how much should I pay for a coverless Incredible Hulk #1 Update

[oakman29]

How much would I expect to pay for a coverless copy of Hulk #1

 

it's complete

no restoration

no tape

no pen or pencil marks

 

only problem is a one inch tear through the spine

 

thoughts?

 

 

Can I ask you why you're focusing so much on low grade and incomplete books?.

 

I buy low grade and incomplete comics because it's what I can afford and sell them for a profit

J

But couldn't you spend that same money on nice copies of cheaper books? It's just a curious niche to be in.

 

I guess this is me belittling uchiha101 Calling being a specialist in flipping coverless and incomplete books a niche is belittling apparently

 

Just straight up truth,can't imagine making any money on a coverless Hulk #1at 1050.00.God forbid you give him good advice,and some see it as bullying. Crazy!

[Iceman399]

How much would I expect to pay for a coverless copy of Hulk #1

 

it's complete

no restoration

no tape

no pen or pencil marks

 

only problem is a one inch tear through the spine

 

thoughts?

 

 

Can I ask you why you're focusing so much on low grade and incomplete books?.

 

I buy low grade and incomplete comics because it's what I can afford and sell them for a profit

J

But couldn't you spend that same money on nice copies of cheaper books? It's just a curious niche to be in.

 

I guess this is me belittling uchiha101 Calling being a specialist in flipping coverless and incomplete books a niche is belittling apparently

 

Just straight up truth,can't imagine making any money on a coverless Hulk #1at 1050.00.God forbid you give him good advice,and some see it as bullying. Crazy!

 

You are such a bully! Selling any shoes by chance with comics plastered on said shoes?

[bluechip]

Seriously, I basically coined the phrase.

 

6/26/04

 

Could the late turnaround time be due to the 5,000 ( heh..just a estimate) modern books arriving at CGC's front door weekly?

 

Could people stop complaining about Modern books? Modern books showing up by the truckload only slow down Modern submissions since certain graders only handle certain books. CGC needs more staff all around to handle the greater general volume. Laying blame anywhere but on the fact that CGC is understaffed is ignoring reality.

 

Unless of course Modern CGC books just bother you, in that case, it's yet another iteration of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

3/16/04

Just got here... Did I miss anything?

 

Skimming it, I think it was another variation of "What I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

03/11/04

 

What a head scratcher. Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but we're laying the blame for a company's problems at its customers' feet? CGC can't handle the increase in volume and it's their customers' fault? How does that work exactly? Isn't that totally backwards? Shouldn't we be talking about how CGC is failing to satisfy its customers demands, whatever they may be?

 

CGC simply has to do what every other company in this situation would do- increase productivity. In this case it would probably mean hiring more staff.

 

Of course, there's no real pressure to do so since there's no real competition for them...

 

By the way- proposing that we should punish modern tier customers because CGC is slow? What's up with that? It sounds like a case of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid." I hate that syndrome.

 

CGC has to figure out a way to handle the volume, it's that simple.

 

I am happy to declare you the source of the concept that a collector should not say "what I collect is great; what you collect is stupid"

 

And imagine you are a good guy.

 

My response was to the brief moments wherein you seemed to diverge from that. I mean, when some other poster chimed in with a bit of snark to say something like (not the exact words) "I can guess what bluechip collects" it was clear that he was implying that what I collected was either stupid or not worth as much. At the very least trying to make others feel some some disdain for what I was presumed to be holding and wanting to sell someday. And you chimed in with a remark that echoed that thought. I had sensed from your initial posts that bubbling under it was the desire to discourage people from having any interest in lower grade keys. And by piggybacking on that disdainful remark it reinforces my initial perception.

 

Truth is that at the prices Hulk 1 is going lately I am not sure I would advise that any of the copies selling lately will be immediately flippable for more.

 

If I'd seen a Hulk 1 selling for 200 dollars in one place and then 1000 another time, I would join you in saying the 1000 purchase was less of a deal. But I didn't see anybody pointing to precise figures about what the book was available for coverless. Instead it was vague and broad statements that coverless and, more specifically, low grade books in general, were to be avoided, regardless of how important, in favor of books that are higher grade.

