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The Avengers -- so many changes over the years, and so many influences on the larger Marvel Universe. Lots of good reads in there, and relatively affordable compared to much of its peer group of long-running titles that have been around since the early Silver Age.

So you’re saying.... thread is NOT NOW closed?

What a cool find! Please keep ‘em coming

I just measured my CMA 30 and it’s 10-3/8” tall. At 10.75” yours does seem to be an unusually tall cut. There were some books produced post-1943 at taller than standard size; off the top of my head, some of the late run issues of True Comics and a couple issues of Fighting Marines (St John) were taller than normal.

Another coverless copy is on eBay right now: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Marvel-Comics-Daredevil-1-Horwitz-Australian-Variant-VERY-RARE-1st-App/303567233335?hash=item46ae046137:g:4~0AAOSwi3Bf1pTh

@Unstoppablejayd

I always liked the sense of action Kirby could bring to his work, whether you’re talking his best stuff or some of the more chunky, blocky late 70’s outputs. If anything, buying those off the racks as a grade schooler at the same time as Marvel’s Greatest Comics (the FF reprint title) taught me the importance of inkers. When it comes to artist/inker, there’s definitely some one-off pairings where two guys hit their best stride together (Byrne and Austin, Newton and Adkins), and some guys who can make a lotta people look good (Dan Green) but if there’s one guy who could bring out the best in most any comics artist he touched its hands down Joe Sinnott. I’m not taking a thing away from Kirby; what they had together was special. Just drawing attention to Joe’s side of the equation, and his versatility. (Pretty strong penciller himself too, but most examples are in 50’s non-hero books so that may not be as well-known today.)

Update -- It's still coming; thought I would shoot the books tonight and start tomorrow night, but I got sidetracked by a trade with a local collector, and I wanted to be sure none of the books I had set aside for the sale would be needed for the trade first. (We're clear!) So stay tuned, it will happen. Though we're hardly bored in the meantime; some killer, killer threads on the boards of late!

If there were no writing on the FF I’d take it in a heartbeat. But I’m not personally a sig guy and more importantly @shadroch, in this world of Yellow Labels, won’t be the only person wanting to question authenticity down the road. (Though I agree with @HighVoltageit looks real). The x-men has that safe, anticipated upside feel in the current market, plus ped status. That said, I honestly don’t know how much silver age peds add to cachet as compared to GA peds. Outside of Curators, I don’t often think to search a site for silver peds. But I’m an N of 1 and may not reflect the market; I just don’t know. Certainly seems there’s broad-based, baked-in assumptions out there that x-men will be an awesome film franchise exceeding its reasonably well done Fox movies. No one is considering the idea of an MCU x-men film being poorly done. Yet everyone seems to think the same studio cannot produce a likable FF film. You guys are making this decision in the face of some very divergent public opinion, currently, about the respective futures of these franchises.

Tom Mix 6?

I was expecting a "cover completely split and detached" or somesuch in those notes. Then again, "whole book tears" is pretty vague. If there's more than one sizable tear going through the entire book, then maybe its a case of "presents well for the grade," but in the slab it resembles a 1.0.

What a buncha perverted, degenerate funnybook junkies NO WONDER I love this place

These days, people will do anything for a fast turnaround time....

I was once on the wrong side of this as a buyer....a seller had a Torchy #4 up on eBay; I bought it. He then contacted me that he had sent it to the person who bought his Torchy 2 (instead of the Torchy 2). I doubts he was bs’ing to not sell me the book; worked with me on subsequent purchases including a Jeep #1. Very fair in his dealings, was selling his dad’s collection and I do believe he simply sent the wrong (arguably better, more expensive) book to the Torchy 2 buyer.

I thought there was some apocrypha out there; thank you, couldn’t remember the details, just the buzz.

I think Metro has run that latter play with certain books that don’t come up much. Maybe others too. Got no proof, just a hunch.

I was never a D and D guy myself but I saw enough around the LCS’s to agree this is a no-brainer.

You mean like a Hunt Brothers kind of situation?

I agree that that is possible and likely at least part of the mix. But I'm open to the idea that other organic behaviors are part of it too. Not sure what Lou meant or why I needed a beating on the head, but it read like he was only open to the one possibility, I thought. And I agree with your big picture line of thinking as well.

Added thought: we focus a lot on the relative scarcity of older keys versus newer, but neither Action 1 nor NM 98 is still being printed. Though there are many, many more NM 98, both exist in finite numbers. On the other side of the equation, new money is being printed at an increasing rate. There’s enough upward pressure to go around in this environment.

Could is the key word, Scott. And I think it’s at least an element, but not all of it. Individuals are reacting in various ways to an unprecedented market, and I’m simply saying I think it is wise to consider a mixed bag of various forces and thoughts may be at work. As Bruce Lee put it, “If nothing within you remains rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” I’m just keeping an open mind in this crazy market, even though I see a lot of the same things everyone else is citing too.

And you’re assuming the only people moving into the hobby/marketplace is this uncaring, unthinking monolithic wall of newly wealthy. For that subset, I’d agree with your assessment, for the most part. Even then, there will be exceptions. But I suspect the new pool, so to speak, is more diverse than that and many will learn some things about the hobby over time. I’m more concerned they will reject long-held precious notions of ours about what is key/important and what is not. I suggest anyone around this hobby a long time politely, not condescendingly, teach some history as the opportunity presents, if you meet and/or transact books with these new unicorns. At that same time, I’d become prepared to accept the idea that while we may know in our heart of hearts that a first appearance requires an appearance in continuity, our little comic book world has changed and advertising flyers such as Marvel Previews 95 or Malibu Sun 13 may be here to stay as keys too, in the eyes of our newer members of the hobby.

So based on a lot of the logic we are espousing here about newer collectors, highly visible and relatively available GA keys should have the most percentage increase upside for those investor collectors; so....Batman 1, Cap 1, etc. What else? Someone suggested GA keys without a #1 on the cover don’t have a shot, but I’m not sure I agree with that. The more one dabbles, the more one learns. Superman 14/Batman 11-type books seem like decent possibilities among these types of books, IMO.

Are they sending crack with the stimulus checks???

Somewhere within the next week or so, I intend to throw an F5 party in G/S/B. Hmm... let’s see.... Am I ready?? Sharp Atlas war books....check! Entry level Silver Age major key...check! Highly sought after hard-to-find Baker book...check! Hot bronze keys...check! Affordable random Golden Age obscurities...check! PCH...check! Completely off the radar, sweet romance book...check!