Auctioneers

We’ve been so busy with our eBay auctions lately, our consignment base is growing as is the need to put up more lots per week. I’m finding the lot mix is improving too so lets try to keep this things rolling. Doing featured auctions is tricky, they have to be done right, I think we’ve done it right with our two Featured Canadiana Auctions this year and I think we’re ready to add another Featured Auction to the list. Our Star Wars Featured Auction will run from Wednesday November 27th to Wednesday December 4th, it will be an additional auction complimenting our Weekly Sunday Night auctions, we will not be missing a Sunday Auction to get the Star Wars one in, we’ll add the Star Wars auction as a mid week auction and really make my shipper mad at me!! I’ll post some Star Wars teasers in next week’s post.

Look at what was hiding in the “going to eBay auction” pile, this little gem is pure eye candy. Covers like this have been slowly separating themselves from the pack over the last dozen years or so, Kurt Swan’s great rendering of Superman, Supergirl, Krypto and Streaky is such an easy cover to fall in love with.

We took our Ad of the Week from the back cover of Batman Annual #5, it came out in the Summer of 1963, right around the time Marvel was starting to get noticed. Here DC pulls off the understatement of the century with its “a Collector’s Item” phrase, DC also reminds everyone who’s boss showing us what they can do. I’m wondering if some teenager saw this in 1963 and said, “wow, I have to find these comics and buy them”, for the teenagers sake, I sure hope so.

John Severin drew our Splash Page of the Week, “Night Patrol” was the last story in EC’s Frontline Combat #8, Severin’s use of tone over color give the page a foreboding mood worthy of the story’s title. Bill Elder did the inks.

There were some nice books closing in our latest icecollectibles weekly eBay auction which ended last night. Our CGC 7.0 Avengers #1 performed well, it earned $7856 which $400 above the previous sale. Our result reversed a downward trend that has dogged this issue over the last couple of years (not many comics have escaped this trend). I think this is a positive result, signaling a little stability in the market. I was watching the Wolverine Origins #1 CGC 9.9 with interest, a few years ago I wrote about what I thought was the developing CGC 9.9 market, I wrote how for modern books the standard high ticket grade will eventually be CGC 9.9. There are 36 CGC 9.9s of this book, 1157 at CGC 9.8 as of this posting, clearly the high end collectors will want to be playing in the rarified air of the CGC 9.9 grade. It does look like I’m a bit off the mark, at least as far as Wolverine Origins #1 is concerned, our copy sold for $271, a far cry from the $1305 the last sale went through at back in March 2023. Yikes!