ComicConnoisseur Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I agree and if you've actually been collecting these books for a while the market today is as crazed as it gets. I just don't know that I'd put BB 34 into the grouping of movie, speculation crazed books like we've seen in the past 10 years that were basically obsolete then became hot overnight. No matter what any of us do or do not think about movie/tv/media-fueled speculation, there's also this: All this stuff is worth "something", because many people buy into some version of a conversation about the book that goes like this: "If the first appearance of Character A is worth $100, then the first appearance of Character B should be worth about $85, because it's from the same year and Character B is slightly less important." There are other factors like scarcity, creator, etc that we'd consider. And we've had approximately 1,375,432 conversations like that on this board. It's fun, and because most of us buy into them to a greater or lesser extent, we make them true [none of this is worth anything if we don't all buy into this idea of relative importance in some form. If we don't, it's just crumbling old paper.] Jumping to the point -- even without any sort of hype on any given day, when the top sale in the hobby goes from $350k to $3.2 million in a 5-year period, you're going to have a lot of people revisiting those comparisons and deciding if they mean something different now, or not. A decade ago, Book A was worth $100,000, and Book G-23 was worth $5,000. If Book A is now worth $1.5 Million, is Book G-23 now worth $75,000? Or maybe "just" $25,000? The rules are different now, but how different? I think that goes just as far towards explaining some anomalous valuations as movie hype does. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Will TOS #58 (Cap vs. IM cover) see some Civil War movie hype action? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prez Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Will TOS #58 (Cap vs. IM cover) see some Civil War movie hype action? It will now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Will TOS #58 (Cap vs. IM cover) see some Civil War movie hype action? It will now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zosocane Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Surfing on GPA, and a SC 34 in CGC 7.5 just sold for $1,185 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComicConnoisseur Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Surfing on GPA, and a SC 34 in CGC 7.5 just sold for $1,185 For a second there I thought you were talking about SC 22. Seems like SC 34 is starting to breakout like SC 22 did a few years back? 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Let SC #30 and #34 run up high now that I have a couple of copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatest Lantern Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Will TOS #58 (Cap vs. IM cover) see some Civil War movie hype action? This was the first slab that I ever bought. It's a lowly 2.5 but was the best I could afford at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 When I get my latest copy of TOS 58 back from CGC I am going to put it on eBay with a "Civil War Prelude" caption on the listing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChasingKingKirby Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 When I get my latest copy of TOS 58 back from CGC I am going to put it on eBay with a "Civil War Prelude" caption on the listing. That's just shrewd marketing if you ask me. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accessndx Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Don't know if anyone mentioned SC22 but it's apparent there've been many new GPA highs in some of the mid and lower grades lately. Add that to the new GL movie rumors and you've got a perfect storm of resurgence value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 When I get my latest copy of TOS 58 back from CGC I am going to put it on eBay with a "Civil War Prelude" caption on the listing. That's just shrewd marketing if you ask me. :thumbsup: That’s just pure if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcards4ever Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Thunder Agents Tower Comics Starting to see some increase action due to the potential "news" at SDCC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calcnerd Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Thunder Agents Tower Comics Starting to see some increase action due to the potential "news" at SDCC... What did I miss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunsicker Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 This? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComicConnoisseur Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 This? Wally Wood rules! 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accessndx Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 This? Wally Wood World rules! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Mordo? It's a "sleeper" because know one knew. Why did no one know? Because no one cares. I'll say it now, that one's going the way of the Mandarin after the movie's done. Don't get stuck without a dance partner when the music stops... You must have never read Dr. Strange, as Mordo is among the foremost nemesis of Dr. Strange, more or less what Dr. Doom is to the Fantastic Four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem1138 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 I guess we can put Showcase #22 back on the list: SDCC '15: WB/DC Announce GREEN LANTERN CORPS Feature Film! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zosocane Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 I guess we can put Showcase #22 back on the list: SDCC '15: WB/DC Announce GREEN LANTERN CORPS Feature Film! This film was announced last year; today they announced the title. SC 22 should have picked up last year but it didn't, but GPA shows upward movement over the last 45 days or so with the Chris Pine rumors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...