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On 9/16/2021 at 2:48 PM, Wolverinex said:

Did you end up selling this? 

I did let it go. Needed to clear some space. Was super sad it came back resto. I obviously have no eye for that tom-foolery or wouldn't have bought it to begin with. 

On 9/13/2021 at 12:59 PM, SuperBird said:

The Black CLT Club.

LOL! I Have thought we could expand Black Cat to:

B - Bone 1

L - L&R 1 (B&W 1st print but 2ns print is a classic as well)

A - ?

C - ?

K - ?

CAT - Cerebus Albedo TMNT as already done. 

On 7/19/2021 at 2:10 PM, Wolverinex said:

Are you going for a cerebus 1? Authentic  lower graded copy on ebay now... it's at 800

I'm gonna hold out and see if I can't get a higher grade on that book. I'm really bummed I didn't start looking for one ahead of the market blow-up this year. There's also a Bone 1 I'm eyeballing... only so much green stuff to push around

On 7/16/2021 at 2:52 PM, ghn999 said:

My collections! 6 tmnt 1st print and 6 albedo 2. 

Black CAAAAAATTTTTT :P Sweet !!

Just catching up on this thread and that re-listed item is the most ridiculous mea culpa ever "...2nd print,... not sure it's an original second print" w/ an interior shot to boot to prove you can be sure it's not a second or original second. Buyer beware. Btw, is a 2nd print of a 2nd print a 4th print? :P

@Wolverinex In the end I have put this one up for auction. Still going to keep an eye out for that Cerebus 1 though! I just had a thought though for this club. Can the 'B' in Black CAT be Bone 1 :P  

3 hours ago, Wolverinex said:

in My opinion, I would definitely recommend holding Albedo 2 even with the color touch until the netflix show comes out.   Do you have the photo of your comics?

Also, is the color touch enough to be removed without destroying the book?  

 

What grade do you want for Cerebus 1?  Those have become pretty scare recently though a 4.5 sold for a pretty good price recently so you may  get your shot soon!

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll try to load files (newb here). I was going to keep if the knock was huge but I don’t know what a price knock would be… 20%,50%…
I was wanting to chase a cerebus in the 9.0+ range. Looking like that boat may have sailed though. Pretty crazy what these last 9 months have done price wise. 

Hello CAT’s. I am only an AT and maybe not that for long I’m afraid. With these prices I already parted with my TMNT (9.6 . Kept the 9.2) and was getting ready to part with my Albedo which was recently graded 9.4 but sadly had some small color touch. So… I may keep it for half  bragging rights instead of taking the price hit at auction. Oddly I wanted to buy a Cerberus 1 with proceeds so I may become a CAT yet ! 
what is ya’lls take on the Albedo. Auction / keep? 

Just catching up on this thread and can't pin where the high-end (9.8) will go after the Mass Ped sale. That $55k seems an outlier (like the $90k TMNT 1 9.8 sale in 2019). Also seems like things are cooling a bit... That said though the 9.8's may flush out of collections during this elevated price period but I think once they are soaked up they may not come out for a long long long time again. I saw somewhere a post that 9.8 is ~1% of available copies. That's an end-user sort of quantity; especially at these prices. All I can say with books like this is 

On 10/30/2019 at 5:48 PM, Ron C. said:

I have quite a few raw and slabbed duplicates. Would anyone be interested in trading/filling the gaps in our collections?

Newb here and late to the party but if this is not a stale inquiry I would be  

4 minutes ago, pickycollector said:

That is the kind that I would never buy slabbed. What's the point since you cannot see the interior unless you crack it?

That's a fair view but doesn't not seeing the interior apply to all slabbed books? unless the comment is not being able to verify that CGC made the correct call / pulled a fast one?

Total newb here. Sorry... I put this under Copper Age (ready, fire, aim...) 

* to qualify "more rare than this" it is that DC did not do it on purpose and that these covers were attached to any type of book (saw an adventure 181 on HA) and this one happened to get attached to a major key SC17. The covers seem to be from a 1944 book. So you have covers that stayed around for 14 years before going on a SC17 in 1958. Seems like some serious star alignment. ..Nevermind someone held onto this outcast so long in 9.8 condition. Maybe the only 1 like it there is is what I was trying to say about rare. Obviously Action 1 9.8 would be up there on the imagination list but I am not aware of that existing.  

Just came across this and was intrigued. It's definitely a "variant" but of a different sort. I would have thought something like this would have been low value years ago but today's market seems to be focused on the rarity aspect (e.g. 2nd/3rd prints with low print runs have followings for that reason alone). I can't imagine anything more rare than this (and at 9.8 to boot which is sorta amazing no matter what for a 62 year old book - Gaines files excluded ) https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FSEARCH.ASP%3FFocusedOnly%3D1%26where%3Dauctions%26title%3Dshowcase%26ItemType%3DCB%23Item_1490686&id=1490686&itemType=0

On 5/27/2021 at 8:44 PM, Icculus308win said:

Seriously - I wasn’t expecting that. I don’t recall seeing that hardly with any books I watch, let alone bid on WTH 😂 

Agreed as well. These are low quantity end-user books that maybe flushing out with prices at the moment but when picked up won't be seen for a long time, IMO. If someone is waiting for more copies to pop out they may be sorry they waited. C'est la vie. $66k is still healthy. 

On 6/1/2021 at 4:40 PM, Dayzen said:

Yup, it’s now in the marketplace section. 

Thanks. I was eyeballing that and wondered if I had imagined the whole thing. I didn't think Clink could do a move with no reserve auctions. Btw, I did see that page last sell for $5k at heritage some years back. 

Hello all, I'm looking around to see if anyone has any thoughts on this "variant" Showcase 17 that's up at CLink. Finding anything about this is like finding hens teeth. I posted in another thread as well but am thinking it may warrant its own as opposed to scabbing onto these random ones that happen to mention it...

On 5/26/2021 at 11:52 PM, innocuous said:

I wanted it too. But, saving for something else. at least I got a tracking bid in. ComicLink, why no watch list???

here’s the final price  

 

Found this ultimate variant cover? oddball? at Clink and was doing some searches here to learn anything and thought I'd share since you were eyeballing SC17 and may now something. The search continues...

On 5/21/2021 at 4:36 PM, Ryanfromottawa said:

What are you folk's favourites from the auction?

Gotta split that into (2) camps. What I can afford | what I can't afford . In the afford category I like the Haunt Fear and Crime SuspenStories and 1st Issue Special. In the "other" category I like the  TMNT 1, FF 4, FF 48 and Geoff Darrow piece (which a bit surprisingly at the moment can move into the afford category). I also like the Bone 1, but as was touched on in this thread I have never really been into signatures as a rule (except for personal 'I was there' reasons is ok to me) and now I am even less so into them after recently reading on the verification process and crazy prices being attached to them.  

Being a new poster I wrestled a bit to post to this fearing someone (buyer)would be upset that I put others on the trail of something they wanted then I switched shoes and figured I may upset someone else (seller) by not putting people on the trail. So...  

This one on eBay is surprising. I thought (speculated) it would top at $15k or there about considering,IMO, it is not a 9.6 based on the many color breaking creases, it's PGX, the signature looks suspect, and the seller is newish. These things together making it where someone would put some money at risk but not nearing what seems to be current floors in the $50k area.