LordRahl

BTW, it was confirmed Mr. Dupcak, who claims not to be in the comic business, is reading this thread.

 

So, Dupcake is neither ComicKeys nor Robodork?

In other words, this information has not been confirmed one way or the other?

 

 

How do you draw that conclusion from the above statement?

 

"who claims not to be in the comic business"

 

You believe him?

BTW, it was confirmed Mr. Dupcak, who claims not to be in the comic business, is reading this thread.

 

So, Dupcake is neither ComicKeys nor Robodork?

In other words, this information has not been confirmed one way or the other?

 

How do you draw that conclusion from the above statement?

Ok, the court proceeding today was fascinating but we are just getting started.

 

Unfortunately due to motions that are to be filed it is regrettably best I not post anything substantive related to what transpired, but suffice to say we are very pleased as to how the matter is progressing and my presence was not welcomed.

 

There is another court date in June and the resumption of the hearing in July. These are open proceedings and I will post the details as we get closer in case anyone wishes to attend.

 

BTW, it was confirmed Mr. Dupcak, who claims not to be in the comic business, is reading this thread.

 

Interesting.

THAT needed confirmation?

Very, very nice looking Phantom Stranger 10 CGC 9.6 up right now in one of Jerry Weist's auctions, if I didnt already have a nice copy Id probably blow the bank out for it as it is one of Adams' best horror covers.

 

Yep, it's a beauty...and I'm hoping it flies under the radar, otherwise it won't come cheap!

 

too late.....

It seems my luck was in tonight. Got it for about half my top bid after I was outbid on the last one that sold in 9.6 on CC.

I'll donate this. I won the book in the Nik auction for $500 but GPA is around $300, so you can choose what you want to "value" it at.

In a way it's a contribution from Nik as I'm sure he would have donated to this cause if he were still with us.

I will assume shipping costs within the U.S. and split them if international.

I just won this on C'Link tonight.

 

I'm gonna miss it.

Tell me someone on these boards who plans on holding the book for a long time picked up the HOM 179 9.4 that appeared on Clink last night for the crazy price of $800 ? Sterling ?

 

Yes I plan on holding it for a while but Sterling is right, IMO $800 was a steal for that book. Even though horror has considerably cooled off, I'd be willing to bet the price of that book that at auction it goes well over $1K.

 

Congrats on the book...just curious...when did you hit the BIN?

 

About 15 minutes after it was listed I think. I saw the wantlist email from CL and went and hit the BIN. Couldn't have been more than 15 minutes.

 

Now the questions are: Do you have an undercopy available? And if so, what is the grade?

No under copy, I was holding out for a 9.4.

Tell me someone on these boards who plans on holding the book for a long time picked up the HOM 179 9.4 that appeared on Clink last night for the crazy price of $800 ? Sterling ?

 

Yes I plan on holding it for a while but Sterling is right, IMO $800 was a steal for that book. Even though horror has considerably cooled off, I'd be willing to bet the price of that book that at auction it goes well over $1K.

 

Congrats on the book...just curious...when did you hit the BIN?

About 15 minutes after it was listed I think. I saw the wantlist email from CL and went and hit the BIN. Couldn't have been more than 15 minutes.

Tell me someone on these boards who plans on holding the book for a long time picked up the HOM 179 9.4 that appeared on Clink last night for the crazy price of $800 ? Sterling ?

Yes I plan on holding it for a while but Sterling is right, IMO $800 was a steal for that book. Even though horror has considerably cooled off, I'd be willing to bet the price of that book that at auction it goes well over $1K.

To make things more interesting there was a shill in the Corral that seemed to be Dupcak himself, but who knows. This shill (Ace Ventura) tried to make it look like I was Dupcak. Lots of fun.

 

Could anyone even imagine what would happen if Danny ever really got sent up the river, and admitted that he was the seller of these books?

 

Depends. If the 'Tec is a blue holder 6.5 as suggested, I imagine there would be some interesting debate....

 

I seriously doubt that considering how much intense scrutiny this book went under and CGC had to be very aware of all the questions surrounding this book. It's not every day a Tec 27 comes into their building for grading. If it got a blue label, I'm pretty sure they were extra careful to check this one over.

 

 

Do you mean that someone had a scan of the book in a slab? I really don't think that's right. I think I would remember that, since it would have changed the whole debate. After all, Eide challenged Todd to a $1000 bet that it wouldn't come back blue.

 

It was shown somewhere... grr.

