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this was the best presenting 8.0 copy i have ever seen. it can be hard to know how accurate a pic on an auction site is, but this is a beautiful copy with white pages to boot. had i suspected it would go for under 60k i would have done some selling in advance to try and grab it! in a couple of years i think it likely that this particular book will have proven to be a steal.

nice! i guess it was the previous one that seemed pricey- $100 for just the one day. this sounds like it was a great deal.

thanks for sharing your take on the event. the summit was indeed open to the public, it is just an expensive ticket. i'm not sure what gave you that impression... the first one in washington was a smaller show it seems than this time around. i'm sure the involvement of heritage helped this become a much bigger deal. just wish dallas wasn't so far from some of us!

@GreatCaesarsGhost thanks for sharing those! love to see more. are people buying the big books as far as you know? how are sales? the last summit in bellevue was fun but the graded SA keys from places like dave and adams were pretty ambitiously priced.

as has been discussed before, i believe that "faded lime green" is simply a different green used in some printings of the book. i've seen many beautifully presenting copies with bright colors that have the light green color. i take your point that many people feel the dark green color feels richer than the light green one. the 7.0 i shared is yellowed and indeed has some fading on it. and it also has the light green color. there are plenty of yellowed and faded copies with the dark green too. your copy presents really well for the grade-

this one is really going to hurt gpa average. apologies to the seller of this book but it's one of the worst 7.0 white pagers i've seen. a good example of why one should buy the book and not the label.

heres my watch list from the heritage weekly auction that just ended yesterday. every single book on here is down either a little or a significant amount from the 12 month average, but remains well over the 2020 average. avengers 57 for example in 9.4 was a $2100 book in 2020. in this down market it sold for $3120. down from a peak of $3500 but well up over 2 years. ff52 was a $1580 book two years ago, now it's over 2k. i know alot of run books are down more than this, and modern stuff is dramatically down. but for silver age key and semi-key books like the ones i always watch and sometimes bid on, things are still far into the black over a 2 year timespan or longer. of course heritage may be rigged, but i'm seeing similar results on comiclink which is the other site i mainly use for bidding and watching.

too true. he really didn't care. still, i wish he had a sweet looking copy with his handwriting in it somewhere. that would be neat.

i couldn't agree more. i still don't have an asm1, but i have this:

boy that's a disappointingly lame copy for having belonged to ditko!

i've definitely learned a thing or two from the boards over the last 5 years, like who are some of the shadier characters in the business. i would never bid on anything from his "auction" site and i don't trust any of his results either, for good reason. i'm sure there sre plenty of legit results acheived there, and i suspect some shenanigans may also happen. of course, no auction site is transparent and only on feebay can you see if someone is shilling an auction. so they should all be taken with a great deal of salt.

i personally find almost all 2.0 copies and lower to be appalingly ugly, no offense to those who own them. there's usually tape, discoloration, major tears, etc. it's really 3.0 where some books start to look decent. so, for me, if i had to choose between an asm1 in 2.0 or an asm3 in 7.0 or 7.5 it's no contest. i'd go with the first doc ock, or sandman, or vulture, etc in fine or very fine condition.

last sale of a 3.0 was august for $2250 and last sale of a 4.0 was last month for $2945, according to gpa. good luck, that's quite an impressive accomplishment. please share pics of the run!

i personally always hold out for white page copies of 181 too. they are not hard to find. and i do think a better wrap is in order at this grade level.

@Drummy and @DST are just two boardies who can tell you how much more they have overpaid for a nice presenting white page SA key book in the past...

oh g_d, you just opened a can of worms. i'm sure several people i have on ignore will shortly write their theses here. based on no statistical research, and about 9 years of collecting mostly SA white page books, i can tell you that white pages enhance the value of SA semi-key and key books by about a half point in grade. so an x-men 1 7.0 with white pages is worth about what a 7.5 with OW or C/OW pages is worth, more or less. this is not a hard and firm rule, but since white pages are hard to find on alot of SA stuff, and downright rare on certain books (AF15, showcase 4), they are always more desirable. as someone once said, there are no collectors who focus on cream page books. many collectors don't care about page color. and then there is a significant cohort of collectors like myself and many others here, who focus mainly on white page books from this period.

such a great, insightful and unbiased assessment of the show and the market right now. in my short time here on the boards, i've learned that dealers here will either say any given show was insane, over the top sales, or they will say it was pretty good, or they will have nothing to say. naturally it is against their interests to say publicly that a show was dead or the market is slowing down since that would result in more of us annoyingly lowballing them on our offers. and dealers who specialize in different stuff will have different results.

i picked up a nice mid-grade copy of dd16 last weekend at a local show. it's really neat to see romita's very first attempt at doing spidey. for those of us who never read it, he got pretty ambitious with the webbing on the costume as you can see in most of these pics. he quickly seems to have reduced the number of horizontal web strands as he continued to draw spidey for years to come.

@Terry JSA thanks for the great pictures! man there are a ton of legit dealers at this show. looks like a phenomenal con, a la terry's california show, and bigger. and thanks for the selfie, it's nice to occasionally see a young face at one of these shows and on the boards especially.

i dont think so many people are aware of this website. i have heard of them but have never bid on anything there and their website is pretty bad. for example, if you go there today, there is no sign that they ever auction anything except sports memorabilia. i don't think they will get the results of the big three. perhaps it's a great place to get deals? i have no idea and cannot even find how to join their comic auction mailing list.

glad you are having a nice time, very envious. make sure to include a selfie-- it's a rare boardie that is under 40 and not fat, bald, ugly, or all three!

i havent seen this figure come up too often on heritage, but maybe i havent been paying attention to their toy auctions as much as their comic ones. seems like it would have gone for more had it been an AFA label. https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/toys/star-wars-boba-fett-21-back-b-cas-80-c80-b80-f85-sw-early-release-kenner-1979-/a/7301-77063.s?type=bidnotice-tracked-endofauction

where are all the pics of the booths and the books!?

my instinct says 3.5-4.0. i had a 3.5 xmen1 that presented better than this on the front though it had more creasing. this back cover is quite clean. perhaps the 4.0 is more likely.