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But they already have the shark being the Bautista guy who makes the flat obscure dialogue jokes.

also ZERO movies will be recouping their costs until theaters are all open again and people feel safe going back. Just impossible now which is why so few movies are being released... why spend 100s of millions just to throw it out there and get so little $$$ back? You only get ONE chance to open a movie wide.

meh. took me three sittings to get through it. and it wasn't problem stopping cause I was never riveted by what I was seeing that I needed to stay glued to watching it. At least I could stream for free and not pay $29 to rent it like BW. SS just felt like a lot of little scenes strung together. Though it did all come together at the end to fight Starro, which I never thought would be a comics movie character. too violent too, like that last Rambo movie. After seeing him, and surgeries defeat hordes of bad guys movie after movie, it feels silly and unnecessary to see heads and bodies explode and get chopped up repeatedly for 2 hours.

I know you can put the shipping on your own Fedex account. Id assume thats an option for UPS as well. The advantage is, you use your own insurance which may give you better coverage than what CGC's shipping account affords you in a loss. While our comics are insured up to the submission amount while IN CGC control, that valuation doesn't apply during shipping, once it leaves the building, and you stand to recover only the max Fedex amount. Do I have this right?

Im sure that even before Blackstone, the owners group didnt sign any "good guy" clauses making them personally liable either!

in such a case with CGC having client assets/property etc destroyed, wouldn't the owners insurance go after CGCs insurance carrier to collect? Assuming a claim was made before a bankruptcy declaration, or whatever legal step was taken by CGC that perhaps absolves their insurance company from having to settle any claims thereafter? Up until some point, CGCs insurance company who was paid premiums (assuming that CGC DID pay them in that final year) must be liable to pay. no?

um. that was what I was saying... one and done. Even though Mound City kept trying, not realizing the only reason they were on the map was the collection they found -- and couldnt replicate.

Goldin could become another Mound City , but I guess the first auction would have to be a success though..

I once traded a pile of books to a dealer to buy a bigger book. Years later (30 years!) a non comics friend told me about an estate sale near me he had seen some comics at. I dont normally chase leads like this, but I went. I looked through a box with mylars, thinking it was the "good stuff!", and in it were the same books I had traded. Still in the same mylars with the dealers stickers on them! So of course I bought a bunch of them back at a dollar apiece!

wow. such wild speculation... based on what info? You think CC would offer free grading under their 10 or even 15% commission? After investing to purchase CBCS, and take over the overhead... really?? Then take their auction income that pays for CCs overhead, and use whats left (IF ANY) to keep their new FREE grading company going? I'll have what you're smoking tonight! Dont bogart that joint, m man!

good points. memories are short. Thats kinda why I posted my reacy=tion to this auction, because CC had a good run, then Comiclink, and wasn't long ago we were saying Heritage is more into OA than comics. SO a lot depends on what the consignment guys dig up. I think we should change this thread to " Heritage has finally STOPPED posting books! I mean, I clicked page after page and I really wanted to finish and move on with my day... but they kept coming!

on a lighter note, I spent some time yesterday looking at all the books in the coming Heritage auction and my gods, it just kept going and going! 27 pages of amazing stuff. Action runs, 9.8 Spidey run, Promise books, MH Peps and more issues. Whats going on? a lot of quality material.

Well aside from the obvious answer to this, they”news” here is the streaming wars, begun they have. Now that we have so many startup Netflix competitors all rushing to survive the first wave and then compete with Netflix (and Amazon’s head start) the pressure is on Apple and Disney, peacock and the rest for CONTENT. To do that you buy a production company and take it in-house. so this purchase and this price is the starting point for more to come. And the Media is following this story (as they are part of it too) so it hits close to home — Far closer than a small collectibles grading company did. Seems to me this is part of Blackstones hope with this move. And flipping it to one of the streamers later is a safe bet for their out later on. Maybe at a decent profit.

So true.

Im not too familiar with how Blackstone segregates all their purchases... seems like using a "subsidiary" is just part of their MO. Aren't they more like a pile of investor's cash that the investors can direct their cash either into Blackstone as a whole, or also into smaller more targeted investments like this one?

good luck with this... Apple balked on buying them... Weird that Blackstone thinks the movie business is ripe for a "reimagining" by a rich outsider.. Hollywood history is littered with the carcasses of people with too much money and dreams of show business.

Just a quick question… after leafcasting , is the entire edge trimmed (both the leaf casted areas and the original paper) to get a perfect straight edge? Would this be cause to label it trimmed?

I didnt mean that it was necessarily a crack and press... only that probably it was a raw "some grade below" its final grade of 9.2. That it got the same help so many other books do, rather than just get slabbed as is if theres things to fix. I mean, either do it while you own it, or sell it as is and watch someone else take advantage of the opportunity. Rob React discusses a "missing 8.0 Tec 27 on his site. I think the one you posted, and is waiting for someone out there to tell his if it IS that missing copy, or a fresh copy.

I’m thinking now “conceding the gold medal” is pretty apt.

Pressed up from somewhere below 9.2.....

Keep in mind as was pointed out earlier that the 3.25 sale of the 8.5 was a private negotiation and NOT THE RESULT OF BIDS AT AUCTION. sorry. Caps lock. There’s a different vibe when at action versus a take it leave negotiation. You ae being given the inside to purchase it absent competition (one would hope). Plus, the fact that it was just enough to set a record for the seller who used to own it has its own baggage to unpack. but conceivably it would have reached 2.5 or 2.7 in an auction, so, at these price levels whats the difference? It’s petty hard to predict record sales or values these days.

Daddy took his T-Bird away..!

Yes. He’s out. Don’t know why cause he must still have fund’s first comics. If I were him I’d have cornered as many top copies as I could. but, Maybe knowing so many of the hobby’s best copies will never be available to him took the shine out of it for him? Or was it dads less secure status at home??

Well yeah I guess I’ve argued both sides of this argument huh? Yes, there very well may be more copies out there between 8.0 and 9.4. I would never say all HG keys have been slabbed! Today I was speaking from the Tec 27 census as it is… which is all the buyer has to gauge how much the 9.2 is worth. The census plus the Allentown copy.

For the Tec 27 9.2 specifically, I think 7M minimum. No way the owner lets it go at anything under what he thinks it will be worth years down the road. His copy is a bona fide home run of a collectible! With the Mile High graded, what other copies can possible topple it from the Silver Medal?