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Great to see more postings on this thread. At some point I will reconnect my scanning station and scan and post some new pics. Also at some point I will submit a bunch more raw books in for grading. What I ought to do is a grading contest with all Prehero and Atlas books - pickups from the last 2-3 years. That would be very cool. I will have lots more great pics to share, some prehero and a lot more early Atlas pre-prehero books. Just way too busy with work and family right now... in the meantime those of you who do have spare time, keep the posts coming!

This thread has been really quiet lately. Did any boardies pick up anything on Ebay tonight?

two labels on that batch were incorrect. I think I reholdered them already. I am ages behind on updating scans.

A few more... The WOF is Kirby cover / Chris Rule inks, per mycomicshop.

Not sure if I posted either of these before. Some of my favorites.

A bit nicer copy, and some variations on the theme.

Here's a raw copy of 60. I may have sold this one a while back.

Great copy! That or a few of them already have one in grade or better. It is tax season, and some of us who have to write a check this month may be out of the market for a bit. Maybe you can thank Uncle Sam for that great pickup.

That's another one I didn't notice until you were perceptive and kind enough to point it out in this thread. Here are scans of my copies: This is a great thread! Seems like the flying saucers frequently went in the top right corner.... with the person of interest on the left looking out at the saucer. This one is similar in sort of a different way...

Nice pick-ups! What's that "VG" where the numeric grade is expected to be? Did CGC make another labeling change recently? or is that a sticker on the case?

Awesome!

I can offer one of them for your viewing pleasure That's what we're talking about. I figured boardies may have one or both 8.0's. Mine is in a 7.0 holder.... with nice eye appeal...

There was a JIM #51 CGC 8.5 that sold on ebay for $350-400 range and then was immediately resold for $1150 or something like that (at auction, I think) a few weeks later... Seems like this was about 5 -7 years ago that that happened. Someone can probably find out specifics on that book. I think the resale was off ebay. #51 is a robot cover - crossover appeal? I like the cover on 52 too, so maybe that's not a good yard stick. 54 is tough - a half dozen total copies graded?? But #56 is pretty tough too. What venue was the #56 for sale at? Also, if you really like them, and a half dozen or dozen books come up per year from your want list and you're saving up - say $200 a month for a book. This is how your auction schedule goes: bid, click, dang - got outbid... next time through, a few hundred bucks more ready... bid, click, dang.... then you mentally add a few hundred more to the pile each time until you finally win one. Or on the flip side, you tune out for a few auctions after 6 losing auctions in a row. I also think another thing that contributes to sale price fluctuation on the less common books is the venue. I think that there are more than just a few collectors out there willing to pay high prices, but frequently many of them just don't tune in to some auctions, or they don't have time to do a thorough search, or don't tune back in at closing time. I completely missed the auction yet again, I had been watching two (non JIM) books and was frustrated to have missed closing time, only to see the post closing summary that they went well beyond what I would have been willing to pay...

Thanks! Glad I checked in today, upgraded one book I've been looking for a few years...

you need one of those masks?