WHAT BOOK CAN'T YOU AFFORD TO SELL? 5 5

[I am not Glenda]

A recent post got me thinking, at some point, many long-time collectors have had to sell one or many of there most prized books for personal reasons with the intent to buy them back at a later date. However, in today's market things have changed so what book(s) do you own that if you sold you could not afford to replace because of there CMV?

 

 

[sacentaur]

More Fun 7 - I have a nice copy with superior paper quality, albeit the cover colors are faded.

It would simply be an impossible book to replace, at any price.

[piper]

TEC 37

[Illustrious]

Cap #3

Edited March 4, 2019 by Illustrious

[waaaghboss]

Hmm, one of the few times it pays not not own any really valuable books. 

I guess my copy of Jughead annual #6. I couldn't bring myself to pay $20 for something I pulled out of a 25cent box as a kid.

[comicnoir]

Giant Comics Edition 12

[Mr bla bla]

4 hours ago, Frank Mozz said:

A recent post got me thinking, at some point, many long-time collectors have had to sell one or many of there most prized books for personal reasons with the intent to buy them back at a later date. However, in today's market things have changed so what book(s) do you own that if you sold you could not afford to replace because of there CMV?

 

 

What is CMV ?

[adamstrange]

4 hours ago, sacentaur said:

More Fun 7 - I have a nice copy with superior paper quality, albeit the cover colors are faded.

It would simply be an impossible book to replace, at any price.

I remember that book!

[adamstrange]

17 minutes ago, Mr bla bla said:

What is CMV ?

Current Market Value

[telerites]

1 minute ago, adamstrange said:

Current Market Value

That's much more appealing than if you google CMV.

[Marty Mann]

[Chief1332]

Interesting idea.. Some books are quite difficult to replace, I'm sure, but I might have a couple that I can't afford to keep because of CMV.  Allows me to buy other books that I could not otherwise afford to buy..??  Put profit to work a lil bit maybe..?  Make a few new friends and connections along the way too.

 

[eccomic]

This...

[Stingrayiii]

Quote

Wow an amazing looking book. I love it.

 

 

Edited March 2, 2019 by Stingrayiii

[Stingrayiii]

1 hour ago, Marty Mann said:

Wow an amazing looking book. I love it.

[I am not Glenda]

7 hours ago, Mr bla bla said:

What is CMV ?

Current Market Value

[Gatsby77]

Great question!

I had to sell 90% of my collection ~5 years ago when I was unemployed.

Of that, there were only a handful of books I knew I would never be able to replace (i.e., would be unwilling to pay even then-current market value for, let alone today's). The flipside is there are plenty of books I sold then that I'd be happy to re-buy at current market values -- 5.0-5.5 copies of Batman 5-10; ~5.0 copies of early All-American Green Lantern issues (18-23 range); 5.5-6.0 copies of Hulk 3-6; Avengers # 1 or X-Men # 1 in CGC 3.0; mid-grade raw copies (raw 7.0) of ASM 129, X-Men 94, etc.

That said, here are the books I owned in 2014 but will likely never own again:

- Showcase # 4, CGC 3.0

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 1, CGC 5.0

- Strange Tales # 110, CGC 5.5

- Star Wars # 4 ($.35 cent), CGC 7.0

[ThothAmon]

Tec 13. Sold plenty of grails over the millennia and miss them all dearly. 

[SuperBird]

Paid basically nothing for this a decade ago. Couldn't even think of buying it again today. 

Edited March 2, 2019 by SuperBird

[Flex Mentallo]

Sneaked this one out of a C'link auction for $350 ten years ago when Overstreet had it at $250. Not sure what I'd have to pay to replace it these days.