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0.5 Detective #27 recently sold for a mere $2505?

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ComicsAndCode

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This is semi-old news and I'm sorry if it's already been discussed... I was perusing Detective sales data in GPA and discovered that in April, an 0.5 Tec #27 copy sold for $2,505. What a deal when you consider a coverless 0.5 sold for $8500 four years ago!

 

Anyone have more details on this sale? Was it sold on eBay, Metro, CL, other?

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Filter81

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Very weird. No CGC serial # either, which is usually listed on GPA for recent sales. . And GPA usually lists "coverless" if the book is missing a cover. I can't see anyone who reports to GPA selling a complete Detective 27 for $2500..

 

I am not sure, but if I had to guess I'd say that this is some sort of error.

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Maybe missing a zero? (shrug)

 

Very possible. Either that or maybe its actually a Detective 37 or something like that. (It doesn't happen often, but I called to get the CGC notes on a really cheap Cap 2 sale listed on GPA last year, and it turned out to be the serial # for a Cap issue in the 20s.) Or maybe it was a scam eBay auction and $2505 was because most people knew it was fake.

 

These are the scenarios that come to mind. GPA is a great resource. But they list such an overwhelming amount of information its probably next to impossible to keep it 100% accurate.

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Point Five

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It must be the copy that sold on ComicConnect a few months ago too. It was coverless and missing the first bunch of wraps, hence the whole Batman story was missing. Also, there was a repro cover around it, so when bidding it wasn't possible to see the book itself. Even with all that I did think the price went awfully low... good opportunity for someone.

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It must be the copy that sold on ComicConnect a few months ago too. It was coverless and missing the first bunch of wraps, hence the whole Batman story was missing. Also, there was a repro cover around it, so when bidding it wasn't possible to see the book itself. Even with all that I did think the price went awfully low... good opportunity for someone.
but then it should have been slabbed NG incomplete...

to get a .5, pretty much has to have "most"....unless it was old label slabbed?

 

but I agree, NO way any complete coverless tec 27 sells for less than 5 figures, so probably just some wraps or something

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Rick, you're right -- it was indeed slabbed as an NG and not a .5. Here's the link:

 

http://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=333494

 

Definitely the book in question. Also missing the centerfold -- I forgot that. :grin:

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VintageComics

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Rick, you're right -- it was indeed slabbed as an NG and not a .5. Here's the link:

 

http://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=333494

 

Definitely the book in question. Also missing the centerfold -- I forgot that. :grin:

 

I saw that book in hand and also know the person that bought it off CC.

 

It's decent looking because all the missing wraps were recreated but it's definitely a NG book and not a 0.5.

 

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Bat-Man

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Rick, you're right -- it was indeed slabbed as an NG and not a .5. Here's the link:

 

http://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=333494

 

Definitely the book in question. Also missing the centerfold -- I forgot that. :grin:

 

Personally being the Batman fan I am. A Tec 27 missing covers, first 3 wraps (again the entire Batman story) and even the CF is "worthless" or to put it simply not something I would spend 2K on. Maybe around 1K.

 

Unless of course if someone needed a specific wrap from this severly incomplete issue, then it could be worth ANY sum. (thumbs u

 

 

But hell if it had one half page or even a panel from the Batman story I'd be interested into absurd amounts for it. :luhv:

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Point Five

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Yeah I'm trying to figure out who would pay for it with the missing Batman pages. What's the point?

Bragging rights I guess. Or you could slab each wrap separately and flip them... and don't think I wasn't tempted. (:

 

 

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Mac Man

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Yeah I'm trying to figure out who would pay for it with the missing Batman pages. What's the point?

Bragging rights I guess. Or you could slab each wrap separately and flip them... and don't think I wasn't tempted. (:

 

 

Or it could work for missing parts :shrug:

 

If you think about how much one single wrap from Action 1 costs, it's not going to be cheap to replace missing wraps from Tec 27 either, so all considering, that might be what was going on.

 

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Though it makes you wonder what wraps will be useful. It's missing the centerfold -- so even if you are replacing wraps in a book missing two wraps at the center -- you will still need the centerfold.

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