Darthbryan

Does anyone know what the 6.0 sold for that Comic Connect sold in their most recent auction? They don't seem to have a completed auction search function.

And yet your forum name is Batmanis#1 😂. seriously though this book is rarified air with that PQ. How many nearly 55+ year old keys have white pages? Crazy. And people with the ability to pull the trigger on this aren’t likely to be that impacted by what’s going on and may want to move some money from stocks to collectibles. As the owner of an 8.5 I hope this sets a new record as the rising tide lifts all ships. Will certainly be watching.

I was wondering if there is any kind of rule-of-thumb that dealers or higher volume sellers use for pricing restored books for silver age keys. I have a DD1 that I knew had some restoration and it was rejected from CCS because the color touch was not reversible. I'd say the book is a 4.5 with OW pages. There just are not a lot of comps for restoration codes on GPA so gauging value is tough. Do people use an across the board haircut over 90 day GPA universal, say a 30% haircut? Less, more? If the book has a $1693 90 day avg what is a reasonable asking price with amateur restoration that is very slight?

My gut told me I was looking at a 1.0 drop but I wanted to get some opinions. It still presents wonderfully and when I get it regraded I am going to just submit it as a new submission and when I get it back I'll notify CGC to remove the old registration out of the database. Like I said, it's basically gravy since I've been paid for the book via USPS insurance and I got the book back. It's essentially a free book.

Yes. Slab was bubble wrapped and double boxed.

After watching an X-Men 1 8.0 set a new high water mark on Heritage this weekend I got to thinking about which auction house offers the best return for sellers, specifically for higher dollar silver age books. I tend to sell on ebay for lower valued slabs but in the event I ever sell the five figured books I'm wondering who regularly realizes the highest prices after commissions?

So long story short, a USPS mailed item was damaged. I don't need a packing lecture - the item was bubble wrapped and double boxed and still got damaged to the extent that USPS actually honored the claim and gave me the book back. So it looks like something extremely heavy fell on the box because the case shattered in one spot (think of when a rock hits a windshield) and part of the case pushed into the book leaving some damage - removed some color at Caps knee and left some holes on the cover and page 1 by Wasp's knee. I posted a photo of the inside of the cover looking out, so you can see the light coming through the areas where the case punctured the cover. The rest of the book was undamaged. The jumping off point here was 6.5 Universal with Off White pages. What will this damage drop me to?

It just depends on the book. I saw a nice FF1 that had some several instances of amateur restoration and it still went for a lot. I think it's combo of book demand and overall presentation on the resto. It literally is in the eye of the beholder and there aren't really any GPA comps you can apply since there seem to be an almost infinite number of combs for restoration and grades.

Great question on the raw vs slabbed thing. Honestly having purchased a ton of books, as well as having a ton from my personal collection, that I've sent to CGS, the hit rate on 9.6 - 9.8 is pretty low when submitting raw. I mean hell I have tons of books from the 80s which were bagged, boarded at receipt and pressed 30 years later and I still miss 9.6+ pretty regularly. The bulk of those just have to be purchased as slabbed.

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During those early days, his rule of thumb as a business owner with a rapidly growing business (which is what the Church collection did, rapidly grow his business) would have been that cash flow > return on investment. Sometimes you have to do what you can to keep the machine rolling. I'd say he's done pretty darn well, and if you spot checked his prices with values at the time then I'm sure he has no regrets. There's a time value of money in play here and since his primary source of income was comic book sales it's not like he could buy and hold. I'm sure he wishes he had more copies of certain books but he's done better than most considering he's still around and its 2016. He's been at this for his entire life as his own boss, and has held some amazing books in his hands. We should all be so lucky.