Dark Knight

I'm sure they do understand the risks whether positive or negative (sometimes a press can ruin a book), but the people who do this kind of stuff are more gamblers than investors or flippers or what have you. I can understand folks who pay a strong price for tremendous eye appeal (like a lot of the CVA books) and don't care how much they pay because they simply can afford it. Whatever book is accessible to them in that period of time without doing any research or waiting for another copy to come or something of that nature is really up to the buyer, his/her $. This is why we have a lot of dealers who find books for these deep pocket buyers so they don't have to do any leg work. Sure this sale could be an outlier, but there is also that underbidder who placed their final losing bid. I'm sure that underbidder thinks it is worth more or less this price point whether they see it as a potential upgrade or not, who knows. But to think that every "outlier" or crazy price paid for a book as being 100% upgradeable is false and not always proven true. Just my 2 cents, and I know not everyone agrees with how I think

I think just by word of mouth has spread throughout so I really don't see any bargains here. I guess we shall soon see.

That copy looked extremely sharp of an 8.5 and I wonder if someone is thinking it will upgrade to a higher grade. Quite possible, anything can happen really. But if the buyer were to risk cracking it out and attempt having the book re-graded or pressed, it would be pretty risky to pay that much for it. Brings us back to the AF #15 5.0 copy that sold on CC for a record price 2 summers ago in an old label and now in a newer holder with the same grade. That copy too had tremendous eye appeal, myself and most thought it would upgrade too, but it wasn't the case.

There's another 8.5 copy in the CC auction. I guess we shall see if it maintains this new price point.

Impressive result for the CGC 8.5 copy that ended at Heritage.. $38k , must be a record price. According to GPA, last sale for an 8.5 sold for $23k Nov 2017.. X-Men 1 on the up and up.

Probably would have sold for more if eye appeal was higher like the Bat 1 3.5.

Whoever sold that eBay Bats 1 CGC 1.5 with brittle pages for $85k made out like a bandit

You guys didn't see the CGC 8.5 copy at Comicconnect

That's good to know for anyone needing help in identifying unknown pages. Thanks for all the info.!

Yep exactly. Not that I have a page like that now, but to those who do what would be the easiest resource to find out. Would be such a task to compile such a feat.

There's a site called readcomiconline.to Has every comic book there and definitely can help with identifying a page. Cool thanks! Definitely helps, but the problem is finding the right issue to the page. I don't think anyone can look through thousands upon thousands of pages to find that certain one you're looking for. Maybe if there is a way to type in a few of the bubbled texts from the page in a search bar and somehow identifies the page based on that, then that would be AMAZING!!!

Yeah 4.5/5.0 seems about right

Yeah keep as is might be the wiser of the two options. Nice book!

So you were the one who outbidded me in my tracking bids

And this is why I think the action 1 will sell for more than the Tec 27. Having 2 copies for sale won't help get maximum value. The underbidder of one of them will try to win the other.

How does one know how to correctly identify a page and what title and issue number it came from? Looking up a certain page 5 from a database of every comic page there is (if there is such a thing) can be stressful to correctly identify what book it came from.

Bottom right corner seems suspicious, kinda looks like color touch, but since no bleedthrough could just be pen or an erasure?

Can never get tired seeing a Bats 1. Great looking copy!

Yeah that's the only major defect I can see based on your pix. I would've placed it at around a VG+. I guess times have changed and CGC is now stricter with their grading in terms of long creases like that.

A 9.0 just sold on ebay for $2950.. Prices still creeping up. 9.2 can be had for around $4k now I would think

Wow, a beautiful copy for the grade. Looks well undergraded. Is there something i'm missing? Good luck with the sales!

Does it really take that long? The past few books I sold via the exchange, I received the check at a reasonable time

I think I'll be seeing it tonight!!

That is true too! Thanks for bringing that up. So if you have an item over $7500 and it sells, FVF is capped at that number

You're not going to get roasted because I actually agree with you in this one. It's not every auction you see an AA 16 restored or unrestored. It's truly something special when one hits the market.