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It's either naively ghoulish or highly cynical to actually add that in the description. And with all that other wear, you can still get a 4.0 for a book with a detached cover?? The oft-decried Promise Effect persists.

Wow… just wow. If that was a Promise book, it likely would’ve been a 9.8.

Raymond Miller collected all sorts of stuff. Go to any area postcard show and dig through some boxes: you’re bound to find some postcards with his stamp.

Well said!

20’s: Comic Monthly 30’s: Action Comics 40’s: Marvel Mystery Comics (Captain America a solid runner-up) 50’s: Four Color (incredible volume of books with breadth of content) 60’s: Fantastic Four 70’s: Amazing Spiderman 80’s: Uncanny X-Men 90’s: Archie’s Double Digest 00’s: Lucifer

I liked the cameo by George Olshevsky.

Will it extend to his magazine covers? When I look at the dynamism of some of those mixed-media Savage Tales covers, I'm dumbfounded.

Well, maybe it has no significance in the collecting world abroad, but here in this wonderful microcosm of collecting, we thrive on just that sort of pontification! What do you think are his other top covers? Some I'd guess are obvious, but perhaps you have an outlier or two...

"Now back to yer holes, ya red lice!"

Honestly, the whole run is cool: starting with those earlier crime and suspense anthologies right on through all the great war issues and even some sci-fi at the tail's end for good measure.

I made a mistake!! 21 IS in the group you posted! I was thinking about issue 15, which I love as well...

So many great covers in the era! Everybody has their own favorites, with some natural overlap of course.

Ahhh, smack dab in the middle of the go-go checks era.

It's not in that group... EDIT: waitaminnut! It IS in that group! I was thinking of issue 15!!

But in all seriousness, that 7 could easily sell for multiples of guide raw or slabbed, and the ones in better shape would benefit from a trip down to Florida, especially that 11, even with the loose centerfold. With books like these, it’s a good idea to estimate the grade and check it against the CGC census. The Japanese war covers (16, 21, 22) will likely have plenty of bidders whatever the condition. Schomburg war covers are always in very high demand. The Dell Four Color and the Gold key issue are easy enough to find comparables, and not at all scarce, so I’d think twice about slabbing those. Edit: I see that you’re in “the biz,” so most of this will probably sound a bit trivial…

You’ll have a sense of it after you receive a slew of PM’s wanting to buy some or all the books outright…

Silver Streak 14 and 15 are listed as "classic" in Overstreet.

Is Target 8 really designated a classic?? I hope they mean issue 7, the Wolverton Spacehawk cover, and not a cover where a guy is looking rearward on a futuristic motorcycle. CGC should’ve left it to the OSPG. Their list is way too diluted. Every dubious choice detracts from the true classics; example: Wonderworld 8 is a cool cover, but 7 has been considered a classic for fifty years or more. Also, in my no-doubt unpopular opinion, too many bondage covers are considered classic, as well as skull covers. And don’t even get me started on Hitler… The above list could easily be winnowed down to half. Noteworthy does not equate to classic.

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Take Marvel Classics lot per PM.