Early Archie prices

[Tokay]

Pep 22 in the May Heritage auction!

[143ksk]

Pep 22 in the May Heritage auction!

 

Looks like a fairly decent 2.0.

[Marty Mann]

Is ARCHIE #23 hard to find...I see only six (6) listed in the census?

 

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[143ksk]

Nope. Very common book. Like all Archies, however, it's tough in high grade.

[Marty Mann]

I think it's time to get it graded along with my LAUGH #20.

 

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[143ksk]

Pep 24 CGC 2.5 $635 on eBay. Pretty impressive numbers for early Peps recently.

[lotemo]

Pep 24 CGC 2.5 $635 on eBay. Pretty impressive numbers for early Peps recently.

Link

 

It's getting to the point where there may no longer be "affordable" low-grade copies.

 

There's a lower grade BIN copy that keeps getting relisted with a progressively higher BIN price.

 

Other copy

[Marty Mann]

Should be interesting to see what CGC grades my ARCHIE #23 & LAUGH #20 .

 

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[Tokay]

Pep 24 CGC 2.5 $635 on eBay. Pretty impressive numbers for early Peps recently.

 

I wanted it but ultimately held off to save for something I have my eye on coming up in a couple of months. Also, tape is one of my biggest peeves. Very tempting though.

[Marty Mann]

Found a coverless PEP #59 and a coverless LAUGH #21 in my collection that's

about as low-grade as you can get.

 

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[cbcnow]

Pep 24 CGC 2.5 $635 on eBay. Pretty impressive numbers for early Peps recently.

 

I wanted it but ultimately held off to save for something I have my eye on coming up in a couple of months. Also, tape is one of my biggest peeves. Very tempting though.

 

I actually won that Pep #24 and I have to say I was more than happy to win it for $635!

I would have easily paid over $1k for it. Myself and another collector/seller thought it was going to end somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500. The Pep #24 that is on ebay now I would purchase it in a second if it were graded. All early Pep`s containing Archie for the most part are not too easy to find but Pep #24 in my opinion is one of the more difficult copies to locate.

[Tokay]

Pep 24 CGC 2.5 $635 on eBay. Pretty impressive numbers for early Peps recently.

 

I wanted it but ultimately held off to save for something I have my eye on coming up in a couple of months. Also, tape is one of my biggest peeves. Very tempting though.

 

I actually won that Pep #24 and I have to say I was more than happy to win it for $635!

I would have easily paid over $1k for it. Myself and another collector/seller thought it was going to end somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500. The Pep #24 that is on ebay now I would purchase it in a second if it were graded. All early Pep`s containing Archie for the most part are not too easy to find but Pep #24 in my opinion is one of the more difficult copies to locate.

 

Nice buy! Yeah, it went cheaper than I expected. And they are very tough to find.

[cbcnow]

Pep 24 CGC 2.5 $635 on eBay. Pretty impressive numbers for early Peps recently.

 

I wanted it but ultimately held off to save for something I have my eye on coming up in a couple of months. Also, tape is one of my biggest peeves. Very tempting though.

 

I actually won that Pep #24 and I have to say I was more than happy to win it for $635!

I would have easily paid over $1k for it. Myself and another collector/seller thought it was going to end somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500. The Pep #24 that is on ebay now I would purchase it in a second if it were graded. All early Pep`s containing Archie for the most part are not too easy to find but Pep #24 in my opinion is one of the more difficult copies to locate.

 

Nice buy! Yeah, it went cheaper than I expected. And they are very tough to find.

 

Thank you! I`m very happy with the purchase!

[killerkomics]

Pep #22 cgc 2.0, already over 10K. Any guesses at its final price?

 

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7059&lotNo=91184

[cbcnow]

Pep #22 cgc 2.0, already over 10K. Any guesses at its final price?

 

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7059&lotNo=91184

 

It is already over $12.5k so my guess would be between 25k and 30K probably closer to 30k.

The book is impossible to find!

[Fallsview]

 

A story outside of collecting but thought it would still be interesting to the Archie fans.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/nyregion/the-battle-for-a-comic-empire-that-archie-built.html

 

[lotemo]

This Pep 41 went for $4,866 yesterday on Comicconnect.

 

Pep 41

 

It's hard to believe that 8 to 10 years ago, a copy in this condition might have gone for $500 to $1,000 at most.

[143ksk]

Bought my current copy 6 years ago for $300. Heritage graded it VG. CGC said 6.0

[lotemo]

Bought my current copy 6 years ago for $300. Heritage graded it VG. CGC said 6.0

 

Thanks to you, I bought your under copy. At today's prices I don't think I'd want to attempt to buy an upgrade.

 

Of course, 10 years from now when the $5,000 copy is selling for $15,000, I'll be mad for not buying more.

[Mr. Lodge]

A story outside of collecting but thought it would still be interesting to the Archie fans.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/nyregion/the-battle-for-a-comic-empire-that-archie-built.html

 

Thanks for posting. The controversy is sad and I don't pay much attention to it but this article provided some interesting nuggets. For example, if I read it right, it seems Jon G bought 25% of the company for $2.5M? That seems like an extremely low price.

 

As for Pep 41, I was in the hunt for a while but could not keep pace for this issue.