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    Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???

    in Comics General

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    On 5/3/2024 at 7:40 AM, namisgr said:

    Agreed.  That's the policy Highgrade Comics took, as Bob has said many times that his proprietary sales data are too important to his business to make freely available through GPA.

    ... the elephant in the room .... what benefit is there for an auction house to support a price researching tool that could suggest their bidders should bid less? Not much upside, especially with the profound oversaturation of auctions today. I'm out of comics for the most part, but I do still subscribe to GPA. GOD BLESS ...

    -jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu

    Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???

    in Comics General

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    On 5/2/2024 at 6:34 PM, namisgr said:

    I didn't find that to be true.  Over a half dozen different auctions for over 350 high grade SA and BA slabs, I realized excellent prices overall and the after-commission returns were much better than anticipated based on past market prices.

    It's almost certainly not the best venue for realizing the highest prices possible for every era and genre, but for the kinds of things I collected they were a major outlet for buying and selling for 15 years.

    Many, many record highs occur at Clink, especially in SA areas. GOD BLESS ... 

    -jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu

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    in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Only

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    On 5/2/2024 at 1:20 PM, crassus said:

    Ok I will be back later this afternoon with the last books for the thread, a few romance books on the rebound looking for love, plus a few more FFs, many thanks for taking a look and especial thanks for the buys :smile:

    Later is, at best, an illusion. Now is what's happening, yo. GOD BLESS ...

    -jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu

    Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???

    in Comics General

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    On 5/2/2024 at 11:21 AM, Stefan_W said:

    Yup, that was my understanding as well. We don't know all of the back story, or the behind the scenes decision-making process, so I think it is best to just say they declined allowing GPA to scrape their data and call it a day at that. 

    People should also accept that tier 2 and lesser titles that were published in the BA do not commonly occur in 9.8, and when the occasional example is released, a high price is not necessarily an outlier. Each comic is it's own market, there is no Funny Book Dow Jones, although extrapolations can still be made from sales data. GOD BLESS... 

    Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???

    in Comics General

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    On 5/2/2024 at 11:10 AM, 1Cool said:

    Talk about trying to cook the books to make prices seem higher in GPA.  Kind of shows you what CLink thinks about their final prices if they don't want the general public to know what they are.

    It wasn't so much GPA, which was a new thing then, but the realization by CLink, that the data represented many hours of hard work, and should not be free. That's what I heard... plus the selective option. GOD BLESS ...

    -jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu

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    to those of you reading/collection when X-men 94 hit the newsstands...

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

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    On 5/2/2024 at 10:33 AM, tth2 said:

    That was a lot of money back then!  $30 for a comic might as well have been $3000 as far as I was concerned, because they were both equally unaffordable (and would have been rejected just as quickly by my parents).

    ... I paid 20 bucks for an FF 5 in very high grade at the same show, wiped out my whole wad. I had to sneak it in the house, as I was afraid my hindparts would have been roasted for spending a month of paper route money on ONE comic. There was also displayed at that show, the first Action 1 that I ever saw in person. The guy was trying to match @Mmehdy record sale of a year or so prior, pricing it at 1800. It was still unsold at the end of the show. You could buy a brand new Ford Mustang for that kind of coin back then. A 10 spot would get snacks and a movie for 4 people with enough left for a large combo Italian Pizza after the show. GOD BLESS ...

    -jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu

    to those of you reading/collection when X-men 94 hit the newsstands...

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

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    On 5/2/2024 at 12:55 AM, tth2 said:

    GSX 1 and UXM 94 were no great shakes for a long time and didn't command higher prices until Byrne took over and the series' popularity really soared.  During the original Cockrum run, none of my fellow comic collectors in middle school thought much of the new X-Men. 

    But then Byrne took over, Wolverine suddenly became popular and everyone started getting into them.  That's when the prices of GSX 1 and UXM 94 started to skyrocket (relatively speaking). 

    My best pal, Timmy Leaf, showed me his take from the BX back in '75, and pulled out 2 copies of GSX 1, exclaiming that this Cochran guy was going to be the next Adams, and that I should grab a couple. I passed. Now, before we start thinking that Timmy was some Guru of the unwashed masses, I DID have to talk him into buying his AF 15 in VG @ $30 at a show in the 70's. That, unfortunately, was not enough to qualify me for Guru-dom, as I never got an AF 15, because, as the song says, "Tomorrow Never Comes." GOD BLESS ...

    -jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu

    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

    in Pulp Magazines

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    On 5/1/2024 at 11:26 PM, Darwination said:

    I've got Gunnison's Belarski art book at home but haven't looked at it in years.  Looking recently at his pb covers has given me a fresh appreciation.

    I dunno about renumeration/resale details for him, as that arrangement could vary by author and publisher on who got to keep the painting and if reprint rights were included.  I like the fact that some artists and authors could juice that system and get paid for all the various formats a painting or story/novel/screenplay might appear in.  If you're getting paid in peanuts, make some peanut butter.

    That was uncommon.

    When Frazetta tried to retain artwork and only sell first printing rights, he was met with resistance for a while. This is a major reason why his output at E.C. was so thin. He began keeping art and rights when he became the "hot new" thing, and everyone wanted him. Like the old saying goes, "sometimes you get the meat, sometimes you get the bone." Print media illustrators were *ahem*, predominantly vegetarian... until Neal and the young Turks came along.  GOD BLESS ...

    -jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu