fishbone

I included tax implications in my percentages ....

......of course having said that, my IH#181 just scored me 700% as well, but from a purchase 10 years ago with a lot of luck thrown in . There are only a few post-1970 books that one can get lucky with timing and patience, but GA keys and grails have been bullet-proof for a long time

I can put that doubt to rest. My Action 1 and Tec27 (albeit both restored) purchased 9 and 10 years ago respectively, would give me a return of 200% on both initial "investments", where my house I bought at the same time in a very hot market (Toronto) right now would get me a 75% return if I sold today. I sold my Action #13 last year and made a 750% profit from original price in 2008!! No real estate, and very few investments at all, could out-perform the grail GA market over the last decade I would respectfully suggest. The reason Batman#11 doesn't outsell ASM#300 and IH#181 is because there AREN'T MANY OUT THERE. If there were, it would sell like crazy.

+1 arguments make no sense

true enough

I wondered this myself. Even if this was the case (the "reverse-psychology" thing), I would assume one would wrap those boxes in water-proof material at the very least (maybe a couple big garbage bags all the way around each box). I personally would rather pile two CGC boxes and cover with a velvet throw and, voila, instead bedroom side tables!

I am in my 6th month of a 6-month time payment for my sold book with them, apparently I get zero until the full 6 months is up , the payor's check clears, and book is shipped. This for a book that sold on March 13, 2019. I thought there was something a bit wrong with this, but who am I to complain. But, it would have been nice to have been sent some $$ after each of the checks cleared (and also not an insignificant amount of money either) Oh well.

+ 1000

very interesting topic....

I've got my last 18 Actions (mostly between between 24-52) , and then pretty much all of my GA will be slabbed....took a few years, but guess it's worth it But I'll definitely miss thumbing thru them

This is a crack-press-re-sub if I ever saw one......certainly upgradeable to at least a 5.0, which is why it would easily sell for 32K+ in auction.

Got to be internal issues, how can this be only 4.5 ?! CGC certainly is tough on SA

Anything private that someone knows about .... ? if not, then that's it folks

Great to see Rick (and is that his Coke zero ? ) back in action !

Wow, proud to be a father today, thanks for posting

220

Just to finish this post, since I just got it back from CGC 🥰

still thought the AC1 , although also trimmed, would go closer to 250K indicating a bit of an increasing price trend for the King of funny books, but didn't happen

exactly

Yuuuuuuuuupp

After years of resisting, the stabbing of my Actions has started. Here are the first 10 back from CGC today - gotta admit , they look pretty sweet in their new prison cells .....

8.5 IMO

Hey, just finished that FF 1-100 that I was mentioning last year!! So happy, and all in 6.0-7.5 range.

Thankfully, I made it a point to grab all SA keys about a decade ago....only wish I would have got triples of everything knowing what I know now