Kid Colt 219 ebay sale

A couple blogs ago, I mentioned that a great variant hunter had found a lot with at least two Kid Colt 35 cent variants.  Well the second Kid Colt auction ended and again produced expected results.  $413.28 for what could only be described as a Poor to Fair copy.  I don't think there are any other bronze age comics which would sell for this kind of money in this condition except for 35 cent price variants.  In fact, I am not sure that there are many silver age comics that would sell for this kind of money in this condition.  A poor Amazing Fantasy 15 which is the key silver age comic and the first appearance of Spider-Man would sell for between $1000 and $1500. 

Arrrgh. I was out of the country and missed this one. Kid Colt 218!!!!!!

I went to China for a week and completely missed this one.  One of the best variant hunters found a zero feedback seller listing a lot consisting of several issues of bronze age dreckage.  He smartly noticed that the seller was in Toledo, Ohio which we think is one of the test areas for selling 35 cent variants and that despite the sketchy pictures, this lot was worth the $50 bucks that the seller was asking.  Why would this normally ignored box of bronze age beaters be worth $50, you ask?  Well check the scan and look closely in the middle.

The variant hunter received the books and correctly listed the Kid Colt 218 as the super rare Kid Colt 218 35 cent price variant and the auction closed at $540.  Yes, $540 in VG, and I can assure you that the buyer was ecstatic.  If I had seen the auction, the book would have gone higher, but still it wasn't a bad return for the seller.  In my opinion,  sometimes 3 day auctions get missed, I think that a 7 day or 10 day auction would have achieved even better results for this book.

Ohh, and by the way, the lot also contained an even more beat-up Kid Colt 219.  We will see how that one does.