Price is Right: Brave and the Bold #28 at PWCC

Last month, by way of a consignment, PWCC listed one in every of the most essential key problems with the Silver Age on its web site: Brave & the Bold #28 (1960). This is an entry-level CGC 0.5 copy with off-white pages. The consignor is asking for $1,100 however is additionally taking provides. Let’s play one other spherical of the Price is Right!

As most comedian ebook buyers know, the Brave & the Bold #28 is a serious key difficulty as a result of it comprises the first look of maybe the most well-known superhero crew of all time: the Justice League of America. Here, for the first time, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Aquaman be part of each other to struggle an enemy…

While the Avengers could have higher model consciousness in the present day as a result of the MCU, Stan Lee was truly copying the Justice League when he created the Avengers in 1963.

There are just one,264 common blue labels on the CGC Census.

Not surprisingly, this ebook is fairly uncommon even for a Silver Age key difficulty. CGC has solely graded 1,264 common blue label copies of this difficulty. In comparability, CGC has graded almost 4 occasions as many (4,018) blue label copies of Avengers #1.

While there are in all probability a whole lot of uncooked copies of this difficulty nonetheless on the market in the wild, I’d think about most collectors would need to submit this ebook for grading for funding and grading functions.

The commonest grade on the CGC Census of the Brave & the Bold #28 is a 3.0 (130 copies). As for this specific copy listed on PWCC, there are 60 different 0.5s on the CGC Census. This is a really low-grade copy with backbone cut up, a indifferent cowl, and tape on its cowl.

Personally, I don’t thoughts these very low-grade copies of main key points; it’s the solely means an individual like me may ever even entertain the concept of proudly owning a chunk of comedian ebook historical past. Like many different individuals, I can’t actually afford something above a 2.0 for this difficulty.

The FMV of a 0.5 copy of the Brave & the Bold #28 is $1,200.

It’s a bit of troublesome to cost this difficulty as a result of there aren’t many 0.5 copies on the Census; nevertheless, there have been 4 recorded gross sales of 0.5s throughout 2023. Just after the peak of the “comic boom” in 2021, a 0.5 offered for an all-time excessive of $1,750 in February of 2022. Just over a yr later, one other 0.5 offered for $1,289 in March of 2023. Two months later, in May 2023, one 0.5 offered for $1,099 and then one other 0.5 offered for $999 later that very same month. Both had been fixed-price gross sales on eBay.

Based on these gross sales, in response to GoCollect, the FMV of a 0.5 copy of the Brave & the Bold #28 is $1,200. Considering {that a} 0.5 offered for $1,125 means again in 2016, it seems to me that this difficulty could have over-corrected in the wake of the comedian growth.

In this specific case, the consigner is asking for $1,100 however is taking provides. Based on historic gross sales information, the $1,100 asking worth appears eminently affordable to me. One good function of PWCC’s web site is that it’ll inform you the minimal counteroffer that the consigner will take into account. Here, the minimal provide the consigner will take into account is $850. If you may get this ebook for $850, that may look like an incredible deal. Purchasing this ebook at that worth level could be the lowest gross sales worth for a 0.5 throughout the previous three years.