lighthouse

Tony.

(sorry I thought this was a list of contributors to the slow turnaround times at CGC)

On 4/8/2022 at 9:24 PM, lou_fine said:

 

Not quite, hey?    

Hmmmmmmmm......................then it must be a CGC 9.0 graded copy of AF 15 with White Pages!!!  

After the last update, it looks like 7 books in the June Signature, mixed between Thursday and Sunday.

Grades are:

9.4 White 

9.2 White

9.2 White

9.2 White

9.0 White

9.0 White

5.0 White

Two books are tied for second census (a single copy graded higher). One book is top 10 census. One book is top 20 census. The other three are scrubs that Greggy wouldn’t allow in his collection lest they pollute his registry.

Four are Marvel. Three are DC.

On 4/8/2022 at 7:16 PM, drdonaldblake1 said:

Amazing prices realised and congrats lighthouse and the OO FAMILY....... they must be celebrating knowing there's more in the works

That FF 3 was a real strong price too....a record?

The issue 1, 2, and 3 are all record sales.

Obviously that doesn’t mean they’re the most valuable copies that exist. But all three were new records for their specific issue.

On 4/8/2022 at 6:39 PM, greggy said:

You’re probably right though. Brave and Bold 28 and Adventure 247 aren’t really all that key anymore. 

On 4/8/2022 at 6:31 PM, greggy said:

FF 1 is the only major key in the collection so stop speculating. 

Or is it?  

On 4/8/2022 at 4:57 PM, lou_fine said:

So, are you really trying to tell us that an equivalent CGC 9.2 graded copy of AF 15 from the Truckee collection will be in the June HA Auction?  

And for a final spoiler… the June book has never been offered in a public sale at that specific grade with White Pages.

On 4/8/2022 at 4:57 PM, lou_fine said:

So, are you really trying to tell us that an equivalent CGC 9.2 graded copy of AF 15 from the Truckee collection will be in the June HA Auction?  

Not quite.

But there are still two books to come that are more valuable than the 9.2 FF 5 (and less valuable than the 9.2 FF 1).

Barring some book I completely missed in my initial triage of the collection, there will be exactly six books from the collection that sell for over $100,000. Four were in the April auction. Two are still to come.

I honestly have zero clue how many $10k books there will be. It might be 20. It might be 150. But I’m pretty sure I nailed the $100k count at exactly six.

I think the test is often “the first time this was done on screen was it done well?” Disney seems to have success taking a second or third attempt at a character they didn’t get right the first time. But AT&T throws any character in the dumpster that didn’t take off the first time. So things like Preacher and Y: The Last Man (properties I am very emotionally invested in personally) will likely never get a second attempt.

On 4/8/2022 at 3:51 AM, Primetime said:

Any Timelys in the collection? 

The collector was far heavier on DC, but there are around 20 Timelys.

I sent this one off as part of my grading self-check. It’s one of the few books in the entire collection I might choose to keep for myself.

On 4/7/2022 at 6:00 PM, Gotham Kid said:

Of the Detective 39-100 run, 43 and 44 are my fav covers. Can't wait to see it at auction.

The 43 is low grade. Two tape pulls, a tear that was previously taped (though the tape itself is now a memory). It’s likely a book we will sell directly raw rather than routing it through Dallas/Sarasota.

The Action 43 is top 5 census. But the Detective 43 is just a really cool old Batman for someone’s collection. (And happens to be one I took a pic of the day I did the first triage.)

On 4/7/2022 at 5:43 PM, Gotham Kid said:

Any GA Detectives in the collection ?

Thank you.

Yes. Earliest is a 43, I believe. But the collector was far more interested in Superman than Batman. So while the Action run is 90%+ complete from 29-100, the Bat titles are quite spotty in the same time period.

On 4/6/2022 at 7:51 AM, drdonaldblake1 said:

Can you please stop killing us with the suspense and just let us know if some of the June heritage books will be keys and # 1s??🙂

I suppose I can say this.

The second-most valuable book in the Truckee Meadows collection wasn’t in the April Auction. It’s in the June Signature Auction.

A minor preview of books in the May 2 weekly auction at Heritage. No titles or issues numbers. Just years, grades, and page quality. One of these is a Marvel (the 1965). The rest are DC.

On 4/6/2022 at 8:54 AM, october said:

Are you going to sell any of the raw stuff or lower end slabs here?

Likely yes. I’ve done VERY little mail order in the last few years. The shop does no eBay, no website orders, etc. Over 2/3 of the packages I’ve shipped out in the last 3 years were to CGC rather than to customers. And my local customers keep me busy to the tune of 75 hours a week. So the infrastructure isn’t there for volume shipping. But we were already in the process of adding additional staff, and when I feel like we can maintain an appropriate service level with mail order, we will go that route. 

On 4/6/2022 at 7:51 AM, drdonaldblake1 said:

Can you please stop killing us with the suspense and just let us know if some of the June heritage books will be keys and # 1s??🙂

Yes.

On 4/5/2022 at 6:15 PM, EmilC said:

Amazing collection and incredible to have white pages after 60 years! That closet must have been at a perfect temperature and humidity level.

For perspective on the humidity, I can open a bag of Doritos, eat a few, leave the bag just sitting open on the kitchen counter… and five days later those chips are still completely fresh and crunchy.

When I lived in Texas, you had maybe an hour or two and the chips were already getting stale.

I’ll bet a dozen donuts those were mobile deposited. ;)

On 4/3/2022 at 12:13 AM, innocuous said:

So many white pagers! I'm curious if these were also hand-picked for perfect centering.

So far I’ve seen 38 silver grades from CGC. 38 out of 38 white.

Including some combinations of words you rarely see together.

Like “1962” and “DC” and “9.4” and “White”.

There are LOTS of books in this collection that are only “really pretty white paged 8.5 Silver”. But I think even those will find good homes.

On 4/4/2022 at 10:54 AM, MGsimba77 said:

The splash page on that is my favorite splash ever with Sandman reaching over and that giant hand. Curious when you got ahold of your FF1 9.2? Love to read a little more about that...probably never thought it would be worth such an astronomical sum of money when you opened it?

There’s more of the story in this thread (a ways down).

And while nothing else in the collection is going to top the 9.2 FF 1, there is a lot more to come.

On 4/4/2022 at 9:50 AM, MGsimba77 said:

I don't know how many people can claim to have flipped through a million dollar comic? That is quite mind blowing and congratulations on that!

Meanwhile my humble contribution 

Always loved that cover. Sure it’s a tiny bit cheesy. But I picture myself at age 10 seeing that on the rack (I’m far too young but I picture it anyway), could I pass on that book? Nope. Nope. No way. That one is going home.

On 4/2/2022 at 9:06 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Looks like the FF 1 will hit a million

Can I get you to do all my predictions?