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Timely

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    Promise Collection / Heritage

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 11/4/2021 at 8:23 PM, ChillMan said:

    Auction Houses and insiders have warehouses full of GA and all comics to clean & press & release to the public in order to maximize their profit.  Heritage (for all items) adjusts the bids, keeps items for themselves, makes sure other items are for max bid, etc., etc.

    You are partially correct. Heritage does have a warehouse full of comics! I know, I was there!

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    SUPERMAN #1 7.0 Blue THIRD highest graded copy coming to auction at CC

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 10/18/2021 at 6:28 PM, szav said:

    Looks like a Roman numeral one that was either on the bag holding the book or something that got removed with the press and clean.  The S looks more faint on the slabbed version and you’d expect this book to have been pressed and cleaned with no money left on the table.  Gorgeous copy anyway.

    The ink “I” was scrubbed away. Looks like they were able to take a nice looking raw 4.5 and turn it into a graded 7.0. I have a feeling this book in hand may look a bit different than the computer images you see.

    Phantom Lady 17

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 6/22/2021 at 11:15 PM, blackterror said:

    Some years ago - maybe 3 to 5 years or possibly more ... there was a Phantom Lady 17 thread about the high grade copy that was sold through Pacific Comic Exchange long ago.  .  How can I go back and find that thread - it appears that the limit for searches is about 3 years ... but I sometimes see people pull up and refer to much older threads. 

    I believe the thread was started by one of our long time board members who is still active on the boards and was the owner of the book.  He was wondering where it was and how it graded?  I can't remember which member it was that owned the book - but again I believe it was one of regulars and owner of some great books - but I can't remember which one ...  perhaps he'll see this or someone else will who can help me get to that old thread.

    I was the owner of that book. Rotor sold it to Al Capp and he sold it to me. I believe it was listed as a NM on the exchange, but it wasn’t. It was an amazing, fresh looking copy but it had small spine stress and a tiny hole. Pink pages.

    Mile High List

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    When I went throughly the MH list a few decades ago, I identified 133 doubles. However, the caveat to that is Chuck only listed doubles if they were different grades. I know of several doubles that are not listed on the MH list twice because they are the same grade (by Chuck’s 1977 criteria). I also found 1 issue that had triples!

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    Mile High List

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 9/26/2021 at 11:06 PM, lou_fine said:

    You are correct when you say that nobody is really doing a direct comparison of the Promise Collection to the Edgar Church Collection.  (thumbsu

    But they are clearly alluding and indirectly referencing the Church books when they speak about the Promise books in the same breath and in the same sentence as the Church books.  The clear intention here is to lead the listener or reader to think in terms of the Church books when they think about the Promise books, but then again, maybe that's just me.  (shrug)

    Actually, based upon the books that's present in the Promise Collection that we've seen so far, the pedigree that comes to my mind is that the Promise Collection is really more of a super high end (i.e. condition wise) Davis Crippen pedigree from my own personal point of view.  hm

    Based on condition and years, the Promise Collection resembles the Big Apple Collection more than any other pedigree. Big Apple books pre 1943-1944 are unspectacular and lower grade, just like the Promise. Then in 1943-1944 they become quite amazing. Big Apple book as also generally have White and OW/W pages. They are also coded as well.

    September HA Auction Looking interesting

    in Original Comic Art

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    On 9/26/2021 at 12:54 PM, Bird said:

    also, one of the strips is my day of birth strip...so yeah. I already collect birthday strips and have about 5 but this one from the day I was born would be groovy! I have a 1966 already but it is Bringing Up Father so getting something more in my wheelhouse would be groovier still :luhv:

     

    I see several 11/29 strips for sale on CAF!

    Marvel Comics 1

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 9/19/2021 at 6:43 PM, jimjum12 said:

    Let me begin with how I still love Superman ... especially Wayne Boring issues, but I think we have also become desensitized to just how little popularity the Superman character enjoys today. GOD BLESS....

    -jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu

    Maybe we weren’t watching the same auction. The Actions pretty much all went for record prices! I’d say Superman is doing just fine!