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I remember some early issues of Action comics referring to him as the "Man of Tomorrow", but I was wondering when the nickname "Man of Steel" was first coined. I know that the Superman daily strips referred to him as the "man of steel" in mid Feb of 1939. Is there an earlier reference?

Is Cal the one with the hoarded Ironman/Submariner 1s?

On ebay many years ago I saw someone selling an unopened CASE each of these 3 "Doomsday appearance" comics: Adventures of Superman 497, Superman 74, and Action comics 684 I bought them all. A case holds 300 comics. That means I'm sitting on 900 of these comics. My plan was to press them all to try to find some 9.9s. I never followed thru with the plan. Who wants to take them off my hands?...... follow thru with my plan and get some 9.9s.

That's a great story. And he is a HORRIBLE dealer. Loyalty to customers goes a long way. Jeez, you were even helping him move!

Anyone know what the pin-up looks like in this issue? I love seeing B&V pin-ups

JIM 84

I was dirt poor in 1987. $500 would have seemed like a million to me. My daughter was born in 1987. We didn't have insurance. We worked out a deal with the hospital to pay $50 month until we paid off the full $3000 bill (they weren't going to charge us interest if we stayed current). What does a birthing at the hospital cost these day? I'm guessing no less than $20k.

That sounds like a lot for 1987. Was it?

Well for at least 5 years they were unread and well protected in the back of my underwear/sock drawer. Back in those days I hadn't discovered mylars and backing boards.

Not to mention AF15s. Not so long ago I bought three AF15s 3.0s for $3000 each. I don't have any of them now. I sold them each for about $4000 and thought I had hit the jackpot.

Great choice. That's a lot better than my Eternals 1. Do you still have any of them?

For me it was Eternals 1 in 1976. I bought 6 mint copies of them off the newsstand (the clerk looked at me weirdly). That set me back a WHOLE $1.50 which was a lot of my spending money back then (I was 14 at the time and had a paper route to make money). I had seen that Howard the Duck #1 & Xmen 94 were skyrocketing in price as back issues and that gave me my first conscious thought that maybe there was money to be made in comics. I had only bought 1 issue each of those two comics (remember the boom on Howard the Duck #1 and x94 after they came out?). WHY WHY didn't I keep pursuing the hobby back then? I fell out of comics when I got my first girlfriend I think. I came back to comics for a short time in college, but didn't fully immerse myself again until about the year 2000. As for the 6 "mint" copies of Eternals 1...... I have NO idea whatsoever where they are or what I did with them. But if I still had them.... 5 of them were unread. If slabbed that might have been about $1500 worth of Eternals. So what was the first comic you ever hoarded?

What info do you have on this? I have suspected that foreign investors might start buying up Marvel mega keys, but I'm not sure if they are.

You know..... sooner or later HUlk and Wolverine are going to meet on the big screen. Can you imagine what that's going to do to H181

VERY nice. If Stan is going to sign an AF15 I think this is the ONLY location he should sign it. I find it to be the only place where it doesn't mess with the composition of the Art and words.

So many early Marvels are missing a pin-up page (page 12 I think). I think all of us have learned that the hard way when we were inexperienced. But that's the cool thing about experience.... we learn and know to look for specific things like missing MVSs or Pin-up pages or CFs. Or even blatant married CFs or covers. My kryptonite is trimming. There are a few times I have suspected trimming but I am never 100% sure.

I also love the prehero covers with the round 12c marks. Those show the comic is truly in the age of Marvel. That TTA 31 came out the same month as Hulk 1. That begs the question..... does a "pre-hero Marvel" have to predate FF1? TTA 31 came out after FF1.

I agree. And I own a WW1 3.0 & Flash 86 3.0 with a Green Labels (married cfs), and I own a Superman 1 & Cap 1 that both have married cf's and would get Green Labels if I sent them in to CGC. I LOVE all 4 of those comics! BUT, that has nothing to do with the premise of this thread. I thought I was buying an unrestored raw comic from a boardie here on the boards and it turned out to have a married cover. Should he have any responsibility whatsoever to reach out to me or acknowledge my PMs to him? I'm not making any demands or accusing him of anything (he most likely didn't know the cover was married). Part of why I PM'd him was just in case the comic he sold me came from a larger collection he had bought... it might mean that other comics in that collection were married or restored.

3 Harvey GA comics: Steve Canyon 3, 4 & Terry & the Pirates 17 These are all lower grade complete copies SC 4 is 2.0-2.5 Cover & CF are secure at the staples SC 5 is 2.0-2.5 Cover has detached. CF is attached at both staples. Terry 17 is 1.5-1.8 Looks like the original bottom staple is missing. Cover still attached at top staple. 3 extra (non original) staples were added. $35 shipped

Here's a combo of 4 assorted slabbed comics... Hero for Hire 1 CGC 6.5 OW-W Spectre 1 CGC 8.0 OW-W Defenders 10 CGC 7.5 W Iron Man 3 CGC 7.0 CR-OW 2017 GPA for all 4 is $480 I will ship all 4 for $415

I just looked at GPA for Secret Agent 1. These go REALLY cheap even in high grade. The last 8.0 (like mine) sold for $23 . My pressing and slabbing costs are probably double that ! I really know how to pick em.

Can any one with knowledge confirm the production percentage of Pence to Cents copies is about 10%? (seems like I've heard that percentage thrown out there but I don't know if it's confirmed or not) The Census shows the slabbed Pence percentages of Marvel key issues at: (these are all approximate percentages) AF15- 2% of cent copies. ASM1- 1.5% of cent copies FF1- much less than 1% of cent copies Hulk1- 2.5% of cent copies AV1- 1.5% of cent copies DD1- slightly less than 1% of cent copies JIM83- 1.5% of cent copies SGT F1- 1% of cent copies ST110- 1.5% of cent copies TTA27- 1.5% of cent copies TOS39- 2% of cent copies X1- 1% of cent copies Do these percentages mean anything? Could these percentages show that Pence production was probably lower than 10%? Notice the FF1 percentage of slabbed pence to slabbed cent copies is the lowest. Could that mean the total pence production was a smaller percentage at that time? Strangely, Hulk 1 has the highest pence slabbed percentage.

I'll trade you my Qualified for your Qualified.

I don't remember this movie. Was it any good?

I never said I collect them. I don't. The two I just slabbed just happened to be in a small collection I bought. I'm actually not sure if I should just sell them now or hold them and wait for Disney to make new movies of them. Also, I really don't know how to value them because there aren't a lot of comps.