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[Northwest]

1 hour ago, LDarkseid1 said:

No I disagree. Once again, 9.6's don't sell for more than $1800-$2200 on the average and no matter the page quality. And truthfully no one really cares between Off-White to Off-White to White. It would have to be cream to Off-White to perfect white to really make that much of a difference. Here’s the last 4 sales and except for the recent one on the top, 2 of the other 3 had perfect white pages with the other off-white to white.

This CL auction has been very strong so that may be a factor too.  It's hard to isolate the sticker premium specifically. 

Edited December 8, 2020 by Northwest

[lou_fine]

1 hour ago, Northwest said:

This CL auction has been very strong so that may be a factor too. 

You can certainly say this when a book like this with another 35 copies graded higher than this copy here can sell for $2,911 or almost 4X condition guide: 

At this price point relative to the grade, it makes the CGC 7.0 graded copy that sold for $5,520 at HA only a couple of weeks ago seem like a steal in comparison.  

[LDarkseid1]

1 hour ago, Northwest said:

This CL auction has been very strong so that may be a factor too.  It's hard to isolate the sticker premium specifically. 

Very possible. I know people prefer to believe the sticker does nothing so I get why everyone would point to everything under the sun as to why it wasn’t effective. And you or others may be right, not denying that. There was definitely a lot of strong sales in this auction.

[lou_fine]

46 minutes ago, LDarkseid1 said:

There was definitely a lot of strong sales in this auction.

Although most board members thought the exact opposite would happen, virtually the entire comic book marketplace has been extraordinarly strong ever since the impact of the Coronavirus started up back in March of this year.  

Go figure that, as I assume it's a lot of people sitting at home on their computers with no where else to travel to or other things to spend their money on.     

[LDarkseid1]

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

Although most board members thought the exact opposite would happen, virtually the entire comic book marketplace has been extraordinarly strong ever since the impact of the Coronavirus started up back in March of this year.  

Go figure that, as I assume it's a lot of people sitting at home on their computers with no where else to travel to or other things to spend their money on.     

And on top of that I know a lot of people have made serious bank with the stock market recovering. Can only surmise that’s played a role as well.

[lou_fine]

1 hour ago, LDarkseid1 said:

And on top of that I know a lot of people have made serious bank with the stock market recovering. Can only surmise that’s played a role as well.

Yes, especially the ones who didn't really need to make use of their stimulus checks and decided to throw it into the stock market.   

[LDarkseid1]

Rather nice Cap 1 selling in the February featured auction. What’s the likely going rate for an 8.0 these days with nice pq? $400K?

https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FPREVIEW.ASP%3Fcode%3D2021feb%23Item_1454183&id=1454183&itemType=0

[Gotham Kid]

Yet another high grade copy ?

Already there's this:

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/captain-america-comics-1-timely-1941-cgc-vf-85-off-white-pages/a/7239-91029.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116

Boring ...

Edited December 23, 2020 by Gotham Kid

[buttock]

1 hour ago, Gotham Kid said:

Yet another high grade copy ?

Already there's this:

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/captain-america-comics-1-timely-1941-cgc-vf-85-off-white-pages/a/7239-91029.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116

Boring ...

The 8.0 looks much nicer than the 8.5.  

[LDarkseid1]

25 minutes ago, buttock said:

The 8.0 looks much nicer than the 8.5.  

I agree, spine and edges are considerably nicer.

[Gotham Kid]

2 hours ago, buttock said:

The 8.0 looks much nicer than the 8.5.  

true dat. much.

[ThothAmon]

2 hours ago, buttock said:

the 8.5

This isn’t how an 8.5 should look. 
 

[buttock]

7 minutes ago, ThothAmon said:

This isn’t how an 8.5 should look. 
 

Someone smarter than me want to find out if this was graded during the dark ages around 2011 when CGC didn't know GA from a hole in the ground?  Could be resubbed from then.  

[Gotham Kid]

7 minutes ago, buttock said:

Someone smarter than me want to find out if this was graded during the dark ages around 2011 when CGC didn't know GA from a hole in the ground?  Could be resubbed from then.  

Graded Dec 3 2020

https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/3751865001/

Edited December 23, 2020 by Gotham Kid

[buttock]

38 minutes ago, Gotham Kid said:

Graded Dec 3 2020

https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/3751865001/

[tth2]

On 12/24/2020 at 1:34 AM, buttock said:

The 8.0 looks much nicer than the 8.5.  

The only thing that matters is that the 8.5 label looks much nicer than the 8.0 label.  The book sitting underneath the label is superfluous.

[Dark Knight]

Agreed ^ 

[lou_fine]

On 12/25/2020 at 7:17 PM, tth2 said:

On 12/23/2020 at 9:34 AM, buttock said:

The 8.0 looks much nicer than the 8.5.  

The only thing that matters is that the 8.5 label looks much nicer than the 8.0 label.  The book sitting underneath the label is superfluous.

Yes indeed, when will these old school GA guys learn that it's all about buying the label and not having to worry about the book at all.  

I guess some of us old timers are just going to have to learn from some of these newbie MA day traders who have no problem paying $15K for a Spidey 300 or over $32K for a Secret Wars 8!!!    

Needless to say, I'll certainly   ,  the money that is.  

[Crowzilla]

16 hours ago, lou_fine said:

I guess some of us old timers are just going to have to learn from some of these newbie MA day traders who have no problem paying $15K for a Spidey 300 or over $32K for a Secret Wars 8!!!    

the buyer of the Secret Wars #8 also owns a Superman #1, so he's not just trading moderns.

[LDarkseid1]

I’d say nothing scares me more than the books from the current modern market. That artificial rarity through variants stresses me out, so I don’t partake lol. The other artificial rarity out there, CGC 9.9’s and 10.0’s maybe comes in a distant second to the first, but I can get behind that a tad more. Following 9.9 and 10.0 sales for a while, they’ve only gone up on keys from what I can tell. The New Mutants 87’s and 98’s of the world for example and “attainable” super high grade copper and modern keys like them (X-Men 266, Shazam 1, Spawn 1, ASM 361, etc...) So seems like a stable enough market, as much as it can be considering the slim difference in those 2 grades. The power of a # is impressive to say the least 😳.