Back to School

Back to school? I don’t know about you but I feel like I’ve been schooled steady for the past 18 months, this collectibles comic market has been teaching me lessons nonstop, and might I add some of these lessons have cost me a pretty penny. Poison Ivy League Schooling! I would imagine you’ve been getting schooled too but the question is, have we learned anything? Are we smarter now? Can we read the tea leaves to any degree of accuracy? Are we better investors? I think the problem with comic book collectors is that generally we’re eternal optimists, we love this stuff and see the value in the books as collectibles perhaps more than is healthy for us. I think we need to be a bit harder with our outlook and a bit smarter with our choices. Such easy words to type but that’s all you’re getting from me today.

From the “heading to eBay auctions” pile we get our cover of the week, Charles Biro’s hockey cover to Boy Illustories #50. Unfortunately for our eBay Auction I think this thing is headed for Walt’s PC pile, I think I’ll enjoy it for a while and then maybe put it in one of our upcoming Canadiana auctions. I love those straight sticks, obviously well before the days of the Golden Jet, Bobby Hull.

Our splash of the week is more like one of those splashes from a gold medal winning diver at the Olympics, very small. In Superman #199 on page 9 we get these 2 unassuming panels that started a 4 issue collecting sensation. If you have Superman #199 then you have to have Flash #175 and World’s Finest #198 and 199, that’s the way these things work, the completists are easy marks!

Our ad of the week is kind of a pin up – slash – in house ad, its the back cover of Life Story #3 from June 1949. Indeed, inside we get a nice little Burt Lancaster interview for all the smitten young girls. Lets face it, the man was gorgeous, a real Dash Riprock.

Last night our weekly icecollectibles eBay auction sold through another ton of raw and graded comic book lots, one that caught my eye was the CGC 4.0 copy of Moon Girl #2 that sold for $912. This is a tough book, only two recorded sales of this book in any grade for almost three years! There is no recorded sale of a CGC 4.0 but the book easily beat the CGC 4.5 price realized back in 2017, great pick up.