Robot Man

Yeah, I'd go for some ECs, post code Marvel horror/fantasy and teen age GGA and Matt Baker...

18 minutes ago, catrick339 said:

Wilbur 11

Nice looking  rough  read4er.   Water along  bottom  edge,   long narrow piece out  lower FC,   lower staple  loose,   spine wear  and splits  about halfway up.  and it STILL  looks  good  in  a mylar,  

Interior is  nice  enough, tight with offwhite pages.  Early Katy Keene  appearance.

 

Asking $12

 

 

 

Take it!

2 hours ago, catrick339 said:

Nellie  The Nurse  16

1 x 3 horizontal piece out of BC,  you  can  see where  it  creeps around  to the FC  on  the  spine  below  the staple.  Otherwise  spine  roll and general wear,  cream - offwhite pages

 

Decent reader for $15

 

Take it!

15 hours ago, thehumantorch said:

Might make sense for Disney.  More superhero rides, stuffed animals, trinkets, all based on DC characters.  Disney is pretty good at monetizing their properties and Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and all the rest are pretty powerful ideas.

Disney can barely keep up with merchandising the characters they already have. Their #1 push these days is Star Wars and Frozen. Been in a Disney store lately? My grand daughter watches the Disney channel and loves Minnie Mouse. We went in to see if we could find her something. The place was packed with Star Wars and Frozen. A small amount of Marvel stuff. Way, back in the back one one small rack was the Disney Character stuff. Not much to chose from. VERY sad actually. I can't imagine what they would do if they had DC characters as well.

I offered a whole bunch as a lot cheap in a recent sales thread and all I got was crickets...

Courtesy of Mr. Bedrock, Happy 4th of July!

On 6/29/2017 at 1:37 PM, Bighaley21 said:

Interesting pick up this past week.. 

 

Love me some double cover ECs...

You didn't say what you paid and it really doesn't matter any way. I suspect VERY little based on the fact you are starting a thread about it here. If it were me, I'd put it on the bay at a good day and time at $9.99 and let it ride.  True auctions like that for books like this tend to do real well. Instead of trying to search out top dollar, let top dollar come to you. You might be surprised.

Oh, and welcome to the boards...

20 hours ago, Gregd said:

Thanks! Getting closer to having all the titles I want.... well, maybe not. Seems like more and more pop up

Good luck with that Gregd, PCH is VERY habit forming. I was a completest with most Publishers and titles. I just bought my favorite ones of publishers like ACG, Star and and Avon due to kinda weak content. Now I'm nearing the close on many of those and picking up the post code Atlas. It NEVER ends...

Why, yes they are. Here's a few more for your viewing pleasure... (I've got a bunch of them)

American and British versions published at the same time.

4 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

From my point of view, it's more likely that the book was brought by an old time collector who's had it sitting in their private collection for the longest while  , as opposed to a new generation type collector who is much more into the CPR game and believes that it's all about the grade and nothing else. 

For example, I don't believe Jon bothered to "maximize the potential" on any of his books before putting them out for auction. 

It would seem that he really didn't need to...

Butt wait! We are not through with Friction House tail light issues...

Here is annother unusual rack. Not for comic books but for Little Golden Books. 1950's era hanging wall rack. Thought it was real unusual when I spotted it at the Alameda Antique Flea Market one Sunday morning.

Hey sfcityduck, nice rack thread. Here are two shots of my Dell rack. One set up with period Dell comics and another with the addition of the other panel I found all by it's self at an antique show. It often looks like the bottom photo. I like that it doesn't have any hard slots so all manner of paper collectibles can be displayed in it. I often fill it up with holiday comics.

4 hours ago, n2wdw said:

If You List It They Will Come - Mister Mystery #6

As I mentioned, I'm putting together my personal list of GGA grails.  As I do this, some of my grails are appearing for sale.  It's like Field of Dreams, but with comics instead of baseball players.  First Millie #2 (above), and now an even bigger grail -- a much bigger grail for me -- Mister Mystery #6.  I won this last week on eBay.  I watched the seconds count down.  We've all been there I'm sure.  You get to 5 seconds and all the bidnapper bids come in (I can't complain as I use bidnapper as well for most of my eBay auctions).  I expected to lose, but I won, with a whole $12 of room to spare to my max bid.  Now if only some of those Marvel Mysteries on my grail list show up on eBay I'll be a happy man.

Great grab. You will never be sorry about that one. I bought that one over 35 years ago. I have upgraded several copies but never been withthout a copy.

On 6/15/2017 at 8:30 AM, Hepcat said:

Here's a great book on that very subject:

 

 

It's well worth getting a copy!

Kellogg's, General Mills, Post, Nabisco, Quaker and the other breakfast cereal companies were almost as given to such puffery. The April 1971 issue of National Lampoon contained a great parody of those "Free Inside" cereal premium offers that were once so common. First the box:

 

 

Then what was actually inside the box:

 

 

 

The irony though is that whoever bought those cereals and actually kept the prizes, and especially the boxes(!), has the last laugh now. And that's true as well for nicely preserved specimens of the stuff/junk sold through those comic magazine ads.
 

Happy 4th of July!

3 minutes ago, jcjames said:

I currently own a grand total of 27 graded comics and about 3500 ungraded comics.

I enjoy reading comics, I greatly appreciate the art - and I also like crunching numbers and playing with spreadsheets. If that confuses you, then I can't help  you, but why do you have to be a presumptuous d0rk  about it???

