Christine's collection was quite an achievement because of the decades it took to assemble all of the different published issues, including so many rarities.
Loved watching this auction of all these books. Didn't bid on any of them though due to sky-rocket prices. The main reason I don't like buying from them is that darn B/P! Why buy from them when MCS only charges 3% (ring the bell) LOL! BTW, do you include the b/p in the price that a book was sold for on these videos? I personally believe that buying restored is OK; because if you buy a book restored at 10K and that is the average price it goes for over the last few sales, there is a great chance that when it sells in the future, you would at least make your money back (in most cases). Not good for speculators though, who are trying to make a big profit. But for someone just selling their collection, hopefully they wouldn't lose too much money in such a case (unless they originally over paid of course).
Ernst Gerber photographed nearly every comic and created the Photo Journal Guide to Comic Books. During this endeavour he noted some comics were rarer than others and created a scale to show rarity. This was a good decade before slabbing and censuses. His scale is still quoted to this day.
Gerber ratings are all about rarity. From a 3 to 10 scale. 3 being very common, 10 being almost unique. They produced the golden age books in 1990 and Silver age later. I bought mine on eBay years ago
The first Luthor was listed as being in Action Comics 23 in Overstreet’s first guide back in 1971. Superman 4 is the real 1st appearance and sold in higher grade than AC23 in this auction for a lot less. I recall when the Sandman and Sgt. Rock first appearances were changed in Overstreet, but there appears to be minimal effort put into, what was once, the go to book on comics.
Not including books with newspaper strips in! Was Superman #1 the first book with reprints? After all it contains the Superman stories from Action #1-4.
It's far more likely that Christine bought her books already restored. Restoration was primarly done by collectors and dealers as way to make their book more valuableby by hiding defects. Non-disclosure of restoration was common so buyers were paying VF price for a book that was restored VG. This got so bad that it stalled the entire GA market until ... CGC.
@@ComicCollectorGeek What you say is possible, but I know some aspects of her collecting history to make me think it more likely that they were purchased restored, with probably most of that disclosed for her keys. Restoration in the 80s was heavily pushed by sellers and restorers. Sellers looked at it as a quick way to make a killing and restorers as a way to drum up business. Budget-oriented collectors didn't mind it too much as it was a cheap way to get a nicer looking copy, but it was never widely accepted as some try to portray it.
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Restoration isn't gone, people today press, dry clean, even use UV rays CGC just doesn't call it restoration.
Christine's collection was quite an achievement because of the decades it took to assemble all of the different published issues, including so many rarities.
Loved watching this auction of all these books. Didn't bid on any of them though due to sky-rocket prices. The main reason I don't like buying from them is that darn B/P! Why buy from them when MCS only charges 3% (ring the bell) LOL! BTW, do you include the b/p in the price that a book was sold for on these videos? I personally believe that buying restored is OK; because if you buy a book restored at 10K and that is the average price it goes for over the last few sales, there is a great chance that when it sells in the future, you would at least make your money back (in most cases). Not good for speculators though, who are trying to make a big profit. But for someone just selling their collection, hopefully they wouldn't lose too much money in such a case (unless they originally over paid of course).
I'm happy in the knowledge that I wont own any of these books before I die! Vexed but happy, lol!
The market seemed to think that is the first lex luthor. Superman 4 is an approachable book
Amazing collection! You've mentioned Gerber a few times now. I can't find anything about it. Is there a web site?
Ernst Gerber photographed nearly every comic and created the Photo Journal Guide to Comic Books. During this endeavour he noted some comics were rarer than others and created a scale to show rarity. This was a good decade before slabbing and censuses. His scale is still quoted to this day.
Gerber ratings are all about rarity. From a 3 to 10 scale. 3 being very common, 10 being almost unique. They produced the golden age books in 1990 and Silver age later. I bought mine on eBay years ago
The first Luthor was listed as being in Action Comics 23 in Overstreet’s first guide back in 1971. Superman 4 is the real 1st appearance and sold in higher grade than AC23 in this auction for a lot less. I recall when the Sandman and Sgt. Rock first appearances were changed in Overstreet, but there appears to be minimal effort put into, what was once, the go to book on comics.
Was there a More Fun 31 in the collection? I’ve said before that’s it’s my white whale with the very first ad for Action 1 a month earlier
Yup..she had a complete collection.
Not including books with newspaper strips in! Was Superman #1 the first book with reprints? After all it contains the Superman stories from Action #1-4.
It could be.
It's far more likely that Christine bought her books already restored. Restoration was primarly done by collectors and dealers as way to make their book more valuableby by hiding defects. Non-disclosure of restoration was common so buyers were paying VF price for a book that was restored VG. This got so bad that it stalled the entire GA market until ... CGC.
I thought she might have done it because most of the time it was A level which would be professional.
@@ComicCollectorGeek What you say is possible, but I know some aspects of her collecting history to make me think it more likely that they were purchased restored, with probably most of that disclosed for her keys. Restoration in the 80s was heavily pushed by sellers and restorers. Sellers looked at it as a quick way to make a killing and restorers as a way to drum up business. Budget-oriented collectors didn't mind it too much as it was a cheap way to get a nicer looking copy, but it was never widely accepted as some try to portray it.
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