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I have a Detective Comics #35 back cover (Hypo needle cover) and a Batman #1 1940 trimmed back cover, both can be seen on Ebay. I need a Batman#1 page one complete with all art or a Superman #1 centerfold and would take either in trade for the #35 back cover or 1 or the other as part trade for the Batman #1 back cover.

It has the correct back cover, just not the one matching that exact front, meaning it likely came off an Action Comics #12 which is all the same ie. same Johnson Dept # etc. If as I suspect, one of the big dealers bought it though ... no worries ... it will magically match now when restored / conserved! ... No stinkin married labels for us!

$221,777 ... good lord ... I guessed $125,000.

There is another Action #1 origin page on Ebay trimmed ... I did a double take when I saw the listing's $60k OBO price ... who knows now though ?!?

Those sold for multiples less than the bid already ... don't ask ... I won't say, but you can probably find mention of the covers around facebook somewhere if you search and ask the seller. The owners dad had put them away in the 80's I guess and passed away and his son dug them out with a coverless Action #10 and #13 a Wonder Woman #1 coverless and other stuff. He had sold some stuff to this same current seller ( I assume ) prior and I suspect he may have sold a coverless Action #12 and kept and matched the back cover to this Det #27 front not knowing since he isn't really a collector.... thus the right back cover, just married from an Action #12. I tried to buy / trade for these covers, but it was a deal where this seller was talking to a buyer and the buyer was his best buddy in the world now type of thing lol. I don't beg and grovel to buy stuff so in the cut throat world of expensive comic stuff I usually just miss out. None of it is really that rare or awe inspiring for me regardless of being able to afford stuff or how cool it is. I won't run stuff up to get it or whatever or help others price their books by being an insufficiently_thoughtful_person. That being said, of-course I would have liked to have gotten them to hold onto as I will never buy a complete Action #1 or Detective #27 just for the amount of money I would have to tie up in something like that that could do other things. I'm going to guess they go for $125,000

I tried to buy this off of facebook about a year ago the guy had it advertised as being a cover that his dad had kept, with a coverless action #10 and coverless wonder woman #1 and some other stuff. He said he ended up selling it to a "true collector" ... I said yea ... it will be for sale somewhere married to a book or by itself, within a year ... I am never wrong!

The kind of stuff I love, congrats on your awesome find! To me personally, if you marry it to an interior and it's all original parts combined, it's way less expensive to own and looks great! Good luck in whatever you choose to do with it!

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Would consider trades / partial trades and cash for ... Nice front covers for Action Comics #7 #10 and #13 Batman #1 front cover and first wrap Nice covers and centerfold for Batman #3 Superman #1 decent covers and centerfold. Whiz #1 with front cover or covers set Superman #2 coverless complete nice or complete front cover Superman #3 clean complete back cover

Yea, it's nuts ... the 3.0 the other day auctioned was a prime example as to the difference from front to back!

New 7.0 just listed at $995,000 on Comic Link exchange ... that should get that .5 to $85,000 ... good lord!

Exactly, would be curious to see what the original book looked like.

It is up to 28% max, not 28% ... it's progressive at the regular tax brackets rates up to 28% max and then stops and then the 3.8 possibly.

The good ole days again ... maybe? ... I personally hope that this brings more people back to flea markets and comic and toy shows for in person selling and trading, but we'll see.

... shhhhhhhhhh ... still working on mine ... and so I must declare ... "BATMAN #1 is KRAP"

Hey everyone, I am currently looking for ...... Batman #1 ... I need the first inside wrap... I would take page #1 and #32 split separately as well if the complete artwork is present on pages. Superman #1 ... I am in need of both covers and a centerfold. Action Comics ... I especially need decent front covers for ... #7 ... #10 ... and #13 *************************************************************************************************************************** I currently have for trade, the following. Batman #1 trimmed back cover $7500 trade value Adventure Comics #36 missing 2 pages and back cover. $700 trade value Superman #3 loose leaf pages trimmed out of bound volume, all pages present. $750 trade value Action Comics #25 coverless and missing centerfold $250 trade value Superboy #1 CGC .5 restored trimmed low grade no centerfold $1100 trade value All Select #10 ... missing centerfold $1000 trade value

It's getting pricey and disheartening, for sure. I have resigned myself to owning restored for most stuff now. Just keeps climbing!

Greedy ... remove one of the first wraps and send it to me! I am old and won't be alive much longer ... Well maybe another 20 or 30 years ... But still.😂

So around 6 weeks ago I got lucky and traded for a back cover pin-up at the Kane County Toy show and thought WOW incredible luck! Now fast forward to this Saturday and I had the good fortune of finding these via a Facebook post and followed up and purchased them yesterday. The seller said that her Dad was born in 1928 and still had these from when he was a kid and she was now selling them for him. So I either have no Batman covers ... or... too many Batman covers ... good problem to have! Kenny Sanderson is currently working on my pinup I previously posted here to restore the border and get it back to complete, so I will likely marry that back to this front, since this front has obvious missing artwork needing recreated as well anyway. I know many despise restoration and that's fine, I am personally fine with it if it's well done. I know many would leave the chunky front unmolested and this back cover split and married to an interior but I dislike the missing piece chunky look though. I am assuming Kenny's work would be be reversible anyway. The way I see it a married covers and first wrap green label 1.0 or a nicely restored 2.0 or 3.0 in appearance is a wash anyway value-wise. Interested in other's thoughts? So now, I am down to needing a first wrap ... so if anyone would be interested in possibly selling the first wrap please contact me. Or if I do go the route that this newly acquired back cover is available, I would maybe take cash and a first wrap as part trade. *** for sure nothing is set in stone, I have to see what Kenny's thoughts are on my current plan. *** Anyway keep the faith, parts still show up as unlikely as it seems. I do a lot of searching too, but still I am amazed. Thanks!

Yes, agree they could easily institute some kind of graduated cap or make you pay some sort of deposit etc ... They just do not care overall.

That's why I never auction items on Ebay. I just list my items BIN at maybe a bit higher than I expect to sell for and work my way down over a few weeks or months. Anyone buying has to pay immediately that way. I know you sell all the time with an auction format, so obviously it works for you overall, but yea, no protection at all from zero feedback bidders. It's a shame that Ebay hasn't figured out a solution to this yet after all of these years.

Yep, that's a weird bird ... I almost prefer it totally coverless and the origin page showing as odd as that sounds. Just the mix of reprint and real is annoying to me even though it's more complete. It will probably sell well though.

This was my extra copy. I had priced it higher and worked my way down over a few weeks. I think it went for a fair price for what is there and the page quality being nice. Also, factoring in sales tax on these books for a buyer now it was closer to $19,000. I believe a coverless complete just sold for $19,000 + tax recently with married pages, but don't recall where I saw it? I feel a complete unmarried coverless would be around $25,000 with nice pages. I figure in addition to the origin wrap and centerfold the two next best pages are the Action #1 and Action #7 homage pages. I figure the Action #1 page should be $5k alone if nice, if the real Action #1 car page is a $15k page now at auction. Just my 2 cents.

Thanks it was a pretty neat find for a mainly toy show!