Flash105

This is probably it: ASM 24 9.4

You can't hide that baby. Here you go:

Rick, that poor soul who is running three credit cards to the max to pay 6500.00 has been waiting all his life for this book. Take it and run.

I was thinking more along the lines of Ozzy- Crazy Train.

This book is on the momentum train.

And finished very strong.

How about 6501?

Rick's 6.5 is going to set a new bar.

I would guess it is pressed if I was playing the odds.

I never tire of that cover. Congrats.

Ian, You started with a JLA run. At what point did you decide to go for them all? Your Action 2 is in a slab. Are many of your books in a slab? Is there a modern that you are in love with or that gave you trouble finding? Are you favorites Action 1, Tec 27, Bats 1 or the something obscure?

....and they're off.....

agreed, I have yet to see any price pull back on Batman covered, pre robin Tecs...even the non bat covered tecs seem to be consistent, though not 100% in the upward direction... FMV there is a definitive answer (well, kind of) grade for grade, Tec 29 and 31 sell almost neck and neck, followed by Tec 35, followed by tec 33, followed by 36 and then 37 (I left non bat covers out)... FMV conclusion would seem to point to 31 as probably "winning" the race, but 29 is almost interchangable at this point I personally like the combination of 2nd bat cover, and scarcity, to propel tec 29 over tec 31 to the finish line...so there is my definitive answer... I rank bat covers, value wise as : 27,29,31,35,33,36,37... (thumbs u since many many of these books sell privately, GPA will never fully capture the market... I will be submitting a lot of sales of tec 27,29,31,33,35, 36 and 37 (as well as others) to GPA, and that will help clear the picture up...maybe I am fortunate to have a lot of sales info the public doesn't but, if you review gpa, tec 31 is the winner, followed by 29, then 35, then 33 Imran has posted and echos my sentiment...I believe 1koko and Andre and Primetime and Ronaldo, etc are well qualified to comment (as having put the entire run together)... I think folks on the boards know that I have bought and sold more pre robin tecs than any active member of the boards (and no I don't count metro, heritage , clink , they have all sold more than me, but I don't consider them "active" posters like most of us) 31 is very cover driven, 29 is scarcity and cover driven, 35 is scarcity, cover AND what only primetime has pointed out, SPLASH page driven (the best bat splash page there is, imo)... now, that said, much like the 33's origin story, the 35 splash is only a factor as far as folks "know" it is there, but can't see it when I figure put my run together, you know the issue I bought first... tec 33...not because I thought it was the best or whatever (I do love it), but because it was the most readily available copy in the market (and still is today)... there is more supply at current prices than demand for 33, when compared to the other "3"... So if a man wanted to drop 10-12K on one of these, which one and at what grade? Blue/Purple? And the big question, is there one on the market that would even meet your qualifications.

Yeah but I think the mice may have edited the origin of Batman in your # 33. You miss the part where you see the parents get shot and the bat comes in through the window. In your copy, Batman's origin resembles that of Catman.

I had always heard that a good rule of thumb for deciding to have restoration done is that the book should have a minimum value of 1,000 before any work is done. Does that still hold true. In your example the dude obviously would have lost money on the restoration. There were two recent sales of books with resto that went for way more than 50% of blue label value. The Denver copy of Batman 1 which I don't remember the specifics. And there was a AF15 9.0 with Sp with a small dab of color touch to repair a tape pull. I think in both cases the history was known and the books were basically killer copies before the resto.

Here is one coming up for auction. How hard is a TTA #1 to find? Tales to Astonish #1

Pretty strong results considering the number of 9.4s that have come to light in the last 8 months.

I want your Flash 214 if you ever decide to sale. WWC had one last year and I did not pull the trigger fast enough.

Chips or no chips that is a pretty book.

There have been a lot of 106 for sale lately but I have not found the right copy for the right price. It still seems like every issue (not just 106) that I want goes for big money, while every issue I pass on goes for cheap. I just won three from the last comic link auction but the one i wanted went for big money.

There were bargains galore in the last Heritage Auction. To me the problem is too much supply. When I started in 2007, there were 1-2 books max in these auctions that were high grade and none were keys. Now there are 12-20 in every auction and there are at least 2-3 keys. So where I was bidding on every book going after them hard now I bid on 1-2 and hope for a bargain.

I want to be compensated for reading 98 pages of flammenwerfers going at it. This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. You knew it was not going to have a happy ending.

Batman 1 for two reasons: 1. It is freaking Batman. 2. I would say Batman over Cap has much more upside price value long term.

That shot about covers all of the big ones. That is a great group of books to show off.

I'm a DC guy to the depth of my sole but I would take the #9. That book has the best color combinations and that particular copy is super bright and the cover has a killer layout as well.