october Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, THE_BEYONDER said: That Supes is a beauty. What’s the highest graded copy? There's a 9.4 and a few others in the 9.0/9.2 range. THE_BEYONDER 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, Aweandlorder said: Y’all rookies That thread is about current wins. This is historical. But thanks for playing... we’ve got some lovely parting gifts for you. (jk) littledoom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 57 minutes ago, october said: My best scores were 5-10 years ago, and put these to shame (at least in terms of big collections found through eBay contacts), but here are a few of the single buys from the past year or so: Cinderella Love 25: paid $325 in a romance lot, sold for $5000 World's Best 1: paid $800, sold for $4200 GSXM 1: paid $300, sold for $3800 Superman 14: paid $2500, it's about an 8.0, value is $12,000 or so. My favorite pickup, definitely a keeper. My favorite Superman cover and one I cannot believe I do not own. Its one my wife wants too so I don't know why I do not have one. littledoom, ADAMANTIUM and october 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, october said: My best scores were 5-10 years ago, and put these to shame (at least in terms of big collections found through eBay contacts), but here are a few of the single buys from the past year or so: Cinderella Love 25: paid $325 in a romance lot, sold for $5000 World's Best 1: paid $800, sold for $4200 GSXM 1: paid $300, sold for $3800 Superman 14: paid $2500, it's about an 8.0, value is $12,000 or so. My favorite pickup, definitely a keeper. Fudge those are great recent buys on feebay lol. Did you have them graded to actualize those high prices? Edited May 7, 2020 by littledoom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
october Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, littledoom said: Fudge those are great recent buys on feebay lol. Did you have them graded to get those high prices? The CL 25 sold raw, but graded the other two. littledoom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) In the span of two months I acquired all 4 copies I have of Invincible #1... The CGC was local purchase on Craigslist for $300.. It was a very hasty deal as I was given a very vague location to meet at but for $300 thats a deal 9.8 Signed by Kirkman. The guy who sold it to me was an ebay seller who was selling mainly Image/Indie slabs (so it's also an ebay score!). Oh, the fourth came from an estate sale for .50 cents. I ended up selling the run for the same price I bought the lot for. Gotta love those buy it now auction lots Edited May 7, 2020 by littledoom october 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 These are some of my favorites Steelrain41, Inhuman Fiend, oldrover and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EdMann2 Posted May 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2020 Fifteen years or so ago I stumbled across a listing titled "Old Wonder Woman comic book" with a starting bid of $9.99. There was only one, small, bad photo of the front cover - and the "Wonder Woman comic book" was Sensation Comics 53. I figured I'd take a chance to get GA reader for a low price, so I bid $20 or something. The description didn't have much more information than the title, but added "I have a couple of other old comics I will throw in too. Thank you." I was the winning (and only) bidder and figured, well, even if it's trashed or incomplete, I'm only out $10, plus whatever shipping was. It arrived in just a manila envelope - no cardboard or anything. I was happy to see it survived OK, and it turned out to be a complete copy of the comic, probably in 2.0 or so, but definitely a nice reader. And the other comics? A coverless 60s issue of Wonder Woman missing the first two wraps.... and a 2.0-3.0 copy of All-Star Comics # 28! So, not the most earth-shattering score in history, but a very nice surprise. And a great deal for $10! frozentundraguy, oldmilwaukee6er, oldrover and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilskip Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 A couple of years ago I picked up a couple of lots of Monster World magazines for about $75 total. Sold them for over $425 the next week. As far as comics go, if the grade comes close, then I consider it a win. Larryw7 and oldrover 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mwotka Posted May 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2020 My best deal was over ten years ago. Was watching a "lot of Incredible Hulks" with just one or two pictures of a scattered pile of several dozen. Could see one little orange corner sticking out of the pile. Was sitting at like $15. Waited til end and one other person bid on it and I think thought the same thing, I threw 100 at it and got it for about $80. Sure enough, had a 181 in fine with the stamp. And a 102, 182, 141, and a few others, all vg or so. Ended up keeping the keys and relisting, got about $25 out of it the rest. So I've still got a 181, 182, 102 and 141 for about fifty bucks. Not too shabby! mrwoogieman, evilskip, Inhuman Fiend and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 13 minutes ago, mwotka said: My best deal was over ten years ago. Was watching a "lot of Incredible Hulks" with just one or two pictures of a scattered pile of several dozen. Could see one little orange corner sticking out of the pile. Was sitting at like $15. Waited til end and one other person bid on it and I think thought the same thing, I threw 100 at it and got it for about $80. Sure enough, had a 181 in fine with the stamp. And a 102, 182, 141, and a few others, all vg or so. Ended up keeping the keys and relisting, got about $25 out of it the rest. So I've still got a 181, 182, 102 and 141 for about fifty bucks. Not too shabby! I hate when I get outbid because most of the time like in this scenario I wouldn't mind paying $81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post batman_fan Posted May 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2020 I bought this off Ebay back in the 90s for around $600. Ungraded. Larryw7, mysterymachine, oldrover and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dark Knight Posted May 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2020 It was during a work day of June, 2012 while I was on break checking out ebay. I normally scroll through the golden age and silver age section frequently when I get the chance just to see if anything new listed up. At around 11 am, I saw that there was a listing for an original Batman #1 with a buy it price of $20k at around good condition. The seller had pretty good feedback, I believe over 1000 positives from what I recall, but he didn't have any previous comic book sales or feedback. I quickly