goldenharvey Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 (edited) On 8/8/2018 at 10:16 PM, jimjum12 said: What is the significance of Casper 20 ? GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) It is the first appearance of Wendy, the Good Witch, Casper's main romantic interest and also it's a very nice black cover that is difficult to find in high grade. There are four copies graded 9.4 though and those are the highest. I have a 7.5 copy and I guess that's the best I'm going to be able to do there. A Casper 10 CGC 9.2 (first Spooky, and highest graded copy) sold for over $3800 on Heritage in Nov, 2016 but then that exact same copy sold a few months ago on Comiclink for $1688. You can just never tell the true market value of highest graded copies, because easy for two people to get into a bidding war for one. I wish I had more $ to spend back in the early 2000s when more of these graded Harvey file copies were auctioned off. Most of them are locked in collections now and don't come up for sale very often. I have a couple of nice copies of Harvey Comics Hits #61 to get graded and those should be 7.5 or a little better. And I have a Casper 21 that is really nice and could even get 9.4 Edited August 10, 2018 by goldenharvey Black_Adam and jimjum12 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, goldenharvey said: It is the first appearance of Wendy, the Good Witch, Casper's main romantic interest and also it's a very nice black cover that is difficult to find in high grade. There are four copies graded 9.4 though and those are the highest. I have a 7.5 copy and I guess that's the best I'm going to be able to do there. A Casper 10 CGC 9.2 (first Spooky, and highest graded copy) sold for over $3800 on Heritage in Nov, 2016 but then that exact same copy sold a few months ago on Comiclink for $1688. You can just never tell the true market value of highest graded copies, because easy for two people to get into a bidding war for one. I wish I had more $ to spend back in the early 2000s when more of these graded Harvey file copies were auctioned off. Most of them are locked in collections now and don't come up for sale very often. I have a couple of nice copies of Harvey Comics Hits #61 to get graded and those should be 7.5 or a little better. And I have a Casper 21 that is really nice and could even get 9.4 I have a soft spot for Harvey File copies..... My interests are mostly cover-centric, thankfully. The keys can be pricey. I had a Harvey Hits 3 that I sold …. it was later graded at 9.2. I wish I had picked up more of the horror books in the early 90's.... drop dead copies for 30 bucks each …. My friend got a Black Cat 50 that was absolutely flawless. Thanks for the explanation, my friend. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Edited August 10, 2018 by jimjum12 aardvark88 and goldenharvey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenharvey Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 (edited) I'm the same way and very much cover-centric with my Harvey books. That looks like a beautiful book with the Wendy/Casper cover. I think my all time favorite Casper cover is #34 with him riding the rocket on a black cover. That one even edges out #20, but there are no file copies and I don't think even any graded copies of that book...probably the only issue in the first 30 or 40 Casper comics without one being slabbed and graded. I suppose there were no file copies of that issue, which is sad. I wish I would have bought about 5x the number of file copies from Diamond International Galleries in the 90s. They were such a crazy bargain and are rarely seen again and offered for sale. Edited August 10, 2018 by goldenharvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black_Adam Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Love Harvey but most of my comics (and interest) relate to the Bronze Age as those are the comics I was devouring right off the rack in the mid-70s. Some of those can be tough to find in high grade, also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenharvey Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 There is a 3-D Dolly CGC 9.2 in the latest Heritage weekly comics auction. It ends on Sunday 8/19. I won't be bidding on it, already having a 9.4, unless I can pick it up at a crazy bargain rate. But would rather someone else get it who can appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 Here’s a few new file copies we’ve bought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jharvey Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 All of my comics are Harvey comics, because my last name is Harvey! hahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfcityduck Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 34 minutes ago, jharvey said: All of my comics are Harvey comics, because my last name is Harvey! hahah You adopted your comics!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jharvey Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 2 hours ago, sfcityduck said: You adopted your comics!?! It feels that way, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 I enjoy seeing a good Harvey cover, and actively collect the 3-D books along the way I picked up some nice Harveys that were part of there warehouse Some of these might contend for top of the census jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelmaniac Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Here are the ear;per issues pg Casper and the Ghostly Trio aardvark88 and Black_Adam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenharvey Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Ok, I overpaid for this one a bit in the recent Heritage auction, but just had to have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenharvey Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 I picked this one up on Heritage by offering the previous buyer $1K for it. I thought that was a very reasonable price and figure the market value is closer to $1200. But after tax and shipping, it was still $1080. But this is my favorite Casper cover after #34 (that has zero CGC graded copies) and was glad to upgrade my previous copy. I doubt I'm going above this 9.0 though, because just too pricey. I wish I would have bid on the 9.4 copy from the Quinton Clem collection back in 2013. It resold for over $8000 last summer. But I'm glad to have this one and very happy with it. comicjack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenharvey Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 I picked up this one on ebay for about $100. I'm going to get it graded and thinking it will get about a 5.0 but perhaps lower, because of the rough spine. The highest graded copy in the census is only 6.5. kaculler and comicjack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retroheavy Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 A couple oldies. kaculler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hepcat Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 On 8/10/2018 at 4:38 PM, goldenharvey said: I wish I would have bought about 5x the number of file copies from Diamond International Galleries in the 90s. They were such a crazy bargain and are rarely seen again and offered for sale. Same here. I used a rifle shot approach to pick up a few horror and war titles, but I should have cleaned out my bank account and backed up a truck to get as many of the humour titles as I could. Oh well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark88 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 I think I sold Quinton Clem my raw Harvey Hits #3 and Little Dot #1 file copies back in the day. Kept a few good readers at least: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark88 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Mark Arnold writer/editor of the 1990 'Harveyville Fun Times'. I believe some had Quinton Clem letter(s) published: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark88 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Nice black spine on Little Dot Dotland plus 1st app. Dollar, the dog: Black_Adam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
