We were just talking about Detective #28s and how tough they are. Here's one on ebay:

Detective Comics #28- CGC GRADED 3.5
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 129 CGC 9.8 UNRESTORED!

Sold For: US $9,100.00 Seller: daddyyankee1970 ( 81 )

Description:
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The Kansas City Action #1 CGC VF 8.0 is listed as Sold on the Comic Connect site.

It's the first publicly reported sale over $1,000,000 of a comic book.

It's actually the first publicly reported sale over $500,000, but who's counting?

The price is stronger than what I feel the book is worth (by about 25%), but I'm happy to be wrong in this situation. $1,000,000 is a nice round number that will generate a lot of press. Press= good for the hobby (as long as any new people stay away from the books I want to collect )

With the speed of the sale, it's clear to me that there's a possibility that this transaction was prearranged or even consummated long before the book was even announced. Comic Connect would have been smart to do so, so as to guarantee the maximum exposure and publicity for the sale and to protect against a protracted, potentially embarrassing (if it went on long enough) $1,000,000 listing with no takers.

Here it is, the belle of the ball.

I have no more details than this beautiful scan (and the crazy thread on the CGC Forums.) ComicConnect.com is listing the book in their for sale section. There is much speculation as to the price.

Is this a $1,000,000 book? I think a realistic price is closer to $750,000-800,00, but who knows what they're planning to do with it.

Clearly, more info as I get it

Had you thought about the first Joker cover recently? I hadn't. Then I saw this beauty:
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Hopefully I'll be able to get through a few of these before the auction closes. This is such a great auction it deserves attention beyond the obsessive refreshing of the Detective 27 page to see if it's received any new bids.

Anyway, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the story of the Gainers file copies, when Jerry Weist and Bob Overstreet were putting together the books for sale they grouped and ranked the books in sets based on condition. The #1 set was the best, the #2 was second best and so on. Many of these sets have been subsequently broken up, so it's interesting to see one with such a low number come up for sale, complete, with a single owner post-Gaines sale.

As you can see from the grades, these books were truly the cream of the crop. So many 9.6s and 9.8s.
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The bid came in last night at $358,500. How much further will it go from here? I feel like the book is valued at around $500,000 to $550,000, so that would be my ceiling. Thing is, with books like this it's all just uncharted territory. Maybe the optimists at the CGC Forum will finally be right about a book and this will do $750,000? I'd love to see it.

Here's the top five right now:

1 Detective Comics #1 CGC 8.0 Heritage $358,500 (and counting)
2 Marvel Comics #1 CGC 9.0 Pay Copy Private Sale $350,000
2 Flash Comics #1 CGC 9.6 Church Private Sale $350,000
4 Action Comics #1 CGC 6.0 March 13, 2009 Comic Connect $317,200
5 Batman #1 CGC 9.0 late 2007 ComicLink $280,000

Check out the full list record comic book sale.

Amazing Fantasy 15 CGC 5.0 Unrestored Blue Off-White

Sold For: US $10,000.00 Seller: spiderturtlecgc (291)

Amazing Fantasy 15 CGC 5.0 Unrestored Blue Off-White

CGC #0933887001

See Scans for details

Case in excellent condition, no scratches or chips

Origin and 1st appearance of Spider-Man

Looks really nice for a 5.0

Free Shipping and insurance. Book will be shipped USPS registered mail and fully insured.

Since its CGC grade there will no returns on this Book.

And the book:

THE AVENGERS #1 CGC 8.0 OW PAGES

Winning bid: US $8,600.00 Seller: cary8655 ( 155 )

Description:

THE AVENGERS #1 CGC 8.0 OFF-WHITE PAGES .ORIGIN AND FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE AVENGERS

On Dec-31-09 at 05:49:18 PST, seller added the following information:

CGC CERT # 0796433001

And the book:

Batman #5 CGC NM 9.2 White 1941 Error cover – Joker

Happy New Year!

What a cool book. I haven't seen Mark show up on this list for a while (if ever, actually.) Nice to see a cool book like this actually sell on eBay.

Sold For: US $17,000.00 Seller: dizneyart( 2826 )
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