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It was my birthday so I treated myself to :

 

I know it is not a comic book but rather an aviation pulp, I just had to have it. It is the October 1936 issue so "for digestion sake smoke Camels".SMH 

These were just for fun since I really know nothing about pre-code stuff.



Wood, Frazetta,Feldstein. 
I have 1 more but I have to get the camera out.

It was my birthday so I treated myself to :

 

I know it is not a comic book but rather an aviation pulp, I just had to have it. It is the October 1936 issue so "for digestion sake smoke Camels".SMH 

These were just for fun since I really know nothing about pre-code stuff.



Wood, Frazetta,Feldstein. 
I have 1 more but I have to get the camera out.

I have had my eye on this book for a while and I am very pleased to finally have it in hand.

It was my birthday so I treated myself to :

 

I know it is not a comic book but rather an aviation pulp, I just had to have it. It is the October 1936 issue so "for digestion sake smoke Camels".SMH 

These were just for fun since I really know nothing about pre-code stuff.



Wood, Frazetta,Feldstein. 
I have 1 more but I have to get the camera out.

This thread made me smile alot.

No shortcuts!
 

When Whiz #1 and Thunda #1 were at the top of their game there was no AF #15, or it wasn't even in the top 5 as it was too young.
How about Archie d1 and Pep #22? Two books that nobody really took seriously and yet they are now super keys. Yes they are not as expensive as AF #15 but they came out of nowhere and catapulted forward into the realm of GA super keys.
My real point is that 'favorite' changes over time. It's not a constant.
Just 7 years ago when Action #1 CGC 6.0 sold for a record price of $317K everyone was raving that it will forever be the greatest comic of all time.
Que a few years later and people are discussing whether Detective #27 is a better book than Action #1, and some even believe it is (you'd think it was 1989 all over again when Tex #27 took over Action #1 in the Guide )
The only thing that is constant is change. At least in the current times we live in.

Jason
 
 

I know Gambit being a very popular character( and with out trying to give out spoilers )his focus as a major player sort of ends in issue 350. So technically that is within the last 200 issues. 
So as far as other major players coming along not so much. It is mostly a rehashing of the same team members in different locals and such. I believe the Onslaught was a huge crossover event just before that run as well but I really just found extraneous. 
 

And ....Done! A full read through of 544 issues minus the 26ish reprints.

And ....Done! A full read through of 544 issues minus the 26ish reprints.

This thread won't be complete until we get the obligatory Chuck rant about how terrible the SDCC treated him etc etc and how he is such a brilliant business man for ending his relationship with this con (basking in the self-gloss of his own glory).
You know it is coming or out there -- and in the end, that is the real story of this thread. How the world is unfair to poor Chuck and he never gets a break. Right.

7.5

6.5

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These would probably do best in the Gold for sale forum.
Basically you can sell raw or CGC books here, but not the"competitions" books.
Pretty nice sales thread by the way.
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So then FF4 or FF anual 1?

I have been reading alot of X-men comics lately.
On the last page of the last panel of X-men #96 Red Hook New York is mentioned. I went to elementary school in Red Hook NY.  In fact it is right near Bard College which is also mentioned in Uncanny X-men during the Inferno event. 
I figured it would happen eventually considering Chris Claremont went to Bard. Annandale-on-Hudson  is an absolutely minuscule town around 100 miles from NYC. Red Hook is not much bigger.

I agree the Avengers #4 is the bigger key.  That said, X-Men #4 is almost 2x the tougher book to find in just about any grade according to census data - and that's almost across the board in any condition with it still being roughly half as many copies of the X-Men #4 in 9.0+ compared to the AV4.  If I wanted an X-Men #4 9.0 tomorrow I'd be lookin' for a while, wouldn't take too long to get that Avengers #4 in high-grade but it'd cost ya

I'd give the edge to Avengers #4 over X-Men #4, but I will say X-Men 4 has the better story (who reads these things, anyway?).  Avengers 4 was cool with the finding of Cap, but the second and third act of the story with the Avengers being turned to stone by the alien was a little silly compared to the better story in X-Men 4, with the introduction of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and the reluctant Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch joining Magneto's ranks (with Quicksilver saving the X-Men at the end of the story - despite being aligned with Magneto).  X-Men 4 is just more representative of Silver age Marvel's nuanced characterization - which is what made Marvel Marvel.
As an aside, I'd say it was FF #4 that first pulled Golden age history into Silver age continuity for Marvel, not Avengers #4.
And this gives me another opportunity to reiterate Jack & Stan's cleverness in the way they pulled Timely's "big three" into the Silver age  - an updated version of the Golden age Human Torch (in Johnny Storm) finds Namor in a flophouse and restores his memory, then this reinvigorated Sub-Mariner finds Steve Rogers in a block of ice and throws him in the sea where he thaws out.
The Torch begat the Sub-Mariner begat Captain America.  Orchestrated or not, it ended up being clever.

Avengers #4 is bigger as far as Keys go, but X-men #4 is number one in my heart.
Magneto AND 1st Brotherhood of Evil Mutants = 

Do you say that based solely on price?

So $235 later, to get the 'same' grade?  You can put lipstick on a pig, but that doesn't fix the color breaking creases.  And Marvel chipping is looking more and more like leprosy.