MB1952 Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 (edited) St. James... double , variants cost double Edited March 15, 2014 by kat123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reality_consensus Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I did a bit of Ebay selling in the latter part of 2005 and was astonished with the prices realized for the Baker/Cole/Ward books. A sampling of realized prices: Invoice dated 11-08-05: Authentic Police Cases #9 $157.50 Invoices dated 11-14-05 True to Life Romance #6 $202.50 Romantic Marriage #23 $416 Love Diary #1 $322.59 Authentic Police Cases #15 $198.50 Diary Secrets #15 $201 True Love Pictorial #10 $201 Wartime Romances #14 $150 Invoices dated 11-19-05 Pictorial Love Stories #1 $123.50 Pictorial Romances #19 $151.50 Untamed Love #1 $201.50 Wartime Romances #15 $203.50 Invoice dated 11-21-05 Flaming Western Romances #3 $280 Wartime Romances #3 $50 (someone got a great deal on this one!) Invoice dated 11-25-05 Teen-Age Romances #25 $153.50 Pictorial Romances #10 $203.50 Invoice dated 12-02-05 Giant Comics Edition #12 $2025 Girls in Love #57 $202.50 Romantic Adventures #50 $260 Teen-Age Temptations #5 $316 Teen-Age Temptations #7 $296 Authentic Police Cases #27 $354 Pictorial Confessions #1 $255 Pictorial Romances #8 $197.50 True Love Pictorial #5 $401 Authentic Police Cases #10 $145.45 Invoice dated 12-7-05 Authentic Police Cases #9 $126.50 Wartime Romances #10 $67.95 Authentic Police Cases #26 $316 Invoice dated 12-17-05 Top Love Stories #13 $112.50 Authentic Police Cases #1 $504 So you can see that 2005 bidding was quite competitive and heated for these treasures. I am not at all surprised to see it is happening again. Maybe its time to pull out some more books and see if history will repeat itself. Hmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 (edited) I did a bit of Ebay selling in the latter part of 2005 and was astonished with the prices realized for the Baker/Cole/Ward books. A sampling of realized prices: Invoice dated 11-08-05: Authentic Police Cases #9 $157.50 Invoices dated 11-14-05 True to Life Romance #6 $202.50 Romantic Marriage #23 $416 Love Diary #1 $322.59 Authentic Police Cases #15 $198.50 Diary Secrets #15 $201 True Love Pictorial #10 $201 Wartime Romances #14 $150 Invoices dated 11-19-05 Pictorial Love Stories #1 $123.50 Pictorial Romances #19 $151.50 Untamed Love #1 $201.50 Wartime Romances #15 $203.50 Invoice dated 11-21-05 Flaming Western Romances #3 $280 Wartime Romances #3 $50 (someone got a great deal on this one!) Invoice dated 11-25-05 Teen-Age Romances #25 $153.50 Pictorial Romances #10 $203.50 Invoice dated 12-02-05 Giant Comics Edition #12 $2025 Girls in Love #57 $202.50 Romantic Adventures #50 $260 Teen-Age Temptations #5 $316 Teen-Age Temptations #7 $296 Authentic Police Cases #27 $354 Pictorial Confessions #1 $255 Pictorial Romances #8 $197.50 True Love Pictorial #5 $401 Authentic Police Cases #10 $145.45 Invoice dated 12-7-05 Authentic Police Cases #9 $126.50 Wartime Romances #10 $67.95 Authentic Police Cases #26 $316 Invoice dated 12-17-05 Top Love Stories #13 $112.50 Authentic Police Cases #1 $504 So you can see that 2005 bidding was quite competitive and heated for these treasures. I am not at all surprised to see it is happening again. Maybe its time to pull out some more books and see if history will repeat itself. Hmmmm. Yes. Yes, it is time to pull out some more books. BTW, thanks for the data. I'll bet a lot of those Bakers went to a guy named Joe Serpico. Late 2005 was right around the time his monopoly began. Edited March 15, 2014 by 29dukedog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Maybe its time to pull out some more books and see if history will repeat itself. Hmmmm. Get goin'! Times awastin'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1952 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 (edited) I did a bit of Ebay selling in the latter part of 2005 and was astonished with the prices realized for the Baker/Cole/Ward books. A sampling of realized prices: Invoice dated 11-08-05: Authentic Police Cases #9 $157.50 Invoices dated 11-14-05 True to Life Romance #6 $202.50 Romantic Marriage #23 $416 Love Diary #1 $322.59 Authentic Police Cases #15 $198.50 Diary Secrets #15 $201 True Love Pictorial #10 $201 Wartime Romances #14 $150 Invoices dated 11-19-05 Pictorial Love Stories #1 $123.50 Pictorial Romances #19 $151.50 Untamed Love #1 $201.50 Wartime Romances #15 $203.50 Invoice dated 11-21-05 Flaming Western Romances #3 $280 Wartime Romances #3 $50 (someone got a great deal on this one!) Invoice dated 11-25-05 Teen-Age Romances #25 $153.50 Pictorial Romances #10 $203.50 Invoice dated 12-02-05 Giant Comics Edition #12 $2025 Girls in Love #57 $202.50 Romantic Adventures #50 $260 Teen-Age Temptations #5 $316 Teen-Age Temptations #7 $296 Authentic Police Cases #27 $354 Pictorial Confessions #1 $255 Pictorial Romances #8 $197.50 True Love Pictorial #5 $401 Authentic Police Cases #10 $145.45 Invoice dated 12-7-05 Authentic Police Cases #9 $126.50 Wartime Romances #10 $67.95 Authentic Police Cases #26 $316 Invoice dated 12-17-05 Top Love Stories #13 $112.50 Authentic Police Cases #1 $504 So you can see that 2005 bidding was quite competitive and heated for these treasures. I am not at all surprised to see it is happening again. Maybe its time to pull out some more books and see if history will repeat itself. Hmmmm. Yes. Yes, it is time to pull out some more books. BTW, thanks for the data. I'll bet a lot of those Bakers went to a guy named Joe Serpico. Late 2005 was right around the time his monopoly began. Those Joe also own Matt Baker OA?? Edited March 16, 2014 by kat123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Ppl were posting their copies of TR13 and I'll repost mine. I always thought the cover was striking when I first saw the Crippen copy on Ha. I bid aggressively and won. the stylization of design was unique to the previous issues. Her thought balloons seem to form a heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Yummy. Funny, I never noticed the heart bit. Davis, what were you thinking? A faithful collector and the anti-curator. If he was alive and I had him in front of me, I think I'd strangle him for shoving these books into the garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Didn't his family put them in the garage after his death? