on 1980s model of grading that seemed to have lost most value. An example is comic book keys and vintage rookie sportcards have exploded in value. Also key Star Wars action figures that are certified have set records these last few years. Certification = makes the hobbies more legit for investing/speculating,unlike old antiques which can be faked. Whats funny about toys, is that most established star wars Toy collectors (the king late 20th century collecting toy wise) truly seem to hate AFA and disparage it routinely. They seem to love raw ungraded high grade. BUT when you go to market AFA 85 speaks loud and clear and dominates the elite variant collecting market. Dont know what to make of that, but its a thing.

Its a fine copy, its complete, and its a mega key that fills the run....Hell of a score, good job!

I find I agree with you on most things....except here. Tiffany Lamps are "Spoon"ing beautiful. If people stop collecting functional works of high art like that, we should give up a little on the entire notion of anything that isn't food/weapons/water having any value....cause damn they are sweet.

Actually I dont think its either. I spoke to a friend of Russell and I think its not sandman but a character he did earlier that never went anywhere. I'm guessing he liked the look and the cloak and morphed the design into Sandman issue 50 from June of that same year. Getting more info now.

but would he sign it? Like thats pretty no-no usually for artists. Would love to hear any hard info on this one since honestly I thought about this one.

I remember seeing that piece somewhere in the past. When i was looking at the autograph, i kept thinking it looked like an older style. The edges sharper more defined than those looser ones you see on the x-men 1 reprints for example (but to be fair he signed 2500 of them so that wears down the signature quality and definition). Taking age out, would Jack sign another mans cover done in his style? Would he try and take credit for another's work is the basic question? Thats where you sign when thats your art, he did it often as far as i can see. Would he lay his mark on another mans work and claim it as his own?

Whats more, its signed in pencil not ink. Small detail but it tends to lend something to the argument that kirby had a hand in penciling it (signed at the time completed or as evidence of his involvement). In my read on the description is that kirby didnt do Finished pencils/breakdowns on this where details like faces and cloth drapery would be defined but did just loose layouts that were finished and then inked by Sinnott. That would be incredibly hard to prove either way to be honest, but clearly he laid pencil to paper on this by the signature alone. Would he really sign an illustration done in his style that he had no hand in drawing, back in the 70s no less?

what I never like about the freshly graded argument, is that its also very possible someone took a book slabbed from before pressing was allowed (or done well) and had it pressed/cleaned/regraded. I suspect many of these books coming up existed on in a CGC case before. Even before the recent price explosion this book was a high 5 figure low 6 figure book. If you knew what grading is AND you own that book you likely would have already graded it. Going from regular stupid expensive to double-secret stupid costly shouldn't make that much of a difference, right?