That was the most exciting auction I've ever seen.
In a furious round of bidding it hammered out at $1,075,000 with buyer's premium.
More on this later, when I catch my breath!
The following are two Silver Age books that I absolutely love.
Green Lantern's recent meteoric rise bums me out. I was buying some Green Lanterns, and then, along came the movie blowing prices up on the really good stuff. Case in point, this book. This exact copy sold for 18,975.00 at Heritage in 2003. Recently, a 9.2 of this book sold for $30,450.00. What does that result mean for this 9.4? Hopefully some crazy number north of $50k.
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Okay, maybe not the only two (you might want an All Star #8, too.) Still, this is a nice duo and Wonder Woman is a hell of a character.
Wonder Woman, to me, is wildly underappreciated by the collector community. Just like Superman and Batman she's been published continually since the 1940s and just like those two she's a huge fixture in current DC continuity.
We just need to get her a movie 
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Yeah, it's restored, but who cares? Look at this book:
Not everything needs to be about big record prices. Whoever wins this will be a happy camper.
No, that's not a typo. Yeah, there's a killer #54 in this auction, but take a look at this book:
Had you thought about the first Joker cover recently? I hadn't. Then I saw this beauty:
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Wally Wood Daredevil #7 page 7 Original Art
Rare Silver Age art from one of the greatest comic artists of all time. Only two pages of Wood Daredevil art are on ComicArtFans.com (one being Eric Roberts' cover to #5) and none are from the key issue #7.
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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
If you have to ask what book, you're on the wrong blog
As of right now it's the 4th highest price ever for a comic. And there are 21 days to go.
