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Great cover with garish colors that has never gotten its due.

Hey Liz, appreciate the thought but it might be complicated as I'm across the pond. Yes, I knew that. Sorry, of course you do. I'll let you know, and thanks for the offer.

Hey Liz, appreciate the thought but it might be complicated as I'm across the pond.

It's nostalgia. I have all three issues of the Grim Ghost in well-read shape (which I bought when they came out), but none of the others, which must've gotten lost in the shuffle at some point.

It shouldn't be a problem.

Phoenix, Planet of the Vampires, Targitt, Wulf, Scorpion I'll take as well. What the 'eck.

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Cheers Roy (and I didn’t spot that!). I meant to write a brief comment and then got caught up in it.

You had the original sci-fi fandom (Siegel and Shuster being examples), then the E.C. Fan-Addicts that Gaines and Feldstein attracted through letter-columns and editorials (and their cutting-edge stories, of course). Fandom in earnest began with Marvel, who had been taking notes from E.C. It's certainly possible that anyone who had been collecting in the GA would have considered the Silver Age versions to be overrated and ephemeral, but I'd claim that the amount of dedicated fans that were around in the 1940s wouldn't be a vast amount more than the amount of GA pedigrees out there. There wasn't an "old guard" as such, and certainly not a connected one, so there were basically a few isolated fans who had no idea of each other but ended up being crucial to the hobby in that their accumulations were the basis of so many later collections. Of course there are a lot more GA and Atom Age books out there that weren't part of a pedigree, but any of those survivors were accidental or left in warehouses - as we know, nearly everything throughout the era got pulped in the war effort or chucked away. Or torched. Bad pre-code comics! Perhaps because of E.C. fandom E.C. comics are more common in the marketplace compared to other pre-code titles. I'd wager that that is true. There's no evidence however that that particular strain of fandom had any interest in what followed half a decade later, even if Jim Warren did pick up the E.C. slack with his mags (an entirely separate development). I doubt that pioneers like Don and Maggie Thompson, whose book All In Color For A Dime was pivotal, would've found the nascent Silver Age to be anything other than a continuation of what came before, and would certainly have had no contempt for it. In fact they and a select few others would've nurtured the excitement, and may have considered what was going on at Marvel to be an innovative development that, in the end, saved the medium and created the hobby in earnest. I'm sure that folks in the 1960s who were uninterested in comics would have found the arrival of the new serious fandom and consequent marketplace bizarre and incomprehensible, if, indeed, they were even aware of it. People paying above cover price for kiddie books? $10 for a Fantastic Four 1?? Are they mad?? What fools, they no doubt thought. A flash in the pan, and ephemera that you grow out of, once you hit your mid-teens. Nothing good will ever come of those, and they'll all be worthless and forgotten in no time.

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I assumed you weren’t around. I should never assume when it comes to the All-Seeing Takebot!

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I always think of that sale when pivotal auctions like this one happen. At that time though collectors were right that it was an outlier. The game changers (slabbing and that Greg Manning auction) were still a few years away.

PL 17 goes for $456K. Crikey.

The Promise Collection has now reeled in $5 million in this session, and there's still some ways to go.

Mask 1 broke six figures, outdoing the Eerie 1.

There was a time when being the first Black Canary was enough to cause 2.0s to sell for 10X guide. Them were the days.

The 86 actually looks like a deal. The bidding did seem more sluggish than I thought it might be, but it isn't the highest graded copy. Nor is it a 9.6 / 9.8, the two grades that trigger the frenzies.

Those Flash Comics are doing decent business - better than I thought they would.

The Cap 36, which was close to closing at $80K, went for $204K with the juice. The Cap 46 went for $162K, the Cap 74 for $204K. Another planet.

Be interested to see if anyone here won one of these gems…