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Happy to be in the minority on McF - I need to sell this book at some point. getting back to the $2100 heritage sale that derailed this thread - this video makes the case that the specific book may be a questionable 9.8.

Again at the risk of heresy - I am also not very fond of the Todd Father. No question he could create some iconic cover/splash page heroic images for Spidey - but I find his standard panel work and non-masked character work to be average at best (sometimes just awful). Will confess to having never even held a copy of Spawn so can’t speak to his later stuff.

May be heretical to say in front of some people on this board - but when I got my 9.8 ASM 300 I felt absolutely nothing. One of the very few times I bought a “key/grail” that I thought I wanted and then realized I really didn’t once it was in my hand. The book didn’t excite me at all - I still have it but I don’t know why.

in 2025, We need a volunteer (maybe one of the YouTubers) to simultaneously submit a sample of books from each Silver, Bronze, copper and modern to both CGC and PSA. As soon as those come back, break them out and cross submit to the other grader. Should give a sense of grading standards going both directions. Doesn’t need to be significant or expensive books - but pushing on the more granular boundaries of the 9.4/6/8 range will be really valuable.

Seth Rogen was asked by an interviewer if he was surprised when a movie doesn't work. He said he is surprised when a move does work because they are so complicated and so many things have to go right - it is shocking when they do.

I don't want to keep bringing this book up but holy cow is it dropping fast all the sudden. It really seemed to be holding at the $3K mark for the longest time......Heritage just sold for under $2.2k. Looking at GPA there are still a lot of recent sales in the upper 2s.....maybe Heritage is just not the place for sellers of this book right now (and yes....these books are for sale every week it seems on Heritage so I get that aspect too)

It's supposed to be "Betty and I"......

FF #5 also not doing so well.....this just sold on Heritage last night. There have been a few sales in the past 6 months in the $9K range but also a few in the $12k range. Peak for a 6.0 was just south of $29k in April 2022.

No particular reason - just selected a cluster of grades that tended to trade hands somewhat frequently. And the chart gets too busy with too many. Honestly it would be more legible if I threw the 5.5 off the chart too…..

Coming to Heritage in September's auction. Should be a good test of the upper end of the market.

New chart thru July 8th which included Heritage's Weekly with another 4.5 sale. Still some bumps when a no MC copy comes along but in general the 2.5 to 4.5 range has been pretty flat. 5.0 copies seem to be a bit more volatile with clean copies way over-performing less attractive ones.

Comic Buyers Guide! I subscribed as a kid and was more excited to get that newspaper each week than I was about getting the actual comic books. I was completely obsessed with what was coming next - a characteristic that has followed me my entire life. Besides the news of what was coming - there were usually ads that gave sneak looks into comic book covers that were coming in the months ahead. Oh those were the days….

June ComicConnect

What did the Wolverine #1 10.0 do?

A year ago I posted this in the Bronze forum on an ASM 194 thread. Just looking at prior 12 months sales on GPA for 194 the ratio is 1:1.4 on 9.8s in favor of direct. Extrapolating that with census counts - it means there might be around 315 direct copies and 210 newsstand for the 9.8. My point in that thread was that issue in particular had no real reason for price difference based on scarcity. It is not the same as ASM 300 where the ratio is 1:50 or more.

https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FPREVIEW.ASP%3Fcode%3D2024june%26session%3D0%26pg%3D3%26x%3D40%26y%3D13%23Item_1753373&id=1753373&itemType=0

It does seem like the regular weekly Heritage auctions that come immediately after one of their Signature auctions suffer from a "hangover". Not sure they wouldn't be better off suspending the weekly during those weeks - especially as the Signature auction run over 4 days and each day can last a long time. I didn't think the Saturday auction was ever going to be over as I was waiting for some books to come up.

Here are Session 1A and 1B results from the June ComicLink Focused Auction. As with last auction - also included a % change look between last, 90, and 12. I will not be doing this recap for the July auction if anyone cares.

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Here is a little sampler recap from the Heritage Signature auction June 2024. I probably should have compared to 2023 results vs 2022 but was too far along before I thought about it. Also apologize that there is limited GA in here - much of it can have so few sales as the recaps are really useless. Not great results in general....a few bright spots. Some of the peak prices were just plain silly.

Working on ComicLink recap. Might also try to take a look at some of Heritage signature results - but for the six figure books: - The Tec #27 4.5 is well documented at this point to be down $500k (-40%) from a year ago - Batman #1 4.0 was actually up $20k from 2022 sale (+9%) - Captain America #1 5.0 was flat to 2022 at $180k - Fantastic Four #1 8.5 was up $30k to $144k from June 2023. But that June 2023 sale was also $100k off a March 2023 sale. - Tales of Suspense #39 9.2 was flat to Jan 2023 sale at $106k-$108k TMNT #1 9.8 actually didn't crack $100k. Closed at $87k vs a Heritage sale in April 2024 of $126k. This copy was OW/W...but gotta say I would take OW/W and pocket $40k if that choice was given to me. The Whiz Comics #2 (#1) (their cover book for this auction) actually seemed a little soft too

Running recap from June 20th Heritage Auction

Miracleman #1 from Alan Moore. I think I bought about 30 copies (didn’t realize it until 25 years later that about half of them had a printers crease across the front) That was the time right after TMNT that every new independent #1 was going to be the next giant breakout. Another book with no 9.9 or 10 on census

Speaking of Goldin - the 2nd season of the Netflix show King of Collectibles just landed and in it he makes a deal for an Action #1 3.0 for a private buyer (who was giving up a Tec #27 6.5 and a an AF #15 8.5) for $1.825m cash and a $25k credit. Who knows how this show was actually edited but it was supposed to have taken place around the time of NY Comic Con in 2023. I was anxious watching as they were sitting outside negotiating while the book was just laying cover up in the direct sunlight.