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Of course, there are going to be two more Gal Gadot WW movies, and the CA movies are a thing of the past.

I'm sure you are much more in tune with the market up and down the grades than I am. I'm just saying you can't call All-Star 8 "cheaper" when its one of the four most expensive comics ever purchased. Heck, only six issues have ever cleared $500K. It might be cheaper in lower grades, but it is VERY strong on the high end.

All-Star 8 CGC 9.4 - $936,223 on eBay on 8/27/17 CA 1 CGC 9.4 - $915,000 on Heritage on 8/12/19 (two years later and only 2.5 months ago, yet no trumping yet)

Cheaper? The only comic books to sell for a higher price than All-Star 8 are Action 1, AF 15, and Detective 27. That's it. Nothing else. All-Star 8 has beaten CA 1 in the same grade.

As I said on Gold, but repeat here for the benefit of the General folks: I don't like the way the banner is worded. "CGC Pedigree Grade" implies that pedigrees are graded on a different scale (e.g. a "CGC Universal Grade" is a different scale than a "CGC Qualified Grade", "CGC Restored Grade", and "CGC Conserved Grade"). Why not call it a "CGC Pedigree Series" (or better yet "CGC Recognised Pedigree") similar to the "CGC Signature Series"? And then, like with the sig books, you could have "CGC Pedigree Qualified Grade", "CGC Pedigree Restored Grade", and "CGC Pedigree Conserved Grade." No charge for this fantastic advice. P.S. I voted 3 on Gold.

3. BUT, I don't like the way the banner is worded. "CGC Pedigree Grade" implies that pedigrees are graded on a different scale (e.g. a "CGC Universal Grade" is a different scale than a "CGC Qualified Grade", "CGC Restored Grade", and "CGC Conserved Grade"). Why not call it a "CGC Pedigree Series" (or better yet "CGC Recognised Pedigree") similar to the "CGC Signature Series"? And then, like with the sig books, you could have "CGC Pedigree Qualified Grade", "CGC Pedigree Restored Grade", and "CGC Pedigree Conserved Grade." No charge for this fantastic advice.

.The question is gobbly gook, but I get what you mean. If not for these boards I would not have learned of some really interesting extremely rare comics that I then spent a fair amount of time trying to acquire and finally did so. And if not for these boards, acquiring those comics would not have been anywhere near as fun because I would not have had a place to share the story of the comic, my quest to get it, and what it is. And if not for these boards, I would not have given up some of those comics I had the joy of hunting down to boardies who needed those comics to complete their own collecting goals. So, yeah, these boards add meaning to a collector's life.

Blissard has listed a bunch of low grade Bakers.

I've been meaning for a while to flesh out why I know with 100% certainty that the super impressive portion of Bangzoom's collection that came from D.C. is not from Wigransky. Bangzoom had this to say on his Golden Age Collection thread about the 1,000 marque books that were pulled from a garbage can in D.C.: "WTG" is certainly not the initials of any name used by Wigransky. So setting aside the problems with the addresses, the names also can't be the same. And Bangzoom also said this: My guess is that Bangzoom's books likely came from a W.T. Gilchrist ("WTG").

The Art of the Comic Strip at the University of Maryland. It was a Kerry Drake strip inscribed to Dave that is now in the LOC.

Yep. I'm re-thinking whether Simon & Kirby gave him the May 1947 cover posted at the beginning of this thread as thanks for his defense of comics (my assumption), or whether he just wrote them and asked for it. I think it was the later because of the note by S&K is "Best Wishes and Good Luck" not thanks.

Here's what blows me away about this art: The date. As far as I can tell, Dan Barry first worked on Captain Midnite's October 1947 cover dated issue. Which means that he probably drew the character sheet around May-July 1947. Which is around a year before Wigransky penned his refutation of Wertham that was published in May 1948. Which means, contrary to what I assumed, that Dave Wigransky was seeking original comic book art well BEFORE he became famous.

Second, I now have discovered that original art inscribed to David Wigransky was put on display in a museum exhibit of comic strip art in 1971. That's the earliest date I can pin down so far when such art hit the market. Remember, Wigransky's mother moved out of D.C. in 1970.

More new info. First, this:

I'm gonna go with Action 1 on that one.

Somewhere on a Suspense 3 thread there's a post about by a boardie who sold his cover only for Suspense 3 to another boardie who, he thinks, married it with a coverless copy. That could have been the coverless copy you're talking about.

That's a good line to put pressure on buyers to compromise and purchase what they see.

Bumped

You have a coverless comic that people only want for the cover. Hopefully, someone with just a cover is looking to marry an interior. There have been other copies sold in the last 5 years, most notably the Mile High. I seem to recall that there was a thread recently about the most valuable GA coverless comics, and Suspense 3 was discussed. Found it. Bumped it for you:

Time to call the police.

Was Goodman known for paying his employees in a timely fashion? I doubt it.

Have two guard cats. And they do bat the foosball around on the foosball table. But, its not that organized, and I'm not picturing the stuff thrown in boxes or closets. Partially pictured behind the foosball table are two set of double doors (like French doors opening towards each other) concealing floor to ceiling shelving.

That archive is one of the best resources in the business. Hakes does a good job too. Comicconnect and Comiclink suck on that front.