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The reporter would have been much more professional to state that price depends on grade and pristine copies have been known to fetch up to $1MIL

What are you talking about? It's Mint. It's in a sleeve with cardboard and everything!?!?!?

All we've ever seen is smaller scans of the book so it's impossible to know for sure. Scanners (and old slabs) can ghost or create all sorts of defects that aren't really there. Has anyone here held the book in their hands?

just did it. What'cha gonna do about it? Huh?

Do you actually have customers ask if a book is upgradeable before buying it? Please post more details about those books like the grades and percentages if you don't mind? See blazingbob's post above. And here's a flower -

Do you look at the markets at all? All keys have been on fire. There isn't a key book that isn't heating up.

Ah, OK. I thought you meant it as an accepted standard. Yeah, there are a lot of people who have no clue how to grade.

Scum bags have a way of sniffing out softer personalities and playing them like violins. I hate people like that.

WELL WHAT WAS THEN??? In my experience Mint books were what today might pass as anything from a VF range to a NM range, depending on the defects. It's why I consider VF range to still be high grade. There's no way what you posted was considered a Mint book.

That article was full of horrible facts. Novice reporters.

An old man once told me that there is no love like the love of a mother for her children. I'm sure you guys have many great memories to share. Condolences to some of the best guys in comics on your loss.

Another thread about values?

There were many, many other record breaking sales in various grades between the first sale of this 9.4 a year and a half ago, and that comic connect auction you reference from last May, that I have already detailed here in great lengths that disprove your theory on that. Sufficeth to say, we will just have to agree to disagree on that point. As I said, last year's price $450K was already established a year before with Metro's WTB prices. It was not a surprise. Based on how the market accepted the new prices from the March CC auction (which were a surprise), it was a given that the next 9.4 would go for well over the highest, previous 9.0 or 9.2 sales. In a year we'll know which one of us was right. ;-)

As I've said before, the 9.4 sold for exactly what I thought was FMV in 2016 (and at exactly what Metro was offering publicly for a 9.4 at the time). The fact that it resold a year later for nearly double just confirms what I've said all along, and that is that the price surge happened earlier this year (was it in March?) with the Metro CC auctions hitting record numbers.

Eric, are you saying that the new 8.5 is the 7.5 that sold for $100K+?

This is going to sound silly to some but I much prefer reading high grade copies than low grade copies. Always did.

I'm not saying that he's not above board. What I am saying is that over $100K is an unusually high price for that grade. Even an 8.0 sold for less just a year ago. It is possible that whoever bought the book thought it had a strong shot at upgrade OR it's also possible someone paid that number because people are thinking that the book is starting to look cheap in the wake of recent AF #15 prices.

FF #1 is undervalued because it's the Action #1 equivalent of the Silver Age. It created the proliferation of a company that was nearly unprecedented. It's lower valued because of movie bumps, which in my opinion is an unfortunate way of gauging the market.

Gang, take 15% off prices of remaining books.

Is that the price it sold for or an asking price? I sold a 7.5 a few months ago and didn't get anywhere near that price.

I get lots of those too.

The only other board member/collector I can even think of that held a 9.4 was Storms ( but he doesn't count as he is a dealer ). Ok Metro too. I had one walk up to my booth at a show a few years ago. It was not for sale at the time. Customer just showed it to me.

Gang, 3 books left. Take 10% off remaining prices. ------------------------------------------- Amazing Spider-man #93 CGC 9.6 White pages. Asking $1000 (shipping included) Incredible Hulk #122 CGC 9.8 White pages. Asking $850 (shipping included) X-men #109 CGC 9.8 OWW pages. Asking $1100 (shipping included)

I've always wondered why books don't have their own numbering, say "#2 /100" when printed and it could be next to the bar code or somewhere near that. This would levitate from anyone thinking one book was swapped for another and every book would be unique. Time, money, logistics. Lots of reasons. And adding yet another task to the grading process would just increase the time and price of the service unrealistically. Would people really want all of their books serial numbered when the majority of books slabbed or relatively inexpensive moderns? We've also had the discussion of invisibly marking books on this forum over the years. Most people don't want their books marked or tampered with. It's unfortunate but there is no clear cut solution at this point to thievery and fraud except for nabbing people who do it after the fact.

You'll need to upload the video to a hosting site and then post the link here. I'm not sure if this website has video hosting capability. Is it worth stating which state the books were stolen from?