 

Maybe it would have been better if I'd put if this way. If I can only have the first appearance of a key character OR several of the later appearances, I'd rather have the coverless first appearance every time. Hulk 1 coverless beats having Hulk 5 and 6 or even a stack of later non-keys. Just like Superman 1 coverless beats complete copies of say 7 and 8. Or Action 1 coverless would beat having complete copies of 6, 8 and 9. If anybody out there feels differently, and has a Cap 1 or tec 27 or Action 1 in coverless and wants to trade them for a few later non-key issues that much nicer and complete, then let me know and we'll make a deal very fast.

[uchiha101]

I personally would want to pay $500 or less

 

I bought one years ago for around $200 and took the centerfold and married it to a copy I had. Then I sold the coverless missing centerfold for $150...numbers may be off a little

 

so you thing if I would buy it at 1050 I wouldn't make a profit on it? or do you buy low just in case something is wrong with the comic?

 

Just so you know, the GPA price that you quoted in your first message is NOT for a coverless book. If you look at GPA, you have to be careful which "0.5" section you are looking at. There is a "0.5 incomplete" and there is also a "0.5 COVERLESS" a few rows below that. It's helpful to click on the CGC label number also and read exactly what was missing from the book on CGC's site, since "incomplete" can vary so much.

 

It's probably worth in the $750-1,000 range depending on how nice it presents.

 

Your right it does make a difference so I'll be paying closer attention to it

[uchiha101]

Why not look for a short box of SA/BA you could get for the same money?

 

Figure you pay-5-10 each, then sell them for 15-30 each.

 

Betting the farm on one book with a problem is not a good place to start in this hobby.

 

Or better yet buy a short box of BA for maybe 100-200, and sell them for 5-10 each.

 

Work within your means and gain experience in grading and sales.

 

my .02

 

TF

 

I have tried that a couple times and people would just ignore what I have for sale since so many copies in high grade were easily attainable

[uchiha101]

I personally would want to pay $500 or less

 

I bought one years ago for around $200 and took the centerfold and married it to a copy I had. Then I sold the coverless missing centerfold for $150...numbers may be off a little

 

so you thing if I would buy it at 1050 I wouldn't make a profit on it? or do you buy low just in case something is wrong with the comic?

Let me get this straight you want to buy a cover less Hulk #1 for 1050.00? Why not save a little bit of dough and find a presentable copy? I don't think your looking rationally.

 

well as someone who doesn't have the luxury of buying higher end books I buy what I can afford

[uchiha101]

I personally would want to pay $500 or less

 

I bought one years ago for around $200 and took the centerfold and married it to a copy I had. Then I sold the coverless missing centerfold for $150...numbers may be off a little

 

so you thing if I would buy it at 1050 I wouldn't make a profit on it? or do you buy low just in case something is wrong with the comic?

Let me get this straight you want to buy a cover less Hulk #1 for 1050.00? Why not save a little bit of dough and find a presentable copy? I don't think your looking rationally.

 

One of the sweetest blue .5's is in the marketplace for $2500. That's the route I'd go if I could scrounge up the dough.

 

I would if I had the money as well

[uchiha101]

A raw coverless copy sold on heritage in august for $860.

 

you are right I checked the price on that's whaht is seems to be going for

[uchiha101]

How much would I expect to pay for a coverless copy of Hulk #1

 

it's complete

no restoration

no tape

no pen or pencil marks

 

only problem is a one inch tear through the spine

 

thoughts?

 

 

Can I ask you why you're focusing so much on low grade and incomplete books?.

 

I buy low grade and incomplete comics because it's what I can afford and sell them for a profit

 

But couldn't you spend that same money on nice copies of cheaper books? It's just a curious niche to be in.

 

it is but if I buy coverless copies if it doesn't sell I put repro covers on to improve eye appeal and desireablity

[rob_react]

Seriously, I basically coined the phrase.

