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Beautiful copy! Goes well with the sig

FF 48 has little room for growth you say? Interesting...

I wish this thread didn't end

Yet still the people we are talking about never think to use it. Baffles my mind considering how connected everyone is these days.

I posted this in my own thread but I am so excited that I just had to post it here.

Finally upgraded from a 4.0 to a 7.5! Couldn't be happier

I was browsing my local classifieds a few days ago and came across some low grade, raw silver age filler books. probably about 20-30 books judging by the pictures. Nothing key just cool 60s books some non hero, Marvel, DC etc. Not the best condition. The kind of books that would probably be worth on average 5-15$ each. Of course no price listed. I called and asked him how much he wanted and it was just stupid. He wanted 10x what any sane person would pay. I told him ill pass and he said these will keep going up and I should get them while I can. He clearly had no idea what he was selling and probably got them at a yard sale/flea market. Another case of people thinking oh its old, must be worth a lot, yet not 1 second of time goes into researching what it sells for

My question is why did he want to sell them? Did he need the money?

I have always loved FF 49 cover. Probably my second fav cover in the entire run. With one of the coolest titles "If This Be Doomsday!" what a master piece.

I wonder if some where he has an off the press copy of AF 15?

This is why I was so surprised when the offer came it within 1 day. I amazes me that I was able to get the book in hand as fast as I did. The owner must have had kept it and got an upgrade, waiting for an offer to pop up. Lucky me I guess.

hey guys was browsing Heritage Auctions sold listings when i can across this insanity. Only 5k?! I know it was a long time ago but still my god what a steal. I don't buy sig books but this is crazy. How many books did stan have saved as file copies?

Just got the book in today! Its been just over 2 weeks so @DST you were bang on.

The problem with cover Sig's is unless you get to designate exactly where he puts it it could permanently ruin a book as we have all seen before. Also as long as I know it's there it's good enough for me. Not sure when the cover signing craze became such a big deal. Back in the day people mostly got first pages signed.

I see the same thing with ASM 300. It's a running joke that every dealer and there mother has at the very least 1 if not 10 copies of that book. Over the years of hunting in the wild I have come across dozens of copies. I think it's the most graded book or second to NM 98, but even so the book is selling for nutty prices in the 9.0 plus range as of late. As an owner of 50 something copies I find that crazy. This just shows how powerful the current demand for books is today. Many collectors either do no research or straight up don't care and are willing to it fork up mad money for stuff that's everywhere. Since books like FF 48 are rarer then ASM 300 I have no doubt that this current generation of collectors will continue to throw money out the window.

I have one, signed on the first page in pen. Clean, sharp and beautiful. Never been a fan of cover marker Sig's but a nice simple clean sig on the first page makes me

That's great and all but when a book is on fire and there are less then 1200 sales in the past 3 months on eBay and less then 4k graded copies with 41 being 9.8 out there doesn't mean that those 100s of thousands are available. Many dealers and collectors hoard for long periods of time. Even when movies or show announcements come out. making books appear more rare. Who knows how many Hulk 181s or ASM 129s are out there. The only thing that matters though is what's available and how much demand is in the current market. Silver Surfer is becoming more and more desirable every day hence these crazy price rises over the past few months. I bet my collection in the next year as more news and hype builds for the surfer you won't see anything close to 20k books sold, raw/graded what ever of FF 48 and that would only be 20% of the 100k that are supposedly out there.

Like the diamond trade most of those will never be offered to the public because dealers don't want that many copies available. The only thing that matters is how many are floating around for sale and currently its nothing close to 10k. Just look at amazing spider-man 300 for example. I know of many collectors including myself that have over 50 copies (its my fav spider-man book) some have 100s of copies. If you go type amazing spider-man 300 on eBay and select sold listings you will see a total of 1,119. Thats 3 months worth of sales, graded, raw etc. Compared to the 100s of thousands out there its not even 1% If there was ever a time to sell that book it would be now. If I found 10k copies FF 48s I would only sell maybe a few of the highest over a period of time as to not saturate the market, because it would hurt my profits. Im sure many would do the same. This is why hoarding books will always keep the bulk of them out of the hands of the masses.

Yes there are alot of FF 48s out there but in 7.5 I'm not sure if there are 10s of thousands. (you probably mean all copies) Thar said, eBay shows less the 10 sales in the past 3 months graded CGC 7.5 Currently to date there are 4633 total graded by CGC, only 314 are in 7.5 I'm not saying this book is rare but it is certainly not as common as dirt. What boogles my mind is how low end raw copies in the 1.0-4.0 are selling for 250-600$ and risings. I have always felt that this book was under valued but how high is it going to go? If Mr.Radd becomes a part of the MCU get ready to see some really nutty prices.

I live in Canada 8 months out of the year and used to order stuff online all the time. Shipping times were so long That I used to forget about certain things I ordered and when they showed up I was amazed. Now I only ship to my US address for speed and cost.

Thanks for the info.

I got an invoice today!!! Im assuming that the book has arrived and they have checked it to make sure its the correct book. Only thing I don't like is that I must pay by eCheck and can delay shipping by 7-10 days.

I have heard a lot about this and to be honest I was not expecting a response when I sent the offer. I was amazed that it took less then 24 hrs

Are there deadlines for when the seller has to ship the book out? The reason I ask is that once you get the acceptance email it says you have 72 hours to make payment. So just curious if there is a policy set on the seller as well.

Why would it take a month to receive the item? I would assume that Heritage holds the funds that the buyer (me) pays and only pays the seller of the book once the item is verified and accepted. To my surprise the seller accepted my offer with 24 of me sending it. Doesn't exactly scream sail speed to me. Unless what your saying is heritage will take there sweet time processing the transaction and shipping it out to me