Heritage Auction Today 4 4

[143ksk]

1 minute ago, Sqeggs said:

Steve,

Honestly, in my years in the hobby this is one of great collecting accomplishments, given how tough (impossible!) many of these books are to find in high grade -- or in any grade, for some of them.  The diligence it took to assemble these books is just mind boggling.  

You deserve a bust in the main room of the Comic Collectors Hall of Fame. 

Thanks! That means a lot to me 

[Mijael.Levy]

18 minutes ago, FlyingDonut said:

My package to Sarasota is going out Monday morning. Wow.

Yea this is not comicconnect 

Edited February 24, 2018 by Mijael.Levy

[Flex Mentallo]

38 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Steve,

Honestly, in my years in the hobby this is one of great collecting accomplishments, given how tough (impossible!) many of these books are to find in high grade -- or in any grade, for some of them.  The diligence it took to assemble these books is just mind boggling.  

You deserve a bust in the main room of the Comic Collectors Hall of Fame. 

I do agree, Tony. A unique collecting achievement.

 

Steve, you are one of the good guys. I'm really pleased you've done so well out of the auction. Talk about perfect timing - if timing sales could be graded, this auction would be a perfect ten!

[Flex Mentallo]

1 hour ago, adamstrange said:

When the colors typically look this, there's going to be extra interest in a copy like they just auctioned.

https://www.comics.org/issue/5946/cover/4/

Right, Adam - and it isn't every day you see a high grade FH book with such great colors. So I wouldn't say the hammer price was over the top.

[Flex Mentallo]

..and just to add to that, unfortunately we'll now see vf copies with dull colors being overpriced!

[Zolnerowich]

14 hours ago, Flex Mentallo said:

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?

 

Exactly?

Looks like a page from Classics Illustrated, or maybe Jungle Comics, from early in the printing run with BRIGHT colors! 

[Zolnerowich]

8 hours ago, jhutton2 said:

I agree 100% with that disable live bidding move.  Watching those auctions in the past has resulted in my picking up books that were not really on my chase list to start with.   I have gotten much more disciplined now with bidding only on books I already have on my interest list and nothing more.    I have become boring in my old age...lol

 

Now that's funny! Tell me that's your cute doggy!

 

[HRCostigan]

3 hours ago, lpsunburst said:

Only one book I was after today and it completes another, albeit short, Fox run for me

Nice work, I was watching that and would have bid to win a year ago when I was more active.

[lou_fine]

On 2/23/2018 at 1:15 PM, FlyingDonut said:

On 2/23/2018 at 12:47 PM, PopKulture said:

Nothing like 40x the listed Overstreet...

Well, Millie 2 is a ridiculously hard book to find, but still..

Correction......it's not like a piddly 40X Overstreet condition guide, but more like a whopping 51X Overstreet condition listed guide.  

Wowza!!!!  

Edited February 25, 2018 by lou_fine

[lou_fine]

4 hours ago, Mijael.Levy said:

That Betty and Veronica 40 went for a lot of $  , almost $4,000

Well, I guess the trick is to snag these before the broader collector base deems them to be classic covers and runs them up in price.

Like what happen with the Archie 50 which I was lucky enough to get for myself several years ago before it was recognized as a classic cover. 

For example, there's an Archie cover in the 40's that I actually like better than the 50, but it never ever seems to come to market anymore. 

[Inaflash]

I prefer issue 46 to 50.

[lou_fine]

3 hours ago, 143ksk said:

Very nice of you to say so, but I think Jon's collection was in a whole other ballpark than mine. People will just have to take a sharpie and write the label notation on the slabs I sold

Steve;

Big time congrats on getting some stupendous and well-deserved prices on your wonderful collection. 

From reading that little write in the Heritage catalogue, it sounds as though you have a pretty complete collection for all of the early Archie's.  If this is the case, any idea when the rest of them will be coming out since there's a couple of early Archie's that I have been looking to acquire for several years now, but simply haven't seen them in the marketplace? 

[lou_fine]

3 minutes ago, Inaflash said:

I prefer issue 46 to 50.

NO, NO, NO.......don't you dare say it!!!!     

[Badger]

5 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Yowza!  I was dreaming that I was going to win that one.

Well, I can confirm the B&V #40 went to a boardie.   A few years from now I'll either feel like a genius or a sucker.

I bid on a lot of stuff, what I thought were good, reasonable bids, only to see them blown out the water by 2 and even 3 times more than I bid.  On a lot of books, the bidding was crazy and I admit I helped it along.

[Mijael.Levy]

49 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Well, I guess the trick is to snag these before the broader collector base deems them to be classic covers and runs them up in price.

Like what happen with the Archie 50 which I was lucky enough to get for myself several years ago before it was recognized as a classic cover. 

For example, there's an Archie cover in the 40's that I actually like better than the 50, but it never ever seems to come to market anymore. 

Agree , i like the idea that you must get what you like and if you have good taste there's a good chance that they will rise.

[Inaflash]

29 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

NO, NO, NO.......don't you dare say it!!!!     

I take it back.

[lou_fine]

1 hour ago, Inaflash said:

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

NO, NO, NO.......don't you dare say it!!!!     

I take it back.

Well that's good then, although there are a few issues there in the 40's that looks rather temptingly delicious, although Archie 46 would be the most obvious choice out of the group by far.  

Edited February 25, 2018 by lou_fine

[Straw-Man]

On February 23, 2018 at 3:15 PM, FlyingDonut said:

Well, Millie 2 is a ridiculously hard book to find, but still..

 

i own this only because of the quasi-blonde phantom appearance.  might just have to get it slabbed and to auction.

[Inaflash]

2 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

i own this only because of the quasi-blonde phantom appearance.  might just have to get it slabbed and to auction.

I'll give you $300...cash.

Ken

[Flex Mentallo]

10 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

Exactly?

Looks like a page from Classics Illustrated, or maybe Jungle Comics, from early in the printing run with BRIGHT colors! 

I'm so glad you asked me! It's one of a series of -I think - eight or nine 'literary maps' commissioned from artist Edward Everett Henry by the Cleveland Printers Harris-Seybold in the 1950's. Others include Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

 

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/land/