 

6/26/04

 

Could the late turnaround time be due to the 5,000 ( heh..just a estimate) modern books arriving at CGC's front door weekly?

 

Could people stop complaining about Modern books? Modern books showing up by the truckload only slow down Modern submissions since certain graders only handle certain books. CGC needs more staff all around to handle the greater general volume. Laying blame anywhere but on the fact that CGC is understaffed is ignoring reality.

 

Unless of course Modern CGC books just bother you, in that case, it's yet another iteration of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

3/16/04

Just got here... Did I miss anything?

 

Skimming it, I think it was another variation of "What I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

03/11/04

 

What a head scratcher. Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but we're laying the blame for a company's problems at its customers' feet? CGC can't handle the increase in volume and it's their customers' fault? How does that work exactly? Isn't that totally backwards? Shouldn't we be talking about how CGC is failing to satisfy its customers demands, whatever they may be?

 

CGC simply has to do what every other company in this situation would do- increase productivity. In this case it would probably mean hiring more staff.

 

Of course, there's no real pressure to do so since there's no real competition for them...

 

By the way- proposing that we should punish modern tier customers because CGC is slow? What's up with that? It sounds like a case of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid." I hate that syndrome.

 

CGC has to figure out a way to handle the volume, it's that simple.

 

I am happy to declare you the source of the concept that a collector should not say "what I collect is great; what you collect is stupid"

 

And imagine you are a good guy.

 

My response was to the brief moments wherein you seemed to diverge from that. I mean, when some other poster chimed in with a bit of snark to say something like (not the exact words) "I can guess what bluechip collects" it was clear that he was implying that what I collected was either stupid or not worth as much. At the very least trying to make others feel some some disdain for what I was presumed to be holding and wanting to sell someday. And you chimed in with a remark that echoed that thought. I had sensed from your initial posts that bubbling under it was the desire to discourage people from having any interest in lower grade keys. And by piggybacking on that disdainful remark it reinforces my initial perception.

 

I didn't diverge from anything. The OP wants to flip coverless and incomplete books and I continue to find the idea of buying and flipping coverless and incomplete books weird. There are much easier books to buy and flip (ones with more sales data and more immediate demand.) You put hundreds of words in my mouth in this thread. I literally posted three sentences in this thread and then you read into those three sentences whatever it is you wanted to see and started to ascribe all sorts of motivation to my three sentences.

 

Look at my actual posts.

 

Nothing here is disrespectful of the OP. I don't mention buying 9.8s or use the word "nosebleed" or talk about collecting or basically anything that you attacked me for.

 

In fact, the only disrespect here is shown by you, in not having enough patience to actually read the content you're commenting on before deciding to pick a fight with someone who has zero interest in message board fights. The only reason I've commented as much as I have is because you came out of nowhere to try to paint me as a villain for no reason and that's unfair. Normally, I'm happy to just disagree and move onto something else, but when someone makes up a bunch of lies and nonsense about me based on three sentences, it's a lot harder to just walk away.

[bluechip]

Seriously, I basically coined the phrase.

 

6/26/04

 

Could the late turnaround time be due to the 5,000 ( heh..just a estimate) modern books arriving at CGC's front door weekly?

 

Could people stop complaining about Modern books? Modern books showing up by the truckload only slow down Modern submissions since certain graders only handle certain books. CGC needs more staff all around to handle the greater general volume. Laying blame anywhere but on the fact that CGC is understaffed is ignoring reality.

 

Unless of course Modern CGC books just bother you, in that case, it's yet another iteration of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

3/16/04

Just got here... Did I miss anything?

 

Skimming it, I think it was another variation of "What I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

03/11/04

 

What a head scratcher. Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but we're laying the blame for a company's problems at its customers' feet? CGC can't handle the increase in volume and it's their customers' fault? How does that work exactly? Isn't that totally backwards? Shouldn't we be talking about how CGC is failing to satisfy its customers demands, whatever they may be?

 

CGC simply has to do what every other company in this situation would do- increase productivity. In this case it would probably mean hiring more staff.

