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On 7/8/2023 at 8:21 AM, woowoo said:
I messaged Ian if Buzzy 70 was the last copy he needed he said no NA 26 was the last one. here is what he said.
You are correct and he is wrong
I sold the comics six years before my stroke
Why do they hate me so much on the CGC Boards
Here is the thread he started to celebrate his acquisition of the final book (NA 26):
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100% of the slabbed population:
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On 7/6/2023 at 11:50 AM, adamstrange said:
50% of the slabbed population. The rest are all .5.
Now that is a rare book. It's the only copy I've ever seen.
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I'm enjoying the postings of all the MH and Larsen copies. I love how there are pedigree copies of so many uncommon books.
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On 7/2/2023 at 9:58 AM, buttock said:
The census has really expanded on a lot of books. At this point, 23 years in, a lot of books that used to never be seen are getting certified. If something remains with fewer than 10 copies, it seems to be genuinely scarce.
I agree, there are far fewer books that would make the list now compared to only 10 years ago.
Several of the early DCs still make the cut. I believe that the ones with the lowest census numbers are All-American 4 and New Adventure 15, which respectively come in at 3 and 4 census copies. There are several other DCs that have only 5 or 6 copies on the census.
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On 6/28/2023 at 5:00 PM, aardvark88 said:
Choice copy of Flash Comics b/w ashcan Cgc blue label from the former Ian Levine collection:
Based on this scan, it looks like CGC is giving the collection a designation: "The DC Universe Collection."
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On 6/27/2023 at 6:33 PM, sfcityduck said:
Here's a link to that old local tv video which includes a visit/interview with Christine Farrell. Seems like a very nice person with some very nice looking books being stored old school (Bangzoom would be proud). Check out the LB Cole paintings also. The local tv guy touching the comics makes me cringe, as do his questions, but she has a great demeanor. Her part starts around 19:08 mark. If you want to see the rest of the episode it concerns Sid Couchey (Richie Rich artist), Ray McCarthy (Batman inker), and Pierre Rioux (DC Comics printing plant manager). It apparently dates back to 1995.
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-113-021c5fmk
I love how at 23:03, she nonchalantly passes over an Action Comics #1 without even mentioning it. The interviewer doesn't even notice.
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On 6/25/2023 at 9:42 AM, adamstrange said:
Different distributor. A distributor had a contract with specific publishers, so the distributor code is way that the drugstore knew who to ship books back to.
Timely, Fawcett and DCs are "D". Fiction House is C.
Foxes and MLJs also had the "D" coding.
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On 6/24/2023 at 5:42 AM, DanCooper said:
Someone (Dark Knight) had posted this in the Goldin Auctions thread.
Book is now an 8.5 in a Pedigree holder, but still has color touch note on label (also retained it's original CGC certification number)
How does a book that's been resubmitted retain its original CGC number? I've seen countless examples of "improved" books getting a new number.
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Actually, the Church/Mile High coding started in 1937, not 1938. It was not consistent, however, and many Church books are missing it. The presence of the coding is highly prized, at least by me, because it's one of the best ways to help verify a potential Church copy.
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On 6/22/2023 at 10:29 AM, adamstrange said:
When you have the awesome winners I do, you struggle with the deluge of offers.
Yes, I've tried on many an occasion to get some of your awesome winners, but to no avail.
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A lot of the comments here are assuming the 7.0 Superman #1 was bought by a collector. I question that. Why would a collector pay an all-time record price for a book and then sell it only a year and a half later during a down market? A more logical explanation is that Goldin bought the book with the express plan to flip it as part of its efforts to expand its business into the comic memorabilia market. It needed high profile books like the Superman #1 and lower grade Action #1 to draw attention to its auction and to be perceived as a big-time player in this niche.
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On 6/6/2023 at 10:06 AM, Bronty said:
I'm not seeing the 9.2 Promise in heritage's archives (there is a different 9.2 in the archive) but I can do you one better when it comes to Plastic Man 16:
Presto! Change-o!