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 "After Mr. Crippen's death last year, his younger son catalogued the collection, which his father had boxed up and stored in the garage and basement of his New York home after his own parents' house was sold in the 1970s." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 And the crooked contractors got their hands on the books before they were boxed and put in the garage as they were much better copies. I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 That's my understanding too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Somebody popped the BIN on that TLP 10. A good pickup, I think. One of my favorite covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Eh...it looked kinda ragged...here's mine: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Eh...it looked kinda ragged...here's mine: Sharp copy. Hard to judge whether the eBay copy was a good deal, given the way Baker prices have been jumping. If I didn't already have two copies, I would have seriously considered it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I think it was pretty common back in the 90s. I remember Vincent Z. had several copies of that book when I bought mine from him at the SD Con. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBFan Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 As a newbie who just wants to build a decent little Matt Baker collection, my observation is that the high prices on recent eBay Baker books are being driven by just a few people. A quick look at the bid history on a few recent eBay auctions shows that most bidders drop out at just barely above guide...and then 2 or 3 people push the bidding to multiples of guide. This makes it tough for someone like me to build a collection. And people hoarding multiple copies of certain issues doesn't help, either. I don't know about everyone else here, but one reason I collect Matt Baker's work is that he has been overlooked and should be exalted. Whenever I'm lucky enough to get a new Baker book, I share the art with everyone I know. Even my friends who don't collect comics think Matt Baker is cool. WIth that same thought in mind, as I gain better-condition copies of certain issues, rather than horde multiples, I plan to put my lesser-condition books up for auction so others can collect and enjoy Matt Baker, too. It appears that Baker books are at a high right now, due to a certain few people. If those people are bidding on books they need for their collection, that's great. If those people are simply speculators, trying to hoard great books that others could enjoy, that's not cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) Brilliant. Hodor! I mean...hoarder! "you...in the forum...step away from the undercopies...NOW" and MBFan, welcome, noob! You sound a little like a friend of ours, who also is not pleased with the direction Bakers are going. Anyway, heed the First Law of Comic Physics, wherein nature abhors a vacuum. You sell the "undercopy" first, so that a space is created and a higher graded book can then show up to take its place. Voila and ipso facto! There's a certain TAR 33 I believe this would apply to. Edited March 18, 2014 by Dr. Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) As a newbie who just wants to build a decent little Matt Baker collection, my observation is that the high prices on recent eBay Baker books are being driven by just a few people. A quick look at the bid history on a few recent eBay auctions shows that most bidders drop out at just barely above guide...and then 2 or 3 people push the bidding to multiples of guide. This makes it tough for someone like me to build a collection. And people hoarding multiple copies of certain issues doesn't help, either. I don't know about everyone else here, but one reason I collect Matt Baker's work is that he has been overlooked and should be exalted. Whenever I'm lucky enough to get a new Baker book, I share the art with everyone I know. Even my friends who don't collect comics think Matt Baker is cool. WIth that same thought in mind, as I gain better-condition copies of certain issues, rather than horde multiples, I plan to put my lesser-condition books up for auction so others can collect and enjoy Matt Baker, too. It appears that Baker books are at a high right now, due to a certain few people. If those people are bidding on books they need for their collection, that's great. If those people are simply speculators, trying to hoard great books that others could enjoy, that's not cool. This. In particular, the person who bid $2350 for the TAR 9 on CLink. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" Edited March 19, 2014 by Dr. Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 As a newbie who just wants to build a decent little Matt Baker collection, my observation is that the high prices on recent eBay Baker books are being driven by just a few people. A quick look at the bid history on a few recent eBay auctions shows that most bidders drop out at just barely above guide...and then 2 or 3 people push the bidding to multiples of guide. This makes it tough for someone like me to build a collection. And people hoarding multiple copies of certain issues doesn't help, either. I don't know about everyone else here, but one reason I collect Matt Baker's work is that he has been overlooked and should be exalted. Whenever I'm lucky enough to get a new Baker book, I share the art with everyone I know. Even my friends who don't collect comics think Matt Baker is cool. WIth that same thought in mind, as I gain better-condition copies of certain issues, rather than horde multiples, I plan to put my lesser-condition books up for auction so others can collect and enjoy Matt Baker, too. It appears that Baker books are at a high right now, due to a certain few people. If those people are bidding on books they need for their collection, that's great. If those people are simply speculators, trying to hoard great books that others could enjoy, that's not cool. This. In particular, the person who bid $2350 for the TAR 9 on CLink. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" The market is being ruined! Ruined, I say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1952 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 I posted this pix while back on thread art behind glass. This crazy prices on Baker books, how about an Original pg from Baker Romance book will go for?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
