Abibliophobia

It would be nice if people could upload any serials they had stolen from them somewhere so the next buyer isn’t out of money if the stolen goods were to be confiscated. It would add friction to selling such books (remove from encap, re-grade, and then sell, or force thief to sell as raw). I’ve seen plenty of suspicious posts in Reddit or other social media about “I need to quickly sell this high value book that’s encapsulated, but I know nothing about comics or the venues where I could sell such a thing (not even eBay)”.

If you’re a seller this is very friendly to you. As a buyer who mostly does eBay it takes getting used to. It’s more of a traditional auction that gives the other bidders a chance to consider. That said, the “other three” are often where you can get the hot and rare books because it’s a sellers market. The recent Key Comics Auction on ComicConnect was really fun to watch how the timers kept resetting due to a bidding war. That pedigree’d X-men 12 in 9.8 with the bright colors was a battle of wills (and pocket books). You’d probably never see a book like that go for that price on eBay.

To go back to mom’s house and finally get my long boxes of 1980s comics packed up and shipped. To complete my John Byrne X-Men run. To save up for a higher grade X-Men 94. To sell my Jr. Varsity X-Men slabs to put toward said 94. To clean and press some worthy raw X-Men books and slab them. To not spend as much as I did in 2019.

Tell me about it. It’s kind of expensive enough that I don’t want to chase it.

GoCollect has this information, but it requires a subscription. One would just need to click on the price.

This. I have GoCollect and GPA subs and I find that GoCollect has decent FMV numbers when it comes to books with high sales or turnover. The FMV accuracy suffers for low volume traded books, and can easily be subverted by someone paying way too much on a low grade which can send the higher grades into the stratosphere. GPA’s valuation isn’t great either, but makes up for it elsewhere. GPA as many have pointed out has a deep amount of historical data. It has no peer today that I’ve seen. GoCollect organizes it way better though and the product is being well maintained. GPA is stuck in the 90s though. They could do so much to improve how they present the data for the cost of the sub. Gawd, that interface.

Looks like it should be on a death metal album.

Sorry. I meant the specifics of the book aren’t really relevant as to whether this collection is significant or would ever deserve a pedigree. Selfishly, it would be convenient for me for CGC to recognize it as either so that the distinction was on the CGC label rather than a separate COA in the event that I wanted to get the book reholdered in the future. If it was recognized it would then say so on the label and thus the COA is largely unnecessary. My suspicions as well. Thank you for time and reaffirming.

No secrecy beyond what I’ve already stated. The numbers are legit. Thank you for taking the time to give your opinion about Pedigree Comics. It satisfies my instincts about whether the provenance story is true or just clever marketing. Regardless, the book is top shelf (albeit probably won’t exceed four figures in value during my lifetime—just a solid silver age Marvel), I’ll keep the COA with it, but I’m not expecting it to come of much.

Slym, I shared with you because you’ve got a lot of apparent history on the boards and thought you’d provide some insight and i was willing to provide some proof. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m just tying to learn what separates a “collection“ from a “Collection” from people more knowledgeable than me. I don’t like the idea of sharing pics with the serials and grades on my personal collection in a public forum, in general. It seems like risky behavior to me. I can’t be the only one who feels this way. Separately, I’m not sure why you’d think I was trying to hide anything other than the obvious. It makes me feel as though you’re thinking I was trying to deceive the readership. Haha. Anyway, no harm done. Thanks to those who are helping to explain.

Ok. That sounds like good advice. I keep the COA on the back side of the Mylar the slab is in. Never know when sentiments may change.

Right now it’s slabbed as a Universal with a separate paper COA issued by Pristine Comics noting the “collection” and the CGC serial number. It’s not an officially recognized anything by CGC. Quite honestly, the book is of such high graded quality that it stands on its own. That said, I don’t want any possible extra bona fides to become separated from the books provenance as these things can sometimes tell a story as they change hands. If the Seattle Drug Store story is to be believed it’s not a bad one to have attached to the book.

Not sure why that font changed above. That wasn’t intentional. Haha.

Are you asking me for pics of the COA, the book, or both? I don’t think that it’s terribly relevant to the discussion about whether the Seattle Drug Store Collection is really a capital “C” collection worthy of the distinction or if it’s a just 5 years worth of high grade books. Most of you have been collecting graded books much longer than me, and as a kid in the 80s I was just happy to be able to get back issues no matter the condition. The notion of pedigrees and names collections are only new discoveries by me—hence my questions. I hope this response isn’t taken as combatative as I’d rather not share this kind of information unless it’s directly relevant to the question at hand.

The collection appears to be only a five year run based up internet searches. I assume that may be considered a bit short to recognize it despite apparent quality. Any idea what constitutes enough significance to get recognized as an official collection? I’ve seen Harlan Ellison’s books recognized. That particular collect appears to span a lot of years and volume, but aside from being a renowned writer the condition of the books weren’t terribly notable. How does the story behind the “Seattle Drug Store” collection even rate with serious collectors? Marketing hype? Is it impossible to prove? For what it’s worth, I acquired the book at a great price for my personal collection and the COA was just icing on the cake. The COA didn’t affect my rationale for purchasing. My interest on the collection labeling is merely whether it could be memorized on the label rather than having a COA (which I recognize as flimsy and kind of annoyingly peripheral proof). Thanks in advance for any helpful guidance here.