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It seems like ComicConnect gets better auction prices. Six month no interest loan perhaps? For AF #15 or for other books as well? Comiclink seemed to get strong prices too. Any time you offer a book that looks good for the grade (or is upgradeable) you can generally assume it's going to go for strong money.

Really? It's my perception that the book had been steadily climbing in lower grades for the past two years. Comics have always been appreciated for their eye appeal but Marvel chipping alone doesn't cause a 5.0 to sell for $25K less than the record $57K sale a few months ago. The CC copies that went for record prices were either certainly upgradeable or certainly speculated to be upgradeable (I know at least 2 of the 3 were). That's why they went for record prices IMO.

I just got a CGC book that I bid way low on and won. The reason I bid low, was it looked like it had a lot of flaws for the grade. Anyway, in hand, all those flaws are gone. Apparently, everything I was looking at were scanner artifacts. It happens.

Scanner artifact can create illusions so impossible to tell from a small scan.

Vincent from Metro said he sold one for $300K Metro must have sold it in May as that is what GPA is showing.

Yes, the buying pool is much smaller. It's all related to price point, venue and who is watching at a given time (which I figure you know). Some stuff doesn't get grabbed up immediately.

ComicLink. Former 1.8 iirc, taped up to 2.5. Belongs to a boardie. BIN @ 450K, has an offer of 350K Comic Connect / Metro also had a CGC 5.0 last October in NYC. I believe it just sold recently. The 2.5 is just gorgeous in hand. I thought about buying it when GAtor owned years ago but just didn't know how I could dish out the dough at the time to make a sale. @NoMan As a general rule, the larger books take more time to sell than cheaper books.

That didn't sound like an apology to me.

We've been talking about it and want to do it. We've got a set list of about 20 songs that we want to work on. We're trying to nail down a location and see if everyone can make it happen. So far it's a strong maybe.

This post illustrates exactly what I'm trying to say. Two months ago you said that AF #15 could only go 'up, up, up' but after PMing with GAtor a few weeks ago (who is apparently God's gift to all dealers - and just so you know, he's a personal friend of mine. He was invited to my wedding) you've now enlightened us that 'we're going to see a pull back.' I'm fairly certain that I was actually the first to point out in this thread that the current market trend was unsustainable and that a pullback was a real possibility (that's when you started calling me names a couple of months ago and slandering my business calling me untrustworthy) but that's not being an expert. That simple economics 101. And now you're saying I ' got caught off guard so much for been the eyes and ears of the hobby '. Let me show you how I got caught off guard. I don't post everything I know on here because I use my hard earned knowledge to make a living but I did call several of my dealer friends mid summer last year and told them based on what I saw to stock up on AF #15 and Hulk #1 because I felt those books were going to move hard. It must have been a lucky guess since I got caught with my pants down.

Laugh all you want I knew (you get that feeling when you have been in a hobby for so long at least some of us do) AF15 was going to have a explosion in value and I also knew many of the final sale prices would be much higher than what some others here estimated certain AF15's where going to sell for. Imagine that, you predicted that AF #15 is going up. What you said was stuff like "you can't lose", "it's only going to go up, up, up" and "you can't overpay" or stuff like that. If that is what makes someone an 'expert' then all of the people out there who believe that keys are going to get more expensive over time are also experts. Which is basically the whole hobby. The 'explosion' that happened is that a few select copies that were either upgradeable or looked too good for the grade set records. Another shocking revelation that nicer books fetch more money that not-so-nice books. That's not some sort of prediction. It's been happening since comics were worth more than cover price. I've been a collector for 42 years. I've been a full time dealer for nearly 9. Being a collector OR a dealer doesn't make anyone an expert. There are plenty of both who don't have a clue as to how to understand market dynamics. It doesn't matter what you do for a living that makes you understand how business works. You either understand business or you don't. What happened is easy to see if you just take a step back. Nothing caught me off guard. I was already in the market ready to buy the AF #15 9.0 to try to upgrade it (I went to look at the book in NYC the week before the auction) and knew it would set a record number (because that is how upgradeable copies are valued). Along with the 9.l0, two other select copies sold for record prices. Many didn't sell for record prices. Now those who own AF #15s (collectors and dealers) want those prices to be real because everyone likes making money and the market is trying to decide whether this is the new price range. Sure enough, some copies after that sold for strong numbers and some didn't. The market is still unsure. Why? Because not everyone believes that this is the new price point. If they did it wouldn't be a discussion and there wouldn't be copies sitting on the market unsold.

Yes it does it's a long time especially when you follow certain hobbies almost every single day since that time period and have spoken to so many dealers over that time as well. I'm always doubtful of anyone who proclaims themselves an expert on the internet. The proof is in the pudding and there's a lot of pudding in this thread.

There have been non-American collectors since the dawn of the hobby. With globalization I'd expect there to be an increase in internet commerce but I don't think some person in a communist country is all of a sudden in need of a mega copy of AF #15. If anything they don't care much about the character and are buying expensive collectibles as a store of wealth in the same way they buy North American real estate at a rabid pace. They're not buying real estate because they love North America. They're buying it because they love the fact that their respective governments can't access their money once they are spent over here.

Weird the last CGC 6.0 sold at Heritage for a little over 9200$ before that sale and this sale for 7200$ it was selling for around 6700$ and before that in the 6000$ area. Book seems to be a bit all over the place in CGC 6.0. The book is only 'all over the place' if you are micro analyzing prices like stock tickers, which is the biggest mistake most people make when they follow prices. It's normal for there to be a variation in prices at auctions and there are reasons why. For someone who has 'been following the hobby' and 'talked to many dealers' you seem to not know this.

how many opp to own a Schomburg cover And a particularly good one, too, imo. Conrad E had one for sale in SD about 7 years ago that I thought about buying. @Sardo Numspar was there along with a few others guys and we were talking about it. Someone bought it.

Ditko ASM pages have been selling for high 5 figures and low 6 figures for some time now.

Has anyone gotten an answer on this censorship feature? I haven't. Also, why is Marwood deleted? What did I miss?

I think I have one of those kicking around somewhere. Forgot all about it.

I see plenty of kids 5 and under wearing Spidey trademark clothing. Maybe I should try to sell them an AF #15.

Yes, early Heritage scans were on the light side.

It was stunner. I was hooked as soon as I saw it. Cover was nice and blue rather than the usual grey. It just had the brand new, fresh look to it.

I think that by 'shortly', Roy may have meant after a couple of years. I bought the Miller run off the rack, and don't remember there being any hoarding or hub-bub about the title at the time. Although the originality and quality of the story lines and art stood out right away. Correct. It took a few years but I remember paying about $25 or $30 for my 1st #158 and #168 (which I didn't buy off the rack).

Shilled offers on ComicConnect and ComicLink are somewhat commonplace. There have been quite a few reported in Comics General over the years when flagged. I remember bidding on my first book on an exchange and expecting a counter offer. The seller accepted my bid (much to my surprise).

About 5 or 6 years ago there was an Action #1 on the wall for display in WW Chicago. I know the owner (who is a boardie) and put in a decentoffer on the book. The boardie declined. That was about as close as I've ever gotten to owning a copy.

I prefer not to use reserves and I felt the book would have gone strong. It happens.