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(thumbs u (thumbs u Whoah! Beautiful!

50 Cent Called. He said I was "In da Club! I have one that's a little nicer than the one below too. Will get a scan soon and post.

Congrats. Strong eye appeal for a 1.8 - cover looks more 2.5ish to me. What took it down to a 1.8?

I acquired this one a couple of Clink auctions ago. Had a few Startling 49s slip through my fingers at the last second. Not this time

Tremendous eye appeal. Congrats on a great book ! That copy has amazing eye appeal for a 6.5. Congrats!!

4k is too high for a 2.5, but 1k is WAY too low. Even 1.0s are selling for over 1k now. According to GPA, FMV for a 2.5 or 3.0 is about 2.5-3k. Interestingly, ASM1s are about $1000 x grade up until about 6.0, at which point the coefficient begins increasing exponentially relative to grade.

That makes sense. I would guess, even allowing for rarity, it's much easier to hunt down books than it was 15 or 20 years ago for a dealer. Information, on all fronts, just travels more broadly and quickly. From my own perspective, I was able to "view" and buy an ultra tough key - Suspense 3 () - within the comfort of my own living room. Just giving you a hard time. Thanks Rick for the always thoughtful response. -Keston

Hi Gator, In another thread (Tec 28) you said: "These days "tough" and "rare" are relative terms." In the context given it sounds like you do not consider many GA books as tough and rare as some other boardies. For you what constitutes tough and rare (other than Amazing Man 26)? Thank you and happy holidays!

Strawman, Among all those SA pedigrees, do you have a particular favorite?

It's hard to get a good bead on exact numbers. As was mentioned earlier on the Boards, Gerber did a good job getting the relative scarcity right. That is, typically 9's are scarcer than 8's, 8's scarcer than 7's, and so forth. Of course there are mistakes as noted by walclark above. As pointed out by a few boardies, however, the scarcity values do not reflect the underlying numbers that Gerber suggested. He almost always underestimated the amount of existing books. What I find funny is how we GA folks talk about books not being that rare when there might be 45 copies as opposed to 15 suggested by Gerber. When, on the other hand, SA folks make statements about how rare some issues are with fewer than 2000 copies like Tales to Astonish 27 or Journey into Mystery 83. Our rare is still a magnitude or two rarer than the SA metric :-)

Thanks for all the good information. Mile High Suspense Comics 3, possibly owned by one Magic Woo! Sounds better than a Romancing the Stone plot :-)

Dear G.A.tor, In the last few years several more Suspense Comics #3 have been certified but they have mostly been low grade or restored copies. There still seems to be very few that are high grade or approaching high grade - according to CGC only one 7.0 (Crowley) and an 8.0 (Crippen). Are there any unslabbed copies that you know of that are high grade? I've heard there is no Mile High copy. Much thanks!

Love that recreation of the Amazing Man cover. Nice tribute.

Dear Rick, A few months ago I asked how a relative newbie could learn quickly about comic book history, particularly GA. You suggested the Benton books. I'm working my way through a couple of them now - and Wow, really informative. Learning how the genres have shifted from the late 30s to the late 80s is very interesting. Also, it's cool to find out there's nothing new under the sun after the Golden Age. Those writers and artists inspired most of what was to come in subsequent decades. Great suggestion. Thank you! -Keston

Wow, that Johnny Thunder! I had know idea the backstory was so rich.

I do get the attention on AA 16, but what about Marvel 1. I totally agree with your pricing Gator; it's accurate. But how in the @#!& can the market value any books - other than action 1 and tec 27 - more than Marvel 1? Action 7 over Marvel 1, come on?? Get with it comic-lov'n people.

In my geometry days, we'd call Subby an equilateral triangle head!

Make sure that a CGC rep is present, lest there will be no signature series designation!

Does anyone know what the parachutist is saying in Subby 6?

Dear GAers, In terms of memorable covers can any series compete pound-for-pound against Suspense Comics? There's Schomburg's #3 and many badass L.B. Cole covers too.

Thanks for the leads gentlemen.

Hi G.A.tor, I'm relatively new to GA and want to learn all about it. Can you suggest any books that go deeper than Overstreet or Gerber? Thank you.

Those Caps just get weirder and weirder later in the series: gorillas, Lilliputians, bizarro Red Skull. And, is it just me, or does Bucky's head keep getting bigger?

Wow cheetah! That (Exciting 61) is my favorite Exciting. And 9.8

Hello GA aficionados. This is my first post of hopefully many. Spider-man was my gateway drug into comic book collecting. I still have much love for the web-slinger, but my tastes have changed (matured?) in recent years. Now, I just can't get enough of the golden classics. The covers are amazing, especially those graced by Alex Schomburg's art...which brings me to my question. Besides Suspense Comics #3, what do you think are his next best covers? Thanks much.