MrBedrock

Yep. 1mil is in the high six figures.

That Brave and the Bold recently changed hands for about $1mil.

Yes, Peter. Sorry about that. Everyone here but you. I will fill you in via pm.

We have a pretty good idea of what the consignor paid for these books. Maybe Masterchief can create a Promise style spread sheet showing how they performed.

He did not. He had commissioned it from a guy who was a model builder. That guy delivered it to Roger at the OAF Con where it was displayed. I wish I could remember the guys name.

Is that a Bill Everett cover?

Cool. Thanks! I am sending an invoice now.

I will be sending out invoices this afternoon. Thanks to everyone who checked out the thread!

I'm just hard headed.

I think the same number of folks agree with you now. The folks that disagree with you are just tired on engaging you on the subject any longer because - what's the point?

Thanks for posting. That's an interesting take that I completely disagree with.

I am saying that even the sellers are saying they are worthless. And the ridiculousness of that market is further compounded by the fact that the only tapes that are desirable are sealed, those tapes are then graded and encapsulated and sell for big money, but unlike comics which can be cracked out and read, tapes if cracked almost certainly cannot be viewed because of tape degradation. Just silly.

I think the problem was that early on a vast majority of books that were submitted and got noted as having restoration were not thought to be restored when submitted. Folks were finding out they had been duped by unscrupulous sellers. The color of the label didn't create the negativity, the restoration did.

Speaking of condition being a factor - how nutty is this? I had been seeing some of the prices that some auction sites have been getting for VHS. A long time customer recently passed away and his apartment was loaded with vintage VHS, all high grade and all in the original shrink wrap. He had meticulously sliced the bottom of the wrap to access and view the tapes, then replaced them in the box and put them on shelves five or six deep in closets. I had contracted with the executor of the estate to dispose of everything so I contacted one of the auction houses to see if they were interested. After viewing some photos they said sure, and seemed very excited. We boxed everything up, well over 5000 high grade VHS tapes, and dropped them off. I had nothing invested in these so I just asked the auction rep to go through them and work out what they thought would work best for all parties. A week later I got this response - "After reviewing the first half I found only about 10 fully sealed movies out of all of the tapes and nothing of value. The rest were all open on the bottom and of no real value." These were near mint factory boxes with the original tape inside, most from the 80s, and with the original shrink wrap still on. So basically, because the shrink wrap was split at the bottom the tapes were worthless. Now given the fact that most VHS tape has degraded significantly over the last 40 years and is probably unviewable I can certainly understand why sealed is so sought after. I am just amazed that markets like this can be established and folks can be so gullible.

Unfortunately it isn't handy. I will dig around and see if I can find it.

By your examples it could also be argued that those markets exist only because there are flippers.

Yes. I haven't, but neighbors do regularly.

Thanks Ed!

I got one of those This is the place to show off your stuff.

Would have loved to see you there as well.