Marvel comics #1 8 8

[lou_fine]

On 2/26/2022 at 6:24 AM, pemart1966 said:

A few years after Mitch bought his Action #1, Burrell Rowe's picture appeared in newspapers holding Superman #1 that he had bought for, I believe, $2000 .  So $1500 may not be too far off given its condition.

Just for fun, if someone has them, kindly check the Overstreet Price Guide for 1977 and 1978 so that we can see what the guide was on it.

Boy, that's taking me all the way back to my first Overstreet Guide that I ever brought and the most ragtag copy I have.  Especially since being the first copy and never knowing that comic books had any value prior to that time, I must have gone through that guide over and over again like a fine tooth comb.  

Anyways, looks like Overstreet was still using the long time 1:2:3 price spread for his Good/Fine/Mint condition levels back then, as he had his guide valuations set at $800/$1,600/$2,400 in OPG 7 before bumping them up to $1,000/$2,000/$3,000 for his OPG 8.  Interesting to see that he had his "Prices Vary Widely on This Book" notation for Supes 1 back then, which I believe he also had in place for all of the other high doillar value key GA books at the time.  

[tth2]

On 2/27/2022 at 3:42 AM, adamstrange said:

When Jon visited me...

[tth2]

On 2/27/2022 at 8:55 AM, Terry JSA said:

On 2/26/2022 at 1:43 PM, tth2 said:

Too high or too low?

It’s just very affordable when compared to today’s market. 

In hindsight, yes.  But at the time it was an unimaginable amount of money for a comic.

[woowoo]

On 2/26/2022 at 8:57 PM, tth2 said:

In hindsight, yes.  But at the time it was an unimaginable amount of money for a comic.

This is my Hindsight lately 

[Terry JSA]

On 2/26/2022 at 11:57 PM, tth2 said:

In hindsight, yes.  But at the time it was an unimaginable amount of money for a comic.

I could tell by everyone’s reaction. 

[adamstrange]

On 2/26/2022 at 11:54 PM, tth2 said:

Honestly, his standards for who can hold it are pretty low.

[tth2]

On 2/27/2022 at 1:54 PM, adamstrange said:

Honestly, his standards for who can hold it are pretty low.

I'm going to start calling him Zandy.

[Courageous Cat]

On 2/21/2022 at 5:06 PM, Straw-Man said:

i've held it.  it does.

i hope you washed your hands first! Sheesh 

[MrBedrock]

On 2/27/2022 at 9:55 AM, Courageous Cat said:

On 2/21/2022 at 4:06 PM, Straw-Man said:

i've held it.  it does.

i hope you washed your hands first! Sheesh 

He didn't say he had held yours.

[paqart]

On 2/26/2022 at 9:24 AM, pemart1966 said:

A few years after Mitch bought his Action #1, Burrell Rowe's picture appeared in newspapers holding Superman #1 that he had bought for, I believe, $2000 .  So $1500 may not be too far off given its condition.

Just for fun, if someone has them, kindly check the Overstreet Price Guide for 1977 and 1978 so that we can see what the guide was on it.

Back in 1977, 1978, and 1979, I memorized the price guide. At the time, I was between 12-14 years old. I haven't tried to reach back to those days in a long time and my memory isn't what it was, but here are a few price spreads for Good, Fine, and Mint that are probably fairly close to what they were (I'll put the big ones at the end). Again, I'm doing this from memory and it has been awhile:

Avengers #1: $125, $250, $375

Avengers #2: $25, $50, $75

X-Men #1: $125, $250, $375

Tales of Suspense #39: $125, $250, $375

Fantastic Four #1: $150, $300, $450

Fantastic Four #5: $35, $70, $105

Amazing Spider-Man #300: $100, $200, $300

Hulk #1: $80, $160, $240

House of Secrets #92: $25, $50, $75

Giant-Size X-Men #1: $2.50, $5.00, $7.50 ($20 in most stores, same for X-Men #94)

Batman #227: $1.50, $3.00, $4.50

Green Lantern #76 (silver age): $25, $50, $75

Weird Science Fantasy #29: $75, $140, $175

Four Color #386 (US #1): $100, $200, $300

Buster Crabbe #5: $150, $300, $450

Feature Book NN ( Tracy #1): $150, $300, $450

Four Color #9: $800, $1600, $2,450

March of Comics #4 (Maharajah Donald): $1,600, $2,400, $4800

Thun'da #1: $150, $300, $450

Captain America #1: $1,650, $3,250, $5,000

Detective Comics #27: $2,000, $4,000, $6,000

Action Comics #1: $2,500, $5,000, $7,500

Marvel Comics #1: $3,500, $7,500, $10,000

Generally speaking, the following groups of comics were worth the following in mint:

Any Frazetta story in an EC comic: $175

Any Wood story in an EC comic: $100

Any Neal Adams Detective or Batman: $4.50

Wrightson stories in anything, except HOS 92: $3.00

All of Jack Kirby's "Fourth World" comics for DC: Nothing. The joke where I lived was that these cost twenty cents a pound. There were dozens of these everywhere, like sand in the desert.

