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Donruss is company name, Don Russ was the founder :) not mine:

Sellers with true business acumen adapt and will be fine. But you have some sellers right here on this forum who somehow do not believe cash flow is a good thing. Link to a good paper that explains in simple terms why cash flow is more important than profit; https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiW-pr4gc3_AhV0E1kFHVt4AooQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unomaha.edu%2Fnebraska-business-development-center%2F_files%2Fpublications%2Fcash-flow.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0MCQu1LCNH8Z9nJPa4dF_g&opi=89978449 Also important to note for pretty much their first decade Amazon lost money but had huge cash flow.

Yet another example of why collecting White pages and eschewing Off-White to White is partially a joke. Please ignore my signature for this post as it pertain to silver age as well as early bronze.

Reminder folks Goldin auctions has been a subsidiary of Collectors Holding Company Ltd (formally Collectors Universe) since 2021. They also own PSA and WATA https://www.collectors.com/about-us Cohen Private Ventures, LLC is the parent company of Collectors Holding. So yep you are correct, a 1M loss is nothing for them if it buys them cred. Although I'm betting they figured a month or 2 back it would only be 300-500K loss, still 1M is less than Cohen pays Scherzer for each miserable start he makes. P.S. It completely boggles my mind that CGC broadcasts Goldin sales from links on their home page but yet displaying an image of a CBCS slab on this forum is forbidden. https://www.cgccomics.com/news/article/11830/superman-action-comics-million/

"The Good Duck Artist" While way, way, way before my time I wanted a classic Barks cover example. I settled for a reprint, which still wasn't easy to find.

I am a Freedom Fighters fan but no way I'd spend good money on Dollman. I too would allocate towards something similar to Hulk 181. Still due to tiny quantity of GA Dollman, pun intended, the interest can be still lowish for it to still command fair coin, for a while anyhow. I do think Western and Crime stuff is varying degrees of toast as the next 20 years ticks by... Not sure why but I can see War books sustaining less causalities - yep pun intended. P.S. Please ignore my signature for this posting.

Superman #1 1939 was not

^ Jimbo, plausible the 3rd high bidder was the house in disguise.

PSA's parent firm owns Goldin Auctions so very suprising CGC on their home page in effect is providing free advertusing for them! Yet in these forums displaying a cbcs slab is decried forbidden. Highly incongruent...

I bet if you had offered $40, they would have told you they would be selling it at a loss.

I'd like to add "More Ron is what More Ron does" . I've never accessed the site but seems to me its rife with sheep who love being fleeced.

Possibly a contributing factor in why the majority of shops did not survive that decade? What works during a bubble is usually poison during a bust. Wonder how many sellers will learn that in these times? A buddy of mine opened his shop at start of the bust in 1994. He only survived his first full year due to POG sales - remember that fad He then quickly learned make a big deal with signage about offering books at 25% below Wizard. After 26 years he closed shop the Summer of 2020, not due to the pandemic but to semi-retire. Actually he was going to do that in 2018 but received a great rent break on renewing his lease for 2 more years.

I was reading go collect earlier - you know where Matt Tuck shamelessly tries to hype any comic for which he has multiple copies to sell - yet another ponderous, self-serving "article" on Spider-Verse alleged "investments" and I got to thinking... How many collectors are going to seek all these books most of which in few months will sell for a fraction of their hype induced cost? Seems to me Collector's Fatigue will only increase and those clueless folks who buy stuff when hot will jump off the treadmill. As the number of those jumping off increases expect less books without true substance to become hot and when they do - cool down faster and faster. IMHO it's good thing but of course I don't sell comics so no bias that comes from lost income or prospect thereof.

I'd rather have one of those in 9.8 over Hulk 234

Marvel then Disney also pays the creators an amount less than that which in most towns costs to park in a meter spot for 1 hour .

Based on your parameters: The Comic Book Heroes - Gerard Jones, Will Jacobs (1996 edition) Marvel Comics: The Untold Story - Sean Howe I give my highest recommendation on each one of these, except 1940-1944 which for me was a bit of slog, still it is very good : American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-44 American Comic Book Chronicles: 1950s American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-64 American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-69 American Comic Book Chronicles: 1970s American Comic Book Chronicles: 1980s American Comic Book Chronicles: 1990s Comic Book Implosion - Keith Dallas, John Wells

Great cover and final issue - no i dont count the 2 issues tacked on 8 years later for the 1986 film release

Wonder Woman art as DC goes is blue chip. The only thing it does not have going for it are truly classic storylines.

On the comics side it was a 10-12 year hype run up of Shazam 28. I wonder if even big time Duane Johnson fans now have any interest whatsoever. To anyone that spent top dollar on #28, hope you sold it to some other rube before foul stench of that film permeated the market.

When I started Original Comic Book Art Hobby it was by seeking out what I liked. The old saying at least for me is true; "But What You Like and you Will Never Lose". The time to start worrying is if a Character has 5+ year lapse of not being seen and no way that is happening especially given TV and Movies are now more important for a Character than printed comics. Will be on Daredevil next year then likley a Punisher Season 3 the following year. Of course I could be wrong and it could be Superman situation where the Character was not seen again after 1993.

While not your intention the last 2 words of the thread were only going to make it political. Easiest way to get thrown off these forums are to talk politics in non-free-form sub-forums such as a Comics and Original Art. Want to spew out politics then use the "water cooler" type sub-forum. Honestly the vast majority of folks are both sick + disgusted of hearing endless political rantings regardless of which side of the fence it's coming from, so at least here in the CGC Original Comic Art sub-forum and in the CGC Comics sub-forums hows about you giving us a break!

Agreed, Art for Classic and Historic story lines or appearances will always command a premium. Adding to your example; art from Iron Man Demon In A Bottle issues command more coin than other Romita jr_Layton issues, 1980s DC Alan Moore works bring in more regardless of the artists involved, Avengers Korvac Saga issues regardless of artist - the Wenzel pages go for solid $ on the rare occasion one pops up. Perez Crisis Infinite Earths pages go for more than most NTT pages from the same era

We lost Bucky and Prof X in the late 60, Gwen Stacey and the Green Goblin in 1973, Thanos in 1977, Jean Grey in 1980, Flash and Supergirl in 1985, Iron Fist In 1986, Robin in 1989, Superman in 1993, then Captain America,Thor, and The Human Torch a decade later, Wolverine about 10 years ago, all never ever to be seen again, now the Punisher... Oh Lord, when will the madness end? Soon there will be no comic book characters left

Current state of the post bubble market - at PSA10 varying levels of profit can be made depending on the sticker. PSA9 for most stickers the grading + round trip shipping expenses will syphon off most or all profit. CGC9.5 falls closer to PSA9 than 10 in terms of current selling rates and collector perception. It is critical to note the average sticker ripped from one if these packs will be a PSA 6 or 7, with one PSA8 perhaps every other pack. A clean fresh box if one is very lucky will yield 4-5 PSA9 and perhaps 1-2 PSA10 although getting zero 10s is more likely. My opinion worth far more sealed due the rarity. If packs look nice get the packs themselves graded/slabbed