Doc67

Excellent call on the cover fade. The interior tape and detached centerfold wouldn't hurt it in my book. But that cover fading completely eluded me. Once I put that book next to similar graded copy on HA, It was obviously a desirability-killer. Glad that I didn't pull the trigger on what I thought was a steal.

IMHO, this was a great auction for buyers. Bad for sellers. I wish that I had more cash last night. Almost everything that I was watching went for way less than I expected. Is it the Berk collection? Can the market just not handle this quantity of material being dumped at once? I don't know. But HA did not have great results on many, many books. And now, CLink follows it up with more unexpectedly low hammers. I saw a Tec 122 8.0 sell for $5600 last night, when a raw 2.0 just sold at HA for $2250. Or a 4.0 Tec 36 at $13.7k when CC just got $15k for a 3.0 that didn't look as good. And that is an insane price difference. Or the Tec 30 3.5 at $1100 per point when one just sold at CC for $1450. Yeah the PQ was better on that one. But does PQ increase FMV by 1/3? I thought it was 10% +/-. I bought the Tec 32 last night. It was one of the few books that hit its potential. It ended exactly where I expected. And the Tec 33 and 42 were the other books that did as I expected. Personally, I thought the Tec 34 1.0 ended low as well, given that an 0.5 incomplete book just sold for $1155 on eBay last week. I expected $1200-1500 on the Tec 34 1.0 at CLink.

What value did you have on that 4.0? It looked like a super nice 4.0 to me. I expected close to $20k. Even if it was a Voldemort slab....

+1 these sales are also in line with the recent HA Tec #33 1.8 sale for $26k. It looks like Tec 33 is a pretty firm $14k per point.

Wow! Some weak results of several of the pre-Robin Tecs tonight at Comiclink, imho. I wish that I had waited to buy my #30 and #36 until tonight. I bet there is an unhappy seller somewhere. That #36 was a pretty 4.0.

Just won the Sensation #51 9.2!!! One of my top 5 WW covers! So excited!

How do you value a book that is desired only for the interior, such as a Tec 28, 30 or 32, that is missing the back cover and a non-Bat story page? (So it would be a .5 CGC'ed, but is now an incomplete copy.) But it has a nice front cover and good PQ. Thanks for your time. And expertise.

I expected to see a bunch of posts here commenting/analyzing the CC hammers of the #29 and 38. I suppose everyone is as speechless as I am. If I sold my wife and kids, they wouldn't bring enough $$$ to buy one of these... (and my kids are cute and the wife is still pretty hot... wouldn't be selling damaged goods here...) i was the underbidder of the #35. But, even that went quite a bit over what I expected (considering there has been a lesser copy on eBay for $3750 for awhile...)

Dear Gator, how does CGC view tape currently? If you have a decent book with an almost completely split and detached cover, are you better off to apply archival tape or to leave it alone? Does the tape make a Restored label? Will it help the grade? Thanks for your time. (This CGC stuff gets confusing for us newbies...) Allen

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