InfantTerrible

is Moon Knight hot?

I just scored Moon Knight #3 and #14 grade 9+ for 10 bucks at an antique shop

54 minutes ago, october said:

We should start a poll, just for fun. 

yes, please go for it, XMen vs FF poll, if you get flamed, I will help you....

1 hour ago, Hollywood1892 said:

And with that the Adventures of X-Men continue

 

this one deserves to be quoted ...

22 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I think your idea for an origin story makes a lot of sense, but it obviously prevents them from being "first" in the MCU.  For this reason, part of me wishes that they did a 1960s Cold War period piece to introduce the FF, and then used some kind of multiverse / interdimensional threat (Galactus, Annihilus, whatever) to blink them out of our timeline as a way of explaining why they haven't been around and nobody remembers them.

in the comics, FF did get trapped in the negative zone for a while, so they can use that plot

13 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Just curious, what is a 9.4 of #52 going for now?  Not selling, not buying, just want to know since I felt like I paid a lot for mine when I bought it.

well considering 9.6 just sold 50.4K, a 9.4 shouldn't be that far behind, I think prolly 35K-40K now

a 9.0 just sold at ebay a few days ago for 9.5K

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fantastic-Four-52-CGC-9-0-1st-Appearance-Black-Panther/164789439418?hash=item265e374bba:g:0qwAAOSwCLFgY9jU

yup #52 is supernova!!

15 hours ago, WernerVonDoom said:

There's FF Fever! None of my bids were close.

In general, FF price is rising across all issues, not just 1 or 2 issue, especially FF52, that thing is going supernova

19 minutes ago, James J Johnson said:

Before or after the 20% buyer's premium? 

after buyer premium

Just now, MatterEaterLad said:

What's the buyer's premium these days? 20% on top?

yes, 

let me fix that list with BP so not to confused people

2 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

AF15 CGC 6.0 = $96,000

Seriously?!  That's like... absurd. 

Almost every single one exceeds GPA, so much for 'comic book collecting is dying' or 'bubble is bursting'

Today's auction is one of the best auction I've seen in a while, so I thought I posted some of the results of the important key issues

AF15 CGC7.5 = 156K

ASM1 CGC9.2 = 150K

AVE1 CGC9.2 = 63K

BATMAN1 CGC5.0 = 360K

CA100 CGC9.9 = 65K

DD1 CGC9.6 = 150K

DC227 CGC9.4 = 138K

FF1 CGC9.0 = 264K

FF1 CGC8.5 = 132K

FF5 CGC9.4 = 138K

FF12 CGC9.4 = 31.2K

FF50 CGC9.6 = 28.8K

FF52 CGC9.6 = 50.4K

IH181 CGC9.6 = 31.2K

JIM83 CGC9.0 = 87K

SC4 CGC8.0 = 78K

TOS39 CBCS9.4 = 132K

TMNT1 CGC 9.6 = 66K

WW1 CGC6.5 = 58.8K

XMEN1 CGC8.5 = 78K

XMEN94 CGC9.8 = 63K

FF52 CGC9.6 sold for 50.4K

vs

IH181 CGC9.6 sold for 31.2K

EDIT: Updated list with buyer premium

AF15 CGC7.5 = 156K

ASM1 CGC9.2 = 150K

AVE1 CGC9.2 = 63K

BATMAN1 CGC5.0 = 360K

CA100 CGC9.9 = 65K

DD1 CGC9.6 = 150K

DC227 CGC9.4 = 138K

FF1 CGC9.0 = 264K

FF1 CGC8.5 = 132K

FF5 CGC9.4 = 138K

FF12 CGC9.4 = 31.2K

FF50 CGC9.6 = 28.8K

FF52 CGC9.6 = 50.4K

JIM83 CGC9.0 = 87K

SC4 CGC8.0 = 78K

TOS39 CBCS9.4 = 132K

TMNT1 CGC 9.6 = 66K

WW1 CGC6.5 = 58.8K

XMEN1 CGC8.5 = 78K

XMEN94 CGC9.8 = 63K

14 minutes ago, JazzMan said:

Ever since I was a kid Marvel Comics #1 was my hoy grail.  Almost 10 years ago, on these very boards, my dream came true.

 

how much did you pay for if you don't mind?

