october

Both sides of their business kind of suck and there's plenty of other dealers/auction houses out there.

On 5/4/2024 at 12:23 PM, The humble Watcher lurking said:

Sometimes short-sighted answers are the best. I have been thinking long term. I will make a bet with you if the comic book market goes up a year from now I will send you one of  PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App to any charity of your choice $100.

If it goes down further like I think, then you send me $100 to a charity of my choice. 

Deal?

What's "the comic market" and how would you determine if it went up or down? By looking at the same tired top 100 Silver and Bronze keys and movie spec stuff? Those are not a proxy for back issue comics as a whole and never have been.

On 4/24/2024 at 11:24 AM, royaluglydudes said:

 Supes and Bats vs. a slasher.

Already better than anything Zach Snyder farted out. 

Just a heads up, it looks like the cover is detached in the second pic. Might want to double check. 

On 4/23/2024 at 8:57 PM, gunsmokin said:

Such. A. Slippery. Slope….

Quiet you.

On 4/23/2024 at 8:33 PM, WesW said:

Chilling tales 17 g/vg 

425.00

 

I'll take this

On 4/22/2024 at 11:59 AM, RareHighGrade said:

 I wonder if the low-profile venue was able to obtain the prices they would have gotten on HA Clink or CC?

I'd say no on quite a few of the results. 

On 4/22/2024 at 9:36 PM, Readcomix said:

Battle Ground #17 in VFNM. Two on census, topped by an 8.5. The 7.5 sold on HA in 2023 for $216.

$400

Take

On 4/22/2024 at 9:19 PM, buttock said:

You're doing it wrong. Cold turkey

My system couldn't handle the shock. Too sensitive. 

On 4/22/2024 at 9:17 PM, buttock said:

I thought you were done collecting

It's a process.

On 4/22/2024 at 9:17 PM, Readcomix said:

Battle Front #31 in VF. Just two on census, though an 8.5 tops it. That book went $600 on HA in 2021.

$300

Take

On 4/18/2024 at 4:14 PM, Professor K said:

She told me he was not an art teacher. He joined the US Navy in March 1941 and was wounded at some point after.  He worked as a printer

Interesting! Did she have any idea what the interior check marks and numbers/notations meant?

On 4/16/2024 at 1:26 PM, gunsmokin said:

come on... bring the rest!!

Still stockpiling and making collection cuts. 

Title says it all. I take check, money order or PayPal. Shipping included inside the US, foreign will ship at cost. No returns on slabs. 

I'll keep this up for a day or so, then off to eBay. 

Nice book. $500 shipped. Last two GPA sales: $600 in March, $552 in April.  

SOLD

Title says it all. I take check, money order or PayPal. Shipping included inside the US, foreign will ship at cost. No returns on slabs. 

I'll keep this up for a day or so, then off to eBay. 

Nice book. Thought it was a 9.4, but whatever. 

SOLD

I'd hazard a guess that it's worth maybe half of the asking price at best. That's a ROUGH coverless. Brittle, with chunks floating around the interior well, extensive tape, possible removed from a bound volume or something else that required saddle stitching.

Adding a repro cover shouldn't add much value, but it would at least cover up some of the ugliness.

On 4/11/2024 at 1:59 PM, buttock said:

Collecting high-grade 50s books is really strange.  The nicest copy in existence could be a 7.5, but the old collectors have no incentive to slab so you'll never know.  There were just a handful of exceptionally nice DCs that went through the weekly and this signature auction that were evidently from 5 different sources (what are the odds?).  Most of those issues had never been available in those grades publicly.  We're now talking 24 years of CGC, GPA, Heritage archives, etc.  And it's taken this long for an 8.0 or 9.0 to hit the market.  But if it sells for $4300 and now the guy who owns the WM copy gets a 9.2 and you're hosed... but it's been over 20 years of waiting!  Do you wait for that one to come out... if it ever does?  And if it does, will it now go for twice that?  

I will have to check my old records, but I slabbed and sold a ton of high grade squarebound SA DCs in 2011 and 2012 out of an OO collection. They went through CLink. Pretty sure that Rock was one of then. It went for just a BIT less than $8k. Lol

On 4/11/2024 at 12:53 PM, tth2 said:

It's been one of my big regrets that I didn't buy this on one of the many times it came up at Heritage after its initial sale, as its price was spiraling downwards.

A board member picked it up and we cracked it out together. Insane copy, was fun seeing it raw.

On 4/9/2024 at 8:43 PM, RareHighGrade said:

Issue #25 is a beast that is rarely seen and almost never comes up for sale.  This Lost Valley 5.0 represents the highest graded copy on the census.  No one has seen a Church copy.

 

Love this issue, beautiful copy.

On 4/8/2024 at 2:28 PM, darkstar said:

Windy City Pulp was this past weekend, fewer than 5 dealers had graded pulps, and I would estimate 90% of the people in the room were in their late 40s or older. It was the same show that it has always been. 

There were a handful of younger guys buying up a ton of stuff and prices at the auction were insane...at least on Friday night. But yeah, it was pretty much the same show as always. I expected more of a frenzy and more new "collectors".