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Comic Price Archaeology (Mapping "World Record" comics sales back to OSPG #1)
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Unformatted current data. I'd like to get more info about any books that are YYYY-01-01. Even getting just spring, summer fall or winter would be great, month would be better. The ones that were mentioned in the news should be possible, at least. I don't need down to the minute, just a better time-frame than "sometime in YYYY" Anyone have a folder on their computer fill of the AP stories :wishluck:

 

2014-08-24 Action Comics 1 9.0 eBay 3207852

2011-11-30 Action Comics 1 9.0 Cage Copy ComicConnect 2161000

2010-03-29 Action Comics 1 8.5 ComicConnect 1500000

2010-02-25 Detective Comics 27 8.0 Heritage 107500000

2010-02-22 Action Comics 1 8.0 Kansas City ComicConnect 1000000

2004-01-01 Flash Comics 1 9.6 Church copy, sold to JP the Mint private sale 350000

2003-01-01 Marvel Comics 1 9.0 Pay Copy, sold to JP the Mint Steve Geppi 350000

2001-01-01 Detective Comics 27 8.0 Mastronet 278190

2001-01-01 Captain America Comics 1 9.6 Allentown, sold to John Verzyl private sale 260000

1995-01-01 Action Comics 1 Sold by PCE to Daniel Kramer PCE 137500

1994-01-01 Detective Comics 27 8.5 Church private sale 125000

1993-01-01 Detective Comics 27 high grade 'other high grade' copy private sale 101000

1992-01-01 Action Comics 1 78 Cage Copy Sotheby's 82500

1990-01-01 Detective Comics 27 NM-MT Allentown private sale 80000

1984-01-01 Action Comics 1 NM Chuch Copy Private Sale 25000

1980-01-01 Marvel Comics 1 Steve Geppi Snyder 17500

1979-01-01 Marvel Comics 1 Snyder private sale 13000

1974-01-01 Whiz 2 Burl Rowe Comics & Comix 2000

1974-01-01 Detective 27 Burl Rowe Comics & Comix 2200

1973-01-02 Action 1 Bruce Hamilton Gene Henderson 1000

1973-01-03 Action 1 Theo Hostein Bruce Hamilton 1500

1973-01-04 Action 1 Mitch Mehdy Theo Hostein 1801.26

1968-01-01 Marvel Comics 1 Howard Rogolfsky 330

1965-01-01 Action Comics 1 250

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19 minutes ago, sfcityduck said:

Sorry.  No.  But, news archives searches will quickly pull up those stories for you.

Also, there was a late comment in the prior thread in which it was revealed a MPFW sold for $2K in 1974.

1973 and 1974 are going to be headaches 

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Just now, sfcityduck said:

When did the OPG start doing market reports?  Seems like there should be "records" between 1974 and 1979.

I don't remember, off-hand. My guides are in storage, so I'll have to wait for the weekend to look.  

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There's a brief market report in #7 (77-78). The only notable individual prices are for MPFW which topped out at $6k.

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Price Guide #9 has a brief market report without mentioning any actual prices for comics. 

I just discovered my price guide #8 is missing that market report page. :frown:

The biggest price in #10 is for Marvel 1 selling for $13,500

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3 hours ago, adamstrange said:

There's a brief market report in #7 (77-78). The only notable individual prices are for MPFW which topped out at $6k.

OPG 7 is the 1976 market report.

Price Guide 8 (1977 market report) has a MC 1 "selling out of Canada" for $7,500.  

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On 8/27/2018 at 9:56 PM, rob_react said:

Detective Comics #27 NM-MT Allentown 1990-01-01 sold to "The Dentist" in a private sale $80000 

Can one of you math guys calculate the 80K adjusted to inflation to 2018 ?

Curious.

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It was at the Berkeley Con 1973 show where the Reilly collection first surfaced that Bruce Hamilton brought the Action #1 he had just bought from Gene Henderson (board member San Diego Comicon) for a grand. Theo Holstein offered $1500 for it, Bruce turned him down. The SF Examiner wrote up this exchange as well as interviewed me about the show in the Monday newspaper - and Bruce was offered a 2nd Action 31, which is the copy he sold Theo for $1801.26 ($1.26 to mail it).

 

Mitch Mehdy bought from Theo for what he paid for it. That whole story went AP/UPI all over the country. This was early May 1973 by this point.

 

Around that same time, the second Reilly relative came into our Berkeley Telegraph Ave comic book store with more comic books. Contained in this batch were Whiz #2 (#1) and the Detective #27.

 

I called up Burl Rowe, a Houston lawyer for the Hunt Oil company, and offered him the Whiz #2 (#1) for $2000 and the following week, once he had seen the Whiz, i offered him the Tec 27 for $2200

 

we had been seeing all the publicity Bruce, Theo and Mitch had been getting on the Action #1 for $1801.26, so we contacted the AP/UPI ourselves with the "new" concept of a comi cbook being worth OVER two grand. They ran with it, we got coverage all over the place

 

within a month or so we had three more Detective 27 copies

 

those were fun days - and there is way more to this story as well cloud9.gif

 

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Mitch was in the newspaper on May 15, The Berkeley show mentioned here was April 20-22. 

Was there a later clarification about the transaction chain between Hamilton > Hostein > Mitch? That $1500 number looks like it wasn't actually a sale. 

 

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58 minutes ago, rob_react said:

Mitch was in the newspaper on May 15, The Berkeley show mentioned here was April 20-22. 

Was there a later clarification about the transaction chain between Hamilton > Hostein > Mitch? That $1500 number looks like it wasn't actually a sale. 

 

On this detail, you have the duelling recollection of Bob Beerbohm and Mitch Mehdy.  The way I recollect how I resolved this in 2011, is I took the version of the story told by Mitch as more credible because, after all, he had the first hand knowledge and it was a memorable event for him.  Bob's version jives with Mitch's except as to the purchase price paid by Theo to Hamilton.  I believe on one of the more active Mitch threads, he relayed the story of how Theo bought it, Mitch bought it from Theo (at the higher price), Mitch got the publicity, and Mitch later re-sold it back to Theo (I think) for a few hundred in profit.  Mitch spent a lot of time comparing the transaction to buying a car (maybe a corvette), if that helps you search the threads.  Or you could ask Mitch, who popped up on the Redbeard thread recently.

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1 hour ago, rob_react said:

Mitch was in the newspaper on May 15, The Berkeley show mentioned here was April 20-22. 

Was there a later clarification about the transaction chain between Hamilton > Hostein > Mitch? That $1500 number looks like it wasn't actually a sale. 

 

You owe me a footnote shout-out on you website when you finally publish this history:

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2 minutes ago, rob_react said:

Wow, the "Prince of Comics" That is 1000% the best. 

 

And, yes, you get the footnote shout-out of doom on this one. 

HEY! Give me a shout out as well. Geppi's sale to Snyder took place October 8, 1979.

On the Geppi-Parrino sale, just ping Steve for the date.

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