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Teen Titans is hot? wow!

Wow. This guy is amazingly clever in working out all the equipment he designed and constructed, as well as compensating for each setback. What a joy it must have been for him to finally see it at work! Now Im curious about the dots. Does anyone know how Lichtenstein painted them? Spray through a screen? Or meticulously by hand?

Which Famous Funnies 1? Golf cover or panel cover?

But the longer they wait, the bigger the bite!

yes my bad I read it as 150K - 200K! so just another datapoint illustrating that regurgitating everything written on the internet without context etc is NOT the AI "all encompassing intelligence" we are being told has arrived. Wonder how much damage will be done by them though.

"completely incorrect? Havent 9.8 copies sold for 150K+ at their peak? I don't trust ChatGPTs conclusions either for comics values --- too much out of the box calculation not just parroting internet text... But that sentence rings tru as far as I recall the high prices TMNT realized at one point recently. If only ChatGPT could deduce that prices PEAKED and have fallen since those record sales.

I signed up early to test it out and that was one of the negative surprises. Each comic shows a specific value for just the grade you give it. It’s a calculation from the usual Guide grade values. The Guide in lost form is not available in Access. Makes sense from Overstreets ongoing protection of their data, but you’d think a subscrober would be allowed to view their pricing —. All of it — not just book by book.. I assume their intention and perhaps research concluded that their audience only cares about the value of the books in their collection.

interesting guesswork at the time. At least the relative numbers (book to book) seem pretty accurate for the GA books, better on some books listed than others. And what was thought or known to be NM/M back then really was ANY really nice copy. Todays grading has exposed many of them to be much lower than what we call NM/M (9.6) today, like the MH Superman 1. To the eye then and now it's a NM/M condition, but by CGC standards the flaws told a different story. Action 1 already has 2 graded 9.0s and the MH copy. Prob another out there. Tec 27 we have the 9.2 and the Allentown... maybe the 3rd was the MH but its 'only' an 8.5. Surprising they thought there are 3 Superman 1s though. There's the dentist copy, the MH (now an 8.5... which would b the third copy? BangZoom? Probably another in a collection -- somewhere that Bob knew of, right? And 16 NM/M Batman #1s? That speaks to the feeling that it was a always a 'common' book.. I doubt there are half that many copies down to say 8.5.

feels ike they prob added a link to their scan database simply by cert#s. I haven't seen it but I love it! I wish GPA would link up to a full set of scans of all books

Yes. Sounds fine. Just that you can’t assume if there’s someone willing and able to prosecute. As the saying goes, ignorance of the law…. Also once you are served the $$$ clock starts ticking so even winning costs you money..

not to be a killjoy, but as Nearmint knows too well, be careful posting these old comics images because many are copyrighted and belong to big stock photo outfits and they protect their rights like a junkyard dog. They are probably okay here on the boards, but ....

never saw this one before! awesome.

curious why you want to make a claim for one book. Insurance companies dont really like a lot of claims from each customer, like an ATM, and have cancelled accounts for claims. I find it best to have insurance only in the case of a very large loss! Just as a collecting expense, cost of doing business thing.

Thee were some I saw.. I can look it up. Not wholesale slashing but prices do get lowered when some books crash after being raised or reach real-time sales data.before the market dives for them.

and, once you slab your books you dont need backing boards anymore.. just saying!

and it never changes anyones mind on the subject either.

sure seems like it is.

...going through all the main titles in the latest guide I did see prices reduced. Not a lot of them, and I didnt take notes, just a quick "huh!" -- but ANY reduction in Guide is surprising.

4 pages and no mentions of the "missing issue" stickers printed as inserts in CBM?

A) Looking back, sure his work can seem minor. But a lot of modern art the time had similar ambitions, taking common things and making them seen again in a new setting and format. That imagination was their selling point. It got people thinking differently about things all around them of little value. And as comics fans I think it’s awesome to see them bigger than life! The Art world was also undergoing change. Moving away from even abstract art into new subject matter that people responded to. It was the assigning Aixties. The works was having a silly moment in all cultural areas. B). Totally agree. c) not to me. If Liechtenstein’s idea was to do this on tee shirts and try to go into the tee shirt business we never would have heard of him. But he had a higher goal: he wanted to be an Artist with a capitol A. Have his work seen in galleries. Idea plus ambition equaled historic success. What’s not to like or admire? It’s Amerrika! I know, except for reworking other artists images.

haha, no we dont. I suspect you mean a hack based on his being a "bad drawer", who couldn't even TRACE the "perfect" comic book panels drawn for $5 a page by artists eager for the assignment to work for cheap publishers paying as little as possible and stealing the rights to their work? Who couldn't be bothered to fight for ownership of the stolen images? This whole Lichtenstein thing is just how the world works, and everyone is Shocked at who did what based on their own personal take on how it happened and went down. wait, rereading your comment maybe I missed that it was in jest!

the data will be strong enough that we will see many lower prices ... Ive seen other books drop as a book cols off as it is no longer the new hot thing. Not that many, but guide has caught up in many areas and titles so Id think they would feel comfortable dropping prices after the large decreases so many here have tabulated. They can pretty much use the threads here as a checklist

If Warhol Estate loses the case, It will be interesting what the damages will be. And if the comic artists come after the Lichtenstein Estate afterwards, how much they could stand to receive. Lichtenstein lost ownership to all his early works the minute they sold for a few 1000s in the 60s. I dont think you can seek to collect from the current owners who may have paid millions for them in the years since. That would be legally challenging and sounds a lot like "reparations" which is not a popular subject -- and a real conversation stopper when it comes to making laws.

um... well, please come back in a few months when you realize how much money you spent wastefully. Getting your books slabbed does help sell them. The grade will be trusted in a slab. BUT --many comics are just not worth slabbing because the cost to slab and ship there and back is MORE than the comic is or will ever be worth. Please do the math and research and dont just send them off to be slabbed unless you leave yourself a CHANCE to at least break even!

well, the debate has always been trying to determine which is the flash and which the substance. Potato, potato. I dont think we will all ever agree. But we WILL have a legal opinion in the WARHOL case soon.