Batman #1 Club 7 7

[Daveb25]

772 feedback for the bidder but do you think that’s a legitimate sale?  If so.. crazy. 

[Daveb25]

Page 7 and page 8 recently went for over $3k on eBay too… hopefully this doesn’t spur people to start breaking up their copies. 

[lou_fine]

On 12/5/2021 at 10:05 PM, Daveb25 said:

Page 7 and page 8 recently went for over $3k on eBay too… hopefully this doesn’t spur people to start breaking up their copies. 

Oh, come on you old fogies..................you gotta get with this new generation of buyers and sellers for these uber classic GA key books.  

Breaking up copies into separate pages is only the first step because you can get only 34 individual sales out of these early GA books this way.  You gotta think a bit further outside the box if you wanna be ahead of everybody else and go right to selling individual panels out of these GA classic keys because you can make a whole lot more individual sales from just one book using this strategy.  

Edited December 7, 2021 by lou_fine

[Monsters-n-heroes]

So around 6 weeks ago I got lucky and traded for a back cover pin-up at the Kane County Toy show and thought WOW incredible luck! Now fast forward to this Saturday and I had the good fortune of finding these via a Facebook post and followed up and purchased them yesterday. The seller said that her Dad was born in 1928 and still had these from when he was a kid and she was now selling them for him. So I either have no Batman covers ... or...  too many Batman covers ... good problem to have!

Kenny Sanderson is currently working on my pinup I previously posted here to restore the border and get it back to complete, so I will likely marry that back to this front, since this front has obvious missing artwork needing recreated as well anyway. I know many despise restoration and that's fine, I am personally fine with it if it's well done. I know many would leave the chunky front unmolested and this back cover split and married to an interior but I dislike the missing piece chunky look though. I am assuming Kenny's work would be be reversible anyway. The way I see it a married covers and first wrap green label 1.0 or a nicely restored 2.0 or 3.0 in appearance is a wash anyway value-wise. Interested in other's thoughts?

So now, I am down to needing a first wrap ... so if anyone would be interested in possibly selling the first wrap please contact me. Or if I do go the route that this newly acquired back cover is available, I would maybe take cash and a first wrap as part trade. *** for sure nothing is set in stone, I have to see what Kenny's thoughts are on my current plan. ***

Anyway keep the faith, parts still show up as unlikely as it seems. I do a lot of searching too, but still I am amazed. Thanks!

Edited December 7, 2021 by Monsters-n-heroes

[Daveb25]

On 12/7/2021 at 10:03 AM, Monsters-n-heroes said:

So around 6 weeks ago I got lucky and traded for a back cover pin-up at the Kane County Toy show and thought WOW incredible luck! Now fast forward to this Saturday and I had the good fortune of finding these via a Facebook post and followed up and purchased them yesterday. The seller said that her Dad was born in 1928 and still had these from when he was a kid and she was now selling them for him. So I either have no Batman covers ... or...  too many Batman covers ... good problem to have!

Kenny Sanderson is currently working on my pinup I previously posted here to restore the border and get it back to complete, so I will likely marry that back to this front, since this front has obvious missing artwork needing recreated as well anyway. I know many despise restoration and that's fine, I am personally fine with it if it's well done. I know many would leave the chunky front unmolested and this back cover split and married to an interior but I dislike the missing piece chunky look though. I am assuming Kenny's work would be be reversible anyway. The way I see it a married covers and first wrap green label 1.0 or a nicely restored 2.0 or 3.0 in appearance is a wash anyway value-wise. Interested in other's thoughts?

So now, I am down to needing a first wrap ... so if anyone would be interested in possibly selling the first wrap please contact me. Or if I do go the route that this newly acquired back cover is available, I would maybe take cash and a first wrap as part trade. *** for sure nothing is set in stone, I have to see what Kenny's thoughts are on my current plan. ***

Anyway keep the faith, parts still show up as unlikely as it seems. I do a lot of searching too, but still I am amazed. Thanks!

That is amazing.  Congratulations. 

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

A few hours to go. To me, doesn’t look much worse than the Promise 2.5 that just hammered at $240k, IIRC

[Crowzilla]

On 12/6/2021 at 1:05 AM, Daveb25 said:

Page 7 and page 8 recently went for over $3k on eBay too… hopefully this doesn’t spur people to start breaking up their copies. 

