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Agreed. And if you put that info on there, you increase the collector interest in them, increase the prices paid, increase the demand to get them slabbed, and increase CGC’s revenue. Seems like an obvious and needed fix.

But personally I’m more excited about this book, even though it won’t fetch as much.

I mean I might have yet another Truckee Meadows FF 1 in this auction…

Not only is it one of the four books listed. It’s probably 99th percentile for centering. Might even be 99.9th percentile. It’s purty…

The same as you did. Obviously.

Betcha a sweet sweet DC romance from @greggy‘s under-under-undercopies box!

Hey, one of those comics is mine.

That’s some RIDICULOUS art…

One of the four books in that last bullet point is from Truckee Meadows…

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Could also be that they bought a few dozen Promise books, got them in, kept the ones they liked best, and sent the rest off to find new homes. I have customers who do that with graded Pokémon cards. They’ll bid on dozens of them. Pay for whichever ones they happen to win. Then get them in and decide which ones stay for life and which go away. Lose money on the flip of a few to have a chance to cherry pick from lots of options.

I like all the Junji Ito stuff I’ve read. Doesn’t matter the title. I’m slowly working through Berserk. I like Chainsaw Man. Been trying to get into Jujutsu Kaisen because a few customers keep raving about it. I’ve read at least one volume of all the biggies (My Hero, Jojos, Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist, Inu Yasha, Demon Slayer, etc) just so I can have a sense of the tone. But I am sooooo behind on reading.

The Heritage marketing team has been exceptionally gracious with some requests I have made of them. I’m returning that courtesy by allowing them to control the release schedule when it comes to the bigger books.

Two fresh grades from CGC today, both in Heritage’s hands. A 6.5 OWW that is top ten census from 1940. A 6.0 OWW that is a classic WWII cover I believe both of those will be in the June Heritage Signature. I’ll let them take it from here. ;) And here’s a raw copy from the Action run I put in a mylar this week.

Received a few more grades from CGC today. Nine more Silver Age with white pages. That’s now 47 out of 47. At some point I’m sure an OWW will sneak in, but so far perfectly white. Today’s grades: 9.4 x2 (one each from DC and Marvel) 9.2 9.0 x2 8.5 x2 8.0 x2 Some of these will be in Heritage’s June Signature auction. Some will likely be headed to future weeklies. Also got grades back on a couple Golden Age. 6.5 and 6.0, both OWW.

That’s $5.40 a book. And won’t arrive until October. But the chances of finding all twenty of those volumes in print at any given time is pretty low. We routinely have around half in stock and half out of print waiting on the publisher. As for worth it? It was the number one selling manga in the world a few years in a row. There’s not a lot of deep meaning and philosophy there. But for what it is, it’s well executed.

Headlights, a pearl necklace, photorealistic blood… and yes, a wreck. This cover has it all!

Found my copy.

I don’t doubt that the $10k customer count is inflated and doesn’t scale with population the way the “comic collector” count does. We have folks who drive 100-200 miles to shop with us. And I have a few who fly into town on business a couple times a year that are also part of that seventy. Folks who own $10k comics likely visit stores when they travel if they have reason to believe the store has good wall books. So that skews that particular count. A “regular” who visits me three times a year is also likely a regular at twenty other shops where they’ve found visiting worthwhile.

One challenge with counting “comic collectors” is do you count people who own collections or just people currently adding to their collections? Lots of folks take breaks for years and later return, all while still owning the books they collected from before. I hear folks all the time say “I still have a couple boxes of comics I collected back in 19XX”. But I would absolutely put the number higher than one million. I own a shop in a metro of half a million people with no other population centers within 40 miles. I have over 13,000 customers in my store database and over a third of those are in the system as a result of a comic purchase. Even if you adjust for traveling customers making one-off purchases, getting to 1/3 of 1% of the US population being collectors isn’t a stretch at all. And that doesn’t even need a boost from Greggy and his friends north of the border or collectors overseas. I have around seventy customers (that I know of) that own at least one $10,000 comic, though most of them haven’t spent anywhere near that much on a book, having benefited from time and inflation. Now is the 9yo whose parents have bought 22 Sonic comics for her a “comic collector”? Maybe, maybe not. But I’m doing my part to give her a chance. Your “10k wiling to spend 10k” might be close. That would put 14 in my metro area and that seems a little light but not crazy light. How many are willing to drop six figures? I have zero clue. But I suspect that number is growing quickly. BlackRock’s investment in CGC, while a minuscule portion of their portfolio, sends a powerful message to the wealthy that collectibles are a viable asset class. Wealthy people follow what other wealthy people do. And the message that collectibles are a sensible asset class to participate in was just broadcast very loudly. Folks with 8-10 figure net worths who never took collectibles seriously don’t have to divert even 1% of their assets into collectibles to have a massive impact. And if they buy anything, they’re going to buy quality. For decades there was a perception right or wrong that for prices to go up you had to wait for people who already loved comics to make money elsewhere and then throw that money at their hobby. Whole different ballgame when it’s waiting for people who are already sitting on piles of cash to decide comics might be worth buying

Man I think I’m getting dehydrated drooling over some of these books. So many keys. So many different pedigrees represented. I might spend two hours just scrolling through them. Time to get some more water.

I give the colors a 14 out of 10 I give the dinosaur a 6 out of 10 I give Gil Kane’s drawing of that woman’s face a 0.21 on a blood alcohol level test.

Already posted in low census thread. But I’ll toss it here so it’s easier to find later. New top census (previous high was 7.0). Likely the rarest high grade book in the entire collection.

That’s just beautiful. Any other catfight covers you’d like to show off? I can always use more on my wishlist.