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The Flessel covers throughout the run, including his Rockwell-esque covers, are really wonderful.

Trying to think of others, it might be worth doing a thread in comics general for fun. Bug Chew- Punk Subscription Crease- New Wave Dust Shadow- Emo Church Collection- Gospel Cream- I think somebody already took that one... Brittle Pages

It just demonstrates that the things that are so very important to us mean absolutely nothing to almost everyone else on the planet.

Would be a great name for a Boardie Band My band's name would be Low Grade Drek.

It's a marathon, which is probably why it feels like I've won more today, at prices I'm very happy with, than I have in the last few years combined. My max bids, which I input before going to sleep, have more stamina than live bidders!

Not as much as how much modern books go for. There's even more of them!

It's the Wild West right now while the market is waiting to see what post-slabbed pulp prices are going to be, so I don't blame the dealers or sellers. They don't want to end up selling pulps for what in retrospect will be seen to be way too cheap, like some of them did with slabbed comics in the early days of CGC. At least with comics in those days, there was Overstreet to use as a reference, and I remember people using rule of thumb pricing of 9.2 = 2x the OPG 9.2 price, 9.4 = 4x the OPG 9.2 price, 9.6 = 6X and 9.8 = 10X or higher in the early days. But it quickly became apparent that early SA DC, for example, was priced way too low in OPG and I remember often paying 10X for 9.4 DCs and even higher multiples for 9.6s and 9.8s. It took a while before there were enough market transactions for people to develop a database and stop referring to Overstreet. Pulps have Bookery's Guide, but I don't think it has the same level of acceptance in the pulp market as Overstreet did in comics, and the most recent edition (2d ed.) came out in 2019, which is an eternity ago.

They've been saying that in the comic book market for about 22 years now.

Well, condition matters. I don't think the copy on Heritage would've come anywhere near its price if it had been a much lower grade copy.

Of course it does.

I was wondering that, but if so, it's minor. I looked up the sales history on the 3 books I listed on HA, and while there are few comparison sales in grade, it seems like the three books I listed were comparable to a recent raw sale taking minor differences in grade into account. The saucy movies first issue had a "5.0" go last year for 5.2k. The other saucy had a raw "5.5" sell a year ago for 10.8k. The Strange Stories had a "7.5" sell last year for 7.8k. So the graded bump doesn't seem to be present at least for those few issues. I'll look at the other books when I'm on a desktop. Also the previous sales in a comparable grade last year were likely bolstered due to the cgc grading that was on the horizon, so I guess those also benefited from a future cgc bump? Thanks for confirming, because this was kind of my gut reaction too, but I was too lazy to do the research. While the prices of the slabbed books in this auction were solid, none shocked me. Perhaps this will cool the raw market a bit, as it seems to have gotten a bit ahead of itself.

I thought there were pretty strong prices for a lot of the SA books on Day 3, particularly the DC Annuals, DC 1950s sci-fi books and the pre-hero Marvels/Atlases.

Congrats, a great and super tough book!

Ouch! What makes it even more painful is that the book was in kind of a decade-long doldrums back in 2018, but had seen a resurgence in the last few years, so I'm sure there was an expectation of a nice profit over the 2018 price.

Congratulations, Peter! An amazing accomplishment and a true testament to your OCD dogged determination! I, along with many others here, wait with bated breath for the rest.

The PC Superboy Annual #1 was massive. It is a super tough book to find in high grade, let alone 9.8, but $40.8k! Wow.

I don't understand. Why is the story sad? Because he took a huge loss.

Shows how much bigger the dollars have gotten over the course of a decade. Keller's total losses in absolute dollar terms are dwarfed by the losses of these recent consignees. The loss taken on the 9.8 TOS 39 alone is probably a multiple of Keller's total losses.

This was shockingly low. I don't know if it was the writing on the cover that put people off or what, but the consignor must've been pretty disappointed. This was surprisingly high. I can remember when 9.4 was the top grade in the Census for this book, and now there seem to be tons of 9.6s and 9.8s.

Overall, I thought prices on Day 3 were pretty strong, particularly in SA.

For "must have" books, there's often an increased price for the entry level copy because people will take anything. So, when an attractive 3.0 comes along it will garner outsized attention compared to a 3.0 of a random issue in the run. I would agree with you for must have books that don't come to market very often, in any grade. But Cap 1 (and Bat 1) are not those.

You're preaching to the choir. The idea of a 1968 Marvel #1 going for 6-figures seems nuts to me, unless maybe it's in 9.9 and even then it's still nuts to me. It'll be interesting to see if the price is replicable.

The V family's Allentown CA 1 is a 9.8. It was resubbed after the inferior SF was given a 9.4. The AT Cap 1 was initially graded as a 9.6. I guess that wasn't good enough for Verzyl.

Who knows they have been locked away for decades and I don't think that many of them are graded? As far as I know, none of the Church Timely superhero books have been graded except for Red Raven #1.

Haven’t they been worked on over the years like so many other Church books? The Church Timely superhero books are all sitting ungraded in John Verzyl's family's collection, with the only exception I'm aware of being the Red Raven #1 because Chuck held on to that one and then sold it directly a few years ago.