jerome34

Well to make iit easy on both of us, I will just cover the period up until Feb 1951 (All Star 57 and Detective 168). Super heroes (You probably have had these): Big All American New York World's Fair '39, '40 Superboy 1-12 (Plus filling in the issues you mentioned). - - - Giveaways: Comic Cavalcade (6 different ones found so far) Flash (Wheaties) Funny Stuff (Wheaties) Special Edition 1-6 Superman 27 & 28 (Overseas) Superman Christmas 1940, 1944, 1944 Superman Great Cleveland Fire Superman at Gilbert Superman Pye-Co-Pay Superman-Tim (94 issues) Superman Workbook World's Finest Giveaways (2 of them) - - - Other regular news stand comics: Adv Allan Ladd Adv Bob Hope Adv Ozzie & Harriet All Am Western All Star Western Big Book of Fun Big Town Dale Evens Danger Trail Date With Judy Fat and Slat Feature Films Gang Busters Girls Love Girls Romance Hollywood Funny Folks (may have covered) Jimmy Wakely Leave it to Binky Movietown Animal Antics Miss Beverley Hills Miss Melody Lane Mr DA New Book of Comics 1-2 Peter Porkchops Romance Trail Rudolph Scribbly Secret Hearts Strange Adventures Tomahawk Western (Plus getting/completing the titles you mentioned) Many of these titles are ones you would not need to get a complete collection. If you want the cutoff issue number, just ask. I may have missed something. If interested, ask Ian or Mike. Typing was quick and error prone. Think you could do it in less than one year? Enjoy Jerome

Gator: You are just talking about the GA comics right? What about Mutt & Jeff and the non-superhero titles? Are you including all issues up to code or some other date? What are your parameters? Inquiring minds and all that ...

Lots of entries here BUT most are "I like" or "I want this one to be higher than that one" rather than "expected value is:" The consensus seems to be 27, (29, 31), 35, 33, 36, 37. 29 seems to be slightly ahead of 31 or, if not now, is expected to pull ahead soon. 28 is so scarce it is a wild card. Would anyone knowledgeable guess? (above/below 35??) 30, 32, and 34 are the laggards (using Overstreet order).. Is this where we whine "Can't we just get along?"

Lets face it, they are all going to go up. The question is which one wins the race? The second question is which race? Overstreet price guide: 33 wins other are catching up. FMV: No definitive answer posted here. G.A.Tor: No definitive answer posted here. GPA (and others): No definitive answer posted here. Detective33kid: No definitive answer posted here. Others??? I think we can all agree that 33 is very important and that, at the present time, 29, 31, and (perhaps) 35 have "hot" covers. Will these overtake 33? If so when? And by how much? For someone who wants them all and has a budget, the choice of which one to go for is simple: which one is available at a price I can afford and which I consider to be reasonable? For years, the answer has been: none of the above.

I may joke about the mice but your copy would be an upgrade for mine (coverless and coupon out centerfold). That may give you the last laugh.

I suspect GA mice liked DC's best, ate Timelys when they ran out of DCs and only nibbled on Fawcetts. I am not sure of their taste for Dells (except Barks of course), Fox or the others.

Since I have two that are complete, I guess I qualify. My holdings are: 27 - Rebuilt from a copy missing the cover, 3 centerfolds, and a page in the last half of the book. All missing parts replaced and new staples. The Batman story is complete. There are tear seals. 28 -Missing cover, 5 outer wraps (entire Batman story is gone) and centerfold is missing. Cost $75.00 about 10 years ago. 29 - A coverless copy with a xerox wraparound cover and restapled. May have minor restoration (tear seals) inside. 30 - Coverless 31 - Coverless 32 - Coverless and a coupon out a page in the back 33 - Coverless and missing a coupon on the centerfold. Paid $400 at Chicago sometime in the mid 1990's. 34 - Complete (low grade) 35 - Coverless, last page missing. 36 - Complete 37 - Coverless. I am not setup for scans, so no pictures. So 8 that need replacing.

There are two versions of the 1940 SCA. Version A has the "registered .." starting under the "man's" while version B has it starting under "an's." I have no idea which is scarcer. There are also two versions of the 1944 issue showing SM & a Christmas tree. The difference is on the back cover. One version has the Superman picture taking up the full back cover. The other version has a 3/4 page picture to provide more space for ads. Again, I have no idea which is scarcer. Dratted variants.

A little more on the Bradman Superman comic. I believe that when you push the "start" button on the press and, as fast as you can, you press the "stop" button, you wind up with at least 100 copies. Ian indicates that 25 were sent to the family. I suspect the others were distributed among DC employees at the time. One friend of mine was friends with DC and got a copy. An employee sent me a copy (long story) which is how I got it. It is good to know the correct number sent to England. So there are, or were, about 100 copies printed. At least that is what I think. I could be wrong.

The short answer is yes. I am now down to about 60 missing (and 170 incomplete). Alas, I am missing 31 of the 91 in Ian's picture.

DC about 33000 (missing 68 old, about 125 recent missed in 'pull & hold'> Marvel about 5500 (about19 long boxes) Other GA about 1200 (15 mag boxes with some space in them) Other Mod about 1500 (6 long boxes) Total 41200 (+ or - 1500) Dups and convention stock not counted.