AJD Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Highest grade in census, but really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dikran Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 I have tons of readers but I'm also a collector who enjoys nice things 😉 32 minutes ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: Well the great thing about Barks is there is so much out there you can read all of it for next to nothing if you don't mind mid-grade books.  Pickie and 50YrsCollctngCmcs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) 59 minutes ago, tth2 said: That would bring us back to 2005-06 when 9.2 copies were consistently going for $12k or so. Those were very good days. For sellers. This year might be a good year for sellers, again. Edited May 17, 2021 by adamstrange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, adamstrange said: Those were very good days. For sellers. This year might be a good year for sellers, again. I'd have to say it sure looks like making hay as a seller! Reminds me of that Barks story where Scrooge makes a killing selling food on the farm when everyone else stops working!! Edited May 17, 2021 by 50YrsCollctngCmcs AJD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Kid Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 The sales results for DD #27 and #28 were driven by covers but not stories from Barks. It makes me wonder what DD #45 and #54, each of which has a great full length story, would sell for in this market. I;m sure it won't be long before we find out. 50YrsCollctngCmcs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfcityduck Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Yellow Kid said: The sales results for DD #27 and #28 were driven by covers but not stories from Barks. It makes me wonder what DD #45 and #54, each of which has a great full length story, would sell for in this market. I;m sure it won't be long before we find out. I'd like to see the bidding frenzy if a really nice U.S. 6 showed up (highest on census are two 8.0s, followed by a 7.0). Edited May 17, 2021 by sfcityduck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 18 minutes ago, Yellow Kid said: The sales results for DD #27 and #28 were driven by covers but not stories from Barks. It makes me wonder what DD #45 and #54, each of which has a great full length story, would sell for in this market. I;m sure it won't be long before we find out. I was looking at my early post four color duck books this weekend. Most of the fifties issues are pretty beat up but in general the covers were not that great so I wonder if prices would suffer from that in this CGC era. Also, when I got up into the seventies era Gold Key books that I had picked up off the newstands I was surprised to notice some books losing color from their storage over the years. I hadn't noticed that before but surely a sign of the inexpensive low quality printing of the time. Some of those books are really well preserved with brilliant colors but then are marred with this strange color loss; any one else notice that from this era? The forties and fifties Dells are great books and hold up really well though high grade copies are hard to find as we know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dikran Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 Received this beauty today! tth2, sfcityduck, Jonathan78 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 7 minutes ago, dikran1 said: Received this beauty today! That was one of the four colors that eluded me for many years; I finally got a copy about eight years ago! Nice one!  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 50 minutes ago, dikran1 said: Received this beauty today! NIce! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Yellow Kid said: The sales results for DD #27 and #28 were driven by covers but not stories from Barks. It makes me wonder what DD #45 and #54, each of which has a great full length story, would sell for in this market. I;m sure it won't be long before we find out. Whereas the #26 was driven by both and got $5200 in 9.2 in 2014. IN 2019 and 2020, the #26 in 9.0 sold twice for more than $1600. Makes you wonder what it would get now. I thought $5200, at the time, was ridiculous but now, if I had the money, I would buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Badger said: Whereas the #26 was driven by both and got $5200 in 9.2 in 2014. IN 2019 and 2020, the #26 in 9.0 sold twice for more than $1600. Makes you wonder what it would get now. I thought $5200, at the time, was ridiculous but now, if I had the money, I would buy it. 26 really hits on so many cylinders. Great Barks cover and story not to mention the first issue in the new sequential DD series from Dell. And the Halloween theme doesn't hurt either. I have to post my copy now because it is such a classic book! OtherEric and Jasonmorris1000000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 12 minutes ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: 26 really hits on so many cylinders. Great Barks cover and story not to mention the first issue in the new sequential DD series from Dell. And the Halloween theme doesn't hurt either. I have to post my copy now because it is such a classic book! It really is great. My wife loves this book and insists I buy every copy we find in the wild, if it is not beat up. That limits the purchases quite a bit! Still, I have 4 copies. Now that the prices are going up a LOT she may not insist so much.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dikran Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 4 hours ago, Badger said: Whereas the #26 was driven by both and got $5200 in 9.2 in 2014. IN 2019 and 2020, the #26 in 9.0 sold twice for more than $1600. Makes you wonder what it would get now. I thought $5200, at the time, was ridiculous but now, if I had the money, I would buy it. Doesn’t hurt that it’s also an animated short so it attracts Disneyana collectors as well! Love my 26 Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 8 hours ago, Yellow Kid said: The sales results for DD #27 and #28 were driven by covers but not stories from Barks. It makes me wonder what DD #45 and #54, each of which has a great full length story, would sell for in this market. I;m sure it won't be long before we find out. Such a great story in DD 54 Jasonmorris1000000, AJD, OtherEric and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 I thought I overpaid when I bought this for $90 a few years ago (and probably did at the time). I feel better about it now. Badger and Jasonmorris1000000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 My duck for the day. Â Not a classic cover... but a classic story inside: Badger and Jasonmorris1000000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 Perhaps I should get these graded? Transplant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 (edited) 40 minutes ago, BB-Gun said: Perhaps I should get these graded? I wouldn't unless you think they have a good chance of being 8.0 (vf) or higher. These books are expensive and rare at 9.0 or higher but not worth the cost of grading at anything less, IMHO. The old rule of thumb about gd being half of vg being half of fine being half of vf being half of nm is dead. now it is vf, at best, is 10% of nm with fine being 25% to 33% of vf. Gd and vg are cheap cheap cheap. The exact percentage will vary according to book so these are just examples of possible value breakdowns. Edited May 18, 2021 by Badger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Foxtrot70 Posted May 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 20, 2021 Picked this up for a song.  Jasonmorris1000000, Pickie, OtherEric and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
