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[GreatCaesarsGhost]

On 9/2/2024 at 7:30 PM, woowoo said:

Looks like Ben @Primetime also can't tell with my phone. Edit I got the picture bigger and still can't tell if its @Primetime

Yes, Harold, that is indeed our very own @Primetime

[Primetime]

On 9/2/2024 at 5:30 PM, woowoo said:

Looks like Ben @Primetime also can't tell with my phone. Edit I got the picture bigger and still can't tell if its @Primetime

👋🏾 

[Primetime]

On 9/2/2024 at 7:31 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Yes, Harold, that is indeed our very own @Primetime

🤙🏾👋🏾

[tth2]

On 9/3/2024 at 6:22 AM, Telegan said:

In one case, I saw the Ruben Blades collection sticker covering the Jon Berk portion of the label.  So goofy.

That's really messed up.  It's kind of cool to know that Blades was buying a Berk book, but it does a disservice to Jon to then obscure his name on the label.  The Berk name on a comic means a whole lot more to me than the Blades name.

[Silver Surfer]

There are all sort of nuggets of goodness in this auction. Between CC and Heritage it feels like almost every GA book I chased (unsuccessfully) over many years has been listed.

[jimbo_7071]

On 9/4/2024 at 1:26 AM, Professor K said:

I know right? When it rains it pours. Shakespeare wrote "you can't have too much of a good thing", but he never saw all these awesome books coming to auction. 

I think you're going to see quite a few auctions with nice material in the coming years. Most of the guys who built nice collections in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are getting to the age where they're going to be cashing in their chips, so to speak.

The one that surprised me earlier this year was Phil Cole; I thought he was a bit young to exit the hobby. 65–70 is typical; I think Phil was about 60.

[kent allard]

On 9/2/2024 at 8:52 AM, aardvark88 said:

cConnect auctioning off 1,200 GA from Ruben Blades's collection soon including Catmans, rare Green Giant (Penguin) 1 plus Nic Cage and Church copies:

 

Well, here's one they won't have ...

 

 

I'm  convinced this is one (sold in 2012) is actually the same comic, prior to having work done on it and being reholdered (evidently the detached centerfold compensated for the cleanup and there was no net grade bump - overall I think it was worth it.)

Note the dust shadow lower right and the ticks mid-spine (upper one around August and about a 1/2" below that)

[kent allard]

On 9/5/2024 at 9:07 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

I think you're going to see quite a few auctions with nice material in the coming years. Most of the guys who built nice collections in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are getting to the age where they're going to be cashing in their chips, so to speak.

The one that surprised me earlier this year was Phil Cole; I thought he was a bit young to exit the hobby. 65–70 is typical; I think Phil was about 60.

It will be quite telling if the prices do not drift downward as all this locked up material comes to market.  I would like to infer that to mean there is another generation coming along that values these beautiful time capsules and is willing to spend $ for them.

Some prices do seem to be coming down from the insane valuations of 2022-2023 (can you say Promise collection ), but on the other hand, some things are just exploding and hitting record prices.

And then there are the pulps ...

and ...

Neither of which reached their reserve prices.

A year ago I bought ungraded copies of each from CC in 5.0 (a CC 5.0, maybe a 4.0 - 4.5) -  for about $20.  CRAZY! 

[jimbo_7071]

On 9/5/2024 at 11:58 PM, kent allard said:

It will be quite telling if the prices do not drift downward as all this locked up material comes to market.  I would like to infer that to mean there is another generation coming along that values these beautiful time capsules and is willing to spend $ for them.

Some prices do seem to be coming down from the insane valuations of 2022-2023 (can you say Promise collection ), but on the other hand, some things are just exploding and hitting record prices.

And then there are the pulps ...

and ...

Neither of which reached their reserve prices.

A year ago I bought ungraded copies of each from CC in 5.0 (a CC 5.0, maybe a 4.0 - 4.5) -  for about $20.  CRAZY! 

I wouldn't infer anything about comic books one way or the other based on what pulps are doing. Pulps have never been collected on the same scale. (As much as I like some of the covers, I've never collected pulps and don't intend to. I can barely afford one hobby let alone two.)

[Telegan]

On 9/5/2024 at 10:24 PM, kent allard said:

Well, here's one they won't have ...

 

 

I'm  convinced this is one (sold in 2012) is actually the same comic, prior to having work done on it and being reholdered (evidently the detached centerfold compensated for the cleanup and there was no net grade bump - overall I think it was worth it.)

Note the dust shadow lower right and the ticks mid-spine (upper one around August and about a 1/2" below that)

 

What was done to it?  Clean the cover?  That color pop on the later edition just seems to be due to scanner settings or photo adjustments.  Or at least some of it definitely is.  I'd be curious to see what it would look like in person.  In any case, they definitely look to be the same comic.

Edited September 7 by Telegan

[kent allard]

On 9/6/2024 at 5:44 PM, Telegan said:

 

What was done to it?  Clean the cover?  That color pop on the later edition just seems to be due to scanner settings or photo adjustments.  Or at least some of it definitely is.  I'd be curious to see what it would look like in person.  In any case, they definitely look to be the same comic.

Why does it have a new number?  I imagine a detached cover would have knocked it down .5, but then a cover clean bumped it back up, and the two factors triggered/justified a new number.   Who knows?

I'll need to dig it up and try to take my own photo of it.  Will update ...

[Professor K]

On 9/6/2024 at 10:10 PM, kent allard said:

Why does it have a new number?  I imagine a detached cover would have knocked it down .5, but then a cover clean bumped it back up, and the two factors triggered/justified a new number.   Who knows?

I'll need to dig it up and try to take my own photo of it.  Will update ...

Because it was a resubmission as opposed to a re-holder. 

[gino2paulus2]

@Primetime looking like an absolute stud as usual!! Enjoyed your take on Tec 31 and couldn’t agree more my friend!! 🏈💪

[gino2paulus2]

This is one I am so excited to see auctioned off i can hardly contain myself haha!! GPA has one singular recorded sale EVER and it was the Berk copy back in 2017. Still only 5 copies on the census. I owned and sold the 0.5 to a boardie and own the 2.0. I have seen the Mile High copy obviously and have WONDERED what the other 2 copies presented like for years and this copy is no slouch! Any predictions? The near perfect Berk/Mile High 9.0 brought in $7500 which i thought was a great 7 or so years ago. This will be a good barometer to see where some of these rarities stand. Amazing auction for sure 

[RareHighGrade]

On 9/7/2024 at 3:54 AM, gino2paulus2 said:

This is one I am so excited to see auctioned off i can hardly contain myself haha!! GPA has one singular recorded sale EVER and it was the Berk copy back in 2017. Still only 5 copies on the census. I owned and sold the 0.5 to a boardie and own the 2.0. I have seen the Mile High copy obviously and have WONDERED what the other 2 copies presented like for years and this copy is no slouch! Any predictions? The near perfect Berk/Mile High 9.0 brought in $7500 which i thought was a great 7 or so years ago. This will be a good barometer to see where some of these rarities stand. Amazing auction for sure 

That's an awfully nice looking copy for a 3.0.  I wonder how it would have graded had it not been missing a coupon.

[Primetime]

On 9/7/2024 at 3:45 AM, gino2paulus2 said:

@Primetime looking like an absolute stud as usual!! Enjoyed your take on Tec 31 and couldn’t agree more my friend!! 🏈💪

👋🏾 Gino!