troydivision1 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 On 3/24/2022 at 5:50 PM, MAR1979 said: Flippers be lovin' a fuzzy (no dates or estimates) announcement to maximize interest... Probably be 2-3 years before anything appears. Flippers probably salivating right now. Books CGC Label CGC Total Avg. Grade 10 9.9 9.8 9.6 9.4 9.2 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.8 1.5 1.0 0.5 Nova 1 (9/76, Marvel Comics) Origin & 1st appearance of Nova (Richard Rider). 1st appearance of Ginger Jaye. Universal 6,321 8.79 507 1,197 1,189 757 748 581 400 271 221 144 110 58 57 30 19 13 11 5 1 2 I always go back to someone on these boards posting this about The Walking Dead. “Don’t Sell the Steak—Sell the Sizzle!” Reason being, the sizzle has sold more steaks than the cow ever has, although the cow is, of course, mighty important. ygogolak, MAR1979 and AGGIEZ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FFB Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 On 3/10/2022 at 12:32 PM, MAR1979 said: I've no issue with a spine like that on 9.8 and it would NOT deter me, in fact the wrap on my 9.8 is "worse" than that, but 9.9's and 10's should have practically perfect wraps. and it not even a newsstand... It looks like the top spine corner has a small bindery tear, too. 9.9? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPark Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 Don't know the price, but someone (on eBay) splurged on a Werewolf by Night 32 CGC 9.8 that was listed at $90,000 or best offer. I guess if you're in the market for one, and worried it will only go up, there is no time like the present! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjfversion1 Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 On 3/30/2022 at 11:28 AM, PeterPark said: Don't know the price, but someone (on eBay) splurged on a Werewolf by Night 32 CGC 9.8 that was listed at $90,000 or best offer. I guess if you're in the market for one, and worried it will only go up, there is no time like the present! Looks like a best offer of $65k was taken according to 130point.com PeterPark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_BEYONDER Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 (edited) On 3/30/2022 at 3:47 PM, jjfversion1 said: Looks like a best offer of $65k was taken according to 130point.com GPA says $70,500 Unless another 9.8 sold this month Edited March 30, 2022 by THE_BEYONDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_BEYONDER Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 On 3/30/2022 at 3:47 PM, jjfversion1 said: Looks like a best offer of $65k was taken according to 130point.com GPA says $70,500 Unless another 9.8 sold in March Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjfversion1 Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 On 3/30/2022 at 2:00 PM, THE_BEYONDER said: GPA says $70,500 Unless another 9.8 sold this month $70.5k sale was from March 19th and $65k sale was from today. THE_BEYONDER 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGGIEZ Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 On 3/24/2022 at 4:50 PM, MAR1979 said: Flippers be lovin' a fuzzy (no dates or estimates) announcement to maximize interest... Probably be 2-3 years before anything appears. Flippers probably salivating right now. Books CGC Label CGC Total Avg. Grade 10 9.9 9.8 9.6 9.4 9.2 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.8 1.5 1.0 0.5 Nova 1 (9/76, Marvel Comics) Origin & 1st appearance of Nova (Richard Rider). 1st appearance of Ginger Jaye. Universal 6,321 8.79 507 1,197 1,189 757 748 581 400 271 221 144 110 58 57 30 19 13 11 5 1 2 I be holding on to my Nova 1's for a while now...and I be holding until he be making a post-credits appearance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NP_Gresham Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 On 3/25/2022 at 8:29 AM, FFB said: It looks like the top spine corner has a small bindery tear, too. 9.9? Screw the wrap the pages the presentation …. Must have that number!!!! kimik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPark Posted April 2, 2022 Author Share Posted April 2, 2022 I'm surprised Creatures on the Loose 30 hasn't picked up more than it has. They're selling but it looks like the movie isn't driving the price up like it did initially. I didn't see the movie, FWIW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lou 14 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 On 4/1/2022 at 9:28 PM, PeterPark said: I'm surprised Creatures on the Loose 30 hasn't picked up more than it has. They're selling but it looks like the movie isn't driving the price up like it did initially. I didn't see the movie, FWIW I wasn't aware this was a sought after book -- I had to look it up to see that it's the first appearance of Agent Simon Stroud, whoever that is. I dunno, seems pretty obscure to me. I don't own a copy and wouldn't think to get one based on this info. KCOComics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygogolak Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 7:04 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said: I wasn't aware this was a sought after book -- I had to look it up to see that it's the first appearance of Agent Simon Stroud, whoever that is. I dunno, seems pretty obscure to me. I don't own a copy and wouldn't think to get one based on this info. There is a movie with him in it out now. It's been known about for years and the delays and sub-par reviews haven't helped. Off Panel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lou 14 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 11:41 AM, ygogolak said: There is a movie with him in it out now. It's been known about for years and the delays and sub-par reviews haven't helped. Understood, but there are movies containing tons of B-list and C-list characters. This character isn't even worthy of the D-list. Off Panel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygogolak Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 1:29 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said: Understood, but there are movies containing tons of B-list and C-list characters. This character isn't even worthy of the D-list. The actor is well known. What level is Peacemaker? Might want to check on his first