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Wow. A comic record collectors would covet!

The most I have seen any go for is low six figures. But if those volumes came on the market now I would think they would go for multiples of that since one was an Action run starting with 1 and the other was a Detective run starting a bit before 27. In a world where a tiny piece of the cover of Action 1 can hit mid-four figures, single pages are being snatched up, and bionic books garner big dollars, then sky might just be the limit for the most valuable bound copies.

Another cool association copy, Al Feldstein's personal run of MAD from 1-260 plus all the specials: Bound for his reference fresh off the press.

Gardner Fox's All Stars are maybe the coolest of all association copies: Not only owned by the storied writer of the JSA adventures (and so much more), but sold by him to a founding father of comic fandom Jerry Bails way back in 1959:

Another super cool bound volume out there are these two volumes of Detective Comics 25-48: Sure, you'd rather have these unbound. But, these most likely were M.C. Gaines personal copies bound immediately after printing. Which is why the covers look so fresh and free of creasing:

There are certain bound volumes that are total grails, though. Bound volumes that I'd rather have than the separate comics. Most notably, this: According to Heritage: Dell Giant Comics Bound Volume - Signed by Carl Barks (Dell, 1949-51). Gorgeous copies of Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #1 and 2, and Walt Disney's Vacation Parade #1 and 2 comprise this bound volume from the collection of none other than Malcolm Willits, the Disney fan / collector widely credited for "discovering" the "Good Duck Artist" Carl Barks. In June 1960, Barks inscribed the bound volume, "It was nice to meet a fan after all the years of drawing and writing these comics." The bound volume is in exceptionally well-preserved condition inside and out. For the bound volume the comics have been trimmed, but otherwise appear high grade and with nice page quality of cream to off-white. My Comments: Willits was the first person to learn Barks' name and address in 1957 (and he then went into the Army I think). The Spicer brothers learned Barks' name and address in 1960 and were the first to write Barks on April 11, 1960. Willits had written Barks' publisher in 1957, but got no reply. But, Willits was the first fan to visit Carl Barks in person in June 1960. That volume is an incredibly significant bit of comic history documenting, in Barks' own hand, the moment when the "good duck artist" first met the nascent comic fandom then coalescing, and, most importantly, how much it meant to him to meet a fan! That volume, my friends, is a foundational historical document regarding the birth of comic fandom and the ground zero for the then anonymous Carl Barks' becoming one of Disney's biggest legends. Barks subsequently met John Spicer a few months later. Barks appreciated his fans. Barks chose to acknowledge his newfound fans with the June 1961 issue of Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories in a story titled Stranger Than Fiction. "I had already informed him of my abiding interest in science fiction, and of how my parents refused to allow it in the house when I was young, and how much I wished he’d do more stories with this theme [of science fiction],” Willits recalled. “In this story, Donald is enraged to find his nephews reading a science fiction book and proceeds to throw it in the trash. The book in question is Ten Seconds to Mars by Spicer Willits. Naturally, the kids have the last laugh as what Donald considers to be science fiction turns out to be fact. As with many of Carl’s stories, a moral is involved, but even if it wasn’t, John and I were delighted in being immortalized, however briefly, in one of his works,” Willits said with a smile. A cool bound volume that's better than the separate comics? ABSOLUTELY! I also would not turn my nose up at Gardner Fox's bound volumes of All-Star Comics that he sold to Jerry Bails or even to the Dell file copy Four Color bound volumes.

The superhero photo montage covers actually work really well:

Even small photos can make a cover special: And it might be tough to draw the line:

I wish. It's up for auction now. Promise.

Still for sale at $40.50?

Just curious if anyone has a top 10 list for the most valuable photo covers. I'm guessing that they might include some of these. Anyone know?

You think CGC would continue to certify it if someone married the "1" to a reconstruction of the cover?

