Are you kidding me??!!??

[Blue Meanie]

I DESPISE CGC...but this has to take the cake for the most ridiculous price I've ever seen on a CGC book:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 cgc 9.4 White 1st print - eBay (item 320651905760 end time Feb-12-11 18:58:49 PST)

I don't care that Ninja Turtles changed the indy market...that's absolutely ABSURD for that book.

[Brazoo]

I agree - it's kind of crazy - but then again you have this whole generation of kids who went nuts for the cartoon and toys - it kind of makes sense to me to some degree that #1 would be sought after like this.

[Brazoo]

Oh - and I hate CGC too.

[toys2cool]

holy crap!!

[rche]

wow, that is awesome. I wish my copy was in that good of shape.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Even back in the day it went for astronomical prices; especially the proper FIRST first printing. And since the 80's are back you gotta expect this sort of thing.

I wonder if this'll open the flood gates for the specualtors who've been sitting on their Turtles stuff.

Don C.

[kingdom warrior]

I thought it could get that much. it's been 27 years since it was first published and there were only 3000 copies of the first print. Printed on newsprint and B&W so a first printing might be a little harder to come by and it is the original version of TMNT.

[samurainoir]

Makes perfect sense to me. Tiny print run. How many in that verified condition. Millions of turtles fans, including the generation who grew up on the cartoon are hitting their thirties... Disposable income. It's definitely the candidate for that price range and will only increase over time given how huge the turtles were and continue to be... Hit animated movie recently shows.

[Blue Meanie]

Makes perfect sense to me. Tiny print run. How many in that verified condition. Millions of turtles fans, including the generation who grew up on the cartoon are hitting their thirties... Disposable income. It's definitely the candidate for that price range and will only increase over time given how huge the turtles were and continue to be... Hit animated movie recently shows.

They may have said there was only a print run of 3000...but I think there was a larger run than that. Seen a lot of 1st print on issue 1 over the last 20+ years. Still not seeing that number though as an end price on an auction.

[ctc]

>I think there was a larger run than that.

There was at least 6 reprints of #1. The very original was pretty small. (I thought it was less than 1000, but I don't know for sure.) Nobody really expected it to take off like it did.

Don C.