 

Of course, there's no real pressure to do so since there's no real competition for them...

 

By the way- proposing that we should punish modern tier customers because CGC is slow? What's up with that? It sounds like a case of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid." I hate that syndrome.

 

CGC has to figure out a way to handle the volume, it's that simple.

 

I am happy to declare you the source of the concept that a collector should not say "what I collect is great; what you collect is stupid"

 

And imagine you are a good guy.

 

My response was to the brief moments wherein you seemed to diverge from that. I mean, when some other poster chimed in with a bit of snark to say something like (not the exact words) "I can guess what bluechip collects" it was clear that he was implying that what I collected was either stupid or not worth as much. At the very least trying to make others feel some some disdain for what I was presumed to be holding and wanting to sell someday. And you chimed in with a remark that echoed that thought. I had sensed from your initial posts that bubbling under it was the desire to discourage people from having any interest in lower grade keys. And by piggybacking on that disdainful remark it reinforces my initial perception.

 

I didn't diverge from anything. The OP wants to flip coverless and incomplete books and I continue to find the idea of buying and flipping coverless and incomplete books weird. There are much easier books to buy and flip (ones with more sales data and more immediate demand.) You put hundreds of words in my mouth in this thread. I literally posted three sentences in this thread and then you read into those three sentences whatever it is you wanted to see and started to ascribe all sorts of motivation to my three sentences.

 

Look at my actual posts.

 

Nothing here is disrespectful of the OP. I don't mention buying 9.8s or use the word "nosebleed" or talk about collecting or basically anything that you attacked me for.

 

In fact, the only disrespect here is shown by you, in not having enough patience to actually read the content you're commenting on before deciding to pick a fight with someone who has zero interest in message board fights. The only reason I've commented as much as I have is because you came out of nowhere to try to paint me as a villain for no reason and that's unfair. Normally, I'm happy to just disagree and move onto something else, but when someone makes up a bunch of lies and nonsense about me based on three sentences, it's a lot harder to just walk away.

 

I did read your other posts and didn't call you a villain. In fact in the most recent post I wrote "I am sure you are a nice guy."

 

 

[rob_react]

Seriously, I basically coined the phrase.

 

6/26/04

 

Could the late turnaround time be due to the 5,000 ( heh..just a estimate) modern books arriving at CGC's front door weekly?

 

Could people stop complaining about Modern books? Modern books showing up by the truckload only slow down Modern submissions since certain graders only handle certain books. CGC needs more staff all around to handle the greater general volume. Laying blame anywhere but on the fact that CGC is understaffed is ignoring reality.

 

Unless of course Modern CGC books just bother you, in that case, it's yet another iteration of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

3/16/04

Just got here... Did I miss anything?

 

Skimming it, I think it was another variation of "What I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

03/11/04

 

What a head scratcher. Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but we're laying the blame for a company's problems at its customers' feet? CGC can't handle the increase in volume and it's their customers' fault? How does that work exactly? Isn't that totally backwards? Shouldn't we be talking about how CGC is failing to satisfy its customers demands, whatever they may be?

 

CGC simply has to do what every other company in this situation would do- increase productivity. In this case it would probably mean hiring more staff.

 

Of course, there's no real pressure to do so since there's no real competition for them...

 

By the way- proposing that we should punish modern tier customers because CGC is slow? What's up with that? It sounds like a case of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid." I hate that syndrome.

 

CGC has to figure out a way to handle the volume, it's that simple.

 

I am happy to declare you the source of the concept that a collector should not say "what I collect is great; what you collect is stupid"

 

And imagine you are a good guy.

 

My response was to the brief moments wherein you seemed to diverge from that. I mean, when some other poster chimed in with a bit of snark to say something like (not the exact words) "I can guess what bluechip collects" it was clear that he was implying that what I collected was either stupid or not worth as much. At the very least trying to make others feel some some disdain for what I was presumed to be holding and wanting to sell someday. And you chimed in with a remark that echoed that thought. I had sensed from your initial posts that bubbling under it was the desire to discourage people from having any interest in lower grade keys. And by piggybacking on that disdainful remark it reinforces my initial perception.

