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There are barriers on some books, but when they break, they break like a flood apparently

Brazilian variant:

... or people who want to own one before the price goes up more

Based on my experience, cracked out PGX books have come back with higher grades when subbed to CGC. Then again, I've never had one with resto (or it wasn't caught) so I played with fire and didn't get burned. It would only take once though... That's what I thought from the handful of before & after scans I'd seen. There's very little reasoned discourse to be found about CGC's distinguished competition among the universal derision. Monopolies are a bad thing people...

... My point exactly

"The Maxx" was made into a cartoon. How much are those books worth?

Mystery 3

Remind me why this book is hot again? I see it on the copper age trending section of Lyria Exchange but for the life of me I don't know why the 1st Black Mask is so dang interesting to everyone. This is just my thought, but after watching the Batman/Red Hood animated movie today I realized that Black Mask plays a big role in the movie. That movie is really popular on netflix now. Probably a longshot on that, so its just a hunch. Edit: Also, judging from the new Arkham Origins trailer, Black Mask is the primary villain. As keys get out of reach, or people have them all and get bored, they look for the next thing to take off. Speculation (by thought and by word, not the investment strategy) about future break-out books is a popular pasttime, to which these very boards can obviously attest. This chatter and speculation is the incubator of a key. A tipping point is reached and a book takes off, or ticks to a higher price point. It is not so much because a character appeared here or is this important, it is because we as collectors have willed it so.

What about this Amazing Adventures #4? Not too shabby!

All robot covers in my personal top 5 are posted here, apart from one: Amazing Adventures #4 (1950).

Here are a few good ones

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Please let me know the minimum membership time one must have before being allowed to post here. I have a feeling the cutoff was 2001 & anyone that came after is out of luck.

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These memories are as fresh as if it happened yesterday. When Secret Wars came out, all the heroes of Earth disappeared to the Beyonder planet. This "disappearance" was reflected in each book by them being absent only a single issue. When Spidey came back, he was in the black costume - but he hadn't gotten it yet in Secret Wars. This "disappearance" (a few weeks in Marvel time), played out over a whole year in the SW mini-series (12 issues). He did not get the black costume until issue 8, which came out like 6 or 7 months after ASM 252. Secret Wars 8 is not the first appearance of anything. I do not however know whether MTU 141 hit the stands the same day as ASM 252. I think I read somewhere it did, but I find mistakes in online sources all the time about this stuff.

These are the legendary top-graded copies the world is waiting to see appear on the CGC census. #1: Purchased with all the money I had in the world in 1987 ($29), with a paper route windfall. #4: $50 at a comic convention, also mid-80s: Fun fact: I have Avengers 1-14. Actually not 7 anymore. My friend traded it to me when we were kids. When we grew up he wanted it back. This is the INTERNET DEBUT for these books. Consider yourselves lucky.

I finally replaced my scanner and have decided to go through some of the hundreds of books I have bought over the past few years that I never took the time to flip through and fully appreciate. As I do this I will be uploading scans of interior panels that I find particularly interesting or artistically pleasing. I plan to include examples from all eras and genres. First up is a panel from Love Experiences #4, Ace Periodicals, April 1950. This is from the last page of the fourth story, "Whirlwind Proposal". I do not know the artist. To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.

If your mystery passion is for a Bronze Age/1970s series, there is almost nothing you could say to drive prices UP... That'd be my guess since a 9.8 run in an earlier era is beyond most people's reach. Prices on this stuff were higher in CGC's early years but have been coming down down down. Supply is just going to increase. Share all you want about what you are interested in, wait a few years, and you will probably pay no more than you would today. There is a good chance you will pay even less. You could get the "keys" first before sharing - "commons" increase very slowly in value no matter what the chatter.