Bronze-Age Marvel Variants

Monday, June 18, 2012

Avengers 147 30 cent price variant latest addition to the 4 Figure Club

A sensational example of Avengers 147 30 cent price variant was recently auctioned by Heritage. It is the latest price variant issue to crack the $1000 dollar barrier. It is not surprising because of the popularity of the Avengers movie, the popularity of the Avengers comic book title, and the popularity of the marvel price variants. The single highest graded example of this issue by two grades (followed by 2 9.4s) this auction was sure to bring the excitement and it did not disappoint.

Some other notable Price Variant Sales.

On ComicLink,

On ebay

one of the best if not the best 30 cent variant collection ever sold,

another good ebay seller,

From Heritage

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.

GPA variant report for May

As I have written before, GPAnalysis is the best source of information on certified comic sales. I highly recommend a subscription if for no other reason than getting the market reports. One of the market reports is the price variant sales report. This is the report for May 2012.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Some Notable 35 Cent Variant Sales on Ebay

It appears that several new collectors have entered the 35 cent variant fray. I have missed out on three books that I need in the past four weeks with what I thought were strong bids but in actuality wasn't even close.

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