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haha. good old Mr Peabody. how about "Oh Nell, I AM puny!" any idea when the video was made? I still think whoever made it as a video would have included a read along with images. But they may just have wanted t save the audio without all that extra work.

We live in an increasingly weird world where anything is possible after a century of fiction, film plots and conspiracy theories…. But I don’t think any owner of an ACtion ! This nice stamps an image on it to boost bidding. But…. I mean don’t we always say Buy the book, not the stamp?

I’m surprised this video just verrry slowly zooms out on the actual comic, not even the enclosed reprint. And that that’s all we ever see. Why not show the actual panels with the voices!

I’m not questioning whether the stamp is phony… looks like a match to me. But the photo of the stamp has to be flopped cause inking the side we are looking at would leave a flopped image on the comic. Right? What’s on the right side of the inked stamp ends up on the left side of the paper it’s pressed against

What about pub dates like Summer 1940 etc?

you mean your manscaper?

I love that one. his stencils look so real but looking closely, theres really so little info there. the outstretched hand is a blobby sideways V.. I think we see the face which DID stencil clearly and our brains tells us it's all in focus and realistic.. heck, I probably like it cause it reminds me of this old lithograph I did a few moons ago... "Nanook"

I agree. I’m reading these posts and finding it hard to remember any scenes.. and I watched last night.

Love Fishler cavalierly just cramming the comics back in the boxes. But they were worth a lot less then I guess. Or Hamill splaying them out on a table outside! Are they even in mylars? Lol

Maybe 4M. With the news of “something” selling for 4.5 the bidders won’t feel too far ahead of the market. 6.0 is an honorable grade for a book of this calibre1

Why would anyone think putting a big ugly stamp on a nice Action 1 would ever be considered a marketung plus? It’s an ugly stain on the cover that has no significance. I know some collectors like a story attached to a copy, and dealer have embellished the stories nw and then, but a big ugly rocket stamp added? And only on the most valuable book? Nah.

It’s all guesswork until the books sell. But when a Superman ! Sells for 2.6M, the 3 better copies values get a bump. Forgetting the 2 8.0s, the ungraded best copy would blow away 3.6. That the logic. Best copy vs best copy. The picture is a bit clearer after the 7.0 sale cause before that, Superman 1 sales were far less and it’s all reprints etc.

Sure. Problem with splitting them up is if anyone could identify which book of the batch will see auction frenzy, the consignment dealer/site would up the price and sell it too, rather than the normal estimated price. As I said it’s a gamble that may pay off. Anyway there’s always been ebb and flow between consignment and auction. Grass often looks greener on the other side.

one difference between consigning to a dealer and selling at auction is the price you will get when it sells, and the basic methodology of how the final number is gotten to. Consigning means setting a sell price, and the final amount paid will NEVER be more than you are the dealer think its worth. (or worth plus enough more to give a 15 or 20% discount etc.) You can never sell for MORE than the asking price. At auction you gamble -- if theres no demand, you will get less than a fixed consignment sale price. So while your book will sell quickly as opposed to sitting on a dealer site waiting for the right buyer to come along, you can "lose" money. However, you have the chance of it selling for much more than you would have asked for if you are selling the right book at the right time. Often you make enough on that one big win to cover any losses on the rest of your auction batch of books. I suppose that if youre selling common (non early movie hype) HG stuff a consignment site might be better. The market pretty much has a range that will sell consistently at. So theres less chance it will be fought over by eager bidders at auction netting you the big win.

having the cover of the comic popup would be awesome! but Im assuming that it couldn't be universal, that there'd be missing covers. But all the major publishers covers ought to be doable partnering with one or more online databases...

I think the thread was closed while they looked into the issue, and to protect the usual bunch of over zealous CGC bashers who love taking potshots at CGC from making fools of themselves for a while with their conspiracy theories etc….

this is so sad and silly. All these online "advisers" or "people in the know" who know nothing, and spouting pure nonsense based on a rumor or a mistake. (this guy has a wall full of books in average grade of 3.0, and actually does have an 8.0 -- but its just a Dr Strange #1... a wall book!? really?) Anyone here on the boards knows for decades that the owner of the MH Action 1 would never be selling.. AND, never for so little as 4.5M. Theres a misunderstanding here. What really happened is some kind of twisted combination of First Superman comic, Ungraded or slabbed that sold privately recently. In todays market, 4.5M for the best copy of Action 1 is not only silly to believe, but insulting to the comic, its owner and all of us who follow this hobby closely. If an ungraded Action 1 just sold for 4.5M, it wasn't the MH copy. If a slabbed Action 1 just sold, it wasn't a 9.4 nor the MH copy, which is raw. If some first Superman comic just sold for 4.5M slabbed or not, it was either a lower grade unknown copy, or some other comic book instead in whatever grade it was Only problem is that nobody who knows what really sold, or who leaked this "news" to Key Collector has come forward with either what they heard and reported, or the real facts. And after 3 days it doesn't appear anyone will come forward.

I doubt they got the story right. Probably heard a rumor repeated and the facts changed? Like “first Superman” sold for 4.5m.

don't forget Bat 1... I don't see the top 5 changing just yet: Act 1, Tec 27, AF15, Sup1, and Bat 1. the order is up for grabs, at least the first 3 cause the copies of these issues that will determine it don't sell.. I mean WONT sell all that soon!

No one is arguing that you can’t do what you want with your property! Although in reality, if you allow yourself to step back a bit for a wider perspective, you’ll realize that you are just a caretaker of any comic you own. Unless you go all out and destroy it or put in your coffin to take with you. but if you feel this way, that you can do as you darn please with the label, and you own a valuable and/scarce book you are hurting yourself because you have inflated the census and making your copy appear less scarce. I guess that isn’t really 100% true unless you destroy the label. Anyone who cracks a out and saves the label for use in a sale of the book to prove its grade ISNT doing any harm to the census.

Is that what happened? Why is the cover in color if the OA is greytones? Or is that bigger bursted just an internet creation?

Yes it is. Just need to understand what it’s good for and what’s it’s not. But yeah, without years of accumulated know,edge of what’s very likely to be over or under represented you’re missing the big picture. as for all the raw books out there in high grade, there ARE plenty locked up in collections… but most won’t grade out as high as we and the owners think they will.

anyone have a link to the books? or do they still only have one auction viewable at a time? danka

I wasn’t saying Picasso sought to be or thought of himself that way… but it’s how the public perceived his abstract works toward the end. ‘’and yes, in my art school they said it all the time! Maybe not yours. Or maybe you went decades later when it wasn’t said anymore. I agree Dadaists we’re attention seeking nihilists! But I think they were mentioned because they weren’t painting anything, so they were sort of a precursor of modern non painted stuff we see today. Not a direct line, but onto something. true, people have no clue they are being laughed at. But these artists are only interacting with “the masses” after first securing the support and funds from the ART establishment that’s when their work is “news” by way of big $$ sales and the media alerts the public, and they react . ‘My kid could do that, or “that’s not art’ Etc interesting that Lichty quote. I like his works, but he does look like someone who would say that having long ago secured his lofty status

and I could be wrong about Lichtenstein's drawing prowess. cant find images of early work online that makes my case... But I bet he was darn good in High school. Better than average anyway. : )