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Arguably the penultimate Captain America motorcycle picture!

I am including sales tax now on my bids. I am winning far less but I still win every once in a while. Its going to be interesting to see how Amazon and ebay do as more states start forcing them to charge sales tax. That was their number 1 advantage over local stores and now, for many, its gone.

Some of you may remember this book from a Hake's auction a while back. I did not bid on it, not that I would have got it with what it sold for, but it stuck in my mind because I had always heard that there were no Duck books in the Mile High collection. I visited Denver this week and had a chance to speak with Chuck about this book and the other "Mile High" Four Colors that were auctioned off at the same time. Chuck told me that he does not think they are really Mile High copies for 2 reasons: by the time Uncle Scrooge #1 came out, Edgar Church was retired and could no longer buy them off the stands. He bought them second-hand so high grade Mile High copies of anything from this period are rare. The second reason is that Chuck says he would have kept them for himself. Timelys and Barks were his favorite comics. He kept the Timelys for as long as he could, only giving up his Red Raven relatively recently, and he still has so many Uncle Scrooge in his personal collection,not Mile High, he does not even know what he has. Looking at the other "Mile High" Four Colors that were sold by Hakes they are nice but mid-grade so that lines up with Chuck's contention of being bought second-hand. So, I'm confused. Does anyone know the providence of where these "Mile High" Four Colors came from? I assume they came form a big name like Geppi because Chuck says he was never asked by CGC to verify them. They would have no markings because they are later Mile Highs so that means CGC took the word of whoever submitted plus their own expertise. Its a mystery. A mystery that goes against 40 years of "common knowledge". It would be exciting to see that "common knowledge" disproven.

Such a great book! Somebody should snap this up.

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Collection or estate, I just wanted to have a book that "might" have been read by him. Never had the opportunity to meet him so its the closest I will ever get. Still, makes me smile when I look at it.

I have one from his collection.

Is this where they sell popcorn?

Finally got a Cap 38 back in the collection thanks to @143ksk!

To bare chested soldiers fighting a barrel chested man over ample chested and flat chested prisoners!

Or maybe you meant like this?

It looks beautiful in the picture. I think I can see a few spine stress marks but nothing major. The tear at the top right could be production related but I do not know. Still, take the registry points and

Nicest 7.0 I've ever seen!

I'm curious too because I had to give them my account info when I first set up my selling account years and years and years ago.

For those of you who feel safe and secure knowing your prized collectibles are in a bank vault instead of at home here is an article from the NY Times saying safe deposit boxes are not safe! If you find your safe deposit box empty you have limited to no recourse as nothing in that box is FDIC insured. Does anybody think this is an actual problem or is this "fake news?" NY Times Linky Outside of the cited instances, has anyone ever heard of a random safe deposit box being emptied?

I think this is the first 6 pages? http://blog.cherrycomix.com/comic/cherrypocalypse/

Captain is generally the highest rank that routinely sees front line combat. Major and above are field ranks which lurk in the back areas generally pushing paper.

Could be. Maybe in my mind I softened the memory by splitting out the 2 books? Nonetheless, the sale took place, i spent it all on fun stuff, and the money was gone before the end of the day! Kinda like any sales money I make now.

It really was! She got about 50 other misc. books for a total of $20 and I got firecrackers and a kite. I literally burned the money and tossed it into the wind!

Amazing Spider-Man #129 and #135 that I sold to a lady at our yard sale for $10 which was a fortune for a 9 year old in 1976. My mom asked me at the time if I was sure I wanted to sell. First comic sale for a profit. First seller's remorse!

So true! "Gore in the Gully" also strikes me as typical Barks alliteration with just the right comic twist. The simple desire to see that horror movie gives the audience an immediate and direct insight into these girls and lets them know they may be a match for the nephews!

Carl Barks Preliminary Oil Painting "Menace out of the myths"