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It did.

I will add the inflation adjusted numbers on a toggle because it's interesting and easy enough to do, but my interest is actually in the X axis, not the Y. It's a chart of the record price paid for a comic book, so it's going to go up, from left to right. I can draw the general trend without calculating anything or having any data beyond whats already in my head. Sometimes the jumps are bigger and sometimes they're lower, but they will keep going up. To that point- I'm only going to have two ticks on the Y- 0 and the upper bound. What I'm interested in is what was the #1 book at any given time, as perceived by collectors who would have known such a thing at the time, and how long each book held the record (e.g., 2003/2004-2010.) The most important scale (for me) is between the books that are adjacent to each other on the x axis and how big (or small) the x axis gap is between them, not the difference (raw or inflation adjusted) between $250 in 1965 and $3000000 in 2014. The example of the Church Flash Comics #1 and the Pay Copy actually illustrate what I'm trying to do. While the prices were different at the time when adjusting for inflation none of us called that out at the time, or if we did, we collectively didn't care enough to make a distinction that stuck. They were simply tied. My guess is, visually, there won't be all that much difference visually between inflation adjusted and raw charts, just because of the scale (it's still $2000 on the lower bound up to $3 million and change on the upper.) If I were comparing the $ values as the focus, I would do a different visualization that illustrated the price gaps in a way that you could actually see the different.

I don't want any torture!

Hello Golden Age Comics Books people of Earth. So, I write technology books and I have a new book coming out in three weeks. As part of promotion for that I was going to do a big blog post showing off one of the technologies in the book by doing a new data visualization and explaining how it's done. Nerd stuff™. As part of that I'm going to try to do something I've wanted to do for a long time- put together a timeline of the record price paid for a comic book throughout the Overstreet era. I believe I have the past 28 years sorted out, with the exception of venues and specific dates for a few of the books. Title | Issue # | Grade | Date | Venue | Price Action Comics #1 9.0 2014-08-24 eBay $3207852 Action Comics #1 9.0 Cage Copy 2011-11-30 ComicConnect $2161000 Action Comics #1 8.5 2010-03-29 ComicConnect $1500000 Detective Comics #27 8.0 2010-02-25 Heritage $107500000 Action Comics #1 8.0 Kansas City 2010-02-22 ComicConnect $1000000 Flash Comics #1 9.6 Church 2004-01-01 sold to JP the Mint in a private sale $350000 Marvel Comics #1 9.0 Pay Copy 2003-01-01 sold to JP the Mint in a private sale $350000 Detective Comics #27 8.0 2001-01-01 Mastronet $278190 Captain America Comics #1 9.8 Allentown 2001-01-01 sold to John Verzyl in a private sale $260000 Whiz #2 NM-NM+ Church 1995-01-01 "private sale?" $176000 Detective Comics #27 8.5 Church 1994-01-01 "private sale?" $125000 Detective Comics #27 "high grade" 1993-01-01 "private sale?" $101000 Action Comics #1 78 Cage Copy 1992-01-01 Sotheby's $82500 Detective Comics #27 NM-MT Allentown 1990-01-01 sold to "The Dentist" in a private sale $80000 Action Comics #1 NM Church 1984-01-01 eBay sold to "The Dentist" in a private sale $25000 What I would like to do is fill in the gaps between the "big 2" in the 1980s and then start to piece together some numbers for the 1970s. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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No, not these. I am keeping a 9.8 205, but I'm just letting the rest of these go. My run is, such as it is, is selective between 100 and the beginning of the Byrne run.

I just finished that run with Annual 18. Annual 18 is a nightmare of nightmarish proportions. I have 10 raw 9.2s, I can look to see if I have a 9.8ish 262, though. I need to go to storage next weekend, In the process of putting together that run I bought a few full runs. I might have one of those as I don't remember it being particularly hard for me. 283 and Annual 18 took years.

As I mentioned on eBay, to my great shame, no.

Fantastic Four #191 (Feb 1978, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Fantastic Four #193 (Apr 1978, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Fantastic Four #194 (May 1978, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Fantastic Four #195 (Jun 1978, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Fantastic Four #196 (Jul 1978, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Doctor Doom Fantastic Four #197 (Aug 1978, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Doctor Doom Fantastic Four #198 (Sep 1978, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Fantastic Four #199 (Oct 1978, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Doctor Doom Fantastic Four #203 (Feb 1979, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Fantastic Four #206 (May 1979, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Fantastic Four #207 (Jun 1979, Marvel) CGC 9.8

I use https://americancollectors.com/plans/collectibles/what-we-insure/ Customer service is great. As a note, I'm not sure that they would actually insure paintings. They insure prints and multiples, so I can piggyback on my comics collection for that category.

Insurance is cheap. I insure comics, art, wine and books under a separate policy. To sfcityduck's point, I could never be made whole if something happened to my comics or art. While I'd be able to recoup the monetary value, there's no replacing, for example, the hundreds of pedigree comics I have. Still, it's nice to know if something does happen, I won't be left totally empty-handed. (this reminds me I need to update my policy )

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SUPER FAKE

I missed that anecdote previously. Wow.

Yeah, I only have the 9.6 and no corresponding entry from the catalog https://github.com/roblarsen/Edgar-Church-Collection-Data/blob/master/src/D-F.csv#L1440 https://github.com/roblarsen/Edgar-Church-Collection-Data/blob/master/src/D-F.csv#L384

If anyone is interested in getting dinner and or drinks on Friday night, hit the DMs or post here. I've got one day at the show and want to make it count

Collecting in high school was a lot of fun. I worked at a comic shop, so I had a good sense of what was hot and would go on raids when I knew a certain book was hot, buying up copies all around town. I'd then sell the new stuff to buy old stuff. I wasn't buying golden age, but I did manage to sell my way into Daredevil 1-up, FF 1,2,5, etc. on the back of New Mutants #87s, Spider-Man #300s, etc.

More than halfway!

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Also, I'm back from vacation. I've got more books to share.