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36 minutes ago, Red_Hood said:

BA #12 was basically a $250.00 book in 9.8 until about 2 years before the garbage Suicide Squad movie was coming out.  I recall a boardie had an agenda along the lines of the same effect of "Pump and Dump" because he had a few CGC 9.8 copies and so he started a thread in copper age to talk about how important the character and book were.  Fast forward a few months later and the sheep started drinking the Kool-Aid hard and buying into the reasoning and speculators and people with FOMO were driving the prices to ridiculous levels to where it sits now in elevated pricing levels.  Not so high as a few years ago but still way over priced for that book.

Give that boardie credit... his plan worked and he dumped that overpriced POS a few times over.

This reminds me, I have to get that thread going about how significant the Phalanx Covenant x-over was...

I like Harley, too, but my sense with this one is that it's speculator bump, like Red_Hood suggested. For BA 12, it's been pricey for a bit, but it went nuts when the movie started filming and has continued since, I think with the continued interest in movies with Harley. We saw the same thing with other movie/series speculators. Umbrella Academy FCBD went nuts in early 2019, and then cooled down as some of the hype went away (and as people rushed to slab their copies.) I think BA 12 may do the same. Harley, in my mind, has some more staying power than UA, for some of the reasons other folks said (spent more time in dollar bins, bought for kids, etc.) But my impression is that the huge price increase may be speculator hype.

On 6/10/2020 at 1:24 PM, H0RR0RSH0W said:

If you are familiar with their old web page you might agree that it had a very dated appearance. Nothing really wrong with that.  It was slow and cumbersome; like browsing in the age of Netscape navigator. When you had tons and tons of data that was just the way it was presented in those days. If you took some time you could generally find reams of great books new and old. No reason not to admit I have given them a good amount of business on some of my biggest purchases. 

I feel like the new design of their website is terrible. Makes it even harder to find books. I find it impossible. Even after sifting and sifting. At least the old  design had a list of titles that if you knew it was their and just could not guess what they had the title listed under you could refer to that. It was fairly quick and always worth a peak at very least. The new design is terrible. If you cannot guess the title descriptor it gives you pages of suggestions unrelated to your search. Further there is no way to jump pages effectively. The web address resets if you type anything in the browser bar.

Am I the only one finding the redesign impossible to use? 

I agree about the new design. I tend to sift through on a mobile device, and move over to the computer if I find anything of interest. The old site was super easy to scroll through and browse. Now, it's just cumbersome, especially on a mobile device. Also, the old Metropolis site used to have the collections and some great sales listed in the margin of the page. These seem to me to be harder to find. Unfortunately, it means I tend not to go there as often.

This wasn't a purchase, but a very odd tale of a find.

About 4-5 years ago, the wife and I were poking through an antique mall in Wisconsin when I found a small stack of mostly unbagged comics piled on a bookcase. There were maybe 25-30 of them there, all dollar bin and priced accordingly at about $1-2 a piece. But about midway through the stack, my heart skipped a beat - Iron Fist 14, bagged but not boarded. Then I took a look at the sticker. The condition was about a 7.0/7.5, and the sticker price was $380(!)

I still can't wrap my head around it. Whoever the seller was obviously knew it was a key, but left it in a stack. So, the price indicated that they knew what they had (or, rather, believed they had more than they did), but the placement seemed to indicate that they had no idea what they had. The best I can figure is that they were not a collector and just didn't know how to store it, or some shopper slipped it in to the stack for some reason (though there were no other obvious places where it could have been displayed otherwise.)

I don't know if others have experienced something like that, but it was definitely odd to me. Needless to say, I only came away with a story:)

12 hours ago, esquirecomics said:

More Fun Comics #22 (DC 1937) CGC VG+ 4.5 Light tan to off-white pages. 

Some of the most influential scripters and artists of comics' early days contributed to this issue, including Creig Flessel, Vincent Sullivan, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Leo O'Mealia.

Just five unrestored copies of this Gerber "scarce" issue have been certified by CGC to date, with the highest grade earned thus far a modest 6.0. The Church copy, which I used to own, is restored. Heritage has only sold three copies in nearly twenty years.

$500.00

 

I am a total newbie to the boards, but this sale is too impressive/historic to just lurk. I'll take it!

New to the boards here with a question on restoration removal. I'm watching a book for sale, but it looks like someone did an amateur restoration on it, using whiteout to seal tears on the back cover. Other than this, the book is in decent shape. As you can probably tell from the pic, though, bright white spot is pretty glaring. I've been thinking of picking it up and then sending it in for restoration removal. Anyone had any experience with removing whiteout over a tear?