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[Electron]

19 minutes ago, Primetime said:

congrats Russ. I guess the Marvel 1 was out of reach? 

Thanks Ben. Yeah...Lets see here...if I put up the house,cars,both kids,dog, existing collection...nope,still short!!

[Howling Mad]

17 minutes ago, szav said:

I'm sure it is too, I've looked a ton of books and what I posted above isn't official,  I'm confident that they cap grades for PQ as stated (meaning it does count in the grade). 

A boardie once said that SB usually indicates that the cover is separating from the spine.  I do have this personal copy that looks like an 8.0/8.5 to me but was given a 5.0 which I can only assume was due to the PQ.  The graders notes indicated "moderate multiple split, interior spine" which I assume accounts for the SB and may have been caused by a bad press...but it came at a really nice discount, so I can live with it.

It's possible I'm completely wrong, but I had never heard that prior.  If they do it would be interesting to learn how much? Does this also impact OW, Cream, etc.? Or just brittle and slightly brittle? I suspect whatever it is it's changed over the years.

[lou_fine]

45 minutes ago, Electron said:

My lone win. I'm thrilled to add this to my collection! In fact, my enthusiasm had me re-reading the first 50 pages of the post your Adventure/New Adevnture thread this morning. 

Congrats on this beautiful pickup as I was in there, but obviously not willing to match the bid which you was willing to go up to.  

An extremely HTF book that very seldom ever comes to market in this type of condition.  Also an absolutely beautiful cover image used on the Double Action book which was featured as the frontispiece illustration for Volume 2 of the Gerber PhotoJournal, similar to how the cover of Suspense 3 was used for Volume 1. 

Definitely saying a lot for this classic cover artwork by Flessel.  

[RareHighGrade]

1 hour ago, Electron said:

My lone win. I'm thrilled to add this to my collection! In fact, my enthusiasm had me re-reading the first 50 pages of the post your Adventure/New Adevnture thread this morning. 

Great book and one that is extremely hard to find, especially in mid-grade or better, congrats.   The jungle themed pre-hero DCs seem to be in very high demand lately. 

Edited November 25, 2019 by RareHighGrade

[Primetime]

23 minutes ago, Electron said:

Thanks Ben. Yeah...Lets see here...if I put up the house,cars,both kids,dog, existing collection...nope,still short!!

[RareHighGrade]

20 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Definitely saying a lot for this classic cover artwork by Flessel.  

Lou, I'm pretty sure the cover artist is Richard Flanagan.

[lou_fine]

25 minutes ago, RareHighGrade said:

1 hour ago, Electron said:

My lone win. I'm thrilled to add this to my collection! In fact, my enthusiasm had me re-reading the first 50 pages of the post your Adventure/New Adevnture thread this morning. 

Great book and one that is extremely hard to find, especially in mid-grade or better, congrats.   The jungle themed pre-hero DCs seem to be in very high demand lately. 

Well, I am glad that I didn't win this turd of a book in the end then.    

Hey Electron:  If you brought this book based upon HA's incorrect auction lot descripton write-up attributing the cover artwork to Flessel instead of reading the CGC label, I will consider taking this book off your hands for half the price just to help you out here.    

Edited November 25, 2019 by lou_fine

[Zolnerowich]

2 hours ago, Electron said:

My lone win. I'm thrilled to add this to my collection! In fact, my enthusiasm had me re-reading the first 50 pages of the post your Adventure/New Adevnture thread this morning. 

Your direct underbidder here.

You beat me into submission! But I’m glad to know the book went to a first-class boardie. Congrats!!

[Electron]

17 minutes ago, Zolnerowich said:

Your direct underbidder here.

You beat me into submission! But I’m glad to know the book went to a first-class boardie. Congrats!!

Sorry about that...I've been looking for a nice copy for years. Thanks for the kind words, I'll put you at the top of the list if I ever decide to sell. Though admittedly that might be a really long wait...

[Electron]

1 hour ago, RareHighGrade said:

Great book and one that is extremely hard to find, especially in mid-grade or better, congrats.   The jungle themed pre-hero DCs seem to be in very high demand lately. 

Thanks RHG. Means a lot coming from a collector like you. I've been admiring many of your New/New Adv/Adventures today as I re-read that thread you started years ago. And kudos to you for keeping your scans active on it. So much fun to see all those books again! 

