TheLexLuthorCollection

On 4/25/2023 at 7:20 PM, tth2 said:

The only thing correct in these sentences is that China buys a lot of US government bonds.  Everything else reflects a complete misunderstanding of international trade and economics and China's foreign exchange policies.

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. 

On 2/20/2023 at 10:16 AM, Professor K said:

Ok I believe you, just for my knowledge where do you find "prices realized" on the website? I look at books that have ended and they say "Sold on" followed by the date and price. Same as they look a few seconds after the auction ends. If a book wasn't paid for how would they stipulate that when looking at a past auction? I have never seen an auction that has ended later stating not paid and I'm sure that a small percentage were not paid. So how do we know? 

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.  

On 2/16/2023 at 10:46 AM, Professor K said:

Oh right, I thought there was another. Well I still think my theory that most of the upcoming ones may be from sales that never were paid is possible. More possible than someone who spent over a million big ones on books suddenly deciding to sell them all in one auction.

 

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.

On 1/19/2023 at 4:23 AM, Cpt Kirk said:

What is Comic Book Addiction's ebay user name so I could look up what they have for sale?

cba1

On 12/28/2022 at 7:16 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

Nope.  I am just amazed at the collection of stuff he has for sale on ebay and was wondering what his back story was.  But I just got connected with him tonight and will share that story if anyone is interested (and assuming it is OK with him).  I not aware that he posts on the CGC boards.

On 12/29/2022 at 1:33 AM, jimjum12 said:

It's gone now ... a slabbed 7.0 that looked much nicer. Sold during one of my cash poor periods, of which there have been many  GOD BLESS... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

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!

On 12/22/2022 at 7:25 PM, tth2 said:

This is the weakest Signature Auction in ages.

Any thoughts on why this is a weak auction?  

On 10/26/2022 at 10:30 PM, Gotham Kid said:

Looks like Heritage will again crush ComicConnect with auction material for the next round.

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.

On 10/28/2022 at 2:42 PM, lou_fine said:

Yeah, looks like Dougie is keeping the pressers busy as it looks like pretty much all of those Crackajack Funnies have been bumped up in grade and it would certainly be nice to see them sell for less than what they sold for in their unpressed condition a couple of years ago, although I would highly doubt this happening.    

Don't think so since I believe the Church run of Planet was owned by Fishler himself and it was auctioned off on CC a few years ago.  

As for Schmell using Heritage to auction off his own books (like his multi-million SA Marvel collection years ago), I see two scenarios here:  

1)  A positive from the POV that he does not want the sale of his books to be seen as a potential conflict of interest if auctioned off on his own Pedigree website;  or

2)  A negative since he is well aware that his Pedigree website would not bring him top dollars for his own books and his site is meant only for unwitting "losers" who don't mond leaving money on the table when selling their books?  

Not sure about other boardies' opinions here, but based upon Doug's rather "sterling" reputation, I am tending to lean towards the second scenario here. 

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

On 6/16/2022 at 2:38 PM, Bat-Hound said:

I thought so as well. 
Why the soft price on this sought after Joker cover?

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.

On 4/10/2022 at 7:48 PM, tth2 said:

Which are not going cheap!

It's actually been interesting checking the census on a lot of the Promise books and realizing there are so few slabbed high grade copies of books from the late 1940s. 

I knew this was the case with books from the early 50s, as Edgar Church's buying petered out, but I thought he was still going strong into the late 1940s and therefore the census would already be populated with slabbed high grade Church copies.  But apparently that's not the case, particularly with non-mainstream titles.

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.

On 11/21/2021 at 10:30 AM, skypinkblu said:

I'm a long time Superman collector, my biggest problem with the run is that I never liked the color yellow too much. However...i'm going to disagree about the covers. 1--15, 17, 20, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 34, are fine, then they taper off a lot till the dragons show up...and I'm not looking for competition, I keep getting outbid as it is;) https://www.comics.org/series/116/covers/

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.

On 11/18/2021 at 4:12 PM, Aman619 said:

haha.  you nailed it!  but we really want the new money to be buying smart right? and stick around.  If they are just content to splash cash around on any high grade comic, without a clue to their place in the scheme of things, well, it might not be the best thing for us long timers.

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. 

4 hours ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I am rewatching the Ed Jaster promo video on the Promise Collection right now.  Probably most of you already know this, but I was surprised to learn the entire run of Cap was discovered, from 1 to 74.  Since we only had, to my knowledge, a 36, a 46 and a 74 in this most recent Heritage auction, there is a TON of Caps still in the pipeline.  I do not believe they have been graded yet.  It may be why many of our boxes to CGC have remained unopened for this last month and a half.

4 hours ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I am rewatching the Ed Jaster promo video on the Promise Collection right now.  Probably most of you already know this, but I was surprised to learn the entire run of Cap was discovered, from 1 to 74.  Since we only had, to my knowledge, a 36, a 46 and a 74 in this most recent Heritage auction, there is a TON of Caps still in the pipeline.  I do not believe they have been graded yet.  It may be why many of our boxes to CGC have remained unopened for this last month and a half.

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?