BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES

In Spider-man #1, the Chameleon was a "commie"

Little known fact: some of the North Vietnamese soldiers were part Apache

I did not know those pages were listed or I might have bid against you

I thought the price was in line with other Fury splashes. This is a bit unusual with the Vietnam setting and the direct reference to date of publication

Marie Severin did the Daredevil and Thor covers. Not sure who did the ASM 96 prelim. For some reason there were two prelims made of that issue. One def by Kane and the other by Severin or maybe Romita? That one has a pasted on piece with prelim drawings of spiders and the Goblin's head by Stan Lee

I'd pay two million if it was Tony Stark's personal copy with notes in the margins about the arc reactor

Since I follow sales intermittently, I see sale figures now and then that make me go "wow. that's really gone up in value," only to hear that it previously sold for way more and the price that impressed me is considered a crash

I remember when the pence copies were considered far less valuable and sold my fairly decent pence AF15 for mid to high three figures

I thought this was a good price valued at what it should be (and more than I thought some people would say). But that was before I discovered here that it had sold for 270K previously. I'd still say it's a proper price at 156 and that it looks bad only when compared to that stupid 270 price.

Detective 36 is an underappreciated book. Scarer than most in the run and one of the few times that Batman deliberately killed people. Changes to his costume. Drug smuggling story. And the first recurring super-villain* that was written to be a recurring villain -- complete with a last panel in jail vowing revenge on the Batman. *second recurring villain in DC, after the Ultra-humanite in Action Comics (and before the Joker or Lex Luthor. ("Dr. Death" had appeared in two issues but it was one two-party story and he died for good** at the end. **although I would not be surprised if somebody tells me DC resurrected him decades later.

Buyers may be more aware than they have been that highest graded means more in GA than SA. Of course there can never be 100% certainty, even with Golden Age books. But if this was a 9.8 Action 1 people would feel pretty confident it is likely to remain the highest graded copy. If people felt the same level of confidence about the future and ongoing uniqueness of a 9.8 TOS 39, then $2 million might seem more reasonable or even a bargain.

This beatnik/hippie surfer is by Joe Simon ("Sick" magazine) in 1966 prior to Kirby's Silver Surfer. Prototype? Rip-off? Coincidence? None of the above?

We have apparently decided that the operative rule is not Occam's Razor but Owner's Razor: Whatever answer explains all the variables and concludes that my book is not a second printing or second state first printing, that is the correct answer. For Superman 1 owners, try this: If your book has the Action 14 "now on sale" ad -- it was printed before the books with ads saying "on sale June 2nd" because they originally thought the books would be on sale at the same time, hence the words "now on sale" When the book was printed , they realized the Action comic was not on sale yet, stopped the presses and changed the ad to read "on sale June 2" ,

So which are these -- and the one below -- examples of?