Page 28 sold for over $8,000

I said a few months back, that the break-up value was getting too high and that restored copies were the super bargains. realistically, the page by page value is somewhere in the $50-60,000 range if you pull apart the book, possibly more depending on how much work was done to the cover.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

On 12/7/2021 at 3:26 PM, Crowzilla said:

Page 28 sold for over $8,000

I said a few months back, that the break-up value was getting too high and that restored copies were the super bargains. realistically, the page by page value is somewhere in the $50-60,000 range if you pull apart the book, possibly more depending on how much work was done to the cover.

Yes, except the Bat 1 prices continue to increase as well. $240k for a 2.0 in Heritage a couple months ago, followed by $240k for the Promise 2.0 in Heritage last month. I guess we will find out in a couple of hours what the Clink 1.8 goes for. It’s at $116k at the moment 

Edited December 8, 2021 by GreatCaesarsGhost

[Daveb25]

Glad I have my Bob Kabe signed, slight restores voldy. 

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

On 12/7/2021 at 3:48 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Yes, except the Bat 1 prices continue to increase as well. $240k for a 2.0 in Heritage a couple months ago, followed by $240k for the Promise 2.0 in Heritage last month. I guess we will find out in a couple of hours what the Clink 1.8 goes for. It’s at $116k at the moment 

$177k final hammer

[Chicago Boy]

On 12/7/2021 at 9:21 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

$177k final hammer

Wow. Almost 90k a point for a non pedigree decent looking copy..  

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

C’mon guys. This thread should be hopping. I understand we all are suffering from recent meteoric price increases, but still:

we learned something important today. Heritage recently sold two 2.0 copies of Bat 1 for big money. But today ComicLink also did well on a 1.8 with low eye appeal. 

there’s definitely something happening w Batman 1 these days

[Professor K]

On 12/8/2021 at 12:51 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

C’mon guys. This thread should be hopping. I understand we all are suffering from recent meteoric price increases, but still:

we learned something important today. Heritage recently sold two 2.0 copies of Bat 1 for big money. But today ComicLink also did well on a 1.8 with low eye appeal. 

there’s definitely something happening w Batman 1 these days

I've been dying to jump in but I can't think of anything good to say. 

[Dark Knight]

I'm pumped! Cheers to fellow club members 

[lou_fine]

On 12/7/2021 at 9:51 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

there’s definitely something happening w Batman 1 these days

Makes me wonder what the minimum grade it would take now for a Bat 1 to cross the $1M threshold in today's marketplace?  

My own personal guess is that a CGC 7.5 graded copy might just do it if it presents nicely, wich is certainly a far cry from just a few years ago.  

[lhcomics]

At these prices I'll never own a 3rd copy. 

[Professor K]

On 12/8/2021 at 7:22 AM, lhcomics said:

At these prices I'll never own a 3rd copy. 

I'm so sorry for your loss. 

[Monsters-n-heroes]

On 12/8/2021 at 6:22 AM, lhcomics said:

At these prices I'll never own a 3rd copy. 

Greedy ... remove one of the first wraps and send it to me! I am old and won't be alive much longer ... Well maybe another 20 or 30 years ... But still.😂

[Monsters-n-heroes]

On 12/8/2021 at 12:39 AM, Professor K said:

I've been dying to jump in but I can't think of anything good to say. 

It's getting pricey and disheartening, for sure. I have resigned myself to owning restored for most stuff now. Just keeps climbing!

Edited December 9, 2021 by Monsters-n-heroes

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

On 12/8/2021 at 12:05 AM, lou_fine said:

Makes me wonder what the minimum grade it would take now for a Bat 1 to cross the $1M threshold in today's marketplace?  

My own personal guess is that a CGC 7.5 graded copy might just do it if it presents nicely, wich is certainly a far cry from just a few years ago.  

Yes. Good point. I had originally thought Heritage had exclusive access to the crypto guys and that only Heritage had the power to hammer at high prices. What Clink just accomplished makes me now think it’s the Bat 1 that has strengthened,  no matter the auction house. Seriously, did you see that 1.8?! 
 

now I’d like to see what another auction house can do with a Cap 1. Heritage got $240k for the Promise 3.5 with a rusty staple. Just as I now believe Bat 1 has made a true leap forward(as opposed to a one-time outlier), maybe the same could be said for Cap 1.

hey @Mmehdy @G.A.tor@woowooawake from your slumber. What say you?

Edited December 8, 2021 by GreatCaesarsGhost