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What a great question. It would take some research but I think you could come to a close estimate with a few key pieces of information: 1) ebay annual sales. Someone said ~$160 Million above. This sounds reasonable but a more accurate estimate could be obtained with the last 3 months sales and annualizing it. 2) off-market sales. Combined LCS (back issues only), Facebook, craigslist, CGC and other private sales are at least as much as ebay. Estimating these is art not science. 3) Diamond new issue revenues, their sales could be taken and given an average cost per book. Relatively easy with comichron I believe.

Not from what we see. You can't rule out private sales. There's a huge incentive to avoid fees and duties by trading in private. That said, you can't factor them into a current market price either. It looks like the Comic Connect $27K sale last April was a recent high for this book.

Ebay auction closed at $24,100.00. Under my predicted range of $25-30K but not far off. We'll see if sale sticks. Bad timing on seller's part since the Heritage auction of same exact book is happening now also. Heritage is at $16K (19K with buyer's premium).

Unknown. Several have traded through private sales apparently, but no published and verifiable prices.

Ebay's auction up to $19.1K Heritage still at 11K (13K with buyer's premium). That gap is interesting. Shouldn't last though.

I guess you are being sarcastic. They're not the same seller.

It's been removed.

They're different. HA CGC # is 1268030001, Ebay appears to be 0202540001.

I know some on here get really heated by any selling off ebay, but to me selling a counterfeit item as "possibly real" is much more severe.

You're right. The red tower in the left bottom corner is missing. I'm reporting this now.

Heritage auction same issue is a STEAL at 11K (13K w/ buyers premium)! Does anyone know how the seller premium works at Heritage? Do they waive the seller's fee above a certain value? 19% is such a cash grab and that's just the buyer's premium. The question is why would nick bridger list his at the same time as the other one? Not a good move in my opinion. There's only so many people out there with $25-30K who want to buy this comic.

No idea if the book is legit but after he sent me the photos already in the auction, he sent me new pics with his ebay name on it. So he has whatever is in the pictures.

Yeah, I messaged him. First thing is he wants to chat on whatsapp, told him no way, ebay only with buyer protections. Then he offered other pictures of the book. Ok, so he sends me the same last 3 photos from the auction. Says he got the book "for his birthday". Well la de fricken da. Sure.

worked great for me! Had a book in my basket I was waiting on something like this for! nice.

How does it look suspicious? Not disagreeing or agreeing, I have no idea about these books.

Also, don't forget people that Heritage also has a TMNT #1 1st print 9.8 WP up for auction, currently around $2,000. It's not mine but wish it were! https://comics.ha.com/itm/modern-age-1980-present-/alternative-underground/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1-mirage-studios-1984-cgc-nm-mt-98-white-pages/a/7163-91017.s?ic4

The Pawn Stars guys are good at this. The old adage "99% of comics are worthless" and a skeptical delivery set the tone with their customers. Now they are selling many different items so they don't have to be comics cheerleaders like a LCS does. Maybe rephrasing it to "99% of old comics are not worth very much and to resell these I need to be able to make money." That's what I would say. Then every thing the person says after that I would respond "I'm sorry there's nothing I can do". Buh bye!

I ship comics media mail often and never have a problem. If you pack safely you can ship anything. Technically comics have ads so they don't qualify for media mail but I've only had one box of comics returned over the years for this reason (It was damaged and of course it was to Florida, but that's another story).

I've read data on user activity on Ebay and Saturday-Monday are the most active times. Friday is next best. Thurs, Wed and Tuesday as least active but I forget the order. Many professional ebayers end their auctions on late Sunday night, 9-10 pm eastern (ebay uses PST so 3+ hours to whatever they quote on the site). In my experience Sunday nights are the best I've found for eyeballs and activity, with Mondays next and Saturdays my third choice. That said, I never end auctions during the daytime when people have a lot of other stuff to do. Any commuting times on weekdays are the worst.

didnt work for me.

That's correct. My mistake.

You got it. These are the books that got me into comics so I have great memories of going to my LCS and trying to track them down. There was such a fever about the #1 1st printing and so much information back then was just word of mouth that it had a aura surrounding it. When I finally tracked down a copy it was flipping counterfeit! Someone took a 3rd printing and white-out the "THIRD" from "THIRD PRINTING" and put in "FIRST". Luckily I was skeptical enough to realize I was had and returned it to the store I bought it from.

Right however he asked about the TMNT numbered issues. The 6th print I've never known about but thanks for the info.

TMNT #1 2nd print does have a decent value but nowhere near the 1st of course. The first print had around 3000-3250 print run, whereas the second was 15,000 if I remember correctly (3rd was around 35,000). The only magazine size issues were #1 (1st, 2nd & 3rd prints), #2 (1st & 2nd prints), #3 & 4 (1st prints only). These must be submitted as magazine size to CGC. Then #5 began the regular comic size as you noted. For values look at Ebay sold listings sorted most recent sales first, that's the best and easiest way to find true market value.