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On 6/30/2021 at 1:26 PM, Brock said:

A strong result on eBay for Scandal #1 (Thorby Comics), a hard-to-find Adam Hughes cover from 1999. A raw copy sold yesterday for $202.51.

Another raw, in apparently worse condition, just sold for $610.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224901609413

On 2/12/2022 at 3:32 PM, batmiesta said:

Sorting my annuals out and took a group shot of my Batman ones, took me years to find NM copies of these bad boys. 

 

I see a rare, TOTALLY UNDERVALUED, Alan Moore story in that mix...

On 2/23/2022 at 9:47 PM, dover said:

Really want a nice copy of this book.

If you keep a saved search going on ebay for it, something should pop up. They're not super super rare...

On 2/1/2022 at 4:37 PM, MAR1979 said:

Picked this raw in the early 90's. Back then in my youth had enough for no more than $40-50 in total purchases at show/con then that was it, might as well go home.  I decided to go with this over books like ASM50 in similar grade. DC's were much more rare in high grade and Marvel in higher grades seemed to be everywhere.  I figured how many more chances would i get at 1968 Batgirl cover in high grade. I was wrong the correct answer was it does not matter how many there are the smart money purchases Marvel.  Once again with Supply and Demand takes two to tango.

Throughout the 90's I repeated that mistake over and over and over. So yeah perhaps I'm bitter but when I see folks say DC is undervalued I know they are wrong. DC is appropriately valued for the subset of Comics demand it has compared to Marvel

Note: much of my Silver Age is un-scanned with nearly all DC still being raw. Raw most of my DC will remain. Other than Keys and Batman at current CGC rates it pays to submit the Silver Age Marvel I do have.
 

 

You picked a non-key over a classic cover/first appearance of a major Spider-Man/Daredevil villain and you’re blaming the publisher?

On 1/20/2022 at 1:27 PM, sfcityduck said:

Not true (the team in BB 54 acts just like the team in Avengers 1).  Not what DC thinks.  Not what CGC and OPG thinks.  And this debate has gotten stale.  No need to hijack the thread to revive it.

 

Robin says later that the Teen Titans formed later. Plus, I believe Avengers 1 mentions the phrase “Avengers.” And both OPG and CGC have come around on other mistakes. So, we’ll see!

Hulk 197, Richard Dragon 18, Weird Mystery 18. Others, too, I'm just blanking atm.

On 1/14/2022 at 9:30 AM, Browns81 said:

What is the best collected omnibus type series for the Alan Moore run?  I see the set on Amazon but don’t know if it’s what I should be going for.  Shamefully I have never read a Swamp Thing book!

Titan TPBs from the 1980s!

On 11/21/2021 at 8:16 PM, Bart Allen said:

 

Well I've spoken to CGC in the past and suggested the following:

• "1st appearance of Marvelman (later becomes Miracleman) since the Silver Age." or for Warrior #1.
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Minor, arguable caveat to this. Marvelman had a quick cameo in the program for a UK comic convention, Comics 101, in the 1970s. So, technically, a Bronze Age Marvelman appearance! And by creator Mick Anglo! 

(Image courtesy of Warrior editor Dezz Skinn's blog, which has more details and is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210126132731/https://dezskinn.com/fanzines-3/)

On 12/25/2021 at 1:52 PM, MAR1979 said:

It goes down in price. 

From 1961-present the chasm between Marvel and DC book is growing.  Outside of Batman and Joker who are usually as hot as B-level Marvel Characters, The only recent outlier's are seemingly Harley Quinn and Black Adam - Shazam is perhaps equal to a C- level Marvel Character.  Sandman has started to freezer chill.  TV Shows don't help DC, Large Budget Motion Pictures Don't help DC.  It's just the way it

.Smart Money purchases only Marvel. True collectors also purchase DC and realize stagnation is the standard.

You should research the difference between absolute and relative. Marvel appreciating faster doesn’t mean DC is dead. Marvel is hot because of movies and TV. Lots of DC are appreciating, too. Because of comic collectors. 

On 12/26/2021 at 2:03 AM, shadroch said:

Sometimes looking back can tell us what lies ahead, but todays collectors may not follow the same patterns.  Movies have changed things and I think the hobby is changing from comic collecting to Marvel Comic collecting.  I agree with the classic Adams covers but those are collected in spite of them being DC. 

 

 

Right. Lotta people wishing Batman 227 was Iron Fist and Superman 233 was Namor.

On 12/23/2021 at 11:36 AM, MAR1979 said:

 

To further prove DC is not Marvel:

Using that top cover - Shining Knight, Dr Midnight, Steel, Hawkman, and Starman  have all appeared on DC live action Television in either or both 2020 and 2021 yet their appearances have NOT gone up even a dime!

If that run-off-mill book was a Marvel and the 5 characters mentioned had been on a Marvel TV show it might be $200 in 9.8....

