Nice preview video, Rob. Thanks. MF52 is a pretty tough GA DC key, and at a 6.5 white is stupendous. I have seen it least often offered publicly in the last 30+ years than Adventure 40 or Flash 1. AA16 would be the other DC GA key (and I am excluding all the early Supe Action covers and pre Robin Tecs) that might rival MF52 as far as availability in the market place and not cgc census records. The Suspense 3 might hit $200k - $250k
It would be interesting to extend the research into Action #1s for sale to the other major keys. For just that reason. Some of them just don't come up for sale and others are pretty regularly featured.
Your mention of the Startlng 49 made me take a look at GPA and I noticed one of those weirdly high results you sometimes see on HA. In September, a 5.5 sold for $36,000. Seems way out of whack with other results for this book. For instance, the Crippen copy--an 8.5--sold for $23,400 in April and a 9.2 copy sold for $31, 200 in November 2022. Be interesting to see how this 9.0 does.
It's one of those books that can be weird. Classic covers can have oddball results (looking at Suspense #3 showed just that)... that said, that result is crazy. We'll see how this one does.
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Nice preview video, Rob. Thanks. MF52 is a pretty tough GA DC key, and at a 6.5 white is stupendous. I have seen it least often offered publicly in the last 30+ years than Adventure 40 or Flash 1. AA16 would be the other DC GA key (and I am excluding all the early Supe Action covers and pre Robin Tecs) that might rival MF52 as far as availability in the market place and not cgc census records. The Suspense 3 might hit $200k - $250k
It would be interesting to extend the research into Action #1s for sale to the other major keys. For just that reason. Some of them just don't come up for sale and others are pretty regularly featured.
Your mention of the Startlng 49 made me take a look at GPA and I noticed one of those weirdly high results you sometimes see on HA. In September, a 5.5 sold for $36,000. Seems way out of whack with other results for this book. For instance, the Crippen copy--an 8.5--sold for $23,400 in April and a 9.2 copy sold for $31, 200 in November 2022. Be interesting to see how this 9.0 does.
It's one of those books that can be weird. Classic covers can have oddball results (looking at Suspense #3 showed just that)... that said, that result is crazy. We'll see how this one does.
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