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I don't know why it always surprises me how much modern OA goes for, but it does. There's just so much of it.

I'm going to send all my 9.8s in for a regrade!

A little clean, press, BLED whitening, and you'd have a real nice copy Peter!

I am not betrothed to this.

Oh boy!

Groundhoggin.

Why bother yourself with such low-grade drek?

Tim, Overstreet guide is $715K, so it sold for exactly what it should have. The 9.2 is a weird book because there are 3 9.2s, 2 9.4s, and a 9.8. So it's not going to a BSD who wants it to have the highest graded, and I'm convinced there are people who bid on HA with little to no collecting knowledge but are just told by the house to buy anything in 9.4 or better. So there's not a whole lot of cache' to having a 9.2, even though it's great. So why pay up. The SF 9.4 broke $3M, so even the prior sale of this 9.2 was pretty weak by comparison. Not arguing, just thinking out loud.

Wouldn't this get a conserved label?

I think the market for books over ~$200k is pretty thin. There have been several HG Cap 1s, including this retread, offered lately. So when they come out in relatively short time the hammer is more unpredictable. At least that is probably part of it IMO. But just thinking about it, I could scratch up $156K without it causing too much pain. I couldn't do $750k without a lot of work and sacrifice. And I'm a high earner.

He still hasn't posted a copy of the 21

I wonder if it went to the same guy that bought all the other uber-HG SA books that were recently listed. If so, then everybody seemed to make money off of him.

Well, he has the bragging rights for the amazing loss, so not entirely down the drain.

Woof. But in fairness, $2M was just a ridiculous price to pay. In a case like this you have to take into account what the book is actually worth, and it ain't $2,000,000

Low grade Bat 1/Cap 1 seem to perform more like SA keys since they are routinely available. They're more like an asset than a collectible.

$156k... quite the haircut.

The Cap in the ad is pretty clearly Syd Shores.

Here are a couple of war books that never show up in decent shape.

The colors on this issue are commonly muted, you can tell best by looking at the horizon in the background. I was happy to finally grab one that has true colors.

The cover to #1 is in the HA archives, and in Halperin's collection on his website. http://www.jhalpe.com/items/view/01406_2

You should read "So You've been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. Pretty insightful book about this exact subject.

I often see DC covers from this era and wonder how anyone could pass on them. They did a great job of piquing the reader's curiosity with the cover.

If someone felt that the dot being off was enough justification to stop the presses and correct it, then why not fix the little comma looking misprint underneath the 'SS' in ISSUE?

Say what you will, that's an incredibly creative premise.

Maybe the dot was just a smidge lower in elevation on the plate and the early part of the run had a heavier amount of red ink, so the 'G' bled a little and there was enough on the dot to contact the paper. Then as the ink got thinned out or less in volume the dot didn't contact the paper and the 'G' cleaned up. Endless ways to speculate, no way to be sure.