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Just made three purchases. Added everything to my cart and entered the code at check out. Worked great AND I still earned eBay bucks. Thanks!

I would like to be next. What an awesome book. MM3 is such a classic and that is a super looking copy. I am very happy to see it in the hands of such a great boardie.

Casey, I hope you had a great birthday. I am surprised a "buyer" would be upset that you tried your best to protect his purchase. I wonder if this same "buyer" follows people home from Home Depot, when they buy paint, to make sure they are not using the paint stirrer for any other purpose.

I agree it seems a little high, but not like the last go around, when it hit $696. I auppose if I had a coverless copy, I might spend 400 for a nice cover. Heck, I have spent more than twice that on just a front cover before. Of course that wasn't for a JJ25.

Well, it looks like this time the high bidder ($696) and second high bidder ($686) from the first auction, were not in the running this time around. The third highest bidder ($301) last time, stepped up and paid $404 this time. https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/152996669022?item=152996669022&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

I see @Tri-ColorBrian already posted some nice Actions on the last page, but I thought I would post a few I have images of available.

All good points @01TheDude I remember buying comics, mail order, back in the 70s. At that time, I often purchased books without a photo (since most mail order catalogs simply listed the title, issue, grade, and price. I also remember listing "alternatives" in case the books I really wanted were already sold. Then I remember waiting each day for a package to arrive and wondering which books I actually received (purchased). This was acceptable to me, at the time, as that was the way business was often conducted. There was no internet and I don't think anyone expected any mail order seller to photograph every book and put the photos in the catalog (that would have made for really thick catalogs and may have been cost prohibitive). The was the 1970's. This is 2018, and I think sellers need to get with the times. I had not heard the name Robert Bell in awhile. Thanks for the nostalgic look back.

Although @Ghastly542454 already posted a beautiful copy of this book, I feel compelled to vote for the AC #101 as well...

Nice pick up. Easily worth $20.

It is if you live in Samoa or even in New Zealand. Maybe Jim has moved or is off visiting friends down under.

Given Chuck's "pricing"' practices and that he is not even describing or showing a photo or scans of the books he sells, I would not be surprised if he opts for a new business model soon. Perhaps it would go something like this..,. "Send me as much money as possible and I will choose one of my 10,000,000 comics to send you in return. I will not tell you in advance the title, issue number, or any of the main characters in the book; you just need to trust me. Order quickly while supplies last!!"

I think it would actually be $12.43 a liter BUT every week you could get 40 percent off with the "secret" code word; "Chuck's Gas".

No, it is a Silver Age book (from the 50s). I agree that if this was a common, modern age, $5 - $10 book, it might be acceptable.

eBay alerted me today that an item on my "wish list" had been listed. This is usually good news. The bad news is that the book is being sold by Mile High (and priced accordingly). The really bad news is something I find very strange. I read the brief "item description", which really was just their guesstimation of a grade and no actual description of this particular book. Then I click on the link labeled "SEE FULL ITEM DESCRIPTION" and again found NOTHING written to describe this particular book. Instead there was a lot written about Mile High in general and one very alarming statement..... An important note: the cover photo of the item shown in this listing, is not a scan of the actual item. We sell well over one million back issue comics a year, and thus have a huge library of past scans that we utilize to illustrate the books that we are offering on eBay. What???????????????????????????????????????????? In this day and age, who buys an overpriced comic book sight unseen? Not only unseen, but without even ANY description of the book in question. I find this incredible, yet they claim to sell over one million back issue comics a year.....

Yes, there were two color versions. One in 1950 and another in 1958 (seen below). The B&W was more likely an "ashcan" type version that came out before the 1950 color version. The yellow unfortunately is the result of someone trying to color in their B&W copy themselves. I have been told CGC will not grade B&W, because they are too easy to counterfeit. I don't know if that is true, however, that is what I was told.

I just checked and noticed that Brittany passed the original goal of $15K. WOW! The caring and generosity of this community is unbelievable. I feel very blessed to be a part of this community and its' wonderful people.

This is probably "cheating", but there are ZERO of these on the census. I have been told that CGC will not grade them (and I believe there are only 4 in existence). Took me a long time to find this one and actually have a "boardie" to thank for telling me when it came up to auction (knowing I was looking for it). One of the reasons I love the boards; great people looking to help each other and asking nothing in return.

Well, it appears Bob called this one correctly and the seller is now having to relist the book.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Jo-Jo-25-golden-age-comic/152996669022?hash=item239f4fe65e:g:epQAAOSwQ-JaljTw Hopefully the next set of bidders will actually take 2 seconds and read the description (which now includes exactly which pages are missing).

Fixed that for you.

Donation made and PM sent. Thank you again for making this available and for helping Brittany!

Thank you!

Really wish I had seen this one. Nice!

I have enjoyed looking at this thread, but had not planned to post. Then after seeing Sharon @skypinkblu post that Flash #34 (nice book), I felt compelled to post my favorite GA Flash; #26. At first, I thought it did not make the cut off (as there are 11 copies on the census), however, then I read the OP's post and saw that we are only counting "unrestored copies" and so I made the cut off....

It does appear that many non-keys are not moving up as quickly (in terms of %) as their key counterparts.

I was wondering who had grabbed Nik's copy of this book before I had the chance. Nice!