october

These threads always bring out the doom and gloom. Maybe I am an outlier, maybe I am lucky, maybe I am just better at it , but my comic "investments" (really just my collection) have vastly outperformed my other portfolios. I spend an absurd amount of time looking for deals, it's fun for me, and I've been a quasi-dealer for about 20 years, but it IS possible to come out well ahead with this stuff. I think I am far better off sinking $10k into a comic than I am an ETF, mutual fund, etc. because I've spent, literally, tens of thousands of hours buying/selling comics. That time better be good for something....and it has been. Plus it's SO SO SO much more fun than just clicking the buy button on Vanguard or Fidelity. It takes a long, long time to develop the right eye and the right strategy though. Just buying random keys off the next CLink auction ain't gonna cut it. I guess I'd rather rely on my own instinct and knowledge in a weirdo niche market than hand my money over to a fund manager or try to beat buildings full of MIT grads and their algorithms. I do max out my 401k, but I'm not going to be shy about plowing what's left of my hobby gains into a comic I think is awesome and will continue to be awesome. Maybe that's risky? I don't know. I kind of feel like it's the opposite actually. Just felt like I'd post a slightly different perspective to what usually pops up in these threads.

Just back from slabbing, trails a single 8.5 that I know isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Probably bound for Heritage.

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.

Quiet you.

I'll take this

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

Take

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

It's a process.

Take

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

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.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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

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

Love this issue, beautiful copy.

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".

Many sad, hard lessons from this story, not the least of which is that the internet mob is a savage beast. You let if off the chain at your own peril, and shouldn't be shocked if it turns on you.

Just talked to my friend Bill. He does Copper, but mostly Modern. 500+ subs before this year: zero 9.9/10.0 results. Last 21 book sub: four 9.9 results. Take that for what you will. Wondering if 9.9 will be the next 9.8, especially with the pre-screen.

Have you bothered to look at either of their work? Because if you had, you'd know instantly what Namor was talking about.

Did you read up on what he did? He was somewhat creepy and suggestive to a 17 year old. He could have slept with her and it wouldn't be a crime in 39 out of 50 states. As a man roughly his age, his actions were indefensible and gross. That said, the internet does what the internet does best and went totally overboard. At least the Athenians had the decency to take a vote before ostracizing someone. Other cultures consider shunning among their most serious punishments. We immediately hand it out like candy at the behest of anonymous internet mobs. That should give us pause...