jimbo_7071

The OA selection looks good for those who collect it. The GA comic offerings looked about average to me. Too many C/OW books.

Spike Jones - Der Fuehrer's Face

Bloody murder to potential murder victim . . .

Ghost Gallery to Gallery of the Dead . . .

Enemy soldiers about to be ghosts on a ship to one ghost on a ship...

Hip Knox, Super Hypnotist, to would-be amateur hypnotist . . .

Kinstler interior art to Kinstler cover art . . .

BBM (boldface by me) I have to agree. Another question might be, are there younger collectors collecting anything? I work in education and interact with young people regularly. Precious few have any interest in collecting anything at all. They live their lives digitally. It's unreal. Some researchers have speculated that the digital/social-media age is actually causing changes in they way humans' brains develop. I see some students reading comics online, but I rarely see any reading paper comics. I became hooked on comics at age 10; I don't see any young people hooked on collecting comics or anything else. Collecting just isn't a part of the way they experience the world. I won't say that there won't be any young comic book collectors thirty years from now, but there will be very few. The hobby does have a shelf life, as any pop-culture-related hobby does. I realized that a long time ago, and I'm fine with it because I collect for enjoyment, not profit. I think of the money I put into my collection as entertainment money. After all, if I were to spend $5,000 on an overseas trip (which would be easy to do), I wouldn't get any money back from that, either. Back in the 80s and 90s,some very good businessmen like Bill Hughes did an excellent job of convincing people that expensive comic books were investments. It was an illusion, but that illusion has been sustained long enough to make some people fairly wealthy. The hobby isn't going to tank in the near future, but if you're in your thirties, you might not want your comic collection to be your nest egg. If you're in your fifties, you probably don't have to worry.

A son to a moon . . .

Many of the Dell file copies have tanning of the inside covers and just average page quality; some of them are nice books, but they don't command a premium. The Harvey file copies seem to have poor page quality; I wouldn't be surprised if they sell for less than non-ped copies. Crowley copies are hit or miss. Many have a big ol' stamp across the front cover.

After a Tom Collins or two, I can't tell the difference between Strother Martin and Jackie Gleason, either. I think of a pedigrees as a subset of provenances, i.e., a pedigree is a provenance where the original owner is recognized. Back in the day a pedigree was a big deal because some dealers called everything above roughly today's 8.0 level "mint," but if a book was a Mile High, you knew that it was nicer than the other "mint" books. Slabbing, numerical grading and page quality designations cleared up that situation. To me, there's no reason to pay more for a pedigree book just because it's a pedigree book. If it's high grade, has nice pages, and has nice colors. pay what you have to for those qualities, not because someone named the collection.

From a dress of one Christmas color (red) to a dress of the other Christmas color (green).

I go for page quality first and grade second. I don't care much about provenance beyond the fact that some pedigrees have nice pages and are high grade. So many of the Mile Highs have glue and/or color touch that I'm not as big a fan of that pedigree as I used to be. Vancouver might be my favorite pedigree based on freshness, but I've never owned one, in part because there aren't that many Vancouver books that are in my wheelhouse.

Naval officer in bondage to naval officer in bondage...

Obese, hairy, jolly man to obese, bald, not-so-jolly man . . .

The CC archives do not appear to be complete. I tried to look up some of the books I've had an eye on in recent years, and some of them do not show up; it may be that the buyer or seller can request to have an item removed.

Fedoras to fedora...

Gal with a knife to gal with a knife...

Heck, I'd just love to see the Mile High Timely runs, even if they're never put up for sale.

Are you talking significance or value? If you're talking significance, I see where you're coming from. After all, it features its titular character's first appearance whereas Batman 1 and Superman 1 do not. I'd counter that by saying that Captain America isn't quite the icon that Batman and Superman (and Spider-Man!) are. If you're talking dollar value, well...the book is lucky to be in the top 10 (if it even is). It wouldn't take much of a downturn in the hobby to create a glut of Cap #1's.

I like Cap 1, but it's way too common to be a top 5 book. I'd put both Action 7 and Tec 31 above it. I like Marvel Comics 1, too, but its popularity has been waning for a long time now.

jimbo_7071: 3 Edgar Church/Mile High copies Your estimate is the highest one that I've seen for the collection. Does that estimate include non-comic magazines? I assume it includes the funny-animal comics that were supposedly thrown away by the Church family.

I already posted by best pick up, but these two deserve honorable mention: my first Everett cover and my first Mile High with "C" coding instead of "D" coding.

Bang Zoom's photos of raw books are a reminder to me to always take "single highest graded," "second highest graded," etc. with a grain of salt. If I had his collection, I'd throw mine away.

Redhead to redhead.