Does that answer your question?

 

Sounds like you maybe need to get out more...

Just now, VintageComics said:

I understand where you're coming from.

But some people making a lifestyle out of chasing nice things.

Different strokes and all that.

I'm with ya. I'm not critizing or judging any one. I guess I'm at the age now where I don't feel the need to impress anybody anymore. I'd rather spend that money on travel, experiences and my kids/grandkids than comic books. Not to mention, the wind in my face on a vintage motorcycle so far trumps finding nicks on a comic book spine...

2 minutes ago, VintageComics said:

If you have two 'Mint' books side by side and both are 100% identical except for one or two tiny defects on one copy, and you want the best copy available which are you going to buy?

That's the reason for the incremental grades.

Oh, I get it Roy. To me they are "comic books" and myself, personally, I don't need the best copy available. Chasing the grade is a very fleeting endevor that rarely turns out well. Besides, I have better things to spend all that extra money on...

20 hours ago, jcjames said:

Obviously the current CGC grading scale is far more incremental at the top grades (from 9.0-10.0) which has 28% (7/25) of all the grading "steps" than the the rest of the scale .

It seems like the scale itself is designed for distinguishing high-grade books much more than mid or lower grade books - is this because high grade books are more commonly submitted for graded?

An interesting thing happens when you look at the numbers:

Average grade of 2,851,774 CGC Universal Graded books by decade:
2010s = 9.73 (400,601 books, 14.0% of all books)
2000s = 9.68 (374,700 books, 13.1% of all books)
1990s = 9.55 (307,188 books, 10.8% of all books)

1980s = 9.36 (476,701 books, 16.7% of all books)
1970s = 8.82 (557,082 books, 19.5% of all books)
1960s = 7.42 (512,662 books, 18.0% of all books)

1950s = 6.80 (108,148 books, 3.8% of all books)
1940s = 6.40 (109,074 books, 3.8% of all books)
1930s = 5.34 (5,618 books, 0.2% of all books)

It SEEMS, at least from this look, that the majority (54.2%) of all graded books  (those from the 60's-80's) have an average grade somewhere between 7.0 and 9.4.

But, as the adage goes, there are lies and then there are statistics.

In actuality, when looking at the number of books AT EACH GRADE (regardless of era) we see that just over 50% of all Universal Graded books on the census are actually graded 9.6-9.8:

Percent and Number of CGC Universal Graded books by grade:
10.0 = 0.1% (2,612 books)
9.9 = 0.4% (11,063 books)
9.8 = 34.3% (977,276 books, of which 58% of these are from 2000 to present)
9.6 = 16.5% (470,105 books, of which 26% of these are from 2000 to present)
9.4 = 11.1% (317,919 books)
9.2 = 6.6% (189,315 books)
9.0 = 5.5% (156,644 books)
8.5 = 4.7% (134,214 books)
8.0 = 3.7% (106,357 books)
7.5 =  3.0% (84,929 books)
7.0 = 2.7% (77,924 books)
6.5 = 2.1% (58,185 books)
6.0 = 1.8% (51,185 books)
and so on...

So basically, the current scale is skewed to differentiate HG books and that's the majority of books being graded.

Now here's the 10-cent question: Would folks be submitting all these modern books if the upper scale was incremented 9.0, 9.5, 10.0 like it is for most of the rest of the grading scale?

Also, right now there's always the 9.6 vs 9.8 uncertainty and almost unknown reasoning of why some books get 9.6 and some get 9.8 when many experienced collectors can't tell the difference for sure (thanks again no-grader-notes). Now just imagine that same ambiguous uncertainty as to why SA-book A gets a 6.2 while SA-book B (which looks in nearly same condition) gets a 6.4 or 6.0.

There is already a lot of ambiguity between many 9.6 and 9.8 submissions and especially for moderns, a lot of value riding on that nearly-imperceptible +/- 0.2 in the grade.

Why spread this minutia of ambiguousness across mid and lower grade books by creating even MORE grading increments?  Does it help the collectors and the hobby? Or would it create even more confusion?

 

I think this post just confused the heck outta me. I tried to follow it I really did but come on really? Do you actually ever read any of your comics? I guess not because they are probably all encased and you are too busy discecting them to actually enjoy any. Hey if it floats your boat...

On 6/27/2017 at 3:11 PM, Michelangelo said:

The difference between 9.4 and 9.6 or 9.6 and 9.8 is already fairly negligible... imaging the difference between a 9.5 and 9.6 

+1 Now, I know that some are going to say they can for sure tell the difference of .2 in a book, but the greatest majority of collectors (and many major dealers I've asked) can't. Breaking it own even further seems just like a blatent money chase, nothing more. 

50 minutes ago, sfcityduck said:

The Dell racks originally did not have a bottom sign.  Same for the wood DC and Gold Key racks that look like this.  There is a wood Classics illustrated rack that had a bottom sign. 

I have seen Dell racks in both blue and yellow lettering, and also a blue and pink lettering version.  I think that is original, as I've also seen a pink Dell spinner rack sign.

I don't have a more current picture of it but I was at an antique show and spotted some one who had a loose top blue advertising piece. I bought it and just popped it into place at the bottom of this rack. Even though it didn't come this way, it looks a lot better. And what are the odds of finding the extra piece?

I am rarely lucky enough to find an EC romance. But every dog has his day.