 

I didn't diverge from anything. The OP wants to flip coverless and incomplete books and I continue to find the idea of buying and flipping coverless and incomplete books weird. There are much easier books to buy and flip (ones with more sales data and more immediate demand.) You put hundreds of words in my mouth in this thread. I literally posted three sentences in this thread and then you read into those three sentences whatever it is you wanted to see and started to ascribe all sorts of motivation to my three sentences.

 

Look at my actual posts.

 

Nothing here is disrespectful of the OP. I don't mention buying 9.8s or use the word "nosebleed" or talk about collecting or basically anything that you attacked me for.

 

In fact, the only disrespect here is shown by you, in not having enough patience to actually read the content you're commenting on before deciding to pick a fight with someone who has zero interest in message board fights. The only reason I've commented as much as I have is because you came out of nowhere to try to paint me as a villain for no reason and that's unfair. Normally, I'm happy to just disagree and move onto something else, but when someone makes up a bunch of lies and nonsense about me based on three sentences, it's a lot harder to just walk away.

 

I did read your other posts and didn't call you a villain. In fact in the most recent post I wrote "I am sure you are a nice guy."

 

 

I appreciate that, but you the way you inserted yourself into this thread and where you've ended up are two ends of a spectrum. I'm happy we ended up here where i'm a nice guy, but I'd rather avoid the other part next time.

[bluechip]

Seriously, I basically coined the phrase.

 

6/26/04

 

Could the late turnaround time be due to the 5,000 ( heh..just a estimate) modern books arriving at CGC's front door weekly?

 

Could people stop complaining about Modern books? Modern books showing up by the truckload only slow down Modern submissions since certain graders only handle certain books. CGC needs more staff all around to handle the greater general volume. Laying blame anywhere but on the fact that CGC is understaffed is ignoring reality.

 

Unless of course Modern CGC books just bother you, in that case, it's yet another iteration of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

3/16/04

Just got here... Did I miss anything?

 

Skimming it, I think it was another variation of "What I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

03/11/04

 

What a head scratcher. Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but we're laying the blame for a company's problems at its customers' feet? CGC can't handle the increase in volume and it's their customers' fault? How does that work exactly? Isn't that totally backwards? Shouldn't we be talking about how CGC is failing to satisfy its customers demands, whatever they may be?

 

CGC simply has to do what every other company in this situation would do- increase productivity. In this case it would probably mean hiring more staff.

 

Of course, there's no real pressure to do so since there's no real competition for them...

 

By the way- proposing that we should punish modern tier customers because CGC is slow? What's up with that? It sounds like a case of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid." I hate that syndrome.

 

CGC has to figure out a way to handle the volume, it's that simple.

 

I am happy to declare you the source of the concept that a collector should not say "what I collect is great; what you collect is stupid"

 

And imagine you are a good guy.

 

My response was to the brief moments wherein you seemed to diverge from that. I mean, when some other poster chimed in with a bit of snark to say something like (not the exact words) "I can guess what bluechip collects" it was clear that he was implying that what I collected was either stupid or not worth as much. At the very least trying to make others feel some some disdain for what I was presumed to be holding and wanting to sell someday. And you chimed in with a remark that echoed that thought. I had sensed from your initial posts that bubbling under it was the desire to discourage people from having any interest in lower grade keys. And by piggybacking on that disdainful remark it reinforces my initial perception.

 

I didn't diverge from anything. The OP wants to flip coverless and incomplete books and I continue to find the idea of buying and flipping coverless and incomplete books weird. There are much easier books to buy and flip (ones with more sales data and more immediate demand.) You put hundreds of words in my mouth in this thread. I literally posted three sentences in this thread and then you read into those three sentences whatever it is you wanted to see and started to ascribe all sorts of motivation to my three sentences.

 

Look at my actual posts.

