Semicentennial

According to what's been posted, this book is a CGC 9.8 regardless of that 1" spine split and attempting to return it for being seriously over-graded is "return fraud". That sound crazy to me. If the book has been over-graded and the seller is aware of this, but stands behind that grade, isn't that fraud as well?

If someone sent me that I'd think they were crazy. I definitely wouldn't want to deal with them.

Honestly, if some dude off the internet sent me an "killing joke" image after asking about a book I was selling, I'd definitely avoid. Honestly, that a psycho thing to do.

I'm not sure why the joker image was posted but if you posted that then the seller probably thought you were just wasting their time. What the heck does "Is a killing joke"supposed to mean? That indeed is weird that someone should send that. Do you mean it was a joke because you didn't know what "friends and family" meant?

I also think it's a FN/VF. A press isn't going to help that paper loss.

Wow, I hope you get your book back. Looks like they still can't get things in order over there. I read on their website that during the pandemic, they lost/misplaced a ton of books because they were sending books to employee's homes to enter them into their system and then send it back to their offices. Hope they're not doing that again.

Right, because you're not adding anything to the book but the book will probably grade much lower depending on how much color touch was involved.

Quite a few that I've looked back on and regretted not going a little bit higher. HE CROW #1 CGC 9.4 NM Add to WantList $405 $380 11/15/2017 11/29/2017 Ended Golden Age (1938-1955): Superhero Batman #1 (DC, 1940) CGC Apparent PR 0.5 Extensive (A) Off-white pages.... Sold $6,500 ($7,767.50) $7,500 ($8,962.50 w/BP) Internet 91024 PR 0.5 13 bidders 61 tracking Bidding Closed Signature® Golden Age (1938-1955): Humor Pep Comics #22 (MLJ, 1941) CGC Apparent FR/GD 1.5 Slight (A) Slightly brittle pages.... Sold $6,000 ($7,170.00) $6,500 ($7,767.50 w/BP) HA.com/Live 91159 FR/GD 1.5 11 bidders 41 tracking Bidding Closed Signature® Golden Age (1938-1955): Crime Crime SuspenStories #22 (EC, 1954) Condition: FR/GD.... Sold $220 ($262.90) $230 ($274.85 w/BP) Internet 12066 FR/GD 1.5 14 bidders 40 tracking Bidding Closed Weekly Internet Comics Silver Age (1956-1969): War Our Army at War #83 (DC, 1959) Condition: GD.... Sold $400 ($478.00) $560 ($669.20 w/BP) Internet 10354 GD 2.0 9 bidders 19 tracking

I'm pretty sure if I were to buy a .5 graded book, I'm going to be looking at the book and not the census to determine if I want the book or not. Of course, whether or not it has a cover will definitely be factored in when I decide on a price I'm comfortable with. I buy books based on how much I want it considering the defects. Why not break-out defects on 9.8's such as if the book is centered or not?

I'm sure there's quite a few of those garbage books to got submitted a few price increase ago. I agree, it's a huge risk for such small returns.

Not everyone sends it in to prescreen which is probably why some of the grades come back so low on these books.

They send it in because they're trying to make more money. A lot of non-key Marvel/DC cgc 9.8 from 2000 and before can go for at least $50 or more. You're going to make more money selling a non-key cgc 9.8 than a $5 high grade non-key raw comic.

It will not be considered a "second Golden Age". Golden Age was between 1938-1956 or so. DC's Crisis maxi-series came out between 1985-1986, so about 30 years after the end of the GA era. GA books were still valuable in the mid-80s. We're about 37 years into the "post-Crisis" period and there is absolutely no comparison between the keys from the GA era to the keys from the last 37 years, nor is there any comparison between the value of books from the two eras. Even if you were to expand out your "second Golden Age" idea 20 years into the future, I still don't think you'll find a collection of books from 1986 to 2043 that will match the quality, desirability, and value of books from 1938-1956. I think instead of thinking the books you're hoping may trigger a "second golden age" may instead trigger the next Copper Age of books.

When I was a kid, I would eagerly wait for the next Overstreet Price Guide/Comic Collectors Magazine/Comics Value Monthly, and highlight all the keys I wanted to get. One book in particular was highlight in one of those guides, I don't remember which guide it was in, but the book was Showcase #17, the 1st appearance of Adam Strange. I had no idea who he was, but his name was kind of cool and the cover looked cool too. I don't know if it were weeks or months after, I was at the flea market and this guy had an old foot locker storage chest filled with those Captain Marvel flyers. He must have had several hundred of those things and had them priced at 10¢ each. I bought a three of those and noticed a few comic books tossed aside. The books were really torn up and one book in particular had what looked like 1/3 of the book eaten away including about 1/2 of the cover, but the part of the cover that was still there was instantly recognizable. The book was Showcase #17. I think the book was either 10¢ or 15¢ but I paid the guy and was super happy to get my first "grail". Once I got home that was the prize of my collection, but I still couldn't get over that it was missing half the cover, so I recreated the part of the cover that was missing using a picture of cover that I saw in one of the comic book magazines from that time. For being only like 12 at the time, I don't think the "recreation" looked bad. I mean you can clearly tell it's not the original cover, but it's a heck of a lot better than what it looked like without it. Here is the book. I'm never going to part with this book.

World's Finest with Batman/Superman had quite a few team ups too.

Robbie Reed because there is almost always a different hero helping him out. When you look at the percentage of books that have a different hero helping him, is probably a good 80-90% of the run.

Not understanding what? A three year old will do three year old things. Expecting them to treat things with care is unrealistic. You should probably focus less on having them appreciate collecting comics books at this age and maybe think about revisiting it when they're a little older like when they're 10 or 11 years old.

Well, at three, I don't think anyone expects them to chose any book from a collectible point of view. I still have some books that I picked up when I was much younger and they turned out pretty decent books. One was ASM #122 and the other was Batman #291. Sure, I have a few stinkers in there, but they are books that I still cherish. Part of the fun about comic books when you're a kid is leafing through the book, looking at the cool pictures and then letting your mind run wild with imagination. There is no fun is handing them a slab when they won't be able to enjoy it. It's like handing a kid the newest video game, but encased in plastic with a grade and being told how cool it is, but they can't open it. You may think it's cool, but three year old's just want to play the game.

So if the intent is for then to read them in the future when it's more age appropriate then why no Archie's? Why not just have them pick the books they want?

I see a lot of those types of collections. I think it's just the dealer trying to sell more books by designating it a name and marketing it as a legit find.

Um yeah, it is absolutely more significant. Just like 1st jsa is more significant than x23.

Wow, you're right. That's a super key book.

Faust - 25 years to complete a 15 issue series. Tim Vigil's is both beautiful and horrific.

Malibu Sun #13 - 1st Spawn??? Oh, I think More Fun Comics #52 (1st Spectre) is a bigger key than FF #52.

GI Combat 91 - 1st Haunted Tank Cover House of Secrets 88 - Detective Comics 31/Batman 227 homage?