esquirecomics Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I picked up some beauts from the Heritage auction as well. I won't include scans since you can just go to their website and take a look, but I bought: Famous Funnies: Carnival of Comics #nn (Eastern Color, 1933) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages.... [tied with one other book as highest graded] - Gotta love a 72 year old book being a 9.0!! World's Finest Comics #2 (DC, 1941) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages.... Mad #1 Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages.... [tied with 3 others as highest graded] Adventure Comics #42 (DC, 1939) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages.... I trust everyone saw the Sensation #54 "San Francisco" copy sold for $1800. I also just bought some great More Fun Comics, which are for my personal collection (I am building a complete run of the entire series). 56 CGC 8.0 O/W 63 CGC 9.0 O/W to W Mile High 65 CGC 9.0 O/W 66 CGC 9.0 W Mile High I should have these four books in hand today. Mark Esquirecomics.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Won this today at the Heritage auction! I've wanted a copy for a long, long time, and the closest I got before was the double cover 8.0 Metropolis had, but they wanted nearly $1200 for that copy. This is almost as nice, but not nearly as expensive. The front cover is a classic, and the back cover is pretty cool too! Wow! I'd say you did very well with this book! Classic cover & The book looks great! I guess the couple of finger prints on the back cover knocked it down, 'cause it looks VF to me! How much did you save, as opposed to the Metro $1,200.00 price? I checked out the final price on Heritage - nice job! Congrats on a great pickup - with great eye-appeal, as I'm guessing the BC is what brings the grade lower than a VF. I remember when Terry of Terry's Comics was selling that double cover for $200 back in the mid-nineties (unless there's more than 1 VF double cover copy) - I didn't even call, as It was more than I wanted to spend for a copy at the time (foolish me - I eventually found a cheaper copy, but nowhere near that nice)- IIRC whoever bought it sold it shortly thereafter for around $500 in one of Continental's CBG auctions - How long has Metro had it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryw7 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Congratulations on the wins, guys! I bid on five books, but only won this one. It's a PLOD, but I don't care, it's a major improvement over the copy I have now. Tomorrow is my b'day, so this is a nice present: The books I bid on but didn't win were BATMAN #37 5.5, IMPACT#1 Gaines Pedigree 8.0, and SUPERWORLD #'s 1-2(the covers looked nice, but I just couldn't bid higher on such brown books). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paris_Fred Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Hi Mark, Congratulation for the "More Fun" run, but the 61 will go to France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonds25 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I picked up some beauts from the Heritage auction as well. I won't include scans since you can just go to their website and take a look, but I bought: Mad #1 Gaines File pedigree 4/12 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages.... [tied with 3 others as highest graded] Mark Esquirecomics.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
143ksk Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Congrats on the Crime Does Not Pay, Bonds That's a great book! I was looking at that one, but ended up not bidding. The only book I was seriously interested in (Pep 40 VF) I got outbid on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghoulaid Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Cool book, Bonds! Esquire ... uh ... you picked up some great books too (to say the least) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 That back cover is classic. Talk about a different world back then. Mark, that is some haul you picked up on Heritage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forbush-Man Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 That back cover is classic. Talk about a different world back then. Mark, that is some haul you picked up on Heritage. Go easy,.......I'm sure he paid through the nose for them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquirecomics Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 That back cover is classic. Talk about a different world back then. Mark, that is some haul you picked up on Heritage. Go easy,.......I'm sure he paid through the nose for them! It was definitely an obscene amount of money when you consider what most Americans make in a year, but in our world the prices actually were not bad. The Adventure went barely over guide, the World's Finest went under guide, the Famous Funnies went for guide or not much over, and the Mad #1, although about 3x-4x guide (9.2 price, this was a 9.8), is, well, MAD #1 CGC 9.8 GAINES. Anyway, other copies have sold for the same amount (and of course 15% was the darn BP) so I didn't go crazy on setting a record new price or anything, I just proved the price was fair, or something like that. These were all investment books so I will resell them at some point in time and justify to my wife that the purchase was sound. The collector in me requires that everytime I buy one of these great books in a slab I go out and buy the corresponding DC Archives, if one exists, so I can read the stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I just bought this book from Silveracres in the UK. Now comes the wait for it to make it to the states. So far, very pleasant to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNYHUMAN Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Cool book!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNYHUMAN Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I love these early Golden Age!! From my collection!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryw7 Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I just bought this book from Silveracres in the UK. Now comes the wait for it to make it to the states. So far, very pleasant to deal with. Great book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryw7 Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I love these early Golden Age!! From my collection!! I love those Centaur covers! Sweet book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrunkenhead Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Fresh from the Heritage auction. I saved my pennies for this one for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArAich Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 That's a keeper... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryw7 Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Fresh from the Heritage auction. I saved my pennies for this one for awhile. I'm glad you got that one! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrunkenhead Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbcomicbox Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 This is sort of off the beaten path GA.....different cover art approach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
