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Captain America comics 1 inside front cover scan help

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BitterOldMan

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was that Roy's copy ? (Vintage Comics) What did it hammer for??

 

Went for $5151.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Captain-America-Comics-1-1941-CGC-NG-Trimmed-O-W-Pgs-1st-Appearance-/361587307564?hash=item543048742c:g:0PQAAOSw9eVXV1vZ

 

From description

 

GRADE - Captain America Comics #1 - CGC Graded NG (Apparent No Grade - trimmed & incomplete) with Off-White pages. Top & right edge trimmed. Coverless in slab. Includes high quality cover reproduction. 15th wrap is married but original Cap #1 part. Book is incomplete (1st centerfold missing). Reproduction 1st centerfold included. Tape on the interior pages.

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VintageComics

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It was my copy.

 

I had missed the trimming on it - honestly, so did someone else, but it was hard to tell and must have been a long time ago.

 

I thought it went cheap, but generally people don't often know how to price parts and pieces so i chalk it up to that.

 

 

 

 

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Sqeggs

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It was my copy.

 

I had missed the trimming on it - honestly, so did someone else, but it was hard to tell and must have been a long time ago.

 

I thought it went cheap, but generally people don't often know how to price parts and pieces so i chalk it up to that.

 

 

I thought it went cheap , too. Seems like once people see Trimmed, they run in the other direction. I wouldn't be too surprised if it ends up disassembled and sold off by the page.

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Jaydogrules

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It was my copy.

 

I had missed the trimming on it - honestly, so did someone else, but it was hard to tell and must have been a long time ago.

 

I thought it went cheap, but generally people don't often know how to price parts and pieces so i chalk it up to that.

 

 

 

 

The last 0.5 restored went for about $16k earlier this year. The last nice looking cover went for a bit over $10k. This book also had missing and married parts. $5k+ for that may be a wee bit on the low side but wasn't a disaster either. Plus this is one of those GA books where a whole lot of the value is in the cover. I think if there was at least a front cover, the book would have gone for $15k or more, even if it was missing more pages. 2c

 

Congrats on the sale either way.

 

-J.

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gadzukes

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It was my copy.

 

I had missed the trimming on it - honestly, so did someone else, but it was hard to tell and must have been a long time ago.

 

I thought it went cheap, but generally people don't often know how to price parts and pieces so i chalk it up to that.

 

 

 

 

Did you ever try selling it over here on the boards?

 

I think the hammer price was low too. I was thinking it would finish around $8k. SO many great Cap pages

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VintageComics

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Actually, the under bidder just contacted me and said he'd have bid more aggressively but he was worried about what others would think about the price. lol

 

Even trimmed I thought it went cheap IMO. As gadzukes said, the book is chock full of awesome Cap stories.

 

After forgetting to bid on that book in a Sunday Night auction about 7 months ago I ended up contacting Heritage to buy it from the winning bidder. The book ended at $6000, I offered $8000 and would have gone much higher if I had to. I'm thankful I didn't

 

I bought the book to complete my other Cap #1, which I recently sold on the boards as a married centerfold copy.

 

So you could say that the centerfold cost me $3000. But if I was willing to do that for a centerfold what does the rest of the book hold, value wise?

 

And if my married centerfold copy sold for roughly half of what a complete, unmarried copy would sell for does that mean the married centerfold makes the book worth half of what it would normally be worth?

 

As I said people often don't know how to value pieces. My personal opinion is that even a beat up coverless missing a centerfold is worth well more than $5000.

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gadzukes

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Actually, the under bidder just contacted me and said he'd have bid more aggressively but he was worried about what others would think about the price. lol

 

Even trimmed I thought it went cheap IMO. As gadzukes said, the book is chock full of awesome Cap stories.

 

After forgetting to bid on that book in a Sunday Night auction about 7 months ago I ended up contacting Heritage to buy it from the winning bidder. The book ended at $6000, I offered $8000 and would have gone much higher if I had to. I'm thankful I didn't

 

I bought the book to complete my other Cap #1, which I recently sold on the boards as a married centerfold copy.

 

So you could say that the centerfold cost me $3000. But if I was willing to do that for a centerfold what does the rest of the book hold, value wise?

 

And if my married centerfold copy sold for roughly half of what a complete, unmarried copy would sell for does that mean the married centerfold makes the book worth half of what it would normally be worth?

 

As I said people often don't know how to value pieces. My personal opinion is that even a beat up coverless missing a centerfold is worth well more than $5000.

