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Great covers, I've never seen any of these before.

No shortage of Oaklands or Bostons to be had!

Wow!

I haven't purchased any pedigree books in a while, except for the Curator Tarzan that I posted.

Redhook, awesome pics and cool GR certificate!

My first and only Curator (so far). I love these Gold Key painted covers.

My favorite Sgt Fury cover.

Thanks Chris, it was a pleasure. Just sorry I didn't have the other books you needed. And thanks to nearmint for a great transaction!

nearmint, awesome cover as always!

Sweet! Love those Duck books!

Not so crazy... if he was German!

A truly classic cover!

Yup, that was my assessment too.

Noticed that Harley Yee has a 8.5 copy of this classic story up on eBay, so figured I'd post my copy of Four Color 282, the Pixilated Parrot. Graded 9.2 by CGC, with OW-W pages.

Gorgeous!

I keep one end of the box slightly elevated and let gravity do the work.

hkp, your Disney collection is truly staggering!

Good point. But perhaps it is 64 and 62 that are the anomalies, which magnifies the seeming rarity of 63? If you look at 61 and 65, their variation with 63 could be explained as a matter of statistical probability. Or maybe the dude who hoards Iron Man/Submariners is also hoarding ASM 63s? Speaking of whom, did no one else think it was interesting that despite the fact that someone has been vacuuming up every single copy of that book, that it's still priced at just $185 in the Guide? I've often wondered whether it's possible to manipulate the price of a book by cornering the supply, but this indicates it would take an ungodly amount of copies to do so. What's going to happen to the price of that book when the guy starts unloading them?

It was part of the Mile High 2 warehouse find. I saw someone auctioning a copy with one of the MH2 certificates sometime last year. Okay, there's the answer, and I stand corrected, sort of. 49 will not be as common as 48, but primarily because 48 is really really unbelievably common. Too bad for all the suckers who paid big bucks for that one. But I still maintain that 49's not scarce in high grade. No post-1964 Marvel is.

Okay, the FF 49 lobby clearly has no hesitation about expressing their opinion on this point. So if I understand what you're all saying, it's actually the FF 48 that's the anomaly, and the 49 and 50 numbers actually represent the norm? Unless you can tell me that FF 48 is a "warehouse find" issue like ASM 33, I find this hard to believe. I mean we're talking mid-run of FF and it's 1966, so buying patterns of FF and collecting patterns in general were pretty well established and I don't think anyone would have grasped the importance of the introduction of Silver Surfer and Galactus at the time (at least not to the point that they would have stocked up on WAY more copies of 48 than any of the surrounding issues). Admittedly, I did exaggerate in my initial response, because on further reflection 91 9.4 or better copies of any silver age book is a helluva lot, so probably there won't be quite that many 49s and 50s out there. But a 9X or 10X differential? If not price (the demand side of the equation), what could account for such a huge disparity in the supply?

As soon as the price on 49 starts rising to anywhere close to 48 prices, guess what? There will be about 91 9.4 or better copies in no time flat. It's not a scarce book, folks!

Thanks, I was trying to come up with the right terminology to explain the same phenomenon on one of my books.

Wow!

Great cover, I never knew GA books had such over-the-top covers! The Torch is burning the flesh right off the sadistic Japanese guy's arm! And we thought graphic images was a modern phenomenon!

Great thread, I really love seeing all of those old Archies. Jughead rools okay!