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Three pick-ups today...one and two....

Quicksilver to Whizzer

Secret agent in New York to brawl atop a New York landmark

1 minute ago, kav said:

Ps the secret to great chewy pizza dough is moist dough-the dryer the dough, the more bready the crust.  I also add 2 Tbsp gluten.  Freakin delicious.

That did it...off to the kitchen!

Just now, kav said:

I've always been single and happily so!!!!  Good luck with the Cap!!!

Thx! Will post if I land it.

(And while I love my family, I stayed single a long time so I fully understand that happiness! 

Just now, kav said:

I hear ya.  I try to keep mine grocery bill below $150 a month.  I make a lot of home made pizza which is cheap and good.  I'm a master at pizza crust now!

Single, or at least empty nest? I remember when I was single (granted, adjust for 17 years ago) my weekly was about $35, and most of it was beer and cigars! 

What a great thread....I planned almost two hours ago to go downstairs and assemble a ridiculously esoteric sales thread (I cannot lie; trying to buy a GA cap tomorrow ) but this is worth holding off!

18 minutes ago, CBT said:

What books have more supply than demand will only truly be tested when interest rates return to historical norms.  As long as money remains so cheap, prices will always be trending in one direction only.

When the rate is 5-8%, and dog chewed 1.5s are still moving up in price, it will be safe to say supply really doesnt meet demand.

That's what I'm getting at...'til then, I think folks will continue to be surprised that books they think cannot have legs left will continue to climb.

6 minutes ago, kav said:

You spend $300 a week on groceries??? 

Getting north of $250 anyway...kids....being people is getting pricey! 

I'm shocked myself on a weekly basis, and I do the shopping and am cheap, but somehow it adds up....with kids, I load up in the dairy aisle more than I would, and that's pricey, I guess. Lots of produce, but other than berries not much there that's expensive, generally. A little bit of cold cuts is $20-$25 (10%!) alone. 

What a great thread; so many points kicked off by a great a first post! I can't recall every point I wanted to chip in on!

In no particular order, with the eBay thing, fwiw I try to look at available vs sold listings at any given time when trying to decide about supply/demand of a book....its fluid, a snapshot in time, and today's available is tomorrow's sold.....some day, eventually....

As to the GA books, there is no guarantee that no one will want them when the 60-plus crowd sells, and there is nothing to say that six-figure buyers are not fans as well as investors. It's easy to think of oneself as a collector or flipper or speculator, but I suspect many of us exist as a hobbyist on a continuum....many folks on here (myself included) openly talk about selling to buy other books....I pick up books I know are a deal that are not in my collection sights if I feel I can turn it over again to improve my collection and acquire something else...

But I'm getting away from the original point; sorry....I always assume when high census hot keys are referred to as plentiful that people really mean that if the book cools it will be that much more sensitive to sudden volatility. Makes sense, but taken to its logical conclusion the implication is the sweet spot is a character as popular as wolverine with a first appearance as uncommon as HOS 92, as popular as Spidey but as uncommon as TTA27....but not so uncommon that it slides into obscurity like cool but affordable GA books .... Then my head hurts and I just accept that most collectible markets are volatile and thinly capitalized.

On a related note to VMan's initial post, with everyone saying lately of the Marvel Silver and other plentiful hot keys that the bubble has to burst, I'm not sure it bursts until the larger money-printing bubble bursts (then we have bigger problems, but that's another topic)....when I look at the cost of living, I think to myself if I sell some "overheated" $600 key (being arbitrary for the sake of discussion here) what am I going to buy with it? Two nights away, barely? Two weeks' groceries and s night of take-out? New brakes and rotors? Real expenses, to be sure, but hardly a lot of real world return on the sale of one's investment. In this context, the good stuff among comics (and I define it broadly) has room to run. 

Seems low. Any clarity in the grading notes?

Skiing babes to skating dog

Rugs to drugs

More and more I'm finding books listed on Craigslist and the seller saying "make offer." When I e-mail and ask what they have, I get something like "I dunno. Haven't given it much thought. Do you have an offer?"

Sight unseen, based on an email inquiry of whether the lot described is even still available. Anybody else notice this lately?

Diamonds to jewel of hope (not to mention a jungle connection too!)

The truth can lie in the middle too...,maybe the dealer overgraded a bit and CGC undergraded a bit. Anyone can miss something/make a mistake. 

Fleeing the mad furies to fleeing the hoosegow

Nazi bombs to bombing the Nazis

I thought he was selling Little Dot  

Woman getting manhandled to man getting woman-handled 

Haunted hand to wanted man

Sinnott, hands down, with all due to respect to Stone and others. 

On July 17, 2017 at 11:42 AM, 1Cool said:

I keep throwing around the thought of putting together a sales thread and then I look at the current sales threads and they all look to be Closed down or nothing is selling.  Other then Golden Age books - is anything selling?

Copper. I have experienced the most action with higher grade fairly priced copper such as Carnage keys, X-Force keys, Spawn etc. I've also observed the GA action but haven't offered Anything of the sort that's selling.

7 hours ago, Bomber-Bob said:

Sharon, in the interest of intellectual curiosity, it would be interesting to hear from CGC on this. I know you are okay with it but since you did bring it to our attention it would be appreciated if you contacted them. Someone else said they also received a Qualified so I doubt it is a 'mistake'. It does sound like the wraps separated from the handling so maybe it was a .5 without the Incomplete flaw. It's like getting a school grade of F-. Crazy.

6 hours ago, rjpb said:

It's a stupid grade, the whole meaning of qualified grading is to indicate what the grade would be without the flaw, which only makes sense if the the Q grade would have been higher. Given the brittle pages a Q1.0 would have been a more logical alternative than a universal .5.

Yes, please if you wouldn't mind. The grade makes no sense by any set of grading standards. .5=poor. Every flaw you enumerated equals poor (including incompleteness). It would be nice to understand; my theory is they are changing the way they handle brittleness; nothing else makes sense. (A brittle book can look nice, but if it crumbles at the touch, poor alone does not fully explain it. At least, I cannot think of anything else that would marry these two concepts of .5 and qualified. Is it very brittle?)

Thank you all; I'm netting out on the high side of this range as well with the book in hand (it's still got that solid feel in hand, not flimsy like some lower grade silver). Sorry for the delay in expressing my thanks but I just arose from a few days off the boards, totally consumed by the day job. Thank you all!