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Always loved this cover

I'm in

Well, I THOUGHT I rotated them!

I owe this club my membership dues for that Cap 46 advice (still in pursuit)

eerie and creepy are criminally cheap. great if you want to put a set together

+1

I've heard crazier things....I also think a high-grade Hulk 180 is not a bad hedge, given the history of other cameo/full first scenarios (ooaw 81 and 83 comes to mind).

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Sorry; don't know why image didn't paste....at any rate, Anthro #6.

Just remembered -- Stalker!

This D.C. Explosion series laste four issues; Wally Wood over Steve Ditko, a really original tale. If I recall correctly, it's set in medieval times, or some mystic otherworld, but the young protagonist sells his soul for powers and skills, then spends his life trying to get it back. The series ended just hanging; while sword and sorcery may be dead in comics' current marketplace, the character and his unique circumstances are ripe for bringing forward into current "continuity," if there really can be said to be such a thing....but that's a different matter...

Four issues, great art, different story, only cosmetically sword and sorcery (I'm not a fan of the genre but still loved the series as a read) and cheap!

as I mentioned earlier I purchased a few sets of the christian comics from the Chick website.

 

Arrived today with THREE free mini comics. One is about how Catholicism isn't Christian. REALLY COOL.

 

Also those Christian Spire Archie books are amazing but I prefer the God's Smuggler Spire book. Its a book about a guy illegally importing Bibles. Too good.

God's Smuggler rocks! Way underrated! Second only to Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika, among Spire books, imo.

While I absolutely agree with the previous three posts, in the spirit of the arbitrary, academic and fun structure of the scenario presented by the OP, I'm going to throw out some (relative) long shots for consideration in this scenario:

A low 9's X-Men 94

A really nice Green Lantern 87 (just a gut that John Stewart is the eventual Hollywood GL for the JL franchise)

The nicest House of Secrets 92 you could grab (I think of this book as the TTA27 of the Bronze Age)

Just some different thoughts, none of which admittedly looks as bulletproof as a 181, but it's a different take on a way to play it.

I may well call cgc first and ask about this because I currently have an Avengers #1 cgc 1.5 blue label that features, among its many flaws, an additional set of unnecessary staples. They're called out on the label, but it is blue. (I acquired the book in a trade; I don't know full details of the genesis of the submission.)

If removing the extra staples is universally viewed as a lesser flaw than leaving them there, Cap may get a silver age traveling companion on the trip to Sarasota!

Thank you, Sqeggs! While I don't want to get ahead of myself in case I cannot land it, the question of to remove or not to remove and the impacts either way were certainly on my mind.

The range you cite is where I'm hoping to come in, but AndyFish's recent sale suggests I might have to go higher.

Let the liquidations begin!

In addition to... still attached by original single staple.

Thx DavidMerryweather!

Will keep you guys posted, though I expect it to take a while if it's like the few other times I've found key books in the wild in the hands of non-collectors who know what they have. I spent six months or so to get a TTA #27 in similar circumstances, so I am ready for this to be an even longer-term project.

Thanks guys! As a result of this thread, I grabbed the biggest cheap batch of mid-grade Chick Crusaders I could off of eBay two days ago, a dozen books from the run.

I gotta be nuts....

Dear Cap Club guys,

I'm currently negotiating with a non-collector who knows what they have (inheritance) on a Cap 46. Could anyone who has either bought or sold this book in lower grade give me an idea of a fair multiple of guide to offer? The copy in question, from scans, appears to be in a 3-ish range except there are 2 staples added, which is also throwing me a bit.

I would like to make this person an offer that is fair to both of us; not the easiest book to find plentiful comps for, and the added staples are an added wrinkle.

If I ever figure out how to make my phone talk to photobucket, I'll post my two-issue membership card, #s 42 and 78.

Thanks!

For example, star ranger is issue 1-12, then title is changed to cowboy comics for issue 13&14, then goes to star ranger funnies for issue 15 and vol 2,1-5...

So cowboy will actually post between star ranger and star ranger funnies, if that makes sense ?

Gerber style! Love it, looking forward! Thank you!

(Though it admittedly also makes me nervous for fear of being bitten by the bug to chase Centaurs...)

I take it back -- searched crusaders without Muhammad and found some; Chick Publications. Wild stuff, and affordable; thanks!

I don't know what that Crusaders Muhammad comic is either, and I can't find one on eBay to take a peek, either available or sold, for what that's worth. Who was the publisher?

Geez, after looking at your Pope link, I clicked off sold, and amazingly there's a lot fewer available than have been sold of late, so as guess it really is currently hot.

Forgot all about the st Francis until I looked at these listings. Of this Marvel trio, I think the Mother Theresa was the smallest print run, I remember reading that somewhere, but the Pope seems to be in the sales lead currently.

Joe Sinnott drew that Pope book, and I have a JPII pencil sketch by him. I first met him at a con in the early 80's, just after he drew the book, so it's what he wanted to sketch for me. I was quite happy, figuring it would be different, as most probably ask him to sketch the Thing or Cap or Spidey, I imagine.

SA goals for me for 2017:

1) I'd like to add another major Marvel key (like SupergirlDC1959, FF1 or TOS 39 would be my top preferences, but I have offers out to two non-collectors on ASM1 and DD1 respectively, and either of those would do fine as I have neither).

2) I'd like to add a Hulk #2, TTA 35 and 44, Strange Tales 101, and Two-Gun Kid 60.

3) The top of my D.C. Silver list is Adventure 247.

4) A decent Magnus #1, and the only silver Archie key I'm missing, She's Josie #1.

There are other non-SA goals, so even one of the above would satisfy me.

Just thinking that! Not at all a common "in the wild" item, even in the deeper LCS's, in my experience.

Kamandi #1!

Waaaay underrated Kirby stuff...until Warner Bros figures out that what a great movie it would make in an era of post-apocalyptic distopia films....