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This is great stuff.... Thanks for continuing the saga..... Jim

Kudos to Joanna for some great DCs shipped at lightning speed! And also to comic_memories (Sergio) for the great Skywalds and Westerns! Jim

Hmmmm.....I don't know if I supposed to be happy or sad? Better check for those identifying marks unique to the Greggy pedigree...... Jim

I'll second that and upgrade the comment as my shipment was a great deal! Jim

Sheech! Give me some line here. I just got them yesterday..... Greggy is a class act! Kudos for a great transaction! Can't deny the guy has some nice DCs.... And while I'm here.... Kudos to Bonds25 as well for another successful deal! Can't have enough nice DC and Charlton...... Jim

The Slabbed Age? Jim

You're right.....I bow to the glory of your DCs! Also, congrats to your Bat #238 buy at SD. What are you trying to do? Corner the market on all HG copies? Jim

I got your DCs right here sucka! Jim

Or maybe, Wax-Man! Jim

You know Joanna....I planned on going to the Frankfurt Fair this year. Should I oogle the mock-ups or something similar to get you some additional attention? Jim

But they aren't DCs..... Jim

WELL...... Just catching up on threads I haven't had the time to read and I find this..... Sgt Rocky of the Hero Squadron...... Well until the next chapter....there's PT at 0500 for the whole crew! So better get some sleep! !....thanks Joanna for this thread! Jim

It was FAN magazine....and I can find my copy..... Jim

I believe there are examples in the stamp and coin hobby but may not be as extreme as a $1000 to $40 crash. Maybe we can coax some coinees over to discuss? Jim

Oh please! What is this a sympathy plea? You screwed up....take it like a man and stop whining. You want to leave fine.....you want to stay, fine.....do you really think that anyone really cares in the whole scheme of things? Later. Jim

type Sci-Fi is exactly why I stopped reading the genre in college. The last straw was a robotic love-triangle(?) story that was in Omni magazine. Read it twice and still didn't know what the hell was going on. A decade later (1996), it took a friend of mine who swore that Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End was a classic for me to pick up another Sci-Fi book. Since then, I've been very selective on what I read in the genre. It seems some writers write the story with the aspect that the stranger and more obscure it is, the better story results. They need to go back and figure out how to write a good story first. Jim

Krigstein, Wood, Orlando, Kurtzman, Crandall, Craig? They were all great! Jim

That may have been where I got the $25,000 number from but there was widespread news coverage of Action #1s selling in the early 70s regardless. This indicates a public awareness of old comics' value quite earlier than the timeframe some have mentioned here. Jim

Maybe....It was a long time ago but it made the front page of the Miami Herald and was featured on the national news. That wasn't the only Action #1 sale that made the paper either. Jim

I believe it was much earlier than that. Action #1 made national news a couple times in the early 70s after being sold (one for $25,000 in 1972/3? immediately comes to mind). im

And a nice book it is Murph. Enjoy! Jim

I'd be willing to bet quite a few. Again the book was identified as a major issue very early. Collectors scooped them up when it was very cheap early as a result. Most collectors are willing to sit on their comics and not sell. These comics are just sitting in closets in boxes waiting to see daylight again. Now in the next decade or two though watch out. These collectors will near retirement age and then they WILL be willing to sell. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see a significant number of HG silver see daylight as well in the next 10 years. Jim

I agree that there are a lot of nice copies out there, but I'm also inclined to think that a large number have already been graded. Why? I tend to think only a small percentage of collectors have actually used CGC services. Dealers definitely...EBay enthusiastists probably....the common collector, unless selling their comics, probably not. Jim

GS X-Men #1 and X-Men #94 were eyed for resale value by the dealers pretty early. In fact, I remember a dealer saying that Hulk #181 and the X-Men were going to be the "next big thing" as early as 1977. So the issue was identified pretty early as important by dealers. Remember most all comic stores until the mid-late 80s bought overstock (some in big numbers) as back issues were a major part of their business. As a result, Hulk #181 is fairly common in high grade. In fact, there are probably more high grade #181s out there than Ghost Rider #1 (came out a year earlier) because of the quick identification as "important". Now will supply ever satisfy demand enough to bring the issue's price down? I think so due to the waning appeal of the character due to overexposure and the general fragmentation of the X-titles as more high grade issues are found being released by collectors. And don't fool yourselves. There are those HG copies out there. Almost all collectors "I" know have a HG copy in their collections and usually more than one. Jim