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Woo! You don't see those every day outside of Verzyl's collection.

Great stuff, I don't think I've heard of the Blackhawk serial before.

Incredible. And nice to see a Star Spangled!

Unreal. Hadn't seen this copy before.

Whoa. That's beyond incredible.

Interesting though, aside from the Crippen 8.0 copy sale 5 years ago, no high grade sales in GPA at all (and only 5 sales total listed). Obviously that's not an all-encompassing indicator, but I bet a few people have been waiting for this one.

WOW, that's a lot of coin.. Maybe prices will start to go up again (wishful thinking) That's about the expected range though, no? One of the 9.4 copies went for over double that in March.

I like to look through pulp story collections for Amazon Kindle because there are lots of big story collections for a few bucks (and I've read several of my HPL and REH paperback collections to tatters, so it's nice to have them digitally in this case). There's a REH boxing collection I've been meaning to get around to. generic user's quest to find stories/info on his grandfather is interesting also, as I often see the sports one-pagers in golden age DC's, about college and pro athletes of the day who are little-known now, and wonder about the context. An index of that kind of material would be pretty cool.

Spectacular, jpepx78! You are the king of turning up vintage comic-related pics.

Any thoughts getting this regraded because unless I'm missing a big bird poop stain on the back that sure looks like the nicest 9.2 I've ever seen. Looks like a 9.6 from the front. I've said this before, but we do seem to see our share of toughly-graded Timely books on the boards. Bedrock has some 8.0-8.5's that look incredible. I've sometimes wondered if the way those bright primary reds and yellows pop makes 'em look better in a scan. This book looks newsstand fresh for sure. Just amazing.

Fantastic!

Whoa. Incredible indeed.

Mind-bogglingly nice.

Awesome book! Always great seeing some little-seen Kirby.

HA! Sorry it was a bad experience, it was a great idea though!

Great book!

Haven't seen this cover before. Great composition.

Spectacular stuff. Thanks so much for posting these historically valuable photos!

Incredible.

Wow, these are incredible.

Spectacular! Thanks so much.

Nice. Great color on this one.

What's the secret of the animated cover?

I think the "semi-realistic place to start your Action run" keeps moving forward. 7 is no longer a poor-man's anything, nor is 10, 13 has always seemed tough, etc. I think people are just moving down the list to find a relatively affordable starting point. And when you think about it, aside from major keys, there are two things this board is particularly focused on (and for a reason, obviously), and early Actions is one of them.

That's a great stat... and a great book.