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When you go to work for Disney, suddenly everyone only has four fingers.

Cool! I thought all his books were due to working in the industry. I guess he really loved comics.

There's some interesting books on that list. Thanks!

Except that Hulk 180 begins the spooling out of Wolverine's back story in four panels on page 3 of the comic (even naming him as Weapon X), and what happens in the two panels on the last page is a direct continuation of the spooling out of that story. He doesn't come out of nowhere in that final panel. Of course, Hulk 181 continues the spooling out of Wolverine's story, and you cannot fully understand that story unless you have read Hulk 180.

Except that in Hulk 181 Wolverine is specifically identified as a Mutant as his backstory continues to spool out from the start given it in Hulk 180.

Ads are noted on the labels of GA books. An example:

Why would Crowley have a subscription book?

Here's a pic of another: https://comicsforall269084760.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/various-love-and-romance/

Maybe Australian? Lot of Harvey Australian romance comics show up on the market.

What I want to know is what older books (20 years or more) did they grade for the very first time?

I see a lot of 80s comic buyers, but no one is admitting to Dazzler 1?

Should I be worried? Economy Received on 6/26/21, almost immediately "scheduled for grading" and no action since.

Cool item. The backstage passes for the last three Dead shows with Garcia plus the passes for the five shows that were cancelled due to his illness and death:

No contest. The only Superman 1 CGC 7.0 (2 higher graded copies), wins by a landslide over ANY of the ELEVEN Cap 1 CGC 7.0s (14 higher graded copies).

Thanks for the replies!

I am visiting this week. Any recommendations?

Fixed. But, it is pretty close to an Oct. copy. with that really inadequate version of the black out stamp. One of the first to come off the press of the Nov. run I'd bet.

Doesn't Fischler hoard them?

I have only two books on this list. The first took me two years to find. I'd read SOTI as a teenager in the 80s when I first got into comic collecting and new about the "only good comic book" - the Nightingale. But, I didn't know how rare it was until I saw a thread on these Boards where everyone was stating they'd never seen a copy and the resident SOTI experts were bummed out because they could not finish their SOTI collections. They also said the art was by Dong Kingman, which made me think they were looking in the wrong places. After two years, I found a copy and no one was more surprised than me. It now has a better home with the only guy who has every known comic referenced in SOTI (the Board's own SOTIcollector). There are only two copies in private collections (and five or so in institutions): BUT, it took me 15 years to find this obscure personal grail, maybe the first comic format original graphic novel in the classic Will Eisner definitional sense - the original published in San Francisco in 1931 English/Japanese version of The Four Immigrants Manga: I know of one other person (translator Fred Schodt) and one institution (U.C. Berkeley) who have one. Mine went through the internment camps.

On a related now, I wonder if new GA collectors are being attracted by the books or the money. What inspired me back in the day were things like CBM which conveyed knowledge and love about GA books that wasn't tied to the money. How do the younger collectors get that inspiration?

I think they do skew older. Message Boards skew younger. But, even on this board, most of the most serious GA collectors are over 50, many in their 60s. Think about the guys whose collections we talk the most about, guys like the Dentist, Geppi, Fischler, Halperin, Bangzoom, Moondog, etc., and it quickly becomes apparent all of them started collecting in the 60s. And they are just the tip of the iceberg, because there are a lot of deep GA collections across the country in the hands of guys who started back then. Personally, I think that while their plenty of examples of younger folks with GA collections, if you had a list of the best collections, the vast majority would be owned by older guys. The young waiting in the wings are going to either inherit a great collection (see Verzyl's heirs or, in the future, Blissard) or are going to have the opportunity to buy a number of great collections over the next 20 years. I really don't think inventory is going to be much of an issue for the GA market. P.S. I'm 55, but have had the advantage of my father's childhood collection he gave me in 1979 that he amassed in the late 40s and early 50s (he's 82).

And there is DA's son (who I highly rate as a very responsive and professional seller) lurking in the wings. So why think that the urge to sell would overwhelm the urge to pass the collection down to his kid?

My Desire Intimate Confessions #4 (April 1950) was the original use of that cover, famously reprinted (with new dialogue) in the commonly seen True Life Secrets 23 (Nov.-Dec. 1954). Super rare comic, but some do exist.

Except I am the one who found it and submitted it. Other books from the same OO came back with much higher grades, such as this one I set free: To Heritage's credit, they recognized the worth of a really nice subscription copy in their description of the book: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #137 (Dell, 1952) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. A subscription copy in Near Mint is a remarkable find indeed! This has an address printed on the back and a different ad from the one that appeared on newsstand editions. Yet it has no subscription crease! Tied with one other copy (which only has off-white pages) for CGC's highest-grade for the issue, this is just the fourth certified copy that we have ever encountered, and is quite possibly the nicest copy of #137 in existence. Carl Barks provided the cover art, and a Donald Duck story and art for this impressive duck-filled issue. Huey, Dewey, and Louie appear. Overstreet 2018 NM- 9.2 value = $215. CGC census 11/18: 2 in 9.4, none higher.