It's All Just Comics

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:

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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

Comiclink has a Featured Auction ending this week. Not that they've exactly flown under the radar, but we've all been paying just a little bit of extra attention. Time to give CL some love:

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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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FLASH GORDON COMIC STRIP ART ALEX RAYMOND 12-25-1938

Winning bid: US $28,200.00 Seller: bfarm2001 ( 1749 )

Description:

YOU ARE BIDDING ON A ONE-OF-A KIND PIECE OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK STRIP BY ALEX RAYMOND FLASH GORDON 12-25-1938.THE ARTWORK HAS 6 FRAMES WHICH ARE 8" X 9 1/2"

IT WILL COME WITH FRAME THAT IS 21" X 29".THE STRIP HAS PIN HOLES IN EACH CORNER AND HAS SOME AGING DISCOLORATION WITH A FEW STAINS AND LOOKS LIKE TAPE

MARKS ON THE BOTTOM.IN THE 4TH FRAME WHICH IS PICTURE 10, A PIECE HAD BEEN CUT OUT AND LOOKS LIKE THEY PUT THE LETTER S.FRAME 5 HAS ON BOTTOM COPR.1938

KING FEATURES SYNDICATE,INC.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.WHICH IS IN PICTURE 6.THE LAST PICTURE HAS ALEX RAYMOND 12-25 .HI-BIDDER TO INCLUDE $20.00 S/H.

PAYPAL ONLY.THANKS FOR LOOKING AND GOOD LUCK!!!

And the page:

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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BATMAN 1 6.0 FINE CONDITION ORIGINAL 1940 RARE

Sold For: US $11,000.00 Seller: fun1215 ( 1206 )

Description:

Original Batman 1. Restored professionally to a 6.0. Very clean and great eye appeal. Very hard to find in any grade.

And the book:

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.