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Stay the course (with the lower seller fee). While people may look at the catalog, ultimately they look at the online listings to bid. Also, I think anyone who is interested in the item from the catalog based on the description "Romita Sr prelim of the DF Spidey/Goblin poster" will realize that the picture of a Superman drawing is an error and check it on the web.

At least the catalog has images, that's a big step forward At the rate CC are going, their catalogs (and maybe online listings) are going to look like old school mail order catalogs soon.

Geez, on top of everything else, Rob was also in charge of the mailroom?!

He must've been one of BWS's big influences.

Seems to be doing a good imitation of a Promise book.

I just look at the counter that says how many days/hours until the item goes live, so the change doesn't really affect me.

Or maybe it's the venue. I wouldn't be surprised to see a few pages in the current Heritage Signature auction go for more. The Sandman #1 page in the current Heritage auction, which also doesn't feature Morpheus (not really) and is not as dramatic or key a page as the CC page, is already at $16,800.

I loved Grell when I was a kid, but his art hasn't aged well, in my opinion.

Wow, that is a pretty low price for that page! Maybe one can justify it because Morpheus isn't in the page, but it's a key page.

Not just a "strong" page, but maybe the best Graham BP page ever.

Honestly, I don't even care as I couldn't be bothered to look up the grader's notes for a book I have no intention of buying, I was just amused by people complaining about a CGC technical problem on the CGC boards and it never occurred to them to just ask someone at CGC to look into it. If it turns out that everyone was just entering the number in the wrong interface, then I am truly angry about the cumulative 10 minutes of my life that I've wasted.

Thanks Mike.

The price defense force is strong.

I do wonder if the abundance of Sandman art over the past few years will artificially suppress prices to some extent. At the moment, it's sure not looking like it! Prices are already strong despite it being still early in internet bidding, and seemed to have taken a jump following the Gaiman auction.

My recollection is that people who already owned a certain book or wanted to sell a book were delighted by rises in the Guide, while those who didn't already own it and wanted to buy one were angered by rises in the Guide. It seems incredible that such a dichotomy could exist, and yet it's true!

Thanks Mike, but the question is why does putting in the serial number in CGC's system result in the following?

I was scrolling through this auction a few days ago, if you're a BA/Copper OA collector it's absolutely packed. If you're a Sandman OA collector, it's packed (again).

That's odd, but the graders notes are listed on the HA listing for the item, which look accurate as far as what's visible in the scans. This rather strange and critical inconsistency in the CGC serial number for the Kansas City copy of Action Comics 1 was already alluded to in a post by our very own master sleuth hiself, i.e. @MasterChief, in the ASM 252 thread earlier last month: We're literally posting on a CGC message board. Can't someone just ask Mike or someone else at CGC what the story is?

Why would people store their valuable art in a seismically active place like SF?

I would guess it was the first time someone tried to charge more than cover price for a comic.

I have RBCC issues from the 70s. There is more than one article lamenting the inability to collect like they used to. I've been collecting for over 40 years and can confirm that the only time prices have ever seemed cheap is when they're viewed in the rearview mirror.

I don't know about that. I'm always reading on these Boards that the ultra-low grade books have actually outperformed the high end books (on a percentage basis, of course).

A backwards swastika is a common Buddhist symbol. In fact, that's the correct direction, and it's the Nazi swastika that is backwards.

Wow, comic bidding patterns are starting to resemble OA bidding patterns, with big bids being put in early rather than being played close to the vest as has traditionally been the case. I wonder if that's the case for the biggest ticket books because their unique nature makes them more like OA, and therefore owners of comparable books are putting in defensive bids to protect the valuation.