GreatCaesarsGhost

Face plant

Nor the $250k Cap 74

In my book, this is the greatest run in comic book history. Stan may have been a bit premature in his claims, but it really was The Greatest Comic Magazine In The World

Bookends

Well, I’ve started looking thru the 51st. There’s many that hold the opinion that there are more current sources of price info than Overstreet, and I don’t disagree. But at the same time, I still believe current actual pricing is a multiple of Guide, and if the Guide goes up, so ultimately do the prices. that said, the guide prices I’m most interested in moved upwards, but at a glacially slow pace. not done looking. Anyone else notice anything interesting? and, oh hey, our very own @Primetimewrote a nice piece. Do we have any other contributing boardies?

That's the one I was ogling, too. But 9.8 Schomburg Timelys went for north of $80k in the first auction, so I've already tapped out on this. Or have I? hey @Cat-Man_America, I know you’ve got some thoughts on this matter

Hey it’s a Spider-Man and Penguin team-up

There are some other threads where the submitting boardies are saying cgc is grading their submissions harder than usual. I don’t even want to consider the implications

I bet you've still got a special book or 2 still squirreled away somewhere

Good lord, Harold !

The tectonic plates are shifting

For the sake of continued competition in the marketplace, it would be ok by me if Clink or CC handled the auctions. I've already been worried about how the Promise Collection will affect the continued viability of Heritage's competition. I think competition is essential to the hobby.

I'm assuming Overstreet is concerned if prices go up too fast, the hobby will implode. As to why particular books that have always sold above guide don't get an adjustment, I cannot say. People above seem in agreement that Overstreet needs to see sustained prices higher than the guide before he will act, but there's a discrepancy as to whether the window Overstreet needs to see is 3 years or 5 years or its-who-knows-what. From my own personal observation of Cap 46 (the holocaust cover), I would often wonder the same thing as you: since it always sells for multiples, why doesn't it get bumped up in value in the guide? Well, one year the upward adjustment finally got made in the Overstreet guide. But I found that once the guide finally updated to show the higher prices the book would routinely fetch, the only thing that changed is now the books would bring the same multiples as before, but AT THE HIGHER RECENTLY-ADJUSTED PRICES. So the book shot up in "value". I doubt this is what Overstreet intended, but he must surely be cognizant of the issue. After a certain point, if this were to happen across the board, people may flee the hobby for stamps or some such other thing.

And I bet it gets one. The problem is we will never know for sure

Wow. Thanks! Do you know the grade?

A happy story: I bought this expecting a dust shadow on the right side, but turns out it must have been just a scanning issue. No shadow!

The cap 36 went for $250k and the 46 for $160k. Doesn’t seem like a little old dust shadow bothers everyone like it does you and me

Eye appeal off the charts, and a white pager. Spine must be totally split, but still, WOW!

My thoughts exactly

With the 51st Overstreet just about to drop, I can't help but wonder which books will show movement, and which won't. I would expect, as I do every year, to see price jumps in Romance, GGA, precode horror, and Schomburg war cover books, generally. Specifically, I think we will see upward adjustments in Batman 1, Mask 1 and 2, Cap 3(finally). Silver age, I don't even know. But anything Xmen has gone up. I don't get over to that end of the Boards as much as I should. Anybody else have any predictions on which books Bob Overstreet tinkers with?

The article said Junie read every single book, so I’m puzzled why these are lower grade, relative to the rest of his collection. Maybe it was his relatively younger age at the beginning, and his handling was a bit more careless

First thing I do, whenever I stumble onto a thread I like, is look up the OP. More times than not, their last post is years ago. I wish I could have known some of them. I find old conversations just as interesting as new

Release the kracken