scrolled through the pictures just to make sure that it is the real thing and if there is anything odd or weird I can maybe find from those pix. Nothing unusual I saw. I read the description in which he mentioned that the book was in a trunk with older comics (I remember he also had a Batman #2 with the same pencil writing that is on my book) inside that was found in Maine. I don't remember if he stated that it was from a garage sale or from a antique store or anything of that nature. But anyways, I got really excited and at that time, the price for a Bat 1 in around the good price was maybe $10k more. I quickly got excited knowing I may have only minutes to decide whether I should gamble and buy or just forget about it. After a few steps back and forth in my office, I quickly pulled the trigger and paid instantly. As soon as I received the book, I quickly sent it off to CGC to get graded. After 8 years, I still have the book in my collection left the same way when I received it vheflin, littledoom, october and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 6 minutes ago, kav said: Just saw this on ebay-is it legit? whats the story?https://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-BATMAN-DRAWINGS-1932/233346262463?hash=item36548565bf:g:sTMAAOSwyTtdcBVt Original Batman drawings 1932 The first original drawings of Batman were created by Frank Foster II in 1932 and presented to the publishers in New York City from 1937 to 1939. Full details and documentation may be seen on the website: people will see and notice what they want.. but seems legit.. if DC actually saw this and used it is another thing... If DC never came up with Batman back then I'm sure someone else would have in the 80 years kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serling1978 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 I got back into collecting in my early 30s about 11 years ago so unfortunately I missed out on the wild west days of ebay, but through persistence (obsession) I did get a lot of good deals 5-10 years ago. About 5 years ago I bought a large Amazing Spiderman run of #60 through #400 with all of the annuals starting with #2 that included a handful of dups including two nice copies of #129. Only paid $1200 buy it now from a zero feedback seller (thought it was worth the risk considering buyer protection) so it was a pretty good deal I'd say. One other that comes to mind is a solid mid grade ASM #3 I got for $175. It was an auction but as soon as it went up I messaged the seller and made an offer and he accepted and did a deal through PayPal . I used to do that all the time when I first got back into collecting and it worked more often than you'd think. Inhuman Fiend, oldrover and littledoom 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Inhuman Fiend Posted May 9, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2020 On 5/7/2020 at 12:04 PM, october said: I meant I found better stuff 5-10 years ago. Much harder to find good collections now. Truth. October is being modest, Andy was the KING of finding incredible eBay bargains...these whippersnappers have no idea! My 2 best ever: 1) Late at night about 9 years ago I was looking at auctions ending and saw an auction with a fuzzy pic of a Star Wars #1 with the title simply stating "old Star Wars comic" from a seller with almost no feedback. There were like 2 minutes left and I zoomed in and saw it was the 35-cent variant, couldn't tell condition at all from fuzzy pic but I thought what the heck...bid was at like $12.00 so nobody else had figured it out...I bid $1,000 with 10 seconds left and was high bidder at under $20...then with 1 second left somebody else figured it out and jacked my bid up to $700 but I still won. Wasn't quite the huge steal I thought I was going to get but even if it was beat up, still a solid buy. When I got it I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually really nice despite a bunch of dents and bends. Gave it to Joeypost to press and it came back a 9.0 which I sold for $3,900. 2) Also about 10 years ago I found another fuzzy late-night auction with a beat-up looking Hulk #1 listed in modern comics. Took a chance and won at $800, received it and it looked pretty decent. After Joeypost once again worked his magic it came back a 3.0 and it's sitting in my collection today! kav, Larryw7, october and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, Inhuman Fiend said: Truth. October is being modest, Andy was the KING of finding incredible eBay bargains...these whippersnappers have no idea! My 2 best ever: 1) Late at night about 9 years ago I was looking at auctions ending and saw an auction with a fuzzy pic of a Star Wars #1 with the title simply stating "old Star Wars comic" from a seller with almost no feedback. There were like 2 minutes left and I zoomed in and saw it was the 35-cent variant, couldn't tell condition at all from fuzzy pic but I thought what the heck...bid was at like $12.00 so nobody else had figured it out...I bid $1,000 with 10 seconds left and was high bidder at under $20...then with 1 second left somebody else figured it out and jacked my bid up to $700 but I still won. Wasn't quite the huge steal I thought I was going to get but even if it was beat up, still a solid buy. When I got it I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually really nice despite a bunch of dents and bends. Gave it to Joeypost to press and it came back a 9.0 which I sold for $3,900. 2) Also about 10 years ago I found another fuzzy late-night auction with a beat-up looking Hulk #1 listed in modern comics. Took a chance and won at $800, received it and it looked pretty decent. After Joeypost once again worked his magic it came back a 3.0 and it's sitting in my collection today! fudge those are nice.. it's definitely harder in more recent years to get those mammoth deals.. deals can be had but that echelon might not be in this decade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 The seller canceled the Sandman 8 order but he replaced it with a couple Kraven's Last Hunt issues for my set.. the HoS 92 non-ebay app lot was $50... I missed out on that.. I did not buy the ASM 129 or Bat 232 depicted but those were deals! Inhuman Fiend 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick O. Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Still remember trembling with excitement when this appeared on ebay in 2013 https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1042963 BlowUpTheMoon, Hollywood1892, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 31 minutes ago, O. said: Still remember trembling with excitement when this appeared on ebay in 2013 https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1042963 how much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...