these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lou 14 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 1:41 PM, ygogolak said: The actor is well known. What level is Peacemaker? Might want to check on his first these days. I don't know, I don't collect DC. (He is DC, right?) I believe even DC fans were calling him C-list when the movie got made. But there is a hell of a big difference between being in a movie and being the main character of a movie. ygogolak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Frank.Einstein Posted April 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 3, 2022 On 3/2/2022 at 2:51 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said: Honestly, I'm not sure if I should be bragging about this or embarrassed by what I paid. But here you go. I am fully aware that this is probably the WORST possible time to buy ASM #101. I thought long and hard about staying out of this auction and waiting for another copy after the movie hype dies down. However, there were a few factors that made me go for it: I am soooo close to finishing my goal of upgrading #101 through #150 to 9.6 WP. With this book in the collection, I am down to just four more (none of which are keys -- #121, 122, 124, 129, etc. are all checked off the list already). This book almost never comes up with white pages. In fact, off-white seems almost as common as OW/W. This book is also notorious for centering / wrap issues. No, this wrap isn't perfect but honestly I can be happy with a thin, even strip of white. I really dislike when the wrap is crooked and you get a triangle of white, which again is very common on this book. So, the market for 9.6 has been anywhere from $9,000 on the low end to $12,000 on the high end, but this book was sitting at over $11K as of February 22, one week before the auction close. I have bid on enough auctions to know that this meant it was going to take at least $13,500 to win this book. I also knew there would be at least one other person out there thinking along with me that this was a very nice 9.6 and that there's no way to know when another WP copy was going to come around. So I prepared to "go nuts" and bid somewhere in the high $15,000s -- hoping and praying that I was overshooting by a bunch and I'd win it for $12,500 but knowing that all it takes is one other person thinking the same thing and I would get a much more painful win. And then, no joke, with about 8 seconds to go I just had this feeling that there was going to be someone willing to go to $16K. So I bid $16,387. I won the book for $16,387 because sure enough, somebody bid $16,222. So -- had I lost, I would have been sitting there with no book and having helped set the market at $16K on this book and I would have been banging my head against the wall. Since I won, I am sitting here with a book (that is a big deal, the adrenaline rush and the dopamine hit are real) but I also know I've overpaid. I can console myself with a few thoughts ... This is a real nice book and I am very happy to have it. I'm going to sell my 9.4, hopefully quickly, and that will take some of the sting out of this if I can get a good price. If I look at the (many many) books already in my collection, and the prices they are going for, I know in the big picture I'm doing fine even though I might have taken a bath on this one book. Just to take a handful of books I was watching -- ASM #2 through #5 in 9.0 -- all four sold last night for a LOT more than I paid for my 9.0 copies. That helps me cope with the pain of buying in the current market. In the past, when I've paid what felt like way too much for a book, it usually didn't take long before I was actually thankful I got the book for what I paid. There's some hope that I'll feel that way (eventually) about this book. The Morbius movie sounds like it might be a good one, so maybe the character has more "legs" than I wanted to give it credit for. As for the books I lost: Avengers #93, Avengers #94, and Captain America #118 -- all in 9.6 WP, and all of which sold for what I frankly consider to be crazy numbers, though I came in third place on the #93 and second place on the other two so I guess that makes me part of the insanity. I don't know how to feel about any of this, but I'll get over it. You're just catching me when it's all still very fresh and I figure what the hell, why not lay it all out here as a little snapshot of what I'm thinking at this moment in time. I hope at least some of this sounds familiar to others who are trying to navigate this incredibly overheated market. Congrats Lou - that was my book! I only just saw this post, otherwise would have chimed in much earlier. I am SO happy it is going to you, into a collection like yours. As I was watching the auction end I was very curious as to where it would end up, and I can't say that about many of my sales Enjoy! Jayman, Microchip, ThothAmon and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lou 14 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 On 4/3/2022 at 5:24 AM, Frank.Einstein said: Congrats Lou - that was my book! I only just saw this post, otherwise would have chimed in much earlier. I am SO happy it is going to you, into a collection like yours. As I was watching the auction end I was very curious as to where it would end up, and I can't say that about many of my sales Enjoy! Thanks for letting me know! I think you might have sold at the perfect time. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank.Einstein Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 On 4/3/2022 at 5:03 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said: Thanks for letting me know! I think you might have sold at the perfect time. Well, I think with the upcoming Morbius film, the monster phase of the MCU, future Spidey Films, and the eventual appearance of the Midnight Sons in the MCU etc this book will see continual spikes and rises! All the best in completing your run! Sweet Lou 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post WernerVonDoom Posted April 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2022 On 3/31/2022 at 9:12 AM, AGGIEZ said: I be holding on to my Nova 1's for a while now...and I be holding until he be making a post-credits appearance. Looks like its time to send these in. batmiesta, Professor K, mtlevy1 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
