Crowzilla

I remember when the owner of Mastronet auctions was buying comics. He was a nice guy but forgetful (had a pretty Detective #27 that he couldn't remember where it was). Wonder whatever happened to him...

9.2 is still too low on the Pay Copy compared to the other high grade Marvel #1s, but I'm glad it was regraded to separate itself from the other two regrades.

That's it, just one book - one with an awesome Baker cover. $3200, checks, MOs, paypal, venmo, whatever. 7 day return policy. If you say you'll take it, please take it (had a couple of non-follow throughs last time).

Yes, but they love the Joker. So the Batman #1 page is probably the one that would/could pass the record.

Are the single known pages from Batman #1 and Marvel Comics #1 not good enough to even get mentioned anymore? The Batman page even has the Joker card (and Joker) in it, and now that Subby will be joining the MCU...

If by public you aren't counting the blue 3.0 that ComicConnect auctioned last month for $1.6 million (which was my basis for the comparison to the Tec27), or the resale of the 8.5 last April, then yes.

no. The 3.0 and the 8.5 that ComicConnect sold in 2021.

Yep, trying to close the gap with Batman #1 and equal/better than Cap 1 maybe. If you don't count the two high profile copies that sold in the last 12 months, sure.

Action 1 was Cream, so I assume it was discounted also, right? Plus it had some of the same grader's notes including: Left Bottom Back Cover Chews, Left Center Back Cover Piece Out, Staple Multiple Rusted, Staple Multiple Tear, Top Spine Large Spine Split, and Top Staple Cover Detached.

Same. After the $1.6 million sale of the 3.0 Action 1, how could a 4.5 Tec 27 not reach that same number? I guess this will at least temporarily silence all the people who constantly claim that Tec27 is closing the gap on Action1

A Verzyl might, but not John. And let's see what happens when 30 years is up. Pretty sure another John, Teftteller, has the best collection of blues 78s. Many not even known when Hite was alive and collecting. The internet has enabled some amazing discoveries to be found.

How big a collection can Hite still have 30 years after his death?

You are looking at the wrong census numbers. You need to focus on the 141 restored copies. Most restoration is done to the cover of the books, and what little might be done to a page can easily be pulled off when you are separating pages. Some people keep insisting that low-grade restored Bat 1s are $50K or less, and that is where I think the motivation is to pull them apart and piece them out. Really, a complete restored Bat 1 should be close to 100K now (as long as ok eye appeal and non-brittle pages)

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Is it just me, or is this a scary picture?

If you remove DC from the mix, there aren't a lot of pre-1940s comics period (mostly Dells). Famous Funnies, Super, some Features, King, etc. of the few hundred total books that qualify they turn up in about the same frequency as any other specific items from an 18,000 book collection.

Pretty sure that's not ungraded any longer.

Well it did say "For over" $4.5 million, and certainly the Church would hit the over. $15 million, $20 million, whatever, all of those numbers are over $4.5

Maybe that's why it's a sample copy

Page 28 sold for over $8,000 I said a few months back, that the break-up value was getting too high and that restored copies were the super bargains. realistically, the page by page value is somewhere in the $50-60,000 range if you pull apart the book, possibly more depending on how much work was done to the cover.

It is strange that a 9.0 is the highest, and I agree that Bonanza was huge at the time, but Rawhide is an earlier series and Eastwood is a much bigger global icon that Landon or Greene, so I don't think it would be that close dollar-wise.

And there we go - $2.041million

And yet, if you submit a Marvel File Copy that you purchased from Dupcak, all you will get is a purple label with a trimmed notation.

I think you are forgetting the BP, which already puts it at 1.98Mil

I will book that. With the 7.0 Tec 27 now being a 2.4-2.5 million book or more, Action 1 should easily be $350/pt maybe more