AKA Rick Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 The best way to really determine the heat of the book and value is the frequency of it exchanging hands in sales, for example looking at completed (sold) auctions on eBay. Once you start seeing a bunch of listing at "$ or best offer" (pie in the sky sales attempt prices) and no sales the marketplace will officially will have cooled down and you can look at the sales precedent for the high/low benchmarks for average valuation. The problem with this book and how it's criticized it that it was a book marketed for children, not mainstream, but in all honesty that's what makes it more valuable since it was never speculated upon or horded by the masses and if you look at the estimated print run, I'd say a large % of the books have not survived through the hands of children and are in landfill. Also, as collectors in a modern age, it's always hard to give proper respect to things that are less vintage at times. It's the same way some people love the music from the era they grew up in and are critical about the new pop songs coming out today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytastebud Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Does anyone have access to current GPA on BA 12 in 9.8? I'm interested in current value/sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntoAnother Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 the 90 day GPA is $1863. Last sale was $1950. Feel free to check it out, it's a great site. http://comics.gpanalysis.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsehater27 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I went back to my home town and ran into a person I new back in high school and being my home town has no comic shops he asked if I had certain modern comics. After trading him 3-4 raw comics I ended up with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecopperagekids Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 the 90 day GPA is $1863. Last sale was $1950. Feel free to check it out, it's a great site. http://comics.gpanalysis.com/ +1. Well worth the $10.95 recurring monthly fee, in my experience.....and that is a Hell of an understatement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpentor_Prime-migration Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 GoCollect is cheaper, prettier layout and adds some information that GPA doesn't currently. I know the GPA fans are about to salivate with hate though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santos208 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 So the other company is labeling batman adventures 12 as "Light and Dark versions exist" Thats new to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanheart Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 GPA gives a ballpark number for cased comics. It's debatable as to whether you get your money bag from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Smooth Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 I could see a 9.9 being a $2500-$3000 book easy....I would love to see one if it ever showed up. I know my 9.8 isn't a 9.9 incognito. It has a couple of minor flaws. This is from 2.5 years ago. I think a 9.9 would do a little better than 2-3K now. It's amazing how high this book has jumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaydogrules Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoak//Frost-migration Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. I think we'll see this happen a bit more over time, given that Batman Adventures was never considered to be a book that collectors would want, I'm sure there's tons of retailers who have them in storage in All Ages boxes, or runs from former kid/collectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. Or it could be the fact that CGC finally updated the census. If you look at the Batman #121 thread there was a lull in listing the 9.0 that sold on Pedigree a couple of weeks back. The book was up for auction but was not in the census yet........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschmidt Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. Or it could be the fact that CGC finally updated the census. If you look at the Batman #121 thread there was a lull in listing the 9.0 that sold on Pedigree a couple of weeks back. The book was up for auction but was not in the census yet........ Onsite books usually take a couple of weeks to show up in the census - for everything else, the census is updated every week :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkdrawer Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. Or it could be the fact that CGC finally updated the census. If you look at the Batman #121 thread there was a lull in listing the 9.0 that sold on Pedigree a couple of weeks back. The book was up for auction but was not in the census yet........ Onsite books usually take a couple of weeks to show up in the census - for everything else, the census is updated every week :thumbsup: Jaydog lives for the day when he can expose this book and its overinflated, hyped up, artificial, no count, questionable value. Pack a lunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreezy Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. 37 copies added to the census in a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschmidt Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. Or it could be the fact that CGC finally updated the census. If you look at the Batman #121 thread there was a lull in listing the 9.0 that sold on Pedigree a couple of weeks back. The book was up for auction but was not in the census yet........ Onsite books usually take a couple of weeks to show up in the census - for everything else, the census is updated every week :thumbsup: Jaydog lives for the day when he can expose this book and its overinflated, hyped up, artificial, no count, questionable value. Pack a lunch I think this book is overinflated too - but, unlike the ASM variant from the other thread, it's also fairly clear that the prices for this book are being driven by solid demand, not by some perceived "rarity" :shrug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaydogrules Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. Or it could be the fact that CGC finally updated the census. If you look at the Batman #121 thread there was a lull in listing the 9.0 that sold on Pedigree a couple of weeks back. The book was up for auction but was not in the census yet........ Onsite books usually take a couple of weeks to show up in the census - for everything else, the census is updated every week :thumbsup: Jaydog lives for the day when he can expose this book and its overinflated, hyped up, artificial, no count, questionable value. Pack a lunch I think this book is overinflated too - but, unlike the ASM variant from the other thread, it's also fairly clear that the prices for this book are being driven by solid demand, not by some perceived "rarity" :shrug: Demand is demand, regardless of what (you believe) the reason for it is. (thumbs u -J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoak//Frost-migration Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 To me this just means more books about to hit auction, driving up the GPA avg even higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanheart Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Somebody must have found a box of high grade copies of these in that infamous, mysterious and dreaded "warehouse of undiscovered comic books". The census numbers jumped markedly last week: 9.8- +12 (359) 9.6- +14 (476) 9.4- +6 (266) 9.2- +2 (157) 9.0- +3 (125) -J. Can you imagine what that translates into cash? 359 times 1800 476 times 900 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreezy Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 To me this just means more books about to hit auction, driving up the GPA avg even higher. Law of economics is actually the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
