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That was a huge part of the narrative on the eBay 9.0. That it was the "best" copy. That was BS as it's not the best, just the best in a CGC holder, but still, that was how it was marketed.

Remember, with regards to the percentage on this book, that this is part of a much larger consignment. I don't have any insider knowledge of the comics auction houses, but Christies and Sothebys have regularly been desperate enough to put together ridiculous deals, potentially money-losing deals, to secure consignments. Having the biggest category sale of the year is a HUGE deal for them.

In this context, I'm not taking the buyer's enjoyment of the book into account and definitely have financial criteria in mind. When I sell my own books I have a target price I'd like to get. There's a minimum level I'd like to hit*. This is exactly the same scenario. If I were selling this book $2,000,000 would feel like a good result. . *this has included many recent "how much will I lose?" sales where losing only 25% is seen as a successful sale as I pare down certain dead-ends in my collection

WANT!

We're getting very close to my original, slightly hesitant, target for this book being successful ($2,000,000)

1,752,000

There were several different bidders above 1.5 million on the eBay copy. If memory serves me right it was a mix of high feedback (read: probably a dealer or "collector/dealer") and low feedback bidders (probably "collectors") Who knows what this mix will be on this book even with two of the million dollar buyers out of the running (if that is, in fact, the case.)

1,559,427 and counting

Yeah, wow. That's a crazy one. It's amazing to me how bad the QP is on this book in general and seeing a copy like that makes me wonder what they were even thinking that week.

Ending tonight!

I believe you're right.

FUNKY BUMP Halfway to go.

You expect people to look at a book like this, in person? Like the 1000 word description isn't enough?

The scans are from two different sources (CGC itself and ComicConnect) and are separated by something like 10 or 15 years, so I wouldn't read much into the difference between them.

Here it is in the new holder

ComicConnect :: Buy, Sell & Appraise Action Comics 1938 # 1 Comic Books I know this has been discussed in other places, but it remains one of the most valuable books in the hobby, it's already at $1,500,000+ and the previous discussion was derailed. This book deserves its own thread. I was somewhat bearish on the prospects for this book. I have since changed my tune!

The Cap #1, as of right now, is just off the top 10 and the cut-off for the top ten is just over $2,000,000. For many years it was something like 15-20th on the list.

I've got to read longer into these threads so as not to answer the same question twice.

Definitely not "many." It's a huge collection and the vast majority are untouched. John Snyder is the name that gets the blame (I'm rhyming up in here) although he's not the only person who ever touched the books.

I don't know where the $285,000 number came from. I've had that selling for $260,000 for many, many years. That's from Overstreet, at the time. Regardless... the idea that the Allentown Cap #1 would only sell for 4x what it sold for in 2001, with all that's gone on, is crazy to me. I hate spending other people's money with predictions, but $1,000,000 for that book happens without effort. Fact: I would sell my house to buy that book for $1,000,000. Trolling: if the Marvel Comics #1 is a 9.6 the Captain America Comics #1 (9.8) sells for more. Super Trolling: Even i they're both 9.8s, the Captain America book sells for more,because Chris Evans and what civilian has even heard of Sub-Mariner and it's not even the right Human Torch.

Spoiler! I've been scanning my entire collection... I'm going to post them all to my set and will be posting all of my slabs to various threads on the board. Which, I think, will be pretty fun.

Buy them all! Thanos 13 CGC 9.6 1st Cosmic Ghost Rider Fables #1 (Jul 2002, DC) CGC 8.5 Pitt #1 (Jan 1993, Image) CGC 9.8 Vision #1 (January 2016, Marvel) CGC 9.6 Hip Hop Variant Tom King Daredevil #12 (Jun 2000, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Daredevil #159 (Jul 1979, Marvel) CGC 9.4 2nd Frank Miller Marvels #4 (Apr 1994, Marvel) CGC 9.0 Batman #497 (Jul 1993, DC) CGC 9.6 Gambit #3 (Feb 1994, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Sabretooth #1 (Aug 1993, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Longhsot 6 1986 CGC 9.4 The X-Men #122 (Jun 1979, Marvel) CGC 9.6 Batman #503 (Jan 1994, DC) CGC 9.6 Catwoman Batman #506 (Apr 1994, DC) CGC 9.6 Daredevil #11 (May 2000, Marvel) CGC 8.5 Daredevil #217 (Apr 1985, Marvel) CGC 7.5 Longshot #2 (Oct 1985, Marvel) CGC 9.2 Longshot #4 (Dec 1985, Marvel) CGC 9.6 Gambit #4 (Mar 1994, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Batman #500 (Oct 1993, DC) CGC 9.0 Collector's Edition Batman #502 (Dec 1993, DC) CGC 9.4 Detective Comics #659 (May 1993, DC) CGC 9.2 Detective Comics #665 (Aug 1993, DC) CGC 9.6 Gambit #2 (Jan 1994, Marvel) CGC 9.8 Batman #500 (Oct 1993, DC) CGC 9.2

As I do, I started thinking about it and, yes, I was way too conservative. Which is pretty nuts. The Cap 1-10 and Marvel Mystery 1-10 are such a huge baseline.

Harvey Kurtzman is my shield against any such trolling

The Church Timelys + the Allentown Cap #1 (which is probably worth 10 times what he paid for it now) might be 12 million by themselves.