GreatCaesarsGhost

Painful, but emancipating. The hobby owns us, not the other way around

Good work @woowoo!

Cmon in, tth. The water’s fine

Karma wasn’t done with him yet when you saw him, poor guy. Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I found his enthusiasm infectious

Don’t let the trolls win!

Should be coming out any day now . . . .

Equally odd is the rusted out staple on the Cap 1. To me, the Cap 1 and the Bat 1 got stored differently than the 9.8 white pagers we've been seeing i think when Lon and Ed went in, these were still on the back of the commode

Either the rust on the bottom staple has penetrated to the back cover, or the book was stacked on top of another rusty staple book. still, my guess is $150k

Not necessarily. I think @Robot Manis in a “Buy it Now” frame of mind

You’re a bold man, @Mmehdy

The 2.0 Bat 1 in the last Heritage auction went for $220k. It had better page quality and eye appeal. So I guess $180k for this one, if not for the Promise pedigree. And it remains to be seen IMO whether the pedigree helps, hurts, or has no effect what do you guys think?

I didn’t see the Blissard books, nor have I snagged any LB Coles out of the Promise Collection. But I found this in the last Heritage auction. I think it got lost in all the Promise Collection hysteria, so I got it for a decent price. (It’s funny when we get to the point that we feel like we’ve gotten a steal at 9 x Guide!)

I know that scene!

You’re not, by chance, the booth where a guy had a Bat 1 in his briefcase?

Wow. That many. Including a Frazetta! A voided sale on a Saddle Justice 6 is nothing by comparison to a half million dollar Frazetta. I’d love to know why, but I guess we never will. Half a million actually seems low to me for an original Frazetta. Heritage may be glad to get a do over on that one.

That was the non-payer winning bid

I was about to hit the nuclear button until I saw that Heritage is admitting, in their current ad, that it had been previously up for sale and that, for whatever reason, the sale did not complete. The wording is vague, and susceptible of many meanings. (the most innocent of which would be the sale didn't get completed because the buyer was overextended, and the most damning would be if Heritage was trying to imply that the book didn't get brought to auction at all - an obvious falsehood). Regardless, I can’t rule out the possibility of an innocent explanation, and have withdrawn my finger from the nuclear button.

I see signs of market softening on Cap 3. That’s fine. Just might make it easier to pick up another copy. The fact that it’s Stan Lee’s first work will always make this a significant book. Sometimes it takes a minute for the market to figure things out. I don’t particularly care that it’s Red Skulls first cover appearance, or that it’s a Schomburg war cover. To me, it doesn’t even look very much like a Schomburg. What I do care about is it’s Stan Lee’s first work.

Here is a fascinating and informative breakdown of the Promise Collection sales. @sagiiposted it in another thread, and I thought it was worth reposting here

The final hammer prices look strong to me. Anyone run the numbers?

Probably since 2 years ago. And this was VERY well attended. I don’t know about sales, but there were a million costumes. The organizers ran a good show. Would have liked it if more golden age sellers showed up, but these shows aren’t really their thing anymore

After seeing a sea of modern-ish wall books, I walked up just as a dealer was slipping back into his briefcase a Bat 1. Yikes! He had been showing it to a someone else, but when I asked to see it, he sized me up and said no. I JUST GOT DUNKED ON! anyway, here’s a couple pics I shot:

Yep