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No. I've never read the 4 issue miniseries from 82. So i'm looking forward to that.

I'm sorry if this was a stupid thread but I was trying to be first on new boards and couldn't think of anything. However, I do like Frank Miller and have never read the Claremont/Miller book> I might be the first to apologize on the new boards, tho.

I don't remember saying that ??

He's a great comic talent and I'm looking forward to reading Wolverine.

The problem for me is I don't know what pressing will do to increase the book's grade. I'm not learned regarding pressing and its benefits (detriments?). As the book sits in the picture now I say 5.5. Again, I'm just an amateur grader but will look forward to seeing books final grade. I'm curious about pressing: do they give the book a grade (if you send it to CGC's pressing company) pre-pressing?

I love Tales To Astonish #27. Nice books.

Curious myself

Thx! Dumb luck...estate collection...Guy's brother passed. Always mixed feelings going through estate collections, but I remind myself I'm becoming the curator of portions of a collection carefully curated over the years by a fellow collector. I like that. You're prolly a good dude, Readcomix!

When I see the word "off gassing," I just start laughing.

Since it's going for grading and you'll get it back shortly, any chance you can post this in PGM section and let us sharpen are grading skills and then post CGC grade when it's pressed and back?

6.5 - 7.0 ??

amazing the things you remember. amazing the things you forget.

That's it! Thanks everybody!

I guess get back the copy of Avengers #172 my dad bought me. Don't know why I sold that one when I sold my collections.

When I was a kid I remember an ad from the Overstreet guide and was wondering about whatever happen to that person in the ad. I'm thinking the ad was in the guide in 1975 or 1981 - 1982. It was in one of those or all of those, can't remember. Those were the guides I had as a kid. It was a full page ad with the drawing of a cowboy (I say "cowboy" because I believe the drawing of the person had a cowboy hat and cowboy boots). He was reclining in a chair (?) and pulling money from his pockets that was falling to the ground and little people were bringing comics to him and picking up all the cash falling from his pockets in exchange for their comics. Maybe the person's name was Bruce? Just always loved that ad as a kid and wished I could've been the cowboy with money for comics falling from my pockets. Thanks for any help!

7.0. I could look at that cover all day long. The Submariner is Marvel Comics!

That awesome, Crimebuster. Great find! It's like trying to find the last 8-track title that was part of the Columbia House 11 LPs or 8-tracks for a penny club. I believe is was Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love.

5.5

I didn't know comics in drug stores type of situations became un-returnable at some point. I figured newsstands could always return stuff. Didn't know the rules changed at some point.

Since the advent of direct market, what would be the point? Books were still sold in non-comic shop situations up until the mid 90s. did they have date stamps?

1.8

4.0

Ok, who has (or has seen) the most recent comic with a date stamp and what year did that comic come out? For example: Are there date stamped comics from the 80s? the 90s? the 00s?

Tony di Zuniga art is great. The story of The Mystery of the Missing Bride was fairly run-of-the-mill romance in an old-house setting. Can't say I'll buy anymore of these. Wish I could find me some good Supernatural-horror stories. I love the covers of the Marvel/DC horror books, heck, even Charlton covers, too but the stories just don't make it worth the price.

here you go: We'll let ComicConnect Sales Director Frank Cwiklik set the scene: "Our receptionist Brandon made an appointment with a potential consignor, who said he had two Golden Age Batman and Superman comics that were in really nice shape. We hear this sort of thing all the time, so we never really get our hopes up, but you never know. I wasn't even aware he was coming in until I went downstairs around the time he'd shown up, and from all the way across the office, I could see the books sitting out on the conference table in ziploc bags, and I just knew. All the way from across the room, I could tell these were something special." The books in question were a beautiful Action Comics 18 (which is also in this auction, and is tied for highest-graded), and this Detective Comics 32, one of the earliest appearances of the Batman. The seller's uncle had kept these comics since childhood, and, not realizing the potential value in them, innocently dropped by the office to ask if they may be worth a few dollars. After careful examination and consultation, Frank and Consignment Director Rob Reynolds knew they had a rare find on their hands, the kind of out-of-the-blue discovery that just doesn't happen anymore. After sending the books to CGC, suspicions were confirmed: this was indeed the highest-graded copy of one of the scarcest of Batman year one appearances, featuring the infamous panels in which the legendarily-anti-gun Caped Crusader brandishes a firearm for the first time, and is graced with one of Fred Guardineer's most dramatic and best-remembered covers. A big thank you to you Gotham Kid for finding that and posting it here. I'm a big sucker for stories about how things went through the world and ended up where they did. I guess you call that Providence, right?