SuperBird

fwiw I already have seller's regret. Life moves on.

The grades top out at 6.5. There are a few in there that I expect might surprise to the upside, as some haven't been available publicly for a while. I also have no clue how to put a value on a restored AC23 8.5. I'm prepared for whatever, though.

I think this is where I'd come out as well. It's a very strange time, to me, to start investing in comics today. Everything of "value" has run up so far so quickly, and nobody really knows how it will shake out. Plus bear in mind that comics have a lot of deficiencies compared to investing in other vehicles. They have high transaction costs, are potentially lost, damaged or stolen, not normally insured, and are heavily tax disadvantged when selling. It's easy to play Monday morning quarterback and pick out singular winners over the last 10/20/40 years, but overall unless you were extremely astute the stock market would have been a better investment. So basically, I think just buy what you love and think in those terms, and if they make money, then great!

There are no more dips.

Copper starts 1985!

buy the highest grades you can afford, IMO. Better than quantity.

1983- it is bronze!

Daredevil 168 CGC 9.4 Thor 337 CGC 9.8!

*had*

I'd already decided to sell, this is just showing me how hard it is to buy in!

Master of Kung Fu 17 9.6!

amusingly, this thread is almost convincing me to quit collecting comics.

Not sure if $1k buys anything anymore....

Off to auction.

And they are now... no longer mine.

When I was a kid, it was all about TMNT, Boris the Bear, Fish Police, Aircel comics, and Frank Miller.

This had to have been in the early 90s. I paid $40 for the fake one, which at the time was the most I ever spent on a comic.

I bought one back when I couldn't justify spending $350 on a comic book for the real thing, and was collecting a complete Cerebus run.

I agree with MrBedrock's statement. The 15% I'd pay HA made his offer almost exactly what I'd expect to net, so his offer was excellent IMO. I would certainly sell him other books in my collection when the time comes, but for these I always really wanted their disposition to be an "event' for me, seeing as how much time and effort I put into aquiring them. (15 years!)

Richard gave me a very solid offer to buy them outright, definitely in the range of what I expect the net at auction. In the end I went with Heritage mostly because of recent auction results, and also wanting the experience of auctioning them.

There's a copy on eBay right now for half that price. A steal!

another silly question: are there better or worse times of the year to auction stuff? I know Dec is historically bad. Is April ok, or does tax season screw up sales?

In any case, it took two to do this tango. So at least one other guy wanted this page for $3 million.

I would imagine that this sale just ushers in a new era of $1m+ sales? I can think of so many things that should go for more than this page did...