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Daredevil #197 CGC 9.6 w $75

Daredevil #196 CGC 9.8 w $150

Daredevil #195 CGC 9.8 w $50

Avengers #269 CGC 9.8 w $80

Amazing Spider-Man #324 CGC 9.6 w $45

Amazing Spider-Man #306 CGC 9.6 ow-w $80

Amazing Spider-Man #305 CGC 9.6 ow-w $50

Reserved.

1st unqualified or PM gets the book or books. • Shipping in the U.S. is $23.10 for one slab - but possibly less depending on your zip code or type of slab. • Other shipping will be at cost. • Orders over $200 or more add $3.70 to shipping for Signature Confirmation. • Raw books will be shipped USPS Priority mail at cost. • International shipping will be at cost and it's expensive. Canada is at least $40 for 1 slab. 10 raw books to Canada is around $40 or more. I’ll only ship USPS Priority internationally. • International buyers must pay for USPS insurance. I won't fudge the value of the books. • No probation listers or Hall of Shamers. • Boardies without track records must provide solid references. • PayPal, Venmo, checks, and money orders all work for me. • Payment required within 3 days of invoicing. • No returns on CGC books. Raw books may be returned if I’m notified within 5 days of delivery and books are returned within 2 weeks. No refunds on shipping costs. Buyer is responsible for return shipping. • $20 minimum order.

Wow, great books!

The 2nd print of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has sold for over $14,000 at least 3 times.

I think there are some ASM second prints/variants that have sold for more. Edit: The book I'm thinking of is ASM #667, the Dell'Otto variant. It might just be a variant cover, not a reprint.

Congratulations, Jim! I had you as the leading suspect and I'm no Sherlock Holmes. And I'm glad the Banshee eventually landed safely. FedEx stress is no fun.

Wow, $249 is highway robbery. I'd have bought it for that even already having a 9.6. I thought maybe it had c-ow pages, but no. Maybe it was a bad mis-cut? Or low feedback ebay seller?

I don't follow that grade so I don't know how many have sold on CL but GPA has only 1 sale in the last 7 years for $505 in 2021. And 9.4s are all over the map in 9.4. Since 2021: $695, $795, $432, $249, and $1000 (last sale this year).

It took me about 20 years to get an X-Men #79 in CGC 9.6. I bought the book below in the prehistoric days before CGC. So the #76 will take even longer. I think Frank Giacoia or Mike Esposito inked the #76 over Kane's pencils. I wish Tom Palmer or Klaus Janson had done the inking. I think those guys always did a good job of fine-tuning Kane's pencils.

Considering the cover is supposed to be turd, someone sure liked it. I'm a big Picture Frame Marvel Fan. I'm a big Gil Kane fan. I'm a big fan of black Picture Frame books. I'm a big fan of 9.8 Picture Frame books. I think it's a beautiful book even with the less than stellar Kane cover. Still, my bid didn't even come close.

I think any of the pedigree CGC books would get the gold label if they were just sent in for reholdering.

Thanks Barton, the 3 Kid Colts were from the JS ebay auction a few years back when they had a lot of HG bronze westerns for sale, they were very nice but even nicer after I pressed them. That was a great bunch of books from JS. I've only had one of those graded so far - it was a PF book, but not a Gil Kane cover.

Wowsa! Holy Cow! Holy Guacamole! Beautiful! Hot Daaaammnnn!

I was told by a Green River fanatic this is a GR book. Like this one:

I was lucky to see Tom's Curator ASM run in the pre-CGC days - neatly bagged and boarded in mylar. It was great to see but it also made looking at my own books kind of disappointing.

Now you've done it twice in one day! I'm about to use the word "provenance" again, again! Here's a story of provenance lost and found: In 2011, Heritage started listing a bunch of incredibly high grade FF books in an auction. They called the books "The North Star Collection." The back cover of one of the books caught my eye because Heritage had a sticker with the consignor's name on the back cover. Oops! (See below.) At least a few people knew that a well-known comic artist had acquired all the Curator FFs after #1. (That was before Tom Brulato bought some of the other big Marvel titles through John Hauser.) So I called Heritage and said, "Hey, you should know those FFs are from the Curator collection." Heritage quickly had CGC re-holder the books with the proper pedigree designation. (Snarky aside: My thank you note must have been lost in the mail.) And here's a book I didn't win with either label:

Something else that surprises me is how few of the "key" issues legendary comic fandom pioneers Don and Maggie Thompson had. No Flash 105, no Showcase 4, 8, 13, 22 or even 34, no Brave and the Bold 28 or even 34 and no Fantastic Four 1 and 2. I thought they were very early collectors of Silver Age comics but pre-1962 I see only Green Lantern 1 and Flash 123. I'm just guessing here. Maybe they sold those books before the days of CGC and the provenance was lost. (I think that's the first time I ever typed the word "provenance"!)