Pawn Stars: INSANE MONEY for Rare Batman #1 Comic (Season 17)

hey how's it going good how you doing so what do we got ah batman number one 1940. okay um forgive me uh you've kind of brought me one of the holy grails of comic books here and i'm just almost speechless fantastic book you're not batman not today i'm at the pawn shop today to sell my batman number one comic i picked it up about a year ago at auction it's one of the most iconic comic books of all time it has one of those covers that everybody recognizes the minute you see it there's just an affinity to it so i'm hoping to get 250 000 for this comic book i think in today's market that's what it's worth this is definitely cool he's always been my favorite superhero typically one of the biggest reasons people like batman is he didn't come from outer space he wasn't bitten by a radioactive spider this was just a rich guy that wanted to fight crime which kind of makes it plausible that anybody could beat batman and i think that's kind of why people relate to him quite a bit so batman was around prior to this and back when dc was detective comics but this was his actual first comic book where it was just all about batman i mean they even introduced the joker and catwoman in this issue two pretty iconic characters this is a big deal man i've never had something like this get brought in before you know it's a great book it came out of a um original odin collection it was already graded it's a 5.5 condition which for a batman number one is an extremely high grade i guess i gotta ask you what you want to do with it you know if i sell it at a profit now i'd like to do something good with the money okay um what are you looking to get 250 000. oh okay um that's uh this is out of my wheelhouse i mean it is the number one i've seen comic books go for that amount of money um do you mind if i have a buddy of mine come down and take a look at it not at all give me a minute okay no problem hey steve how's it going real good hey how you doing oh what have we got here a little bit out of my wheelhouse man batman number one all right as you know this is a big book this is one of the top five big books in the entire collecting industry the beautiful thing about this is that cgc has already done its work and this has not been restored because it has a blue label uh so tell me more about the blue label because i don't know much about comic recruiting generally speaking a lot of golden age books have been played with restored someone's done some coloring replacing staples if it's been restored it's going to have a purple label if it is unrestored it's going to have a blue label so as soon as you see the blue label you know this book has not been played with now the important question is what are you asking for in this book 250 000. 250 000. we all know about batman once we all do our research this is one of the strangest books in collecting right now this batman one for some strange reason this book actually went down in value in 2016 it sold for 239 thousand dollars in 2018 it sold for 227 000 the last purchase was for 210 000 that's you right that's me it makes no sense whatsoever for a batman number one to be going down in my opinion when this book was seen in the catalogues people didn't like the way the five five looked they probably looked and said um it's a little dirty and i don't want to pay all that money for this book so it hung there for a while and then someone came in and was able to get it for two hundred and ten thousand dollars that's crucial information for you so what would you pay for it this is a huge book it's the first joker it's the first cat woman it's batman number one two hundred ten thousand dollars to me would be good all right well i appreciate it you gave me all the info i could use beautiful book thank you very much thank you pleasure appreciate it okay um realistically what would you take for it 250 000 okay um i believe it's worth every bit of what you're asking for it but it's just not really my business model i'm not a comic book investor i don't have the time to sit on it for me to make money on this i'd have to offer you like a hundred grand and then jump up and down and shout when i sold it for 150. so unfortunately it's just a little too rich for my blood i completely understand thank you for bringing it in my pleasure i'm not at all disappointed that i didn't sail as a golden age comic collector this is one of my dream books i'll sit on it as long as i need to you

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Length: 5min 1sec (301 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 26 2021