rsouxlja7

Curious to hear others thoughts on TMNT1 1st print. It's a book I've had on my list of "books to sell" but I am trying to time the best exit point. I'd just be reinvesting the money in the S&P 500. Do you think it has more upside potential in the short term or is now a good time to sell? I have a CGC 8.5. 

On 10/7/2021 at 3:48 PM, Hulksdaddy1 said:

This baby walked through the door today 

Great centering. Also love the label.

On 10/13/2021 at 10:39 PM, Beastfeast said:

Here's a new one for me:

I met up with a woman who was selling a few tubs of comics from Facebook.  She was asking $500 - which I thought was of course going to be too high - but there were a few decent things sitting on top so why not go try my luck?  I get there and she's with an older guy who's there to, "make sure I wasn't a weirdo."  Fair enough.  She tells me right away she's firm on price.  Knowing that, I tell her I'll pull the decent stuff out as I'm going through so in case we don't end up making a deal, she'll have it up front for the next person.  

I go through all the books and have good conversation with both her and the dude.  There's nothing amazing - I think the best book was that Adam Hughes Dirty Pair variant.  I explain why $500 is too much for me to pay and tell her the reasoning.  She's comes back with $250.  I say sold!  But then the guy makes this hand signal and says, "You know what?  I'll just take it for $500."  We were both shocked because this dude didn't care about the comics and repeatedly told us so.  They were also friends so it was even more strange.  I look at the woman and tell her how stoked I am she got full price and tell the dude that what he did was bad form - not because I missed out on the books but for wasting all of our time standing around while I sorted the stuff that he intended to buy.  

I'm still annoyed by it.  

 

I did something similar once and never again. Went through box upon box of books, separating out the good stuff and explaining that these books are the bulk of their value. Seller did not want to part with them after hearing the values of those. Never give someone free information. 

The price increase for AF15 is really starting to pull ASM1 up with it. A 4.5 just sold on ebay for over 24K. 

Pretty funny reading post histories of some of the doomers here and seeing they've been calling for a comic market crash for nearly 3 years or more depending on how far back into their post histories I was bored enough to read 

On 9/20/2021 at 9:15 PM, KCOComics said:

This is something I struggle with myself. 

Since I started collecting in high school, I always said, this isn't an investment, it's a hobby. I never cared about the $$, I only cared about owning these books. Reading them, the history, the artists.... 

And that was an easy position when I was finding Silver Surfer #1s for $40 at flea markets and "ponying up" to buy a low grade Avengers 1 for a few hundred dollars. 

But when those same comics become 4 and 5 figures and every big book you want to buy is a significant financial commitment, it's hard to ignore the value. And as idealistic as I have always been about comics, I find myself watching the final hammer prices with excitement. 

I still love everything about comics. And I find myself reading allot of cheap atomic age stuff, but it's impossible to ignore how the $$ has changed the hobby... 

Yup I became completely priced out a few years ago for the stuff I'd like to own so it caused me to quit collecting. I still have around 100 books that I just view as an extension of my investment portfolio at this point. 

A 2.0 from the Promise Collection is now listed in Heritage's previews (no photo yet).

sold for 162K + 15% buyers premium 

I have been watching the extended bidding on this for 30 mins and it never ends  

This is why I only submit high $ books to CCS. You pay more and might get less results but don't have to worry about anyone stealing or downright ruining your books. 

Constantly being on the hunt and looking in all of the usual places. There's just far less opportunities now than there were even 5 years ago. Craigslist might get 5% of the traffic it had 5 years ago. 

CCS did awesome on this and my FF5, worth the wait for sure. 

I find myself with two copies of ASM 5 in 4.5. What do you think of the investment potential of this book? Will Dr. Doom's inevitable MCU appearance bump the price?

Grade is in 

Grade is in 

Grade is in 

13 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

I really wish a couple of these new big money buyers would come on here & talk about their purchases.   

The price paid is a drop in the bucket for the people paying 90K for TMNT1s, 250K for MS5s, etc. It literally doesn't matter to them at all whether the hammer is 100k or 200k when the difference only moves their bank/brokerage account for a couple percent

15 minutes ago, peewee22 said:

34,999? 

No lowballing!  It's actually not for sale though, it's a keeper book even though I don't really collect anymore. 

Give it time and it'll be a good investment. I paid around 16K for my 2.5, I think in 2017, and that was pretty much a record high for the grade even after the big price run-up. Now I wouldn't sell it for less than 35. 

There's a 9.0 #1 on Heritage @ $24K with 10 days left. How much have 9.0s been selling for? 30K?

Bought both of these raw from the original owner a couple of years ago

On 6/2/2021 at 8:21 AM, rsouxlja7 said:

Every day that I refresh my submissions and my express sub still says received 4/13 I get more and more annoyed 

Express 

Received @ CCS 4/13

Scheduled for grading 6/03

Every day that I refresh my submissions and my express sub still says received 4/13 I get more and more annoyed 

On 5/18/2021 at 8:43 AM, rsouxlja7 said:

It has now been 5 weeks that my Express submission has been at CCS for pressing, not including the nearly 4 weeks that it took to get logged as received. 

Still hasn't moved.