Coverage

Still haven't had much of a chance to catch my breath since the comic book auction, and it's been over half a month. The phones have been ringing off the hook. Channel 2 tv here in St. Louis covered part of the event, and their footage was picked up by CNN - who put it on their front page for a little while. The story written by the Post Dispatch was picked up by the Associated Press, and they spread it all over the midwest. We now have people as far away as New Jersey talking with us about consigning comic books for our next comic auction. Since the auction I've personally picked up over 2,500 more comic books (some of which are in bad condition, some of which aren't super-collectible) for the next 2 comic book auctions. Aside from all that, we held another regular household auction a couple of days ago, and we have another one scheduled for the 21st of this month. On the 30th of this month we will have a front page full color article published in Antique Weekly's National section, and I just heard tonight that The Learning Channel (TLC) on cable TV is planning on filming a segment about the auction for one of their shows. I've got a meeting tomorrow with a guy about consigning more comics to auction, including another copy of both X-Men #1 and Avengers #1 - both of which were in the top 3 prices realized in the last auction.

$1M +

Hey, this is one of the first days I've had off since the big comic book auction this past weekend. Over the course of two days we set numerous world records for individual books, including the CGC 8.0 Amazing Fantasy #15. The total from the sale is over $1,001,000.00. We should have the final numbers, including the buyer's premium, tax, etc. as well as the total number of world records, within a few days.

Lisa has been hired on full time as the company secretary, and there is renewed talk of finding a permanent office/warehouse/auction hall. So, all things considered, it was an awesome weekend.

We're planning on running another comic book auction next year, so we are going to have to start beating the bushes and looking for new comic consignments for that sale.