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Thank you and welcome to my collection. Always looking for nicely presenting cheaper books.

Lovely book Ed. I bought a couple of Don and Maggie ECs as well, but I fish in the middle of the pool: I cracked this one out (should do the same with the WF too ):

Nope - there was an electro-mechanical release. Shockingly, Wings covers sometimes overdramatise things...

Happy 4th to our American friends.

Ah... Tarzan's grip. I can almost smell the acetone. Really bad for sticking together plastic model kits, but otherwise a good all-purpose glue.

Hi Corey - nice to see you with a journal. I'm sure you have lots of other cool stuff, so let's see it. (thumbs u

I haven't posted here in a while, so a short update seems worthwhile. I have a big swag of nice GA books on their way across the Pacific and will update as they arrive. Until then, I lapsed from GA to SA/early BA to pick up a couple of trippy Gold Key painted covers. I quite liked the TZ comics as a kid, and these read better than I expected: Not my usual stuff, but I like them.

This is too good an achievement to pass unnoticed. I admire run collectors, especially of runs that long.

The 5-yr CGC growth data on the chart is percentage based... it's a separate calculation from the black lines. Orange is supposed to be compared to other orange, so that you can get a sense of which books are still coming to CGC often... I've edited the graph to put in some orange percentage gridlines. Iron Man 55 grew from 600 submissions in 2010 to 1,836 submissions currently. ASM 121 grew from 1,535 in 2010 to 2,986 currently. Got it. Thanks for explaining to the thickies. (thumbs u And it's much clearer now.

I like the 5-yr CGC growth data. Almost all graded Iron Man 55s are in that window - wonder why? What is a little surprising (to me) is that seems to be true for ASM 121 as well. I'd have thought that book was significant enough pre movie hype. Evidently not.

Ah, got it. So the graph is simply the original one in units of 1.9832 million dollars instead. I thought it was some different calculation - that explains why they were so similar.

That makes sense - my data is all for GA comics (my focus). Just getting a copy counts more than grade in many cases, so the premium is less. I see from you graphs that the premium is much greater for SA, which makes perfect sense given the much larger population.

Not sure I understand the methodology here - why is the average sale of ASM300 twice that of Marvel Comics #1? I assume you're also multiplying by the number of copies at that grade? Let me see... 566 x ASM300 in 9.8 @ $800 each = $450k 2 x MC1 in 6.0 @ $100k = $200k Is that the idea?

Great thread. I really like your approach. If you're interested, I did some curve fitting, and have some weights for price versus grade that could be applied for grade to deal with the price premium effect Gator observed. Here they are normalised to 4.0, close enough to your average grade of 3.66 for AF15. The results aren't perfect, but I use them to predict prices for seldom sold books based on sales in other grades and the results aren't bad - certainly better than a linear assumption. It's easy to normalise them other grades if you want. 1.8 -- 0.47 2.0 -- 0.53 3.0 -- 0.72 3.5 -- 0.83 4.0 -- 1.00 4.5 -- 1.11 5.0 -- 1.27 5.5 -- 1.43 6.0 -- 1.67 6.5 -- 1.95 7.0 -- 2.33 7.5 -- 2.73 8.0 -- 3.33 8.5 -- 4.13 9.0 -- 5.33 9.2 -- 6.67 9.4 -- 8.00 9.6 -- 16.00

Orchestra - or a The band? I have a Hollywood Bowl bootleg from 1965 that is half acoustic and half very much electric. BTW, my first concert (of any note) was Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Hey hey, my my.

It sure is, and a great one.

Thrilling wins 1- 0 in my collection. Must get more of both...

Picked up this one for a bargain basement price.

If you Google "B-17 waist gun positions" you'll find some similar shots. This one is close:

A few had Jungle and Jumbo covers with GGA, but as far as I know (records are spotty) none of the classic 'damsal in distress and guy with sword' type Fight covers. You can see some Australian Fights on the GCD here. The Oz reprints site has a few more, but wasn't working when I just tried. Neither has any of the four I got. The GCD's highest is #25, and Oz reprints has #26.

This one has a cover image I can't locate. The content is not FH. It's all from the ACG title Spy Hunter. This one has a cover partly from Spy Hunters #18 - the main image of the Marine. But not the two aircraft. One is from the Wings 121 cover and the other is from the comic above. Some creative cutting and pasting going on in the Australian production office... The stories in that one are from Spy Hunters and another ACG book; Operation Peril #16. The last one has stories from Operation Peril #15 and more Spy Hunters material. I can't place the cover on this one. All help welcome. Australian reprints are like the wild west.

Final update for now. Some Australian editions of the Fiction House Fight Comics title. Well, sort of. Let me start with the least odd one. The cover is from Wings 121, so still in the FH stable. It has stories from Wings 121 and Fight 85, another FH comic. Here's the Wings (from comicvine) for comparison: There's a curious story behind the Soviet fighters on this and other contemporary covers - I'll come back to that another time.

Dunno why, but I never seemed to be in the right place at the right time to get one of these in the right grade/price combo. And I still paid too much for this one here on the boards. Oh well.

I've had this one for a while. It was the second highest graded at 8.0, but I've since cracked it out. These internal pics are why I like to crack out my books - there's stuff inside too!

A couple more ducks - these get me up to 73 of the first 100 WDC&S. Progress is slow these days. The #23 looked nicer in the Heritage scan!