jimbo_7071

Well, you're talking about someone who could afford to drop 2.6 million on a book in the first place and who walked away from this one sale with far more than what I have in total assets, so I'm not going to shed any tears for the guy.

Baker to Baker.

A few copies of that book with the original speech bubble made it out of the bindery before the CCA people got to it. Heartbreak bound to heartbreak bound.

Silver can be a metal but also a color.

Yes, it was still a strong price. The $2.6 million price was absurdly high. Did the buyer think that he could pay that high of a price for the book and not take a loss? You don't pay that kind of price for a book unless you plan to keep it forever.

Heartbreak bound to heartbreak bound.

The art was good enough that somebody decided to swipe it for this Ajax PL! I guess the Ajax artist was too lazy to draw the octopuses, though, and went with what I guess is supposed to be a shark. What bugs me is that the character hanging over the water hole has been eliminated and replaced by a speech bubble, so the PL cover doesn't quite make sense. PL isn't rescuing anybody; I guess she just decided to go out and massacre some Russians.

I agree 100% with your thinking on the dates. The publisher's executives wouldn't have planned a second printing until the first printing was close to selling out and they had time to react to the book's strong showing in the marketplace. There's no way that occurred before June 2nd, and it's highly likely that they would have changed the house ad at that time. And it is absolutely insane that something so significant is not noted on the label.

Captain to Captain.

Russkies to Russkies.

I don't think your estimate was wrong. It isn't an Action 1 or a Tec 27. It's probably 3rd behind those two, but it's a distant third. Not only that, but CGC has not made any distinction on their labels between the first, second, and third printings, so you have a weird situation where reprints are selling at the same price level as first editions. I'm not sure why that hasn't been a more contentious issue.

Judging from your avatar, you might be a bit biased. But kidding aside, Cap 3 is a book that has turned out not to be as scarce as some of us thought. There are now 119 copies in the census. Prices are probably still strong for higher grade copies, but for someone who just wants a copy and would be happy with a 1.8, it probably doesn't make much sense to get into a bidding war.

These are the notes: chews full bottom of front coverspine of cover completely split & re-attached with tapetape centerfoldtape interior covermoderate staining to cover The 1.8 grade seems accurate in light of the notes. The taped spine isn't readily apparent in the scan, but Metro should have known the book wasn't a 3.5. And what kind of chews are those, bug or rodent? I've never seen chews in quite that pattern—granted, I don't seek out chewed books.

I'm curious how they can grade sealed records. How do they know that somebody didn't take an opened record and put new shrink wrap on it?

All-male D.C. cover to all-female centerfold by a future D.C. artist.

Many of them were high grade . . . unless you doubt the veracity of eBay sellers' grading.

I'm going to start a pool where people can place bets on how long you can go without mentioning the Jon Berk auction.

Man! I've seen so many copies of that book come along that I'm kind of surprised that a 9.2 is the highest-graded copy. It certainly isn't a rare book by any stretch of the imagination, but apparently it's more scarce in high grade than I had realized.

That's an awesome ROI. It's a good thing that inflation isn't real! Oh, wait . . ..

The Okajima Catman #21 sold for $5,300. The 3.0 Seven Seas #4 went for $7,501.

Did anyone here snag this one? It went higher than I thought it would, but it was nice to see an old-school book do well.

It looks like the upper staple is impacted, and there appears to be a spot of rust staining around the lower staple. That passes for 9.6 these days? I guess I need to resubmit a bunch of my books.

Checkerboard coat to checkerboard cap.

Mad men in hoods to the Mad Hatter.

A couple of people have said that a normal press can move the spine. I could not see any spine roll in the original 8.0 picture, but who knows for sure. One of these days I'm going to force myself to have some very-low-dollar-value books pressed just so I can see some books in hand before and after a press. I agree that the difference is slight, but even slight movement of the spine has the potential to make the front cover look better, which could make a difference in the grade. I think that CGC would catch the kind of egregious shifting that was seen on some books, but I'm not sure that they'd catch a very slight shifting even if it was deliberate.