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I actually think this could hit 4.0. Don't press

I'm in the 5.0-5.5 group

5.5-6.0 Great cover. Could it be any more obvious as to where he's looking.

With that spine I can only give it a 1.5. But I don't care. Me want it. Top ten GA cover.

Definitely low grade, but I wanted to get a sense of how low grade. Cover is snug at bottom staple, but top staple is only attached to a "tab" (because of a vertical staple tear). It is still attached though. CF is snug. Tiny piece missing bottom spine & there is a 1/2" spine split at bottom. Tiny light stain at lower right corner of front cover. Stain at upper edge of back cover (just barely affects 1 interior page) At one time there were two added staples to help hold everything but they have been removed.

The cover & CF are snug at the staples. There is a 1-3/4" spine split at the bottom of spine.

Gorgeous Book! Good price. I just noticed Brenda's tapping on the cover is not "SOS". SOS is " . . . - - - . . ." so I guess she wont be rescued.

Here's a similar one that I had graded. This started out as a graded (gulp) PGX 6.0 restored grade (slight color touch). I took a huge risk buying it I know because.......PGX. I thought I might get lucky and get a 4.0-4.5 after the CT removal, but it went all the way down to 3.0. Hmmmm.... Now that these FF1s are on fire I guess I did ok.

My Special Edition 1 cover sold on CC tonight for $194. Congrats to the buyer, it's a good looking cover. I really had no idea what it would go for. I won it on ebay for about $80 so I made a small profit (I can't remember what it cost to slab it). I've got about 8 more of these covers, but I don't think I'll slab any more of them.

Strip #135 is from 1942. The one I posted is from 1946 so it's number is probably around the late 200s or early 300s. It's always cool to find "origin" comics.

That's not Bimbo is it?

I pulled this card out of an old scrapbook. At the bottom it has a copyright of 1932. It looks like an early Disney character (white gloves, etc...) but I don't recognize it and it doesn't have an artists sig. I've googled a little bit but can't find anything. Maybe it's just a "style steal" of Mickey or Felix. Anyone recognize the artist? Thanks

What was the hammer price?

Just got this today and it's in pretty nice shape. Tiny piece out of lower right corner. A few minor spine tics, but all in all really nice.

I found this Australian Sunday origin page from 1946 Can anyone tell me what # it corresponds to in the US Sunday strips? I know strip 1 has an origin and strip 135 has an origin, but this must be from a later strip. It's magazine size so I was thinking it might be a cool piece to slab.

SO AWESOME they turned Ginger into Susie!!!!

Yes, I agree with you. However, on these key issues the gap (even in higher grades) seems to be getting narrower. If only some higher grade Pence copies could be pried out of collections and brought to market we would be able to find out how narrow the gap is. But high grade pence copies are so rare that once they make it into a collection, they stay.

Thought I'd resurrect this thread. I seem to remember many boardies claiming that Pence copies were only worth about 60%-65% of their US counterparts, with key issues on the higher side of that percentage. SO, I thought I'd take a gander at some current GPA data and see how the Pences are doing compared to the Cents copies. Since the Pence copies don't come up too often I looked back about 18 months and if I found a Pence had sold I looked at a corresponding cents copy sales average from around the same date. From what I can tell the Pence copies are gaining respect and their value percentage is increasing in relation to cent copies of the same grade (with one notable exception being a 6.0 AF15 which might be an outlier?). Here's some data (within the last 18 months, prices are rounded): Please note: The US values are probably NOT the current values because I was matching dates with whenever a Pence copy sold. If it seems confusing then I apologize for the way I've laid it out. AF15 6.0 US = $48000 / AF15 6.0 UK = $27500 which is 58% of US copy (I believe whoever got this Pence copy got a heck of a deal!!!) AF15 3.0 US = $14400 / AF15 3.0 UK = $12200 which is 85% of US copy AF15 2.0 US = $10800 / AF15 2.0 UK = 8600 which is 80% of US copy FF1 3.0 US = $7200 / FF1 3.0 UK = $5900 which is 82% of US copy DD1 6.5 US = $2800 / DD1 6.5 UK = $2300 which is 82% of US copy AV1 7.0 US = $6700 / AV1 7.0 UK = $4100 which is 61% of US copy AV1 4.5 US = $2700 / AV1 4.5 UK = $2000 which is 75% of US copy ASM1 5.0 US = $6900 / ASM1 5.0 UK = $5900 which is 85% of US copy Xmen1 6.0 US = $8200 / Xmen1 6.0 UK = $7500 which is 91% of US copy JIM83 3.5 US = $3600 / JIM 3.5 UK = $3500 which is 97% of US copy Hulk1 4.0 US = $11,300 / Hulk1 4.0 UK = $10,500 which is 93% of US copy TOS39 5.0 US = $6200 / TOS39 5.0 UK = $5000 which is 80% of US copy TOS39 4.5 US = $5200 / TOS39 4.5 UK = $4700 which is 91% of US copy ST110 6.0 US = $2500 / ST110 6.0 UK = $2000 which is 80% of US copy TTA27 6.0 US = $4900 / (closest pence data is for a 6.5 which went for $6100 which is 124% of the US 6.0 copy) Except for the 6.0 AF15 pence copy only going for 58% of the US copy, you can see the percentages seem pretty high.

Finally got it in the mail today.

Those are great! I love em. Your's look in good shape for such poor paper quality. Someone needs to take that #15 and turn it into a "Starlord/Gamora" homage cover.

You don't see Aussie versions of Planet too often. Have any of you seen another? I snagged this off of ebay last week, just because I thought it was cool. Paper quality is horrible on these. The cover stock is the same as the interior paper.

My impression after looking at your photos and before I looked at any of the other grades in this thread was 5.0. I'm going to say 4.5-5.0 There's enough dimples and pressable defects that you should go for the press before grading Good Luck