The draft cards, census records etc. are not owned by the family. They are official US govt. records made available to the public for research, readily available both from govt. databases and from sites like Ancestry. There is no expectation of privacy or private rights in those docs. They are intended for public use and publication. Some here view the family pics as also publicly shared by the family, but I think the best course is do not post them without permission. All your other points were persuasively addressed by numerous posters above.

For purposes of republication, I'm not sure that matters.

Yeah, you and I view the character arc differently. You are starting at point A and criticizing point Z all the while ignoring B through Y. It's a character arc, the character had some transformational experiences. And they are all consistent IMHO. I think you thought Boba Fett was the Punisher. He's just a Mandalorian bounty hunter who is not the cold dark person you thought he was. FYI - Luke was a neophyte Jedi in the third movie still. And Boba Fett didn't do anything that Luke didn't expect. Luke pretty much kicked his and sent him to his near-death. In my view, Boba Fett is a Han Solo type in armor.

I found all those photos a while back. They are the family's photos. I would ask that you take down the link for two reasons: (1) Those pics include pictures of the family, including minor children and (2) those pics are family's personal property and I just don't think it is right to publicize them without family permission. I hope you understand. PM sent.

That's a reference to the facts of the famous Ford Pinto gas tank problems. Ford got hammered by the jury in the Grimshaw case. Subsequent litigation results have caused smart businesses to avoid that thinking from circa the 1970s.

You make a good point. Apparently Disney is learning a lesson with its stealth approach to the Florida situation.

Given that Coogler apparently worked this out with BofA quietly to his own satisfaction, it may be that he thinks nothing more need be done. He says as much. I have found no articles suggesting he feel any criticism towards Disney is warranted.

Disney has clearly supported Ryan Coogler's career and has an on-going financial relationship with him. I think you are being a little too sensitive about how Disney should react to this situation that happened over two months ago. Here's the facts as I can find them: I really don't think there is much, if anything, that DC needs to say given Coogler's statement, BofA's statement, and the facts.

Historically, Marvel has not had that cynical view. Stan made clear that the incentive to do the right thing was human empathy.

I now understand by IP you were not referring to the many non-canon books and comics. The first such non-canon book was Splinter of the Mind's Eye. It came out after Star Wars. It is an enjoyable book, but it is not true to the characters as they developed across the first trilogy. The second and third movies took the characters in different directions than Splinter of the Mind's Eye. However, Splinter of the Mind's Eye was a plausible direction for the characters given the sketches we got in Star Wars itself. The lesson being: When you have movies or tv shows presenting only sketches of characters (such as with Boba Fett), don't be surprised when they end up being developed in ways you did not envision.

Your view is unconvincing to me. The scenes you cite establish only (1) Boba Fett is a bounty hunter, (2) he has a reputation for being good at his job, and (3) Vader wanted a capture, not a killing, and wanted proof the job was accomplished (which a disintegration would preclude). All of that matches up with the Book of Boba Fett. I have read almost all of the books. And if you haven't read those, I don't know why you are complaining about character inconsistencies. Boba Fett was a rough sketch in Empire and Return. If that's all you got, he could go in any direction you want.

Star Wars fans have been criticizing the non-canon (aka non-movie) IP since Splinter of the Mind's Eye came out (the first big misstep with the characters, and that was after the first movie!). So give me a break. If you were invested in some of those books, you really didn't like the characters of the movies that much.

The films are canon. The many poorly authored books and comics largely are not. I'm ok with that. I saw Star Wars probably 10 times in a theater the Summer it came out. Been a fan since then. I think only one thing in the next 8 movies is irreconciable with the characters - Leia's hugging Rey instead of Chewie. All we learned about Boba Fett in the second and third movies is that he was a bounty hunter. Guess what? That's not inconsistent with any of his acts in Mandalorian or the Book of Boba Fett. I'd say that unfortunately your view of the characters has been tainted by a series of poorly coordinated and written post movie books and comics which treated the characters in ways which spiraled into ever more stupid ways. I'm glad they wiped that clean (although I do like some of the Zahn and X-Wing books quite a lot - but I can still read them because, after all, its all just fantasy).