Badger

uppercut to uppercut

Catman left cross to Captain America choke hold

Deception to deception

Clue to looking for a clue

Another classic war cover surrounded by book ends

cement to, umm, bubble bath of doom?

Stuck in metal to stuck in cement

Crazy animals to crazy duck

Definitely a rare gem! Nice!

I'm satisfied being in the funny car class. (Maybe the clown car class?) 🤡

Noooo! I have to go do a family thing!

Cap bustin' through a door to bustin' out all over!

Wow! Never seen this before and I love it.

Promise?

Human Torch Pinup to Human Torch comic

Oh yeah!

Black Cat to Black Cat

Its the ($$$$) that keeps the GA collecting in check. Prices today are crazy.

Horrible boiling death to horrible boiling death

Crones back to Witch(Different copy )

Witch to Witch

Yes! Yes they do! Drives me crazy sometimes.

I have over 7500 comics and only 400 or so are slabbed. Most of these are worth more slabbed and I am getting to the age that I have to start thinking about how people will dispose of my collection after I am gone. Much easier for them to get the most out of the valuable comics if they are graded. If I want to read them, I can almost always find a copy online to read. Alternately, I do have a few low-grade duplicates of my favorites.

I'm flabbergasted an 8.5 sold for that much. Still, one thing I've noticed about the higher grade duck books is that they tend to go into permanent collections. Nobody is buying them to flip. Might change with recent duck book results but you probably will not see that same issue pop up for sale anytime soon. It's not just supply but market supply that drives these prices. Right now, none of the big Internet dealers have any copies above ungraded 7.0. Even eBay only has one, not professionally graded, in 7.0. The only professionally, using that term generously, graded copy is a PGX 6.0.

Wow, Mike! Great book!