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I thought I'd try to compare the composite/aggregate values of some 9.8 key books to see how they stack up in total value next to each other using the census numbers as of today. I included Universal and Signature Series in the numbers, but left out the Restored and Qualified grades. Some Signature Series books are worth more than the average so I made adjustments to reflect that where it made an impact on the average value. These values are approximate and I used dollar averages based on the GPA rounded up or down. Total composite/aggregate values for each book are listed first. $1,380,000 The Walking Dead #1, 690 in 9.8 x $2,000 each $ 810,000 Hulk #181, 81 in 9.8 x $10,000 each $ 622,336 New Mutants #98, 1,408 in 9.8 x $442 each $ 415,800 Spider-Man #129, 77 in 9.8 x $5,400 each $ 126,700 Batman Adventures #12, 181 in 9.8 x $700 each (quickly becoming a heavyweight)

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I never had any Sugar & Spikes in my original collection from the 60's. I do remember seeing them on the racks. I always thought they had attractive covers, but with a limited budget, I was pretty much a superhero guy, dabbling once in a while in the mystery/horror genre. However I did get into buying some Harvey titles (Casper, Hot Stuff, Sad Sack, etc.) for a short period of time around 1969-1970. I think I still have a few of my Hot Stuffs, but that's the closest I've ever come to having anything like Sugar & Spike in my collection. That's why once that nice issue #73 crossed my path last year, I had such a hard time letting go. It was like going back and buying it myself as it was still in the original Hook's Drugstore bag with a receipt.

Uh, what am I missing out on here??? I can't see the image for some reason, bummer. Now how about that, when I quoted your post, the image appeared. Nice digest sized book. I used to buy those some back in the day. I don't know what happened to them.

Uh, what am I missing out on here??? I can't see the image for some reason, bummer.

Those are some pretty sweet books. Looks like Don and Maggie had quite a collection going. These are surely the nicest Sugar and Spikes that have ever hit the market at one time, many of them the only graded copies. I bet you're in cloud 9 over these!

I wondered if you'd go for that one. It does look pretty sweet and seems the grading is rather harsh, (looks nicer than a 9.0 just judging from the front cover anyway). I'm glad you've been able to pick up some of those Don/Maggie books, what a great find!

Hey Silver, Just picked this up today at our local comic show. Not as nice as your 9.4, but probably about an 8.0-8.5. It's really solid, nice and glossy, but has some serious foxing on a few interior pages. One of only three Sugar & Spikes I saw at the whole show. The other two were in pretty bad shape, but this one really stood out. I also kind of like the date stamp.

I was wondering if you snagged any of those off the Heritage Auction. Looks like they went for reasonable prices. I was surprised at the number of copies that were one of one graded. Looks like more are up at this week's auction too.

4/21/14--->Still sitting @ verified...10 business days with no movement (not counting the day it was received). I'm 3 days behind you at 4/11 with my Coupon. I'll have to follow and see when they grade yours, hopefully in a week or two. Well, since my 3/31 just moved to Scheduled for Grading I'd guess you have another couple of weeks... Wow! I guess the 15 day turn around estimate is waaaayyyyy off! I'm still confused on why CGC's business model of "Relatively expensive...Never on time...Always late...Misleading turnaround estimates...blue-purple-blue-purple...pay for a membership...your grade isn't guaranteed, it's only an opinion...pay for your own graders notes" is successful? I need to figure it out so I can make millions by providing sub-par service...while making people LOVE me! Hmmmm, "providing sub-par service....while making people LOVE me!" sounds like your typical Soviet era one party communist government, oh wait, you're talking about CGC, I must have missed that.

Internal defects can be grade killers for otherwise fantastic looking books as they appear in the slab. You can find in grader notes concerning the internal pages of an 8.5 that looks like a 9.4 such things as "1 inch tear on two pages" or 4" crease on one page, dog ear on four pages or moisture stain on two pages" So once the book is slabbed you obviously can't see these things, but they will affect the overall grade nevertheless. Personally this is a pet peeve of mine and I don't like the fact I have to pay more to get the grader notes (if available) for hidden defects like this on books that look much nicer than their grade. Oh well, just my rant.

