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I only bid on one book in the Heritage auction last week, and luckily won it. I already had a mid-grade copy, but this one is really sharp. I love books that have only one defect, and it's on the back cover...

Kudos to Blazing Bob for helping me upgrade one of my 80 Page Giants. Kudos to Timely for selling me a book he just barely outbid me on months ago.

More kudos to Banner for a very sharp Detective #404. Thanks for the quick shipping. Jeff

NICE cover. A worthy addition to any collection...

Just when you thought this thread was dead, here's my first Golden Age first issue, purchases off eBay last week. It's a CGC 4.5...

Congratulations! I hope it's one of many. Schomburg covers are the best. Jeff

I'd call that copy closer to 4.0...

Metro has a G/VG for $90, a VG+ for $135, and a NM- for $1600. And guess what! They have a VF/NM Startling #12 for $1150. I wonder if it's the same copy I bought from them a decade or so ago for $110... I really gotta find a better paying job.

I think I remember you selling these somewhere years ago!?! how's that for vague. Timely Yeah, I can't remember if I sold them through eBay or a CBG ad. Either way, it was years before CGC was on the scene. The Startling #13 was the first Nedor I ever purchased. It was at the San Diego Con(in the old convention center), and it was a beautiful copy that I paid a whopping $90 for. A few weeks later I called Sparkle City and purchased every Nedor they had from the war years, mostly mid-grades for $20-$30 each. I'm pretty sure that the Startling #12(nice Hitler cover) came from Metro for about $110. They currently have two Nedors that I'd like to have, one is $1000, the other is $1900. Yikes. Ah, the good ole' days...

I used to have reallly nice copies of Startling 12, 13, &14. Kinda wish I had those back...

Your payment was just as fast. Thanks Matt. Jeff

Just like Flying Donut, I also collect vintage postcards of my town, Newport Beach, CA. In the last four years I've accumulated about 350 cards from 1892 to the late 1950s. I have them organized in a couple of photo albums, and love to flip through them and then go for a walk and see how the area has changed.

I've always loved that Fighting Yank #10 cover. How did Metro grade it?

This was a grail book for me. The night that V2 of the Photojournal came out, I saw this cover for the first time and decided then and there to start buying Nedors. I finally found this great copy...

Someone else posted their copy of this book, but I just got this and had to show it off...

Seamless transaction with Greggy on a great DC...

And another...

Here's a mid-grade I picked up from ComicLink today...

I agree that CGC was pretty tough on that book. Nice, clean copy...

Here's one that I sold about a year ago. Sorry about the small pic...

Hey Doc, what about me..?

I posted this one not so long ago in another thread, but some of you might have missed it..

In my personal opinion, it's completely appropriate to post that particular cover in any and every thread on the board. But seriously...I've never understood the whole Nedor/Better/Standard relationship, so yes, it absolutely qualifies...

You can get the Mile High copy of this book from Mark Wilson for 7 or 8K...

I think Schomburg enjoyed sitting down to pencil this cover. After years of creating battle scenes, he's finally showing a soldier coming home. The comic is dated October 1945, when a lot of guys actually were getting back to the states and their families. I love all the little details on this cover. The proud parents in the background. The wife waving, the son shouting, the daughter with a blank expression because she's young enough that she might not even remember the man getting off the ship. Then there's the band leader signaling the band to play, the planes doing a fly over, the nazi helmet that the soldier has brought home for a souvenir, the job and G.I. home loan paperwork that Doc Strange has for him. Schomburg was the best...