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Dave <mattie04@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 23, 9:47 pm, mikestu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > Could this be due to the new reprints? Fading boomers? Happenstance?
>
> Not sure if DOC is selling FOR less, but there is sure less DOC for
> SALE on eBay.
>
>
> For a long time, you could run an item check on eBay and find about
> 300 DOC SAVAGE items for sale. From 1998 until about 2005, this was a
> pretty constant number -- a couple of times it topped 400, every now
> and then it dropped into the high 200s.
>
> In 2006 the number of DOC SAVAGE items available on eBay started
> dropping into the 200s more often. By 2007 it rarely topped 300.
>
> I ran a check this AM, and there were 189 DOC SAVAGE items listed for
> sale on eBay -- the lowest number I've seen in the nearly ten years
> I've watched it.
>
> As to the effects of new reprints on prices -- I don't really see it,
> DOC paperback reprints continue their slow climb in price,and if
> reprints were going to affect price, I'd think the opposite would be
> true.
>
> And there just aren't enough DOC pulps on the market (6 on eBay this
> AM) to gauge any price change due to the reprints. I suspect the net
> effect will be a wash -- for every fan who thinks, "Hey, I can get a
> new reprint of THE GOLDEN MAN much cheaper," there'll be another who
> thinks, "Now I've got the story, but I want the old paper too."
>
> ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION: The reprints have depressed the whole eBay
> DOC market, and growing DOC fandom. I actually kind of hope this is
> true, because otherwise I fear that the demographics will cause pulps
> to the era of Big Little Books -- a hobby of increasingly fewer
> collectors and much higher prices.
>
> dave
Considering the rarity of fine or mint pulps of any kind circulating
including Doc Savage, the effect of the new reprints can only help the
interest and value of the originals that are out there, Im not sure the
effect on the 60's reprints now. If for only the bama covers as a
distinction on the new reprints, but I have seen alternate covers of
bama on the new ones as well. I do think the value of the 60's reprints
will drop but the overall value of the originals in vgood, fine or mint
shape will always be worth more. The new reprints are the best thing to
happen to get new blood into Doc, The Shadow, and all pulps etc.
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