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Wow, I need one of these!

You've posted some nice books, but this grouping is far and away my favorite!

An old friend I remember that one. Me too. And I often ask why I didn't buy it.

Great stuff!

Not speaking about anyone in particular. Good luck to you lucky Whiz 2 holders. My urologist said it's a bad idea to hold my whiz too long.

Well, no one was saying the guys were teenagers. It's the title of the book!!! Whether the guys are teenagers is unimportant. You people are looking at the guys???

Quoted to point out that there is some content here amongst all the bickering.

CGC doesn't sell trust. They sell an evaluation, and they make the rules by which that evaluation happens. It's up to us to buy into their rules, and judging by their wait times, they've had plenty of buy in. If they're not selling trust, what are they selling? Trust in their grading ability. Trust in the impartiality (not grading certain people's book more favorably). Trust they won't damage your book. So on and so on. They're selling an evaluation that most of their customers rely (wish?) on to make money. It isn't about trust. If it was trust, then they'd grade strictly, not loose enough to get max value out of a book. CGC isn't in business to give collectors trust. You'd like that to be the case, but it's just not their business model. Just look at their advertising (Your book is worth 10X more in a CGC slab!!!) They are in business to make money, and the best way to do that for this market is to tantalize others with the opportunity to make money. Actually, you just gave me an idea, Dan...99.8 percent of my collection is not slabbed/pressed etc...maybe I should start selling more books...they will all have POTENTIAL:) : Sadly, this is what the most publicly visible portion of the market has become.

CGC doesn't sell trust. They sell an evaluation, and they make the rules by which that evaluation happens. It's up to us to buy into their rules, and judging by their wait times, they've had plenty of buy in. If they're not selling trust, what are they selling? Trust in their grading ability. Trust in the impartiality (not grading certain people's book more favorably). Trust they won't damage your book. So on and so on. They're selling an evaluation that most of their customers rely (wish?) on to make money. It isn't about trust. If it was trust, then they'd grade strictly, not loose enough to get max value out of a book. CGC isn't in business to give collectors trust. You'd like that to be the case, but it's just not their business model. Just look at their advertising (Your book is worth 10X more in a CGC slab!!!) They are in business to make money, and the best way to do that for this market is to tantalize others with the opportunity to make money.

CGC doesn't sell trust. They sell an evaluation, and they make the rules by which that evaluation happens. It's up to us to buy into their rules, and judging by their wait times, they've had plenty of buy in.

#2 is Heath, not Kubert. Surprised to see it attributed as such.

Wow. Illustration doesn't get much better than this.

Listed a handful of books here

I'll take 'beaters' like that all day and twice on Sunday (thumbs u ! Great book and acquistion. I should qualify that "beater" comment by noting that it has some pretty amateur resto

I did grab a beater recently. One of a handful of Timely's I want enough to spend the money.

Bought a Captain America 2 and received it quickly, well packaged, and accurately graded. Love the book!

That Dredd cover is awesome. I love the hammer & sickle. It really ties it in to the time period.

Windy City copy?

Not to mention the one of the American heroes is Canadian. I know it's a tiny county and hard to locate on a map, but Canada is in North America Quiet you.

No distribution info, other than where it talks about it being part of a CMO package on the back. Nothing about this looks Canadian at all to me. Looks straight out of Chicago.

Jon, do the CMO books have similar ads? I notice they're now listed in the promotional section of OSPG.

At a glance, it's easy to imagine them (just "Comic Corporation of America" at this point) taking existing inventory and throwing stuff against the wall to see what worked in '41 and '42. Centaur itself declared bankruptcy in Oct. 1940, owing World Color $48k and Funnies Inc $4800. So, they couldn't print with World Color anymore even operating under the other corp name because the industry wasn't so big that that wouldn't have been obvious, and you can see from indicias that they did change printers. And they couldn't use Jacquet anymore for the same reason, and Jacquet had taken most of the Centaur creative stable with him when he formed Funnies in the first place, so they probably weren't in a great position to generate new material. In any case, interesting discovery. (thumbs u Maybe it was Jacquet or World Color trying to make money with what property (rights, art, printed materials) they had left over from Centaur.

Very cool and congrats on the new find! Never seen one nor ever heard of this title before. There appears to be at least three books like this - Centaur cover and probably contents, but new or different title: Amazing Mystery Funnies with Amazing Man cvr, Khaki Komics with Stars & Stripes cvr, and now this one. I'm starting to wonder if there are others? Also, how/where they were distributed - because they are so uncommon, I wonder if they were only locally distributed. Interestingly, these each have covers from the last of the Centaur titles - those that ended between Dec 1941 and Apr 1942. Some type of last grasp for the company or just a way to make some money as they existed publishing comics? Jeff, do you know where that AMF ended up? I remember being offered a copy years ago.

Not to mention the one of the American heroes is Canadian.