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Many Larsons have some foxing and some have slight rust on the staples, but most books in the collection have white (or at least ow/w) pages and a freshness similar to Church books. That freshness is what appeals to me. I also prefer Larsons with the name written on the cover over those without, just as I prefer Church books with the distributer codes.

If the pedigree in question were Church, Larson, San Francisco or Allentown, most likely yes.

Batman #12 in CGC .1 condition (I didn't even know CGC had this low of a grade): "$10,000 easy!"

This was hilarious. Was it an SNL comedy sketch?

With all due respect to Stan, Creig Flessel was the Norman Rockwell of comics. One need look no further than Flessel's covers for the early More Fun and New Adventure issues to see why.

Aa lot of nice copies of books we don't see very often on these boards.

That's a tough run to complete.

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I'm not an expert on what CVA does, but my understanding is that, upon request (and for a fee), they will inspect a book that Clink has up for auction. They don't take it out of the slab, but they evaluate whether the book looks better than its assigned grade. At least one of the owners of CVA used to work at Clink. Here's an example of a CVA certified book. It looks like a 9.6 in hand.

As a buyer of books at auctions based on CGC grades and scans, I disagree with the suggestion that this type of certification provides no value. Most of us have had the experience of buying an auctioned book that appeared to be properly graded, only to be disappointed with how the book looked once it was in hand. On the two occasions that I purchased books on Clink that had the CVA certification, once I had the books in hand, they appeared to be one to two grades higher than that assigned by CGC. Based on this personal experience, I am willing to pay somewhat higher for a CVA certified book. I've never bought a book that was certified by QES, so I have no opinion on the value of that company's certification.

I think that the oldest graded (slabbed) comic book is Funnies on Parade from 1933. I don't know what the oldest graded pedigree book is. This is my earliest graded pedigree:

Can someone either post a scan of the Top 100 GA page or give examples of a sampling of those books so we can get a sense of how OS views the market increases/decreases over the past year?

Yes, now I see that I shouldn't have taken that sale at face value.

Further proof why books like that should be sold through one of the auction houses rather than Ebay. That was a fire sale. Had it simply been listed here on the Boards it would have gone for much more.

Here's one of the Howie Post issues. Post's work reminds me of Walt Kelly's.

I wonder what that guy would say if he saw Bedrock's collection. He'd probably have a heart attack.

All of the last few More Fun issues are relatively scarce, especially in grade. I think that DC issued fewer copies at the end of the run and even those that were issued were not snatched off the shelves by many buyers.

I've always liked the last 7 issues of the run with the Howie Post covers. Do you have the other 6 Marty?

Hey, I resemble that!

These are good points, but even collectively they will not offset the massive disadvantage of going with a site that is unknown and unused by most GA collectors.

I've posted a lot of the New Comics and New Adventures earlier in this thread. But here is another issue from the run with an ad for Tec #1:

More Fun 16 and New Comics 11 both have ads for Detective Comics #1.

And for posterity's sake, here are the last 15 DCs he needed (quoting from his 2-27-04 post): THE 16 [sic] DC COMICS I NEED TO COMPLETE THE FULL SET NEW ADVENTURE COMICS - 17, 22, 26, 27 ALL FUNNY - 15 THE BIG BOOK OF FUN COMICS - 1 BUZZY - 34, 70 THE FLASH Original Series - 43 FUNNY STUFF - 37 GREEN LANTERN (Golden Age) - 30 HEART THROBS - 66 HERE'S HOWIE - 17 LEADING SCREEN - 68 SCRIBBLY - 6 Of these, NA 17, 26 and 27, and Big Book 1 are indeed hard to find.

Here is the thread he started to celebrate his acquisition of the final book (NA 26):