[Electron]

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

Well, I am glad that I didn't win this turd of a book in the end then.    

Hey Electron:  If you brought this book based upon HA's incorrect auction lot descripton write-up attributing the cover artwork to Flessel instead of reading the CGC label, I will consider taking this book off your hands for half the price just to help you out here.    

Sorry Lou,  I never even read the Heritage description! 

[Zolnerowich]

23 minutes ago, Electron said:

Sorry about that...I've been looking for a nice copy for years. Thanks for the kind words, I'll put you at the top of the list if I ever decide to sell. Though admittedly that might be a really long wait...

No prob, Russ. Thanks for putting me at the top of the list! In the meantime, I'm happy to accept your Tec 31 until the Adventure 37 becomes newly available. 

[Electron]

35 minutes ago, Zolnerowich said:

No prob, Russ. Thanks for putting me at the top of the list! In the meantime, I'm happy to accept your Tec 31 until the Adventure 37 becomes newly available. 

Yeah..that's going to be an even longer wait.  Honestly, probably one of the very last books I'll ever sell. I'm like a kid at Christmas every time I take it out of the mylar. 

[comicnoir]

8 hours ago, Inaflash said:

They will email you an invoice most likely on Monday. You can pay with credit card without a fee I believe or pay through your checking account. 

They now charge 2.5% for using a credit card.

[comicnoir]

I got wood when I saw the result of this one.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/western/the-rifleman-10-file-copy-dell-1962-cgc-nm-96-off-white-to-white-pages/a/7212-96453.s?type=bidnotice-dailystatus

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2 hours ago, comicnoir said:

I got wood when I saw the result of this one.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/western/the-rifleman-10-file-copy-dell-1962-cgc-nm-96-off-white-to-white-pages/a/7212-96453.s?type=bidnotice-dailystatus

I MISSED THAT!!  Shoot, trite as it is, I woulda added that to my collection 

[tth2]

22 hours ago, jabats said:

I believe that usually, the item owner doesn’t even know that this option is “on”. 

This.

[lou_fine]

20 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

22 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Yes indeed, as it was certainly nice to see some long out of favor genres or publishers like Dell with their Four Color run be able to fetch strong prices:

Even a book like this (albeit a pedigree copy and the highest graded copy) being able to sell for multiples to guide at $2,880 along with a few other Popeye's.  

Or even some of the Four Color Western books which have never seen much steam at all for multi-decades:

Love these uber HG Dell File Copies such as this one here which sold for multiple top of guide at $1,080.  

Okay, I might be stretching it a bit with the Westerns here since books since although virtually all of them sold at a healthy premium to guide, you still got the odd ones like Rocky Lane #1 which managed to go at only a big discount to guide.  

May I be the first to congratulate you on those books! 

You definitely must have me confused with somebody else here who has much deeper pockets than myself.  

Being the old school type of collector, I am used to paying much closer to guide (preferably a discount to guide ) and a book would have to hit quite a few targets before I would be willing to pay a huge premium, let along multiples of guide for a particular book.

Posted these 2 books as just a sign that it's nice to see the strength of the comic book marketplace spread beyond the traditional heroes who likes to wear their undies on the outside and into genres that have traditionally been in kind of a deep freeze.  

[lou_fine]

Another example being this copy of Star Trek 1 which I initially thought had gone for a pretty strong price at $20,400:

Then again, maybe not so much as the Heritage Archives indicates the Twin Cities copy in equivalent grade selling for $22,705 way back in 2012 and I also remember CC successfully auctioning their highest graded copy for over $40K quite a few years ago.    

[lou_fine]

17 hours ago, RareHighGrade said:

18 hours ago, Electron said:

My lone win. I'm thrilled to add this to my collection! In fact, my enthusiasm had me re-reading the first 50 pages of the post your Adventure/New Adevnture thread this morning. 

Great book and one that is extremely hard to find, especially in mid-grade or better, congrats.   The jungle themed pre-hero DCs seem to be in very high demand lately. 

Personally, I've always found these particular pre-hero books extremely hard to find and have always been in much higher demand as compared to their other neighboring issues.

Although this particular hippo issue is at the top of the list, others favorites of mine would also include Adventure 34, 36, and even books like More Fun 47 and 48 with the dinosaur cover.  

I am actually surprised that Overstreet still hasn't bother to break out some of these books to a much greater extent since there is a definite and significant difference in price between some of these issues.