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Somebody may or may not have recently commissioned TWO Heshkas.... The said paintings may or may not be based on the work of a fellow whose name starts with an "S" and ends with a "burg." Any guesses as to the original artist and the two comic book covers?

You're not messing around. Nice Rockford! Congrats C-mack. Also worth mentioning is that one criminal is screwed - getting blasted by both the Spectre and Green Lantern.

Gator...Do you want 8 or do you NEED it?

Wow, you consider all of these to be more important/impactful to the Silver Age than ASM #1??? Yeah, that's a bold statement. I can't see Avengers 1 as having more of an impact as Spidey 1. Which brought us the Bugle, JJJ, The Chameleon and Spidey in his own title. All the others there can be an argument for I guess. But that's just my opinion. I'd have to put ASM1 somewhere between 4 & 7. Spider-man is just a much bigger character than any of the others that the first issue in his own title has to be up there. Someone else mentioned that a good analogy is in the GA where Superman 1 and Batman 1 are considered the 3rd and 4th most valuable books behind only Action 1 and Tec 27. Big "first" appearances lag like Marvel 1, Cap 1, and All-American 16. While the gap between Spidey and the Hulk may not be as wide as say Batman and the Green Lantern, there is no question that Spidey is king.

That Captain Battle sure is stylish. He looks like the fashion child of a Harlem Globe Trotter and Nick Fury's daughter (if she were a majorette in a 4th of July parade).

Suweet! Welcome to the club. Congrats! The more I look at that cover the more I like it. The green aliens dropping from the spaceship do it for me.

Nice looking copy Schlep!

don't clarify, or it loses something but i knew you'd be reading. Personally, I appreciate your explicitness Strawman. It would have been lost on me otherwise

Recent acquisition, fresh out of the Clink packaging....

Shooting the head off of a snake....how is that not a classic cover?

I should think so having one of the biggest silver age keys, in high grade, from arguably the best silver age pedigree....'nuff said. Congrats again!

All right, Bill! Beautiful book, Bill. I've always loved that one, even if I've never had a copy myself. Glad you were able to add a copy to the pile! Whoops. Slow to see this post. SW-EEEE-T!

Any hypotheses about why this book graded an 8.5 versus higher? It certainly looks better than an 8.5 from the scan.

Beautiful. Extremely good looking for an 8.5!!

I've got the drools and the tears. Sold my only copy to a boardie a few months ago.

Agreed. According to census CGC slabbed 1,079 JIM 83s; 1,350 TOS 39s. Grade for grade JIM 83 usually costs a bit more, and this difference is exaggerated in the nose-bleed grades. I would guess that iron man is a little more popular than Thor, so I'm guessing that the higher JIM 83 prices are due to relative scarcity of the book

Wow! Great looking book! I'm curious. What was more expensive the Jim 83 or the TOS 39 in your SIG? The TOS 39 by far; it's a 9.2 vs the JIM 83's 8.0 though :-)

A smooth printing error at that...Neat book.

Hi Gator, Which team most scares you going into the SEC tournament? And, do the Wahoos scare you in the Big Dance? If the Gators and the Wahoos meet in the tournament I'd be open for a gentlemanly comic book wager!

Here's my ticket to this Journey...

given that subby got 10 issues in 1954-55 after they both (and capt America) appeared in Young men, I would say subby (thumbs u As I understand it the reason Subby got some extra juice had nothing to do with sales numbers, but rather interest in a TV series that didn't materialize. Goodman didn't want to cancel the book while there was ongoing negotiations for a network TV series. It would be interesting to learn whether or not a pilot was produced and if so, what happened to it. The Hollywood types probably thought that a Subby show couldn't compete against the smash hit Aqua Man tv series and mega-hit movie trilogy of the time.

That is about as nice as an apparent "Poor" as anyone will ever see!! Good news for you is that I nodded off about 10:30pm EST on Sunday. Otherwise, you would have had some serious competition in that price range.

+1

Shew...did everyone see that AF15 9.0 went for 191k on Heritage Auctions? Oh my!

Thanks for the kind words folks.