Trying to fill in the final piece

My goal with Captain Marvel Adventures is to create a collection of highest grade issues which is a bit of a lofty goal but has been somewhat easier than I would have ever expected. A sub goal has been to collect all the "city stories" related to cities in Ohio (my home state). I wrote a journal awhile back that C.C. Beck wrote a series of popular stories where Cap would visit actual U.S. cities and it turned out Ohio was the most visited state in the U.S. with appearances in Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus. I managed to collect the HIGHEST grade copies of the Cincinnati and Dayton issues. My copies of Cinci and Dayton are both tied for the highest grade but the Columbus one stands alone. Getting this issue would be possibly an impossible challenge since there currently is precisely one in the world.

So last Sunday I saw issue 55 of Captain Marvel Adventures for sale at a very good price and it was in fact the highest grade in existence for that issue so I grabbed it up. Cool, another highest grade for my collection. As I went through and added the information for the issue I noticed. My God, it was the Columbus issue and I didn't even know it when I bought it. I managed to buy the one and only 9.2 graded copy currently in existence. Will it remain forever the highest grade? Probably not but for now I own all three Ohio city stories in highest grade condition.

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