Popular Post CW Posted December 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2019 A nice pick up from early 2019. Now a CGC 3.0 (detached cover). One of my favorites. Yorick, mustang33guy, Point Five and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 On 12/28/2019 at 2:31 PM, CW said: A nice pick up from early 2019. Now a CGC 3.0 (detached cover). One of my favorites. One of my top 5 favorite Baker romance books! CW and PeterPark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Is it just me or does the Baker market seem to be settling down a bit? Prices went through the roof in the past year or so. Seems like I've seen the prices on the lower grade ones just sit a bit longer. Same thing has happened with LB Cole over the years. Nobody knew much about them when I first started collecting them. Then they took a fair size jump with lots of demand, then settled down like a roller coaster. At the moment, anything with Leonard's name on it is on fire. I see both hitting the roof and settling down again soon. The classic ones are another story though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 22 minutes ago, Robot Man said: Is it just me or does the Baker market seem to be settling down a bit? Prices went through the roof in the past year or so. Seems like I've seen the prices on the lower grade ones just sit a bit longer. Same thing has happened with LB Cole over the years. Nobody knew much about them when I first started collecting them. Then they took a fair size jump with lots of demand, then settled down like a roller coaster. At the moment, anything with Leonard's name on it is on fire. I see both hitting the roof and settling down again soon. The classic ones are another story though. I think many of the most desirable covers are still bringing top dollar. I think a 4.5 Teenage Romances 13 just went a little over $1k on HA which is still pretty decent. A lot of what is being brought to market are not the top tier covers and/or below 5.0 copies. If a 6.0 or better copy of one of the top 20 Baker covers is up for grabs it will still fetch top dollar. I agree though that the lower grade and slightly less desirable covers have come back down to more reasonable levels. 1950's war comics, sacentaur, CW and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post davet75 Posted December 31, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2019 On 12/27/2019 at 3:07 PM, mustang33guy said: Can't believe this thread got bumped to page 4 and that I was the last one to post in it! Lets change that, new arrival! One of the best red dress covers ever comicnoir, Ricksneatstuff, CW and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPark Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 I feel like I've been getting much more reasonable prices this year as a buyer. Sales have been up for me at the same time but not as high as I've seen some go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) At one time ppl were happy with just a copy. They mostly didn't show up. Prices were high as a result and flushed out more copies, driving down prices on the more common issues in lower grades with more pedestrian covers (I argue those don't exist, they are all gems for their own reasons). When I first started collecting, I remember picking up books for $5.00, some of them the harder to find issues, although I didn't know that at the time. 20 years of CGC and we get a good picture of the populations of these issues. All are still rare to non-existent in high grade. Desirable cover gets good money. High grade gets good money. Together they get really good money. The best copies seem locked away, perhaps to only surface under dire circumstances. If prices fall, copies will stop surfacing, ppl don't want to give them away. Creates a cycle. But the rare ones will keep their value. Edited December 31, 2019 by comicnoir Ricksneatstuff and sacentaur 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sacentaur Posted December 31, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2019 It seems natural that low grade Baker books would see some price adjustments after such a rocket rise. Baker in 5.0 is my sweet spot, but often not available so I’m perfectly happy to snag a 3.0 (or a 2.0 on the 100 pagers) as long as they’re priced right. The problem occurs when sellers still try to move their fair/good copies at inflated prices, and the books just sit. This is common on eBay, but I’ve seen it elsewhere too, of course. CW, Ricksneatstuff, mustang33guy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Changer Posted December 31, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) it seems that adage buy low sell high never applies to me in regards to Baker... its always buy high and don't want to sell.(edit unless to upgrade) oh well why retire. .lol my biggest Baker purchase/trade (with Rick of course). Edited December 31, 2019 by Changer Casablanca, mustang33guy, damonwad and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 (edited) I’ve never seen this book before, GCD says Baker story... yes, no, maybe so? Edited January 13, 2020 by sacentaur mustang33guy and Yorick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang33guy Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 30 minutes ago, sacentaur said: I’ve never seen this book before, GCD says Baker story... yes, no, maybe so? You are correct Steve! Says so in the contents of The Art of Glamour listing Bakers works. Below is the scanned page citing this issue boxed in red. Great catch! I wasn't even aware and I sold you the book sacentaur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 35 minutes ago, sacentaur said: I’ve never seen this book before, GCD says Baker story... yes, no, maybe so? Either Baker or someone that swiped from Baker for practically every single panel in the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 8 minutes ago, mustang33guy said: You are correct Steve! Says so in the contents of The Art of Glamour listing Bakers works. Below is the scanned page citing this issue boxed in red. Great catch! I wasn't even aware and I sold you the book Good research Adam, I was unaware of this notation. Surprised that Baker did work for DC at all? And yes, thank you for selling me the book at a great price and accurate grade. The cover to this book is fantastic, any idea who did it? mustang33guy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1952 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 14 minutes ago, adamstrange said: Either Baker or someone that swiped from Baker for practically every single panel in the book. Leaning towards more swiping Baker. The inking looks heavy handed. Baker freelancing for DC??? 1954 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted January 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2020 Flea market find yesterday in a large pile of GA comics. One I didn’t have... Lots of Baker inside as well. jimjum12, comicnoir, pmpknface and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Point Five Posted January 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2020 Thanks to boardie BB-Gun for this one! pmpknface, badback83, comicjack and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Point Five said: Thanks to boardie BB-Gun for this one! One of my favorites. Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 16 minutes ago, Point Five said: Thanks to boardie BB-Gun for this one! Bruce is one of the good long term collectors Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 2 hours ago, Point Five said: Thanks to boardie BB-Gun for this one! Nice! That and the baseball cover are top of my list Baker wise. Point Five and mustang33guy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sacentaur Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 A pickup from CalComicCon yesterday, in this case resistance was indeed futile (and Thank You Bunky)... Ricksneatstuff, pmpknface, Yorick and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...