I had made my case yet you keep bringing me back in.
I'm the one who needs to take a nicer approach? Coming from you that's hilarious. How many "timeouts" do you have?
I've made my case already and others have agreed. But just to add a little more backup, here's a couple more quotes:
Auction 1:
I drove the high bidder...I am the 3376 bidder. I was interested in seeing how high he would go. Unfortunately, I forgot about the auction at the end, but another bidder came along, trying to snipe, but couldn't.
Auction 2 (live auction):
Well, I threw my bid into the ring.
Pushing the price up to "see how high it would go" but not winning, is a tactic that could be considered shill bidding. A tactic often associated with one method of pump and dump.
I'll explain why you have a vested interest in this book since you are not comprehending it. You have stated you own one of the four KNOWN copies.
You, along with every person on the planet, does not know what tomorrow brings. You have stated you do not plan on selling, which I assume true. But, any day something could happen causing me, you, someone else to liquidate their collectibles. In fact it happens all the time.
Say that doesn't happen and you carry it to your last days. After that, it will come into the possession of someone else like a family member. At which time the value of that comic will be important.