 

Nothing here is disrespectful of the OP. I don't mention buying 9.8s or use the word "nosebleed" or talk about collecting or basically anything that you attacked me for.

 

In fact, the only disrespect here is shown by you, in not having enough patience to actually read the content you're commenting on before deciding to pick a fight with someone who has zero interest in message board fights. The only reason I've commented as much as I have is because you came out of nowhere to try to paint me as a villain for no reason and that's unfair. Normally, I'm happy to just disagree and move onto something else, but when someone makes up a bunch of lies and nonsense about me based on three sentences, it's a lot harder to just walk away.

 

I did read your other posts and didn't call you a villain. In fact in the most recent post I wrote "I am sure you are a nice guy."

 

 

I appreciate that, but you the way you inserted yourself into this thread and where you've ended up are two ends of a spectrum. I'm happy we ended up here where i'm a nice guy, but I'd rather avoid the other part next time.

 

I said "I am sure you're a nice guy" and then you lit into me.

 

In response to that, I repeated that I'd said "I'm sure yo're a nice guy" and you responded again with a complaint.

 

You're beginning to make me feel that olive branches are not the way to go with you.

 

 

[rob_react]

Seriously, I basically coined the phrase.

 

6/26/04

 

Could the late turnaround time be due to the 5,000 ( heh..just a estimate) modern books arriving at CGC's front door weekly?

 

Could people stop complaining about Modern books? Modern books showing up by the truckload only slow down Modern submissions since certain graders only handle certain books. CGC needs more staff all around to handle the greater general volume. Laying blame anywhere but on the fact that CGC is understaffed is ignoring reality.

 

Unless of course Modern CGC books just bother you, in that case, it's yet another iteration of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

3/16/04

Just got here... Did I miss anything?

 

Skimming it, I think it was another variation of "What I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid."

 

03/11/04

 

What a head scratcher. Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but we're laying the blame for a company's problems at its customers' feet? CGC can't handle the increase in volume and it's their customers' fault? How does that work exactly? Isn't that totally backwards? Shouldn't we be talking about how CGC is failing to satisfy its customers demands, whatever they may be?

 

CGC simply has to do what every other company in this situation would do- increase productivity. In this case it would probably mean hiring more staff.

 

Of course, there's no real pressure to do so since there's no real competition for them...

 

By the way- proposing that we should punish modern tier customers because CGC is slow? What's up with that? It sounds like a case of "what I collect is cool, what you collect is stupid." I hate that syndrome.

 

CGC has to figure out a way to handle the volume, it's that simple.

 

I am happy to declare you the source of the concept that a collector should not say "what I collect is great; what you collect is stupid"

 

And imagine you are a good guy.

 

My response was to the brief moments wherein you seemed to diverge from that. I mean, when some other poster chimed in with a bit of snark to say something like (not the exact words) "I can guess what bluechip collects" it was clear that he was implying that what I collected was either stupid or not worth as much. At the very least trying to make others feel some some disdain for what I was presumed to be holding and wanting to sell someday. And you chimed in with a remark that echoed that thought. I had sensed from your initial posts that bubbling under it was the desire to discourage people from having any interest in lower grade keys. And by piggybacking on that disdainful remark it reinforces my initial perception.

 

I didn't diverge from anything. The OP wants to flip coverless and incomplete books and I continue to find the idea of buying and flipping coverless and incomplete books weird. There are much easier books to buy and flip (ones with more sales data and more immediate demand.) You put hundreds of words in my mouth in this thread. I literally posted three sentences in this thread and then you read into those three sentences whatever it is you wanted to see and started to ascribe all sorts of motivation to my three sentences.

 

Look at my actual posts.

 

Nothing here is disrespectful of the OP. I don't mention buying 9.8s or use the word "nosebleed" or talk about collecting or basically anything that you attacked me for.

 

In fact, the only disrespect here is shown by you, in not having enough patience to actually read the content you're commenting on before deciding to pick a fight with someone who has zero interest in message board fights. The only reason I've commented as much as I have is because you came out of nowhere to try to paint me as a villain for no reason and that's unfair. Normally, I'm happy to just disagree and move onto something else, but when someone makes up a bunch of lies and nonsense about me based on three sentences, it's a lot harder to just walk away.