 

I bought the fugly coverless copy that that was listed on CL a couple years ago. Every wrap was split except the CF. It also had cutouts on 4 or 5 pages, but the CF was intact. I paid $8000 (overpaid) for it because I NEEDED THAT CF!

 

Once I married the CF into my nice copy of Cap 1, I decided to slab all the individual pages and then slowly sell them off (didn't want to flood the market with pages).

 

I've sold off many of the pages, and I recently found a buyer for my remaining pages. It's looking like, by the time I finish selling the pages I will have made about $8k-$9k. So basically I got my CF for FREE.

 

That's why I thought this current coverless copy would go for more $. There are many key pages that are individually worth a lot.

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Mmehdy

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Actually, the under bidder just contacted me and said he'd have bid more aggressively but he was worried about what others would think about the price. lol

 

Even trimmed I thought it went cheap IMO. As gadzukes said, the book is chock full of awesome Cap stories.

 

After forgetting to bid on that book in a Sunday Night auction about 7 months ago I ended up contacting Heritage to buy it from the winning bidder. The book ended at $6000, I offered $8000 and would have gone much higher if I had to. I'm thankful I didn't

 

I bought the book to complete my other Cap #1, which I recently sold on the boards as a married centerfold copy.

 

So you could say that the centerfold cost me $3000. But if I was willing to do that for a centerfold what does the rest of the book hold, value wise?

 

And if my married centerfold copy sold for roughly half of what a complete, unmarried copy would sell for does that mean the married centerfold makes the book worth half of what it would normally be worth?

 

As I said people often don't know how to value pieces. My personal opinion is that even a beat up coverless missing a centerfold is worth well more than $5000.

 

I bought the fugly coverless copy that that was listed on CL a couple years ago. Every wrap was split except the CF. It also had cutouts on 4 or 5 pages, but the CF was intact. I paid $8000 (overpaid) for it because I NEEDED THAT CF!

 

Once I married the CF into my nice copy of Cap 1, I decided to slab all the individual pages and then slowly sell them off (didn't want to flood the market with pages).

 

I've sold off many of the pages, and I recently found a buyer for my remaining pages. It's looking like, by the time I finish selling the pages I will have made about $8k-$9k. So basically I got my CF for FREE.

 

That's why I thought this current coverless copy would go for more $. There are many key pages that are individually worth a lot.

 

Now that is smart thinking..hat off to you

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Sqeggs

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Actually, the under bidder just contacted me and said he'd have bid more aggressively but he was worried about what others would think about the price. lol

 

Even trimmed I thought it went cheap IMO. As gadzukes said, the book is chock full of awesome Cap stories.

 

After forgetting to bid on that book in a Sunday Night auction about 7 months ago I ended up contacting Heritage to buy it from the winning bidder. The book ended at $6000, I offered $8000 and would have gone much higher if I had to. I'm thankful I didn't

 

I bought the book to complete my other Cap #1, which I recently sold on the boards as a married centerfold copy.

 

So you could say that the centerfold cost me $3000. But if I was willing to do that for a centerfold what does the rest of the book hold, value wise?

 

And if my married centerfold copy sold for roughly half of what a complete, unmarried copy would sell for does that mean the married centerfold makes the book worth half of what it would normally be worth?

 

As I said people often don't know how to value pieces. My personal opinion is that even a beat up coverless missing a centerfold is worth well more than $5000.

 

I bought the fugly coverless copy that that was listed on CL a couple years ago. Every wrap was split except the CF. It also had cutouts on 4 or 5 pages, but the CF was intact. I paid $8000 (overpaid) for it because I NEEDED THAT CF!

 

Once I married the CF into my nice copy of Cap 1, I decided to slab all the individual pages and then slowly sell them off (didn't want to flood the market with pages).

 

I've sold off many of the pages, and I recently found a buyer for my remaining pages. It's looking like, by the time I finish selling the pages I will have made about $8k-$9k. So basically I got my CF for FREE.

 

That's why I thought this current coverless copy would go for more $. There are many key pages that are individually worth a lot.

 

Since the book was already trimmed, I have a feeling the winner may well intend to sell off the pages individually. Just speculation, of course, but it seems like a reasonable course of action.

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gadzukes

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Sorry I missed this in the thread but was the entire book trimmed ?

 

Yes, I believe so.

 

I think, even if it was trimmed...... it was more valuable. I was watching the auction but I've been somewhat cash poor, otherwise I would have bid higher than the hammer price.

 

Timing is everything. My timing was off for that auction.

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