EDIT: List is updated to include buyer premium

AF15 CGC7.5 = 156K

ASM1 CGC9.2 = 150K

AVE1 CGC9.2 = 63K

BATMAN1 CGC5.0 = 360K

CA100 CGC9.9 = 65K

DD1 CGC9.6 = 150K

DC227 CGC9.4 = 138K

FF1 CGC9.0 = 264K

FF1 CGC8.5 = 132K

FF5 CGC9.4 = 138K

FF12 CGC9.4 = 31.2K

FF50 CGC9.6 = 28.8K

FF52 CGC9.6 = 50.4K

JIM83 CGC9.0 = 87K

SC4 CGC8.0 = 78K

TOS39 CBCS9.4 = 132K

TMNT1 CGC 9.6 = 66K

WW1 CGC6.5 = 58.8K

XMEN1 CGC8.5 = 78K

XMEN94 CGC9.8 = 63K

Anyone watching live this mega-blockbuster auction at Heritage??...its amazing the amount of money involved....

20 minutes ago, Matthew Kyle Brasile said:

As the direct market comes to a different place then it was years ago with lower sells and lower issues being printed. I find myself thinking that having $45k worth of books for enjoyment and investment for my future is not going to age well. I work at my local comic book store and I see people between the ages of 20-60 and those in the 40-60 age branch say that collecting for investment is a poor idea due to no one really caring about comics anymore. This media will go away like vinyls and cds and they recommended I sell off my Collection or consider collecting something more sustainable like Tesla stocks or Bitcoin. I buy books for the purr enjoyment of finding it and holding a book in my hands that has traveled for 20-80 years to get where it is now. How many people saw it and held it and read it or where it started life. The investment side only came to my realization when I graduated high school and found out my collection is worth now $45k (selling the books a fair price) if were to sell them on the high end I could MAYBE MAYBE get $58k-$60k as my math adds up (13 years of non stop collecting and books given to me by old collectors for screaming deals since they can not take them to their graves). I have a little over 120~ Golden age books mainly Action Comics, Superman, Timely, Nedor and classic WWII covers.  Some are worth $150-$600 but mainly of them are worth in the thousands like Action Comics #44, Superman #23, #26 #32 or Marvel Mystery #48, #51 and #55 or Wonder Comics #3, #4, #6 or Batman or Zip comics or Americans best etc.. I also have around 1400~ Silver age, Bronze age books and some keys include ASM #129, Marvel spotlight #5, and Marvel special edition #15 and Avengers #4 etc. I have been collecting since I was 9 and my local comic store always hooked me up with the deals since he saw my eye light up like a Christmas tree. Now that am getting older just curious if any of you think the second hand market will fail or be killed off due to no new collectors.

Once you sell off your collection then what? ...you're gonna buy a home? pay student debt? ....if so sure go ahead

thing is once you sell off your collection and have some extra money, you're gonna ask yourself, hmmm I have extra money, what am I going to do? ..I think I'm going to collect something.....the cycle starts over again

1 hour ago, ttfitz said:

I'm a big Legion of Super-Heroes fan, so this would probably be it (it was also the last Legion appearance I needed to complete my collection):

This is a MCS scan, because I cracked it out as soon as I got it (I'm not much of one for slabbed comics. Hope that doesn't disqualify my entry! 

disqualified!

Gonna wait for the GA/SA boys to bring out their big guns

This is just like stock market. When you buy Apple stocks, you buy trade-able shares/stocks, shares that are guaranteed by the underlying asset, which is Apple company itself. 

Same story here

5 minutes ago, the blob said:

cutting way back on the # of titles and jacking them all up in price

I didn't know that....

2 hours ago, the blob said:

I find it surprising. I would have assumed less traffic in shops and fewer sales. If things are popping why is DC taking these desperate measures?

What desperate measures?

How's Avengers doing? anyone notice decreasing demand/price after Endgame?

2 hours ago, Shrevvy said:

Centering is much more important to me than page quality. I would rather have a perfectly centered ow or ow/w than a poorly centered white pages. I think this gets worse in the bronze and copper ages. I cringe when I see a high grade book with a 1/8" strip of white down the spine. I was always trained to downgrade for that. I have almost zero interest in books like that. My only interest is if it was cheap enough that I could make a few bucks on it, because it wouldn't stay in my collection. 

25 minutes ago, Bludriver said:

I haven't bought a graded book in a while, but when I did centering was always very important to me. Every graded book I own has really nice centering, page quality was always second after that.

We have great taste mate 

beggar can't be chooser, I'll take what I can get, so if a graded key is priced low due to cream pages, I'll take it

EDIT: my biggest pet peeve is more on off-centering, if I see that white line along spine, I'll avoid it like a plague, especially if it's not straight