sorry if this has been discussed somewhere...

[rabidwolf]

but why did the CGC 5.5 FF1 on the recent heritage auction sell for $19,000. It looks like a very nice mid grade copy but is it undergraded?

[VintageComics]

but why did the CGC 5.5 FF1 on the recent heritage auction sell for $19,000. It looks like a very nice mid grade copy but is it undergraded?

 

Books with extremely strong eye appeal and page quality generally fetch well over market value.

 

Some buyers may also think that if book has potential to be a higher grade upon resubmission and that too might heat bidding up.

 

That 5.5 copy was a big key that had spectacular eye appeal for the grade structurally, had a very WHITE cover AND had white interior pages.

 

Perfect storm.

 

 

[rabidwolf]

but why did the CGC 5.5 FF1 on the recent heritage auction sell for $19,000. It looks like a very nice mid grade copy but is it undergraded?

 

Books with extremely strong eye appeal and page quality generally fetch well over market value.

 

Some buyers may also think that if book has potential to be a higher grade upon resubmission and that too might heat bidding up.

 

That 5.5 copy was a big key that had spectacular eye appeal for the grade structurally, had a very WHITE cover AND had white interior pages.

 

Perfect storm.

 

 

Agreed that it was a very nice copy but it amazes me that it sold for 3X the 5.5 gpa average and above the 7.0 average which is about 17.5k

[VintageComics]

but why did the CGC 5.5 FF1 on the recent heritage auction sell for $19,000. It looks like a very nice mid grade copy but is it undergraded?

 

Books with extremely strong eye appeal and page quality generally fetch well over market value.

 

Some buyers may also think that if book has potential to be a higher grade upon resubmission and that too might heat bidding up.

 

That 5.5 copy was a big key that had spectacular eye appeal for the grade structurally, had a very WHITE cover AND had white interior pages.

 

Perfect storm.

 

 

Agreed that it was a very nice copy but it amazes me that it sold for 3X the 5.5 gpa average and above the 7.0 average which is about 17.5k

 

The book looked like it was a $50,000 book, though.

 

Sometimes logic and emotion don't see eye to eye.

 

[rabidwolf]

Anybody on the boards see this book in person by any chance. There must have been something that dropped it down in grade so much

[VintageComics]

Anybody on the boards see this book in person by any chance. There must have been something that dropped it down in grade so much

 

There were 8" and 6" creases on the book but they didn't show up in the scan.

 

There's a discussion in the Silver Age forum in the curator thread about this book. A few board members saw it in person.

 

 

[rabidwolf]

Interesting. Thanks.