Well the worst case scenario may have happened....

[eewwnuk]

congrats on a smooth process with the insurance company! great lesson for everybody to maintain adequate coverage on your collectibles!

[miraclemet]

 

As a curious aside, you now have a lump sum, do you have a strategy on how to rebuild? are you going to go about it differently than the 1st time around?

 

Strategy:

 

Nothing but Liefeld pouches....

 

 

 

Kidding.

 

Quality over quantity. Plenty of times I've seen (and you have too) people selling the collection of $$75-100 pages in hopes of turning them into a "big" page.

 

So I'll be headed in that direction.

 

Since I know I wont be able to put together my GL159 OA (since there are 4 of 22 pages "missing" now) I'll shift and try to get a representative page from each of the SA/BA Lantern artists again... Gonna try to focus on title pages.

[miraclemet]

congrats on a smooth process with the insurance company! great lesson for everybody to maintain adequate coverage on your collectibles!

 

Here's my lesson learned/advice going forward.

 

1. Keep sales reciept/proof of purchase (who you bought it from, when you bought it and how much) for each page.

2. When you see comp sales keep a record of them. I was lucky that there had been some recent sales on ebay that were good comps, otherwise insurance would have just had to trust me on the books value.

3. Keep scans of books.

[theflashunc]

About as good an outcome as could be expected, and you seem like you've made some peace with it, no?

 

At least on the flip side, there's a new hunt to undertake...

[cryptics]

For the 4 pages lost from GL 159 you could always try to commission the artist to recreate them. Very sorry this happened to you.