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That's a great story! It gives a good perspective on why many Silver Age collectors transition in the the Golden Age era. Even though I appreciate the Silver Age as much as the next guy, I always felt the fun factor of collecting Golden Age books were multiples higher. Thanks, West. The challenge is greater and it's pretty sweet to hold a book in your hands that you absolutely know is the best copy on the planet. More stories please! This thread is the best thing that's happened to Gold in ages!

By the way, Jeff, I'm really pleased you decided to create this thread at last! Looking forward to seeing lots of old friends!

Better to have a low grade copy at a low grade price than none at all I suppose - at least I thought so. Mine is about the same.

Well, you're on your lonesome this time, mister! Richard and I are resting!

Now that's a Golden Age comic! I like the bit with the boomerang circling the Claw's head. Adds richness and humor to an already great cover! Super book Ricky!

I really thought that book was nicer than 8.5. I thought so too - we all did.

Humph

Yahoo! Mike deserves all of the credit. I was just the wingman. This li'l kitty was a team effort. I bought it. You mailed it. Jeff adopted it. (I'm told it's quite common practice in certain quarters.)

Looks purty!

We all think that is a tremendous book. Heck you could post it anywhere.

I think that must be Strange Worlds #5 Jimbo...

..and just so you all know, I happen to have a cold, professional attitude and - it works! Just not for me.

I knew it existed...was waiting for it to surface...and here it is! The highest graded copy, simply beautiful. In the hands of our own Sqeggs! I WANT IT GIVE IT TO ME NOW Move over, Andy! I'm pretty sure that is the copy I got from Mr Bedrock and sold to a friend, who sold it to Sqeggs. So technically it's mine, and I should have it back. Relax guys. I just photoshopped that grade on a 1.0 slab. Has tape, a detached cover ... you wouldn't want it! I thought I was the only one who did that.

Cool as heck and nice hogans to boot World of the monster brain. I was going to say more but certain monster brains of my acquaintance might take offense.

I knew it existed...was waiting for it to surface...and here it is! The highest graded copy, simply beautiful. In the hands of our own Sqeggs! I WANT IT GIVE IT TO ME NOW Move over, Andy! I'm pretty sure that is the copy I got from Mr Bedrock and sold to a friend, who sold it to Sqeggs. So technically it's mine, and I should have it back.

I hope GAtor wont mind if I make a comment or two with which he may or may not agree in all respects - but if not he'll doubtless say so. Demand sets value, not value demand. (Look at Mystery Tales.) And then there's Hollywood.(Thanos anyone?) No price guide can stay on top of market responsiveness such as that, and therefore Bob Overstreet tends to be consciously conservative about hiking value because he takes a very long view about trends (or at least he did last time I bothered to check about ten years ago when I last bought a guide!). So if value on a given book or genre climbs consistently and maintains that level he'll eventually get round to acknowledging it. But GAtor is absolutely right to say that the true value of the guide is far more in it's function as a reference. It also becomes absurd when collectors cite GPA as if it is a price guide. I just sold my FF #12 9.0 white pages in the C'link auction. Check GPA and you'll find huge variation on prices for that book in that grade - quite impossible to use the information to predict an isolated sale. So for a sense of what something is worth, I look less to GPA or Overstreet, and more to dealers I know, because they have their fingers on the pulse. A dealer - which I'm not by the way - I lack the discipline or the skills - is running a business and is obliged to charge what s/he thinks the market will bear. Dealers whose businesses flourish tend to be very astute at gauging the market, which stands to reason and should be obvious. Dealers also want to build up long term repeat custom based on bespoke relationships wherever possible, and this too stands to reason and should be obvious. The onus is on the buyer to determine whether they are comfortable with the price. And I go back to those dealers who give me reason to. Take a bow, GAtor, and Mr Bedrock.

I love Corky!

Obviously Warp Drive was invented to deliver fresh bagels to the gamma quadrant... An astronaut flies on his stomach

Tough book I believe. Cant wait for the next hundred posts or so Andy! Keep 'em coming!

Line.Block.

Fred...? Fred Wertham, is that you? I will never be able to look at that cover again without thinking about how I look in the mirror after a bath. Or even before.

The art of acquiring high grade Atlas books currently escapes me! Dust shadow or not, when you upgrade that one, there will be a line around the block for your undercopy.

Great book!

All great choices to render in your unique style, Ryan- none more so than this one. I just love it!

This is the splash to the cover story from WoM #26