vheflin

Are those holes in the spine or is that CT bleed thru?

and how much was this book going for before the ant man movie?

Green Room

anyone know if the scanner lamp emits harmful UV rays?  They sure are bright.

maybe just a bit of fading happening with every scan?

I'm gonna use a camera... 

after the boom comes the crash! 

12 minutes ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

I don't understand your question as it relates to my comment. Do you mean now? Do you mean in the 00s?

I mean now and then.  There is still tons of Bronze Age out there that hasn't been slabbed.  You are saying that prices have settled and will continue to settle as the census fills for these books.  That would mean that buyers of BA are unaware of the true quantities available because they only look at census numbers which take years to reveal true availability.

22 minutes ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

The only thing being compared is the prices. People wondering "how much higher can these things go?" should understand that there was a time when prices, as a percentage, still blew away the greatest gains of the last ten years by a country mile.

Comparing the 00s to the 10s is not good, because the 00s were a time of filling out the census. Just like in the late 80s (though much faster, because of TWO major grading companies, not just one) with coins, the 00s were a time when you saw unrealistic prices because the census was not filled, and no one had any idea what was actually out there. 

We're only just NOW starting to see "real" prices for books like Hulk #181, X-Men #94, GSXM #1, House of Secrets #92, and the like. The "record prices" for Hulk #181 in the 00s weren't real. Yes, they were real in the sense that someone paid that much for them, but they weren't real in the sense that "ok, we have a fair handle on what exists, and in what condition, so this is the market." 

The prices you're seeing NOW...those are finally reaching "real" status. 

What would be a proper comparison, then, would be the 10s to the 20s.

See you in 11 years.

 

Are you saying that the folks running up the prices of BA comics aren't aware that they're common as dirt and exist in high grade by the truck load because they only consider the census?

give that bottom staple a tap or two, slab it then sell it!

what was guide 22 years ago? $10?

Don't press it.  Heat, moisture, and high pressure on 80 yr. old newsprint is lunacy.

The new holder might flatten it, if not, you're no worse off and can go from there.

Myself, I'd crack it out then put it in a 4 mil mylar under 5 comics and let it sit.  

Same book sold on the same day on feebay

both are 6.0 OW/W but one is blue label and one is purple label small amount of CT

The PLOD is a significantly better looking book yet sells for 42% of the blue label!

you guys aren't collectors, you're paper portfolio managers

PLOD 6.0

blue 6.0

1 minute ago, comicquant said:

This actually makes more sense to me than a 9.9 NM 100 for anywhere near $5k

Can you explain what is sensible about it

taking the box fulls of EC & Stanley Morse, Planet, Atlas if I've room and throwing in a sawbuck for the stuff on the table

you guys can fight over the rest

bags for comics were made in 1965?

16 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Back to the original question as per the title of this thread here.

Looks like we aren't quite at the peak just yet, since we still have another day for all of you lucky boardies to bid here:

After all, who wouldn't bid since it's still sitting here at the bargain basement price of only $74,000 with just one more day to go.    

When the global toilet paper shortage hits in 2053, it will return to its intrinsic value.

5 minutes ago, Taneleer Tivan said:

"Investment purposes"?

Welcome to comic book collecting in the year 2019.

If you look at all the covers, looks like they lost width starting with #9 https://www.comics.org/series/891/covers/

Your #29 looks normal.

They probably reduced the width just enough to get a paper discount

15 minutes ago, valiantman said:

They must be equal numbers... otherwise you're not answering the question in this topic. 

ok then I say 7,500 collectors can and will spend $7,500 

12 minutes ago, valiantman said:

So... what's your guess? 

beats me it's raining out but...they wouldn't be equal numbers and you'd have to do it book by book and willingness will be a function of supply so I say the lines intersect at 25,000 collectors with the ability and willingness to spend $1,000.

If you consider not only willingness of collectors to spend but also ability to spend then the point of interest is the intersection of those two lines.  It is at that point you will find the collectors to dollars ratio.

The Matrix: Regurgitated

How can they justify giving that a 3.5?

It's a zero!

uhh you have been tasked with selling a 6.0-8.0 Action Comics #1?

I would first post a picture of it...then get it slabbed which will cost a pile of $$$ don't forget $1.5mil in postal insurance when you mail it to CGC

is this a normal forum occurrence?

EDIT: registered mail only insures up to $50K, wonder how you ship something worth >$1mil?

Someone in youtube comments had the idea to do the origin of the Tarman from Return of the Living Dead.  He could be an army scientist working with 2-4-5 trioxin, things go wrong and he ends up in the canister.

ooh I like that comic book

how is the page quality?