OT: The Honus Wagner of comic books

Toro

The most interesting part are the past sales of the comic and the fact it went AWOL for a little bit.

2.16 Million

nflhof

Wonder why they didn't crack it and resubmit for that .5 grade higher

brendanb438

Because it had been already cracked, pressed and then reslabbed duh.

This was Nic Cages stolen book by the way.

GDM67

I didn't realize there were only 100 known examples. That surprises me a little.

thedutymon

<< <i>I didn't realize there were only 100 known examples. That surprises me a little. >>



That's a crock.....When I was big time into Comics in Denver, I owned one copy and knew of and had handled at least 6-8 different other copies, one as high as about Fine condition. If there are that many in Denver you do the math across the country, I would bet there are Hundreds of copies floating around. The copy I had was in about VG condition, I bought from a guy who found it in a Wall of a house he was demoing, paid about $600 cash + $1000 in Trade in the early 80's. Part of collection stolen by Ex-Wife, recovered from her Dirtbag Boyfriend 3 years later just before he went to Prison for embezzling 1 million plus from the State of Colo. and spending it on Comics.
Then sold it in the early 90's when I sold me entire collection, was part of a big lot sold for $40K, but it probably made up about $10K worth of that. "Kicks himself in A$$". Today I probably could get $75-$100K easy!!

Easy Come Easy Go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YeeHah

Neil

jeffcbay

It's funny you should mention Denver... my Uncle is a comic book dealer, and he said there's a better copy owned by a guy in Baltimore. It was from the Mile High collection discovered in Denver in 1975. Rumor has it that this person's copy would grade about a 9.4, which would put its value at about 4 million.

I know nothing about comics, but I spoke to my Uncle about it and this is what he said.

Stone193

Just imagine what kind of money a guy has to have - in order to drop 2 mm on a comic?

It's the nicest I've ever seen - have to say.

thedutymon

<< <i>It's funny you should mention Denver... my Uncle is a comic book dealer, and he said there's a better copy owned by a guy in Baltimore. It was from the Mile High collection discovered in Denver in 1975. Rumor has it that this person's copy would grade about a 9.4, which would put its value at about 4 million.

I know nothing about comics, but I spoke to my Uncle about it and this is what he said. >>



I was involved with the organizing and inventory of most of the Church Collection (Mile Hi), I personally Sold about 1000 of the Mile Hi Comics myself, mainly the leftovers from Chuck and Dennis. I was there in the Warehouse for all of the Comics arrival, did not get to the house, but saw all the comics except for a handfull that Chuck walked out with the first day that nobody got to see, would I imagine that IF there was a copy of Action #1 Chuck set it aside that day. I know from later interactions, he did that with the Superman #1, Detective #27 and several other ones, the Batman first #1-5 I later saw for Sale from him purported to be Mile Hi, but I would take that with a grain of Salt or to put it in more succinct terms, Call it BullPucky!!! I wouldn't believe that 1/10th of the Comics traded and sold nowdays as Mile High are actually from that find, I was part of it and can guarantee that and would testify in Court to some of the stuff I saw Chuck pull!!!

I could tell stories from now until the Cows came home about the Mile Hi Collection!!!!

YeeHah

Neil