Greetings Boardies,
After 4 years on the hunt I have acquired a personal grail via auction on the bay from Canada.
This book has been graded 6.5 with White Pages by a competitor grader.
For academic purposes and posterity, this is at least the second Black #1 Artist Proof (AP) I have seen. The other CGC 9.0 is pictured in this thread. I do not know if these are in addition to the 50 copies, or the first two of 50.
Also for reference, I was offering $600 for one of these graded for 4 years and was contacted by zero interested sellers. I was the soul bidder on this auction, bid $1300, but won for the set/base bid of $999. I don't know if it's worth that, but due to the scarcity of opportunities to buy, I decided to go for it.
I regret selling my #1 Blue, Red, and Yellow! I had given up on finding this one!
I had sort of dropped out of graded book collecting about 2 years ago, but the other weekend I was bored, logged in to the bay, and searched for "Maxx Ashcan," and low and behold, there she was after four years.
The seller, Major Comics, in Montreal said it was the first he had ever had in the shop.