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That's just the way it is today. In the past just owning a book like a CA 1 or AF 15, DC 27, etc. would be cool enough in conversation, now it's all about the label and the number in the corner. That's the evolution that has been allowed to happen.

These in my opinion are the top 3 in my flash collection. First time in his own title, meeting his own personal hero, and his greatest villain.

New one for the collection

The Spectre and Dr.Fate are severely under-utilized characters. Their orgins, villains and support characters are awesome. The Spectre especially would make an amazing TV series or movie with today's SFX. I have my TPB of Spectre stories but my wallet forbids me from being able to spend on a MFC Spectre cover issue. I have to satisfy myself with my Silver Age issues.

From Mile Highs Website: "After I finished loading most of the file books from the main room of the basement, the heirs asked me if I had any interest in old magazines. When I assured them that I did, they led me to a room in the far end of the basement. This room was set up much like a pantry, with shelves lining the walls. What was shocking to me about this room was that it only contained one shelf unit of old pulp magazines. All the other shelves were completely bare! Given that the entire rest of the basement was packed to the ceiling with all manner of paper, this was totally abnormal. The magazines that were in the room were primarily WEIRD TALES and SPICY DETECTIVE pulps. I had seen covers for other pulp magazines in some of the books of clippings I had salvaged, but these were the first whole magazines I had seen in the basement. I told the heirs that I wasn't really an expert in pulps, but that I had some friends in Boulder who sold them regularly. I promised I would come back the following week with my friends, and that they would offer them a substantial amount for the pulp magazines. I then asked them why the rest of that very copious room was completely empty. The heirs hemmed and hawed, and told me they didn't know. It didn't take me long to reach the conclusion, however, that the room had once been full, and that someone had emptied it. I had already seen the empty shelves in the main basement room from where the huge batch of reference files that I saw set out for the trash men (on my first visit) had been extracted, so those couldn't have been in the contents of that second room. My best guess is that whatever was in that second room was sent off to the dump before I made my first visit. In the many discussions I've had with people about the contents of that second room, the general conclusion that we've reached is that the room contained Church's collection of humor comics. We've extrapolated this conclusion from the fact that there are some very unusual holes in the runs of super-hero comics that were in the walk-in closet from which I obtained the Golden Age. At the same time, there were a tantalizing samplings of humor comics, such as LOONEY TUNES #1, ANIMAL COMICS #1, and all the LITTLE LULU Four Color issues, mixed in with the super-hero comics. If Church was buying all the comics being printed, where were all the humor comics? Wouldn't it make sense that if Church was roughly sorting his super-hero/adventure comics into one room, while his humor books went into the second, that a few books would get put into the wrong closet? That would explain why a few of the super-hero books were missing from otherwise complete runs, and why a few humor books were mixed in with the super-heroes. Sadly, I think the most likely scenario is that all the humor comics were sent to the dump prior to my arrival. If that was the case, then the collection of Golden Age that everyone acknowledges as the best ever discovered in the history of the hobby, was actually half destroyed prior to my arrival." It's his recollection, but having been to several estate sales and when asking about magazines, newspapers, pulps and the like and being told that "that junk" was hauled off to the dump to clean up the place (this is before the time of google, ebay and smart phones when you couldn't asses the value of an item instantly), it rings to true me. We'll never really know though.

Chuck said that some Funny Animal books were mixed in with the Superhero books and that there was a second room filled with Funny Animal/Non-Supehero books that was cleaned out and taken to the dump the week before he got there. He hypothesized that the parts of the superhero runs that had missing books were probably in that second room. ☹️

All signatures are fake unless witnessed by a CGC representative. Luckily, I had one with me when I had to sign my son's birth certificate. Makes life easier just to keep one on retainer.😁 But it looks good to me.

First Comic Cover to have its own TV commercial. https://youtu.be/ZBZJDuKbe7M?feature=shared

Can I play?

First 2 comics that I bought personally were Transformers 8 and G.I. Joe 39 from my LCS. I blew the $2 I got for chores that week pretty fast.

Bronze Age Kirby and Ditko

Dipping my toe into GA. Going with my favorite genre.

Most FB Marketplace comics groups are like that now. It's all Slabs for Sale, 9.8s for Sale. The books are rarely mentioned in the advert. Buy the Label or Grade not the book is the mantra of the day in those groups.

Probably. It all depends on your definition of relative worth. Will there be comics that are worth millions like AC 1, Tech 27, MC1...etc? No, I don't see that happening. Will there be books worth in the 4 or 5 figure range in 25 years, I think yes. However, it will probably be coming from the indies like IDW, Image, Darkhorse etc. just because the print runs are smaller. With the speculators running rampant, I don't think their will be anything printed in the last 5 years that isn't going to have thousands of copies in highgrade available at any moment and that will keep prices low. I personally collected New Mutunts in the 90s and bought 2 copies when a new character was introduced (1 to read and 1 to keep) so I have 2 NM 87 and NM 98. I was very careful in choosing my comics so even my readers from back then are 9.2s and 9.4s. The other 87 and 98 are pristine and haven't been touched since they left the LCS. Also of the NM98 I have 2 more copies given to me from friends who "grew up" and got rid of their collections and they let me pick threw there collections (I also have 3 Darkhawk 1s). The FIRST page of Ebay had 48 NM98 available (some have been sitting there for months) and If I have 4 to add to that how many copies are just sitting in collections.

I wanted to see what all the fuss about Golden Age was. I'm not a fan of the Jungle, War, Western or Romance and the Superhero books I would want are too inflated price wise right now... So I settled on my second genre love of Sci-Fi...

Then you get to today's artists who get a 6-8 week head start before publication that need a fill in by Issue 3 cause they've fallen behind. And it's the only book they work on. 🤦‍♂️

I feel there needs to be some sort of COA that comes with this detailing the story behid it. Kind of like how there should be before and after pics accompanying Extensively Restored books.

I have a question. Never having held an Action 1 in my hands or examined one. How would one be able to tell that this was legitimate from 1938 and not from one of the first reprints? Does it overlap with something on the back cover?

Some Ditko and Kirby. I actually prefer the Cap cover over Avengers 4.

This would make me feel sad everyday.

This is the newest one out. Is it worth it to purchase? I have the previous edition and have heard the content is the same for the 6th Edition but they just changed the pictures.

Obviously, the Golden Agers are much too smart to be taken in by my Faustian proposition. Back to the 5th Dimension I go.🤪

Wow. No takers. Thought for sure someone would take the bargain for a Tec 27 10.0 or an AC 1 10.0 or an AA16, Whiz 1(2), CA 1 ...🤔