The most surprising aspect of this is that the 8.5 looks nicer. Not only does the 9.6 retain all of the original flaws (small crease in URC and slightly smashed bottom of spine), but due to the pressing, the front cover no longer covers the top of the pages on the right side.
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On 6/6/2023 at 8:26 AM, IngelsFan said:
where did Ian’s copy originate? It isn’t on the census (unless it was slabbed after the only picture of the collection I’ve seen circulating was taken), and it doesn’t appear to be in high grade condition.
Ian de-slabbed all his books, so it's been my assumption that Ian's copy is the de-slabbed 3.0. Do we have any evidence to the contrary; e.g., that his copy wasn't graded when he bought it?
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On 6/4/2023 at 7:19 PM, sfcityduck said:
It would be good to know the provenance on these. I sort of assume that they may have been stolen out of the DC office (most likely taken home by employees). Comic Connect was more than a little vague:"We believe the Double Action 1, likely the rarest of all DC comics, came from the offices of Sol Harrison, one of the longest-serving members of the DC bullpen, who rose from colorist to production manager and finally to president of DC." Uh ... "believe"? Didn't the owner know?
Call me a cynic, but I assume that all "provenances" that are vague likely are for a reason - dealer might have gotten too good a deal and didn't the
suckeroriginal owner being found by others, employee had sticky fingers like with the Marvel OA, etc. Here, I think this story is like the Marvel OA. Too many of these books came out at one time to have all been from a really limited distribution release to newstands. One copy came out before OPG 7. Then in OPG 10 or 11, there's suddenly four more copies plus the DA 1. I dunno. I suspect maybe Harrison had a copy and that came out first (maybe around the same time as the ashcans), then the other copies came out the "vaults". Just a thought.The DA #1 and the high grade copies and color proof for DA #2 likely came from the Sol Harrison estate. The 2-3 known lower grade copies of DA #2 were probably the product of a limited distribution.
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On 6/4/2023 at 9:02 AM, sagii said:Kind of had an idea that was the case, but wanted a boards concensus if this was the case , either way, I'm fascinated with this book now.
Maybe @RareHighGrade has a copy?
Either Double Action 2 or New Adventure 26 is likely the rarest DC. Because of their perceived rarity and related values, almost all known copies of both issues are slabbed, so the CGC counts of 7 and 8 issues, respectively, are fairly accurate, although there is at least one unslabbed copy of each still out there.
From a purely CGC census standpoint, New Adventure 15 is the least common, with only 2 slabbed Universal copies (4 copies total).
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On 6/1/2023 at 9:26 AM, Mmehdy said:
Double Action #2....?????
Possibly. Another one of the rarest DCs is the Big Book of Fun Comics, a copy of which just happens to be available in the upcoming HA auction:
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It's a shame that the owner is not using one of the big auction houses (HA, CC, Clink) to sell this collection. The collection, with its extraordinary completeness, is too important and valuable to sell in a relatively unknown venue that will not be visited by most of the hobby.
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On 5/30/2023 at 9:37 AM, Tbone911t said:
Couldn't find a post so thought I'd share. I think Gator mentioned it was Ian Levine's collection. WOWSERS
For those of us who are not on Facebook, can you quote the article/post or give further details about what it says?
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On 5/25/2023 at 11:22 PM, Silver said:
Latest episode!
Richard had that big stack of comics in front of him, but only showed one of them. What the heck?
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Most if not all of the More Funs from 1938 are extremely uncommon. Some of them (e.g., #35) have only half as many copies on the census as #31.
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On 5/6/2023 at 7:37 PM, Kevin76 said:
Just picked this up, I'm excited about it. tough book.
That's a nice copy. Many copies have foxing or dust shadows on the right side. Your copy doesn't.
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It's official: MLJs have become the new Foxes.
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The most surprising aspect of this is that the 8.5 looks nicer. Not only does the 9.6 retain all of the original flaws (small crease in URC and slightly smashed bottom of spine), but due to the pressing, the front cover no longer covers the top of the pages on the right side.
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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.