 

I did read your other posts and didn't call you a villain. In fact in the most recent post I wrote "I am sure you are a nice guy."

 

 

I appreciate that, but you the way you inserted yourself into this thread and where you've ended up are two ends of a spectrum. I'm happy we ended up here where i'm a nice guy, but I'd rather avoid the other part next time.

 

I said "I am sure you're a nice guy" and then you lit into me.

 

In response to that, I repeated that I'd said "I'm sure yo're a nice guy" and you responded again with a complaint.

 

You're beginning to make me feel that olive branches are not the way to go with you.

 

 

Sorry, we're cool. I just had to work through getting blindsided.

[bluechip]

A raw coverless copy sold on heritage in august for $860.

 

you are right I checked the price on that's whaht is seems to be going for

 

1000 is not so far above 860 that I would call it a foolish buy, especially since we don't know whether the 860 book was bought for resale. And there are other examples of sales figures on Hulk 1 that show a difference of more than 15% since August.

 

Can a coverless key rise in value at the same rate as a complete copy of the same book? Some people would it can and some would say it can't. But among those who say it "can't" are some people who really mean "it shouldn't" rise in value because they just plain don't like it and want it to rise in value. If they see more people buying it they just feel that's more and more people making the same mistake. I remember buying a Detective 27 coverless for 1500 when that same money would've got you complete good to very good copies of 30, 32 and 34. (or if you shopped around a 28 and 30 with maybe a beat-up complete 32 thrown in for measure. I felt the coverless first appearance was worth more than those books. I would say the same today, and so would the market.

 

But while some value the keys most of all I know there are others who are all about that grade number. On another occasion I acquired a low grade Pep 22 in trade for a minty Spider-man #1 "gold" 1990s edition. The guy who got the gold spidey was ecstatic and felt he'd made a killing. Point is there's always people with different tastes so if anybody (me included) says it's always this way or always that way, ,take it with a smidgen of salt.

[uchiha101]

Why not look for a short box of SA/BA you could get for the same money?

 

Figure you pay-5-10 each, then sell them for 15-30 each.

 

Betting the farm on one book with a problem is not a good place to start in this hobby.

 

Or better yet buy a short box of BA for maybe 100-200, and sell them for 5-10 each.

 

Work within your means and gain experience in grading and sales.

 

my .02

 

TF

 

This!

 

 

 

Generally, the best money you can spend in comics is on the highest quality material you can afford.

 

I agree but I also have to say that they are not much demand for them as keys like hulk #1

[uchiha101]

It just seems like a lot for a coverless book, at least to my tastes.

 

I'd buy a handful of early Incredible Hulks with 1K, rather than a coverless #1.

 

You could probably find some nice, presentable (4.0-5.0) copies of IH 4-6,

if you wanted to. I think all 3 of those books could be had in the $350 range.

 

Seems like a better idea to me, but if you're looking specifically for an Incredible Hulk #1 coverless, then pulling the trigger may be in your best interest.

 

Good luck!

 

Thanks it's a bit much I agree but I'm thinking of making offers and adding a repro cover to it

[uchiha101]

Are you going to have a reproduction cover made for it?

If you had a nice one professionally made and attached to keep for your own collection I could see buying it.

 

yes I'm going to have a repro cover for it and it will be professional and selling it for a profit

 

 

[uchiha101]

Just seems like a ton of money to plunk down on a coverless book,even if it is Hulk.

 

maybe but I believe it'll be a good deal because I'll add a repro cover to it

[uchiha101]

Are you going to have a reproduction cover made for it?

If you had a nice one professionally made and attached to keep for your own collection I could see buying it.

 

Thats what I did. Got a nice reproduction cover done on here by Fedoraman and it looks great. If your getting a cover less for your personal collection or if your selling a repro cover is very nice addition.

 

agreed