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From.... whatever it was in 2019 (1500? I was in the top 10 or 20 in the registry) to 6 CGC graded books... After these sell, it will be down to 3. Metal Hurlant #1 CGC 8.0 Moebius Richard Corben Heavy Metal Metal Hurlant #2 CGC 8.0 Moebius Richard Corben Heavy Metal Metal Hurlant #3 CGC 9.2 Moebius Richard Corben Heavy Metal
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Last status was apparently not selling, but at that point I had like... 500 CGC graded books and now I have 5, so 🤷♂️ -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
I wasn't buying million dollar books but I 1000% chose pedigree copies over copies with a higher number on the label when I had the chance and often paid more for a lower grade copy than I would for an "upgrade" with a higher number. And I wasn't paying 4x the GPA for a 9.4 (on books with dozens of higher graded examples) by myself. All those times I was bidding against other people who put the same stock in pedigree copies. At this top level it's a different story since there are few options with some of these books so the relative importance of the pedigree is lessened somewhat but it's there somewhere. It's built into the hobby. -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
There are some people like you who hold no or little value in pedigree books. This is obvious to me since it's an opinion that people are very vocal about on these boards and I have (n probably a dozen occasions) written pretty well-reasoned responses. I always answer with something similar to the following truncated version. If that's the way you feel, that's cool. On the flip side, there are still people paying 2-10x GPA for some pedigree books. There are definitely different multiples within the pedigrees, for sure, but it's not down to the story as much as the perceived quality, as far as I've seen. I'm more personally experienced with silver age pedigrees, but the same holds true with GA pedigrees as far as I've seen. The really high quality collections get people excited- to the point where they'll pay 9.8 non-pedigree prices (or more) for 9.4 pedigree books (which I've seen as both a buyer and a seller.) Talk to me about buying White Mountain Daredevils (a completely anonymous pedigree- other than the association with Jerry Weist, I guess.) -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
It was one of these, inside ANOTHER frame https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/comic-related/fortress-comic-protector-group-pedrin-conservatory-1990s-this-is-a-group-of-13-fortress-comic-book-holders-they-are/a/14101-16835.s -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
I imagine the only people who have seen the interior since the 1990s are at CGC. It was in a fortress before it was graded. Literally, the biggest, most diesel fortress I'd ever seen. -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Not even the same category. Cool book, but... It's not in the same category as books that feature characters that people still care about -
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rob_react replied to Hey Kids, Comics!'s topic in Comics General
I was going to write a post where I discussed the value of the best copy of Superman #1 and I was going to argue, that, under certain circumstances (it being a 9.2) it would be the third most valuable comic. Right now, after this result, I'm almost convinced that would be the case. -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
I should have just guessed, but I also knew someone would know without me having to search for the info. -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
I so much want to make a Photoshopped image of this whole scene. Damn me and my need to work for a living. -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Redbeard's Book Den sold the book in a private sale for $170,000 in 1996. Private, but super public since the sale was on CNN and there's a photo of the two of them with the book out there somewhere. I don't remember where the book was in the 80s and 90s. Someone will know. -
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rob_react replied to Northwest's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
I'm going to start ignoring the weird skepticism of this sale. As I pointed out the vast majority of the record sales in the history of the hobby have been private sales. The idea that this famous, beautiful book (which held the record once before, mind you) is somehow part of some elaborate and weird fraud because it wasn't sold at auction is super strange and I'm just going to ignore it going forward. I will continue to discuss the book and the sale however because it's fun to do so