Are you sure? There were pictures of Todd with the book raw. Never with the book slabbed. It was conjecture that the new 6.5 was that book but as far as I know that was never confirmed by anyone with actual knowledge vs speculation.

I knew about that 6.5 and the speculation that it is Todd's copy. So I take it that Eides never delivered on any of the "proof" he had that it was Dupcak that tried to sell those books to him and ended up selling them to Todd?

Last I saw, Eides was ranting on some other message board about how he was going to PROVE that it was Dupcak that sold the Tec 27 to Todd. Of course he offered no actual proof besides his somewhat delusional ramblings. Just wondering if any further info came from either Eides or some other source on the true origin of that Tec 27.

Im sure that Heritage promoted the collection to CGC as a Pedigree, and to the Toths that they would give it a strenuous but not guaranteed effort to do so. CGC has been very stingy about Pedigree status for years, so this collection missing out just puts it on that list of near misses. Still great company to be in.

This would be true if CGC hadn`t just given pedigree status to the Rocky Common Mountain collection. I didn`t comment when the Toth collection was first brought to market by CGC, because in fact they had been pretty tough about giving pedigree status over the last few years. But when they recognized a pedigree that as far as I can tell represented lots of ultra-HG books from an era lousy with ultra-HG books, I was puzzled and irritated.

I think both collections are borderline Pedigree quality. The Toth collection is DC only with a lot of the earlier stuff, although it may be highest graded, is still below 9.0. There are some phenomenal runs in ultra high grade though. The RMs are light on the keys in terms of grade but ULTRA high grade from the mid 60s on. My original point was that the Toth collection is not a SLAM DUNK Pedigree, which is what a lot of the posters were saying. I can see it getting the Pedigree designation but I'm not surprised that it didn't either. To say that it is undoubtedly a Pedigree without hesitation is just over-exhuberance IMO. This of course comes from someone who does not collect SA DC and it seems that all the proponents of the Toth collection being Pedigreed are the DC collectors on the board.

Like I said earlier w/ just the first 3 JLA's we were winning that set.

 

 

Seriously, Your JLA set was mind-blowing. Too bad you had to break it up (except for the ones I got). Still waiting for an explanation from CGC as to why no Ped designation, before I rip them a new one.

 

Top drawer Kudos to you & your Dad.

 

Rick

I'm not sure why everyone here thinks it's a slam dunk pedigree quality collection Most of the early stuff is either below 9.0 or not there, a few notable exceptions not withstanding. I guess it's part of the collection but too low grade to make the cut so it hasn't been slabbed. There's that lower grade thing again. There is also no Marvel representation, hence half or more of the Silver key books aren't in the collection at all. You can't make it a Pedigree bacause the Flash and JLA runs were all high grade. Don't get me wrong, this is a fantastic collection. I just don't see all of the uproar over why it wasn't called a pedigree.

Just got back about 60 books from CGC. A few highlights

How the heck does it get OW pages when the cover is pure white

Scanner contrast setting

My 33 went for a nice penny

Oh yeah.

 

I thought you might be going after a couple of the 9.6s. Glad you didn't have your sights set on the 52 Leaves me with only 1 book left for the 50-66 run in 9.6. But, what was the deal with the 2 43s that sold? The 9.4 sold for more than the 9.6

 

Congrats, Chris on the 52. I was watching that one and a few others but opted to just pursue the 54. I don't get the 43. It makes no sense. The only thing I can think of is the bidders on the 9.4 thought it would go cheaper than the 9.6 and chose to ignore the 9.6. I'm sure whoever won the 9.4 is going when he saw the final price of the 9.6. Personally, I think CLink could benefit from spacing their auctions a little further apart, say 5-10 minutes.This way bidders go could go for the 9.6 first and if they fail, they'd still have a few minutes to pursue the 9.4.

Yeah that was my thought as well. It wasn't a weak or fugly 9.6 either Nice score on the 54

Imagine that.

I was wondering if you had picked that up. Pretty good deal, it's a nice looking 9.4

I thought you might be going after a couple of the 9.6s. Glad you didn't have your sights set on the 52 Leaves me with only 1 book left for the 50-66 run in 9.6. But, what was the deal with the 2 43s that sold? The 9.4 sold for more than the 9.6

Some pics

 

 

 

 

Great books Nik. Never seen that particular DD cover before. Swampy 3, my favorite Swampy cover

Just got this little present from CGC

Nice book Tim