Any Will Eisner Spirit, except first issues and first appearances: $75

Golden Age Flash, Green Lantern, and other misc. DCs, non-key issues: $150-$300

 

 

 

[Crowzilla]

And as we know from years and years of experience, Overstreet is always correct about values.

[pemart1966]

On 2/27/2022 at 9:14 PM, Crowzilla said:

And as we know from years and years of experience, Overstreet is always correct about values.

The Overstreet Price Guide was more than just a guide in those early days - it was the bible as far as pricing went...

[paqart]

On 2/27/2022 at 9:14 PM, Crowzilla said:

And as we know from years and years of experience, Overstreet is always correct about values.

I wouldn't go that far, I'm just reporting what I remember from the old guides.

Overstreet once pulled a fast one on me regarding an anti-Communist propaganda comic from the Korean war period. I ran across "Korea My Home" in the back of a filing cabinet in the late 1980's. It wasn't in the OPG, so I brought it to a convention in NYC when I had the chance. I first showed it to someone named Phil Levine, who said he couldn't suggest a value until it appeared in the guide. He suggested I talk to Overstreet himself, who was a few booths away. Overstreet said he couldn't list it until there was a sale to record, and sent me back to Levine. Levine offered around $45 or so. It was essentially nothing but I saw no way to sell it without an acknowledgement of its existence in the OPG, so I sold it. The next edition listed it as a one of a kind comic valued at a couple thousand dollars.

I also remember that with anything semi-recent, the OPG was always wrong. The new X-Men, the Green Lanterns by Adams, Cerebus, and other comics always went for multiples of guide. Everything else, it was pretty accurate.

 

Edited February 28, 2022 by paqart

[woowoo]

On 2/27/2022 at 8:00 PM, paqart said:

I wouldn't go that far, I'm just reporting what I remember from the old guides.

Overstreet once pulled a fast one on me regarding an anti-Communist propaganda comic from the Korean war period. I ran across "Korea My Home" in the back of a filing cabinet in the late 1980's. It wasn't in the OPG, so I brought it to a convention in NYC when I had the chance. I first showed it to someone named Phil Levine, who said he couldn't suggest a value until it appeared in the guide. He suggested I talk to Overstreet himself, who was a few booths away. Overstreet said he couldn't list it until there was a sale to record, and sent me back to Levine. Levine offered around $45 or so. It was essentially nothing but I saw no way to sell it without an acknowledgement of its existence in the OPG, so I sold it. The next edition listed it as a one of a kind comic valued at a couple thousand dollars.

I also remember that with anything semi-recent, the OPG was always wrong. The new X-Men, the Green Lanterns by Adams, Cerebus, and other comics always went for multiples of guide. Everything else, it was pretty accurate.

 

NOTHING HAS CHANGE THINGS ARE GOING FOR 10X GUIDE EVEN STUPID THINGS

[sagii]

The 2.5 is as much a spectacle as the 9.2

[Dark Knight]

On 2/28/2022 at 6:05 PM, woowoo said:

NOTHING HAS CHANGE THINGS ARE GOING FOR 10X GUIDE EVEN STUPID THINGS

I need that ^

[mem72]

On 2/25/2022 at 4:11 PM, lou_fine said:

Well, from this cover image here, I guess old sly Recil was more of a "leg man" than anything else.  

To each their own, but I imagine this means that when Recil saunters up to the counter at the local KFC or Church's, he's much more into ordering a dark juicy thigh, as opposed to a dry white breast.  

On a more serious note though, from my own personal point of view, PL 16 is the all-time classic lingerie cover of the GA and should be on every GGA collector's list of books to acquire for their personal collection.    

I still remember Mark Wilson having a pristine copy of this book back in the day and he was asking something like $500 or $600 for it which was still over top of guide for the book at the time.  Even though Mark swore to me up and down that he had not done anything at all to the book, I was still skeptical because of how nice the book was combined with Mark's well known reputation for "wet cleaning" all of his books no matter how nice they were to start off with.  Ended up taking a hard pass on the book, but by the time I had changed my mind a couple of weeks later, he had already sold it to another collector by then.    

Love it!!!!!!