I hereby bequeath all my remaining outstanding CGC submissions to my great grand kids.

I have only had one old label book I've re-subbed come back at a lower grade and boy did I ever take a pretty bad hit on that one. It was an Avengers #53 that was a Universal 9.4 that looked about as sweet as it could be, but had something that looked like fuzz in the holder. I thought about just sending it in for reholder service, but it looked so nice, I thought it might have an outside chance at a 9.6. I cracked it out and sure enough there was some kind of fuzz, (looked like a little patch of pocket lint) that was inside the inner well, next to the book itself. It easily brushed off. I inspected the book for anything else. I was convinced I found no flaws with this book, not even anything worth pressing, (it was one of those books with no grader notes). So I went ahead and sent it in, thinking no way this book comes back with anything worse that what it already was, but boy was I about to be surprised. Much to shock and horror, it come back at 9.2 with a "Qualified" label: "cover detached from top staple". Needless to say I had a "WTF" moment as soon as I saw that, knowing darn good and well this book did not have a detached staple when I sent it in. I talked to CGC about it, trying to figure out what could have happened, but what can you do as they pretty much said "We just grade 'em as we see 'em". All I can figure is something happened when I packed the book, or something happened during shipping or maybe just handling the book one more time at CGC caused that staple to "pop". So, it just goes to show you, anytime you roll the dice, (and subject your book to additional handling) you risk the chance of getting burned.

Good, then you won't mind I have $0 in my bank account!

On a curious side note, anyone ever notice that just 2 or 3 months after DC introduces their super-red faced android the Red Tornado in the Justice League, Marvel brings out their super red-faced android the Vision in the Avengers?

When I was a kid, my older brother bought mostly DC Superman comics. He also would buy other DC books on occasion. I would sneak into his stash of books and look at them, (I couldn't read yet, but as a kid, they were just too colorful and irresistible). I clearly remember he had these issues of Justice League of America: #43-47, 50, 53 and 54. At 6 years old, my father started giving me $1.00 a week allowance, which I promptly used to start buying comic books myself. I then picked up where my brother left off and started buying at issue #55 and bought every issue right up to #106 when I stopped. Unfortunately, most of my original collection is long gone, traded away to friends or sold off as I got older. So, I guess, I'm just trying to find high grade copies of some of my first collected books and then some more featuring my favorite covers. I just love the cover of #61, a simple, yet striking take on the floating head concept. I always thought the Royal Flush gang was a good foil for the Justice League too, so I hope to eventually find high grade copies of #43 and #54 since my brother had those at one time too. Well, there you have it, my beginnings into collecting the Justice League of America going all the back to the mid-late 60's.

I entered the silver age at a little later date. These are a few of my first Justice League of Americas that I've put together over the past few years. #55 was the first issue of JLA that I bought on my own back in 1967; this copy is not it of course, but I am very happy to have acquired a nice, high grade copy finally. The rest represent some of my favorite covers from my early days of collecting .

Wow and can I say Wow again???

Just back from grading and here it is......9.4.....

Some cool Justice League of America #1's there. Has anyone ever noticed that most (but not all) of the number 1 DC books from this era did not have an issue number on the cover. Anyone know why DC did this? Some number 1's that don't have a "No. 1" on the covers are of course this Justice League of America and then the Atom, Metal Men, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, Aquaman, Sea Devils and Lois Lane. Two books I found that are an exception to this and do have a "No. 1" on them are Hawkman and Metamorpho. Can anyone think of any others? Just curious about this.

Love some of those covers, especially #139, 140, 144 & 145. This was back when these covers had great concept, composition and color. Very nice.

Yes, kind of a weird fluke, just this one book, still in the local drug store bag, ( I bought many comic books from the same drug store myself in the late 60's). I'll always wonder what the story is behind it, but that information has been lost to history.

Still waiting to get this one back from CGC. Picked this one up at an estate sale, it was still in the drugstore bag with the receipt from 1967. I don't think it was ever read.