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I agree. If China was not buying the USA government bonds, the USA would have to raise the interest rates to attract other investors. The higher interest rates would negatively impact growth in the USA.

Please look at the listing for the upcoming Signature auction and for each of the Promise books that you may be interested in, just click open their pages and you will see a list of prices realized in previous auctions for those books.

For these Promise books, Heritage shows the prices realized from their initial auction. If the books represent sales that never were paid, I would think that Heritage would not show these sales with the "realized" price. That would be fraud.

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Yes, I would love to hear the back story of the Action Comics collection that Fairless picked up a few years back. An even better collection are some Action Comics currently posted on e-Bay by Comic Book Addiction. I would love to hear that back story!

Any thoughts on why this is a weak auction?

It is easy for ComicConnect to get crushed since they seem to be using their auction platform to move their own inventory that few want.

No doubt in my mind that it is #2. I concur with your comment on his reputation.

Prices for this auction seemed softer than I expected. My guess is that what is happening to the stock and crypto market is having a major impact.

I just saw this posting. I am a Superman collector and I carefully track the title's pricing. The Silly Superman covers (especially the yellow ones) sell at or below Overstreet price guide while the non-Silly covers (especially the War covers) sell well above Guide. The issue with World's Finest is that almost all the GA comics have Silly covers and include Robin. "Wholesome Kid" superheroes add an additional layer of silliness.

Many of the most desirable Edgar Church books have not been slabbed. These are owned by long time collectors who, for various reasons, have elected not to slab their books. An example is the Dentist (aka DA) who perhaps has the most impressive collection of Edgar Church books.

No disagreement. The issue raised by Aman619 was "so who is fighting to win at these prices (15 - 20K each) for the Supermans in the 30s, 40s and 50s issues??" Note he and I are referring to issue numbers in the 30's, 40's, 50's. I was being kind when I said the covers for this period were "silly" as opposed to the War covers (10's and 20's) which were great.

I agree. I am a long time Superman collector and there is no way I would purchase books from this era. The covers are plain silly and Superman was portrayed as a clown. Superman's from this period have for many years shown very little appreciation even at high grade. Suddenly there is a doubling and tripling in price in 6 months? Certainly driven by novice collectors who have no clue and who are driven by brand recognition. Yes, it is a good time to sell if you need the money. Eventually there will be a correction.

I can't speak on the Captain America run but I do recall that Jaster or Allen indicated that the collection was largely comics from 1944 to the beginning of 1951. My check of the Detective Comics that were up for auction seems to support this. However, I also heard that there were a few issues prior to 1944 but my impression is that the collector was only a casual collector prior to '44.

I also agree that the prices listed in the Overstreet Price Guide are way out of whack. Over the last year, I have been tracking the prices realized at the Heritage and ComicLink Auctions for a popular title such as Superman and Action Comics. The actual realized prices are consistently higher than Guide. If you can't get the Market prices of popular titles remotely correct, why bother? Or has the guide become more of a Dealer Buy Price the way the Kelley Blue Book is the wholesale for automobiles?