 

Stargirl has a very well done TV show. 1st app of the character "Stars and STRIPE 0" now sits unsold at $150 in CGC 9.8.    Then look at 9.8's prices commanded by Kate Bishop's 1st app or Echo's 1st app or even the White Vision WCA 47 nonsense.   My guess Naomi's 1st app will have little or no demand as well.   This is why DC book's except for outliers do not get hot at best they get momentarily lukewarm.   Folk's Mr Bones Infinity Inc's will not be an outlier no matter who drew the 1st app.  Anyone spending 3 figures on it thinking it's an "investment" will be sadly mistaken.

P.S. Then you have the MTU with White Rabbit commanding 4 figures at one point this year. A one and done throwaway character - Seriously WTF?  Yet  Courtney Whitmore (Stargirl nee Star Spangled Kid II) 1st app will be under $100 in CGC 9.8 with little interest in 2022 and that's the title Character of an on-air DC TV show.  I Like DC but they are so dwarfed by Marvel its nearly unbelievable.

 

Trying to think of what happens to the value of stuff after the consensus is that it’s not collectable.

#Comics

Tough to get book recommendations when reading comprehension problems are so prevalent…

On 11/13/2021 at 8:53 AM, APDallas said:

Thanks for the info. This is proving to be very interesting to me. So for decades it was considered that OWAW #81 was the agreed 1st appearance of Sgt.Rock and I can see that. It has "Rock" on the cover and it even says "THE ROCK OF EASY COMPANY". DC even reprinted that issue but NOT #83. Why would they do that if issue 81 was not considered the "first appearance". Who decided that issue 83 was the first appearance? Was it just a general consensus? Did the market decide? 

 

Both. People read it and realized that the name might have debuted earlier, but the character first appeared in 83.

Back when consensus was still 81 I read the Sgt. Rock Archives and thought it was clearly 83. Years later, the market shifted to reflect that.

On 10/20/2021 at 6:53 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

And yet, you gotta start somewhere.  If it weren’t for Wein co-creating the new Xmen franchise or the Wolverine franchise or swampy, would we even be mentioning Claremont or Moore?

Yes. See: Marvelman and V For Vendetta. Moore was going to happen with or without Swamp Thing.

I’d say New X-Men was singularly successful, but O’Neil’s writing was more influential. So many others followed in his footsteps. Frank Miller surpassed him, but was standing on his shoulders.

Fantastic work!

On 9/11/2021 at 1:38 PM, Subby1938 said:

Show me the stats please I’d like to see that because Spiderman hands down is the most popular character on earth 

 

Where are these 10000 copies of AF15 please share I’d love to know since that book came out 1962 at the dawn of marvel silver age and there is now way that many exist 

‘There are only 4 9.6s ……

Kind of undermines the argument that he’s the most popular when you don’t get his name right.

On 8/13/2021 at 6:55 PM, Ryan. said:

Wasn't cheap but I'm pretty stoked about this. The owner was awesome about working with me. 

What is this? Someone added a blank cover…?!?

On 8/10/2021 at 8:55 PM, NewWorldOrder said:

How does this forward the storyline of the character?

Explain to us how does this helps the character grow? 

Coming out is personal/emotional growth.

Isn’t the actual death in 461?

On 8/3/2021 at 4:05 PM, Bradley Phillips said:

As someone who is still pretty new to (but very enthusiastic about!) silver age collecting and reading, I find a lot of DC stuff to be much more accessible than Marvel, so even though my Silver Age fascination began with Spider-man, Daredevil, and X-Men, I've been buying way more Batman, Superman, World's Finest, B&tB, etc. than I ever thought I would, and even read my first ever Justice League America and Green Lantern comics the other day and I'm actually kind of surprised by how much I've enjoyed it. Green Lantern, for example, is something I never once even considered reading, but I found a copy of GL 62 at my local comic shop for under 10$ and I figured, what the hell I'll give it a try, and while I still prefer Batman when it comes to DC, I was pleasantly surprised and now feel inclined to read more SA GL if I come upon it.

I still am trying to buy certain Marvel issues when I can, like most Sgt. Fury issues seem to be fairly cheap atm but have been really fun to read, and some of the latter TOS issues aren't overly expensive for reader copies. Now and then I'll spend the extra money for an early Spidey or early-mid TOS as something special, but simply due to how much easier it's been to find SA DC locally and the fact that I don't have to fight people over them at auctions, it's pushed me way further into DC than I expected, but I'm happy to explore all of it! I feel like discovering this new love for silver age comics has opened a whole new world to me, so I'm just having fun with it.

#winning (can’t wait for you to get into DC war!)

4 minutes ago, shadroch said:

That explains some of it but why are the first and third appearences so valuable and the second isn't? Both of them are far more comon than the Preview.

NTT 24 was probably the hottest book DC put out that month. No one cared about MOTU.