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CC has videos by their new pulp lady.

haha putting some skin in the game. I like it.

Haha. Yup. I love how this guy is hanging on unsteadily. That’s a nice touch by Frazetta. Like an outer space pirate! Where’s Buck Rogers though? Or was he not on every cover in the run?.

I hear that! And bottom line you’ll reap much more than your cost. So if it’s time to let them go, that’s not a bad outcome.

Tim’s point is a cautionary tale to be heeded. But there are no million dollar surprises in this consignment.. unfortunately for both of us. And even with the Venom artwork, if it sold privately for 250K there’s no way we’d ever know it’s value for a decade, having already set a stupid record sale of 250K. so the seller would have a long happy time being the guy who cashed in big time and sleep,well at night for years, before concluding that time had made it worth millions since he sold it in 2022.

These Actions are mid grades right? I have a run I put together over the last decade in higher grades and have watched the sales prices, and it’s only the highest graded that sparks bidding excitement. So as much fun as watching my run up for auction, I’d have to be prepared that I chose excitement over a secured quick sale for almost full GPA. There really aren’t that many keys in these issues for the new money to wet themselves over.

This is one of the best cover ever… however, I’d hate to be in the cockpit of this spaceship. Alan Shepard had more leg room etc!

didnt you sell these already?

What about the cream to off white?

Scheduling it over a 3 day holiday weekend actually refutes the elitist label. Elites can travel to buy comics during weekdays or anytime they want cause day jobs aren’t a barrier! It’s regular folks that would be helped by the long weekend.. just saying

Thanx. I usually just see the comic sized ones. Maybe I’ve never seen the tabloids cause at that size I guess dealers don’t bring them to shows as much. I know the first issue. It was included in Jukes Feiffers coffee table book back in the sixties. It was one of the most important events in comics!. A very early acceptance or interest in funny books in popular culture. and the Spirits first story was included. A few pages anyway.

What are the dimensions of table size vs the non tabloid sized issues?

Ok grandpa. Have some soup and calm down. Lol who knows who they are but they have a lot of money and they’ve found us! At last! but yeah three point what for WHAT? I zoomed in on the art… lousy especially the Prof X panel even Venom is just average But it is what it is, a totem for a new generation

Question. Have any of the various newspapers the sprit sections were bundles with and have logos for become more sought after than others? And why? Besides scarcity I guess. im too lazy to Google it. Lol

Well the rate of increase won’t last, but the values of these things are on the table, attracting interest like never before. Just got to back into normal fiscal policies and avoid a crash. Easy -peasy.

It’s already happened, so sit tight. And on another topic, what’s the basis for so many stating that Heritage bought the 9.6 AF15? Clearly a few here have a Halperin itch they love to scratch every chance they get, but is there any hard truth to this? Or just that he must have cause he has the funds and buys collectibles?

I was speaking to this sentence. Someone going off to war might say a lot of things to his family: take care of my dog, take care of mom, dont lose my watch, or my baseball mitt. amd oh, and dont throw out my comics. Why would the story of the pedigree include all the other things he asked to be taken care of? Its the comics story that counts. Maybe the way the "story" was told leads one to believe it was just his comics he cared enough about to mention cause we dont care about his watch or mommy when bidding on the comics. but, I haven't been following this "story" all that closely. To me its the comics that make a pedigree, not the story behind them. To me that just fluff cause the Pedigree name conveys quality regardless of where or how they were accumulated. I know not all of you feel this way though. So hard to keep up with all the conspiracy theories nowadays! Made up Pedigree backstories! Fake rocket ship stamps! Social media will be the death of us all.

Why wouldn’t a collector going off to war tell his brother “take care of my comics”, or “don’t let anyone throw them away”? back then comics were garbage. Your family didn’t care at all about them. Chances are if you didn’t specifically tell them NOT to keep them. They’d be gone when you came home. they’d keep your baseball glove forever, but not your old funny books. Even unread in perfect condition.

That’s a part of life. Building assets and eventually cashing them in as needed. Nice that our hobby has become something that can help smooth over the rough patches

That site is long since dormant, right? I don’t think even Matt checks it out or updates it.. are you still able to upload to it?

Yes. Powerful argument with data to back up what we suspected. However, the main reason we gravitated to hg was based on the supply side . The Lower grade copies have soared due to unanticipated DEMAND for any copy. I don’t think any of us back in the day saw this coming. We hoped comics could reach this point, but felt safer going for best and scarcer copies. Oops.

Well, we can’t expect to see as much “Love of the medium” as when we were kids because the “medium” is no longer in its infancy. It’s now a media juggernaut. These new collectors can’t share our experiences buying and reading them new like we did. To them they ARE just collectibles with values. This is Just where we are now after 80 years of comics publishing. I look at it as a success story, albeit with a tinge of sad realization that our hobby isn’t the same, or will ever be going forward. but, you know, like so much around us in 2021, what else is new?

as to high grade vs low grade, I think the last 5-10 years have forced us to realize that so many of us made the "mistake" of buying the best copy we could afford for safety and investment potential, and not amassing multiples of low grade keys. As the HG copies have skyrocketed out of reach of collectors, its been the carpy "low grade swill" (as we used to refer to them) that have seen such incredible growth in values as they are eagerly scooped up rather than NOT have a copy. This applies not only to AF15, but also these highly coveted PCH classics.

Yeah… stimulus money to replace regular earnings doesn’t get those people to sufficient cash to buy 20K comics. But extraordinary gains from investments did. The markets have soared these past two years for those who do now have 50K to 1M liquid that coupled with a fever to invest in collectibles like Marvel comics characters has happened. I struggled with just WHO is buying this stuff all of a sudden. But it’s starting to make sense. The pool of people who now feel it’s safe to invest in comics, looking to diversify, and buy cool stuff, and who actually believe they are getting in early! Has grown due to the movies, and pools of profits from all their investments. What else could it be?

That guy is a hoot! I can never figure out how anyone is gullible enough to fall for these subscription based masters of getting rich seminars etc. Their entire sales pitch is illogical and anyone interested must ask the simple question that greed prevents them from seein* upfront! If these techniques work, and the master is so successful and rich… why would they bother with penny ante subscription fees, and dealing with inexperience rubes for small change? Every minute explaining to people how to get rich is a minute away from making more money himself than the fees he getting. As well as creating his own competitors, in this case for only $750 down! as if anyone can learn real estate, or even comics collecting in a short time. cant people see this?