FlyingDonut Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Zolnerowich, entalmighty1, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FlyingDonut Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 BTW I love that you can find 18 year old scans on Heritage's site. That book sold for $4495 plus juice 7/4/02 and then for $9000 in July 2011 - what would it go for now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMyAmadeus Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 I'm patiently waiting for 'Tec #29. Thanks. BlowUpTheMoon and Gotham Kid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 42 minutes ago, FlyingDonut said: I just sold that book about three weeks ago. Randall Dowling, Gotham Kid and Larryw7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manetteska Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 49 minutes ago, FlyingDonut said: BTW I love that you can find 18 year old scans on Heritage's site. That book sold for $4495 plus juice 7/4/02 and then for $9000 in July 2011 - what would it go for now? The Captain 6? An 8.5 just sold for $9,300 - no pedigree but Off-White. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Does driving through Allentown a few times count? MrBedrock and Bronty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou_fine Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 3 hours ago, MrBedrock said: 4 hours ago, lou_fine said: So, which pedigree copy of Wonderworld 7 would you have in your personal collection then? I owned the Church copy in the mid 80s. Sold it to pay for a move. We all saw it sell in the Berk auction. I wish I had more money. Yes, starting to look like a mighty expensive move since it was a CGC 9.6 graded copy that sold for something like $66K in the Berk auction. 4 hours ago, MrBedrock said: I owned the Allentown for about a day. Paid a ton for it at a San Diego show, then got offered a huge ton at the show and sold it. That guy still has it. Well, looks like whoever you bought the Allentown Copy of Wonderworld 7 must have made out like a bandit then, since it was brought for only $1,400 during the Diamond Int'l Galleries grand opening way back in '95. I guess it was still not yet officially recognized as a classic cover at the time since it sold for the exact same price point of $1,400 as the rest of the Allentown run of Wonderworld 6 to 10 did (no copy of Wonderworld 8 listed in there for some odd reason ). Guess the buyer must had known it was a special cover as it was apparently set aside by Snyder in advance of the opening and hence was not available when the rest of the Allentown Wonderworld books came out during that wild and crazy feeding frenzy on that Saturday morning after the opening. 4 hours ago, MrBedrock said: Lucked into the S copy (those grease pencil S books that started showing up in the early 90s). I have managed to keep that one. Well, if it's in the early 90's, then I guess there is no truth then to the rumours that these "grease pencilled black S" books were one of the original pedigrees released into the marketplace even before the concept of pedigrees were introduced into the hobby? Can't remember who now, but if I remember correctly, a long established board member here thought these "S" copies might have initially found their way into the marketplace even before the Reilly and Church pedigrees did. I remember seeing one of these "Black S" copies of a Wonderworld book on Veryzl's table at one of the SD Con's in the mid to latter part of the 90's. It was definitely an absolutely stunner of a copy, but John was asking huge multiples to top of guide for it and refused to budge down on it by even a single dollar. With respect to your copy of Wonderworld 7, any idea what the grade on it would be if you did not have to factor in the greased S mark which CGC would probably see as a defect and downgrade accordingly for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotham Kid Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) Edited February 19, 2020 by Gotham Kid lou_fine, aardvark88 and Larryw7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotham Kid Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) Marvel 1 before grade bump (now 9.4 R) Boy Commandos after grade drop (originally 8.5) Edited February 19, 2020 by Gotham Kid entalmighty1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotham Kid Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) Edited February 19, 2020 by Gotham Kid aardvark88 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zolnerowich Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 8 hours ago, MrBedrock said: Oh, I like that one, Mr. Bedrock! MrBedrock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 22 minutes ago, lou_fine said: With respect to your copy of Wonderworld 7, any idea what the grade on it would be if you did not have to factor in the greased S mark which CGC would probably see as a defect and downgrade accordingly for it? It is a 9.0. lou_fine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotham Kid Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) Edited February 19, 2020 by Gotham Kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotham Kid Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 this must be the lowest graded book aardvark88 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagii Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 ..That Sure-Fire #3(#4) is now an 8.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 9 hours ago, Gotham Kid said: also is that tape bottom left corner ? On the Tec 33? Looks like dust shadow/slight tanning all along the right edge. Gotham Kid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post adamstrange Posted February 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2020 7 hours ago, MrBedrock said: 7 hours ago, lou_fine said: So, which pedigree copy of Wonderworld 7 would you have in your personal collection then? I owned the Church copy in the mid 80s. Sold it to pay for a move. We all saw it sell in the Berk auction. I wish I had more money. I owned the Allentown for about a day. Paid a ton for it at a San Diego show, then got offered a huge ton at the show and sold it. That guy still has it. Lucked into the S copy (those grease pencil S books that started showing up in the early 90s). I have managed to keep that one. Not me but a friend. When I took this he gave me permission to post but I never found the right time. Mystery Men 3, 4, 5, 6 and Wonderworld 7 are all Allentowns. Might be one or two more. batman_fan, Randall Dowling, entalmighty1 and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I used to own this until I met a collector back in the 90s who wanted to reassemble the entire Allentown collection, minus the big keys. I eventually sold to him as part of the 30+ copies he eventually accumulated before giving up. Randall Dowling, aardvark88, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...