Heritage Fall Signature Auction 5 5

[lou_fine]

The book which I am surprised at right now is this one here which must be going at a record price already:

 

Already at $8,400 with the Heritage juice.  

Not sure if it has much more room to go though as this must be highest price by a long shot that I have ever seen for a copy of the book.  

[Gotham Kid]

Some interesting results ...

[lou_fine]

43 minutes ago, Gotham Kid said:

Some interesting results ...

You must mean like this Police Comics #1 which managed to fetched $9K or more than triple condition guide price:

 

 

Seems to be substantially higher than where it has been selling for in the recent past.  But then again, this copy here seems to present much better than its assigned CGC 5.5 grade from what I can see on the front cover.  Unless they are whacking it for the pronounced and heavy dust shadow on the back cover which is supposedly the kind of defect which they did not used to grade as harsh for in the past before.  

 

 

[Gotham Kid]

Supes1 1.8 (looks VG) $132,000.00

MF73 4.5 $42,000.00

Tec 27 9.2 A-5 $180,000.00

Cap1 3.5 $102,000.00

 

[Mr. Lady Luck]

I won a comic book.

 

[atomised]

27 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

You must mean like this Police Comics #1 which managed to fetched $9K or more than triple condition guide price:

 

 

Seems to be substantially higher than where it has been selling for in the recent past.  But then again, this copy here seems to present much better than its assigned CGC 5.5 grade from what I can see on the front cover.  Unless they are whacking it for the pronounced and heavy dust shadow on the back cover which is supposedly the kind of defect which they did not used to grade as harsh for in the past before.  

 

 

I think well deserved and I wouldn't have hesitated myself if I wasn't focusing on other books.  Plastic Man is still active in the DCEU and there are very few GA superhero first appearances from this era at these prices. At least for me, this book is about Plastic Man.

[Bird]

As a new Planet guy, I was watching the Planet 37 9.4 Lost Valley book and it went for $3360 after BP. Wowzers!

I was hoping to get one from CC but perhaps not! 

[lou_fine]

1 hour ago, Mr. Lady Luck said:

I won a comic book.

 

Congrats on a super nice pick up here and a Church copy that's definitely not going to be surpassed in terms of condition. 

These Millie's are really starting to go for a pretty penny now.  

[Ricksneatstuff]

This book went fairly soft, probably because of PQ. I picked it up.

 

[lou_fine]

5 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

This book went fairly soft, probably because of PQ. I picked it up.

 

Congrats on your timely pickup.  

I suspect too many similarly graded copies coming to market in a relatively short period of time would indeed help to being the price down a bit.  

[Ricksneatstuff]

I have to say, as a consignor, this auction has been pretty rough for me. 

If I were more of a buyer in this one I would have been pretty happy.

Sometimes you do well and sometimes you don't as a seller. This was one of the ones where you don't- at least for me. 

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

18 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Congrats on your timely pickup.  

I suspect too many similarly graded copies coming to market in a relatively short period of time would indeed help to being the price down a bit.  

A 9.0 just arrived on the census, which also might be a factor 

[Sqeggs]

8 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

27 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Congrats on your timely pickup.  

I suspect too many similarly graded copies coming to market in a relatively short period of time would indeed help to being the price down a bit.  

A 9.0 just arrived on the census, which also might be a factor 

Been there for awhile, actually. 

[Sqeggs]

12 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

I have to say, as a consignor, this auction has been pretty rough for me. 

If I were more of a buyer in this one I would have been pretty happy.

Sometimes you do well and sometimes you don't as a seller. This was one of the ones where you don't- at least for me. 

I only had one book consigned and it underperformed, alas.

Seems as if the books I wasn't particularly interested in went low and the books I was after went high.  I was high bidder last night on a bunch of books via proxy bids.  Checking the results, you'd need the Hubble telescope to see the hammer prices from my bids. Some of the OO Archies went high.  Not too surprising since they were mostly highest-graded with White pages.  Wish now that I'd gone higher on them. 

Also should probably have extended more for the Moon ... Girl ... Romance books -- so tough to find in decent condition.

I did end up with a couple of books.  

[Sqeggs]

40 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

This book went fairly soft, probably because of PQ. I picked it up.

 

I'd be tempted to do a straight resub to see if it might come back CR-OW. 

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

6 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Been there for awhile, actually. 

It wasn’t there when I bought my 8.0, is all I know. That was maybe a year ago

[Sqeggs]

1 hour ago, Bird said:

As a new Planet guy, I was watching the Planet 37 9.4 Lost Valley book and it went for $3360 after BP. Wowzers!

I was hoping to get one from CC but perhaps not! 

Yeah, not the best of times to start in on collecting those books, unfortunately.

[Sqeggs]

1 hour ago, Mr. Lady Luck said:

I won a comic book.

 

Sensational book!  So glad you were the one to get it.

[143ksk]

6 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Been there for awhile, actually. 

I remember subbing that book for grading. It was one of two identical copies I bought at a Chicago show in the ‘80s.

[Sqeggs]

2 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

It wasn’t there when I bought my 8.0, is all I know. That was maybe a year ago

Graded in 2005.  CGC isn't always consistent on how it lists Archies in the census.  The publisher they list can vary.  Maybe that was it?