DC keys

[Mephisto]

So... When are those DC Silver Age keys going to start showing up in the census?

[acesilver]

Any in particular that you're looking for? And what grade? There are a number of them already in the census.

[rob_react]

Do you mean in the same sort of numbers that Marvel keys do? That answer is "never."

[Mephisto]

Well you see I accidently posted a GA topic by accident here and since Wertham wasn't around I needed to come up with a quick SA topic. But I would like a Showcase 55 in CGC 9.0.

[acesilver]

Look back through the Pretty Book of the Day threads. You'll find a stunner for that book there. Sorry, I forget the date.

[Mephisto]

Look back through the Pretty Book of the Day threads. You'll find a stunner for that book there. Sorry, I forget the date.

 

Yeah I saw it. It was a 9.8...

[Mephisto]

Oh I changed my mind find me an unrestored CGC 6.0 Batman 121.

[Dr_Neff]

there won't be too many joining the census until the current owners DIE and their collection lapses in the estate sale mode. Then the widow and her son pack up all the books and take them to CGC and make a deal to get them all slabbed IF a major auction house/consigner takes the deal all at once.

 

Anyone that has a HG book that they want to keep aren't going to submit because they have no reason to do so. They are content that they know what shape it's in. Dealers keeping HG books specifically to sell later will hold their books right until sell time, unless they peter them through the census in groups of ten every three months.

 

Not too mention the major theory of old timers sending in their books to get slabbed is pretty vacant when they don't trust the mail, or any snot nosed economics major slobbering over their gem book.

 

There is a lot more money in selling your raw books to a speculator who THINKS he has a shot at a 9.8 or better, than there is actually slabbing your books and getting the 9.0's you know are there in the first place. Cool thing is that since 1999 you can have a NM definition that stretches all the way from 9.0 to 9.8.

 

Only the die hard cash mavens wanted the VF and NM grades to be linked together, formulating the phrase "Investment Grade". So then HG goes across SEVEN points of grade definition, a very wide and vague one at that. So now we can tell you that your book is NM raw and really can be anywhere in the extremes.

 

 

[acesilver]

there won't be too many joining the census until the current owners DIE and their collection lapses in the estate sale mode. Then the widow and her son pack up all the books and take them to CGC and make a deal to get them all slabbed IF a major auction house/consigner takes the deal all at once.

 

Anyone that has a HG book that they want to keep aren't going to submit because they have no reason to do so. They are content that they know what shape it's in. Dealers keeping HG books specifically to sell later will hold their books right until sell time, unless they peter them through the census in groups of ten every three months.

 

Not too mention the major theory of old timers sending in their books to get slabbed is pretty vacant when they don't trust the mail, or any snot nosed economics major slobbering over their gem book.

 

There is a lot more money in selling your raw books to a speculator who THINKS he has a shot at a 9.8 or better, than there is actually slabbing your books and getting the 9.0's you know are there in the first place. Cool thing is that since 1999 you can have a NM definition that stretches all the way from 9.0 to 9.8.

 

Only the die hard cash mavens wanted the VF and NM grades to be linked together, formulating the phrase "Investment Grade". So then HG goes across SEVEN points of grade definition, a very wide and vague one at that. So now we can tell you that your book is NM raw and really can be anywhere in the extremes.

 

 

 

You raise some very good points.

[FFB]

If someone sold me a VF/NM 9.0 book as a "NM" I'd send it back. That is a pretty slimy thing to do. There's a big and quantifiable difference in my mind between a 9.0 and a 9.4.

 

there won't be too many joining the census until the current owners DIE and their collection lapses in the estate sale mode. Then the widow and her son pack up all the books and take them to CGC and make a deal to get them all slabbed IF a major auction house/consigner takes the deal all at once.

 

Anyone that has a HG book that they want to keep aren't going to submit because they have no reason to do so. They are content that they know what shape it's in. Dealers keeping HG books specifically to sell later will hold their books right until sell time, unless they peter them through the census in groups of ten every three months.

 

Not too mention the major theory of old timers sending in their books to get slabbed is pretty vacant when they don't trust the mail, or any snot nosed economics major slobbering over their gem book.

 

There is a lot more money in selling your raw books to a speculator who THINKS he has a shot at a 9.8 or better, than there is actually slabbing your books and getting the 9.0's you know are there in the first place. Cool thing is that since 1999 you can have a NM definition that stretches all the way from 9.0 to 9.8.

 

Only the die hard cash mavens wanted the VF and NM grades to be linked together, formulating the phrase "Investment Grade". So then HG goes across SEVEN points of grade definition, a very wide and vague one at that. So now we can tell you that your book is NM raw and really can be anywhere in the extremes.