RockMyAmadeus

No.

"Moderns" have historically underperformed at Heritage. We'll see...it's another couple of months away.

One doesn't. Indeed.

PS...how does one know that a particular double cover is "one of a kind", since the census doesn't indicate that...?

Rules. We don't need no stinkin' rules. (Hope no one was offended by my ST #180. I do try to follow the rules.)

I agree with you here, but I do think that that approach may be what propels this one above the $4K minimum I predict for this 9.8 copy on Heritage. That's the exact reason why it won't. It's an auction. In auctions, the pressure to "OMG I HAVE TO BUY IT NOW OR SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT GET IT!!!" doesn't exist, so there's a lot less spontaneous decision making. Doubtful. Don't get me wrong, it's a wonderful, wonderful book...but it's not necessary to have it to complete a run, and is rare enough to frighten away all but the most dedicated of niche collectors. Will it get some sort of "movie boost"? Maybe. Sandman has stayed in print for 25+ years and the core fanbase of Sandman isn't collectors willing to shell out big money for copies...it's readers. And readers just want to read. When people can buy a Sandman #8 variant...or a nice run, and have $1600 left over...it's going to go to the run.

Grade becomes far, far less important the more scarce an item is. People just want to have one, and whether it's 9.2 or 9.8, doesn't make too big a difference for books where only a few hundred exist. That 9.2 was a case of someone deciding "you know, it's here, there aren't any others around right now, I've wanted it, so why the hell not." That's a decision I've made many times, as I happily overpaid for items that don't come around very often (like, say, paying $177 for a Vengeance of Vampirella #1 Royal Blue in 2003 or thereabouts, because they just don't come up for sale but once every 2-3 years. And yes, I missed the 9.8 that sold on Heritage in '04 or '05. )

I would say at least $4K. (thumbs u Probably not. It will be interesting to see, especially since that 9.2 copy sold quickly for $2K recently. If that is not the definition of outlier, I don't know anything about comics.

Hey, look what I found! An error SS!

I've made 2 fairly large (quantity of books) purchases over the last 10 years. The first was about 7-8 years ago when Mike Forrester (flatrock02, who passed away a couple of years ago) Talk about a punch in the gut at 2 AM. I had no idea. I bought all his X-Men #240s and #205s maybe 4 years ago. I still have 'em, every single one (except maybe one #205.)

Thanks for the lowdown, Chip. I'd be inclined to think the print run would have been around 5000 (50 comics per WB store) but that is just speculation based on what I have heard about the print run of other Superman Adventure books i.e. # 5 (1st Livewire, had a print run of 5000). You have heard incorrectly. The Diamond orders for Superman Adventures #5 were 26,287. That's just the Direct Market. The newsstand, while in decline, was not insubstantial at this point. I would be interested to know why you thought the print run for a 1997 Superman book was only 5,000, and/or who you heard this from. Remember: Direct market approximate order numbers from about Sept 1996 are available for every month since then at John Jackson Miller's wonderful site: www.comichron.com

It's the new investment strategy. Buy books... Hold for 25 years... Make a fortune!

I would say at least $4K. (thumbs u Probably not.

I will be more than happy to purchase any and every Deathmate gold anyone wants to rid themselves of.

Yes, one of Claremont's "greatest" moments: we can't just create an Asian assassin, we have to "change" a British chick into an Asian....somehow....because Jubilee not 12 issues earlier...

The rare upside down variant!!

Captain Carrot! I'm RICH!

I love the Goonies... Don't get me started. I WILL quote the entire movie. "It's their time, up there...but down here, it's OUR time...it's OUR time, down here!"

Ack! Lame!

Stupid lemmings. Average of 2-4 sales a day for months....then 39 sales in the last 6 hours. Stupid lemmings. And they say the market isn't going to crash... Buying 25 year old books isn't what crashed the market. Just ask the guy I bought a case of Superman 75 3rd prints from a few months back. No, buying 25 year old books wasn't what crashed the market. It was buying new books that did it. What will crash the market this time...? Buying those same books, which are now 25 years old.... It's the cirrrrrrcle of liiiiiffffffe.... The same thought went through my mind but I was too lazy and inarticulate to post it. Having said that, I hope the market never crashes again and book prices keep going up, at least for the duration of my life (which makes me think of Homer talking to God - "You'll find out when you die" - "Ahh, I can't wait that long." - "You can't wait six months?" - "No, tell me now.") I'd prefer to regret not buying a BA 12 9.8 when I had the chance than try to house my family in a pile of long boxes. Maybe, maybe not. We are trying to apply the same formula to a different situation and still get the same answer. No, those are just casual answers, not in-depth analyses.

No. There are quite a few people around here who are not fans of comics at all. So what are they doing here, and what are they fans of....? Money.

Stupid lemmings. Average of 2-4 sales a day for months....then 39 sales in the last 6 hours. Stupid lemmings. And they say the market isn't going to crash... Buying 25 year old books isn't what crashed the market. Just ask the guy I bought a case of Superman 75 3rd prints from a few months back. No, buying 25 year old books wasn't what crashed the market. It was buying new books that did it. What will crash the market this time...? Buying those same books, which are now 25 years old.... It's the cirrrrrrcle of liiiiiffffffe.... Buying new books wasn't the problem (if you're referring to customers). It was retailers buying books that consumers weren't then purchasing. Also companies soliciting books that they weren't then shipping, tying up retailer money. Is that an invitation to debate the history of the 90's Comic Book Crash...? I'm game!

Rutger Hauer, Marvel Super Special #22

There's no such thing. The board code automatically separates posts, even fractions of second (if possible) within each other. Two posts cannot appear at the exact same place, and exact same time. One of them will be posted after the other, according to how the program parses the code, even if they have the exact same time stamp. But even if that was the case, the answer is to insist on absolute precision, all the time. Problems solved. The only real problem is editing, which can be done in stealth, and then we require honor. The rule has always been timestamp, not location of post. They are the same thing: the time stamp determines the location of the post. If both people hit "submit" at the exact same second, the board program code will still separate them out, even within fractions of the same second. Thus, if Person X hits submit at 9:47:33, and Person Y hits submit at 9:47:33, the board will figure out which one was "first", and post accordingly. In other words, it either picks based on its internal code, or it can figure out who posted at 9:47:33:17 and who posted at 9:47:33:62. In either case, the post that appears first is the one that IS first, even if the displayed timestamp is identical.

There's no such thing. The board code automatically separates posts, even fractions of second (if possible) within each other. Two posts cannot appear at the exact same place, and exact same time. One of them will be posted after the other, according to how the program parses the code, even if they have the exact same time stamp. But even if that was the case, the answer is to insist on absolute precision, all the time. Problems solved. The only real problem is editing, which can be done in stealth, and then we require honor.