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Bring Barks, Timely, and high grade Daredevils (1964). GGA wouldn't be bad either. Last year I posed with Superman #1 so you could always bring that Bat #1.

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Good job Mike!

Up a creek to in a pool

Too many its that "ooo" feeling you get when you hold high grade books that you just don't get with a lessor grade. An 8.0 Golden Age book can blow your socks off. An 8.0 modern? Drek. High grade is subjective and more than just the letter or number grade. We've all seen 5.5 books that look much much higher hence the phrase, "Looks high-grade!" It comes down to the drool factor and what makes you drool may not wet another persons lips. Gold 8.0 and up is high grade. Silver 8.5 and up bronze 9.4 and up copper and modern 9.8

And the number 3.

Still, the #46 is just jaw-dropping no matter what the grade as long as the cover image is there. So happy I was able to get this book from Dale.

I'm with you there, Mike! I love non-visible defects and "defects" that just don't matter that much to me. I do not think I have any Caps that qualify as all the ones I've been able to afford seem to have defects on their defects.

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Absolutely incredible western to beat up western

Nemisis to really good friends

Long red nails to long red nails

That's fantastic! Congrats!

The interiors on this book are fantastic! Thanks for posting!

That is a great Timely and one of the very first I fell in love with! I'm pretty happy with my All Select Comics but I would really like to find an upgrade for the #8.

Made me happy and sad. I picked up a quite a few at that time because, yeah, at that price?

You could always make your best offer $106,982.99.

As long as I'm alive I do not think you would have to sell at a loss. That AS #2 is killer.

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I know I'm going! This is a great show.

Wow, I had no idea the percentage of restored AF 15s was that high! I guess not surprising as it has been one of the most expensive silver age books and that cover shows damage easily. Even the less expensive keys were being sold with undisclosed color touch back then so AF 15 would have been a tasty target for restorers. The very first silver age #1 I bought, Avengers #1 in about fn+, had undisclosed color touch on the spine that I had not noticed. That would have been around 1989 or so. Comic Warehouse in Albuquerque sold it to me. After a dealer at another shop pointed the color touch out to me I went back to Comic Warehouse and demanded my money back. They had a sign behind the counter that said "no refunds" but I refused to leave until I was made whole. Told them to call the cops and we could all be in the newspaper together. They still would not give me my money back but they did let pick out an equal, undiscounted, amount of silver age to take in its place. Got a VF+ Journey into Mystery #86 so not a complete loss. I think my anger wasn't so much that they had sold me a book with color touch but that I had missed it in my excitement to actually own a copy. Someone had taken a magic marker and filled in black areas on the front cover. It was not subtle with lots of bleedthrough. I flipped through the entire book and counted pages before buying. I was really embarrassed that I had missed that. Embarrassment fed my 21 year old self's anger.

Wow! I would love to see the interior if the mere "7.0" exterior looks that bright!

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