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I've had this book for over thirty years.

Everyone needs love on Valentine's Day, so I'll go with Dell. Dell doesn't get much love. I love this one primarily for the back cover.

Most CA books are.

It looks like the upper right-hand corner might have gotten a little smooshed from slabbing, so I don't think it's a 9.9 anymore. It also has a slightly crooked cut, and I didn't think that was allowed in 9.9.

Outstretched hands to stretched out arm and 2 X 24 = 48.

Fantastic copy! That was the number one book on my want list for many years until I was priced out more than a decade ago. I could never find a copy with nice pages and no resto. I would've taken that one in a heartbeat.

Interesting. But does that mean a higher price or just a better return on the investment (which would be lower for raw books)? It probably doesn't make sense to slab certain books—I always wonder what someone was thinking when I see a slabbed 1.5 random funny animal book on eBay—but I still don't think I'd crack out a book to sell it raw.

Invasion to invasion.

I agree. There's a consensus the GA starts in June of '38 (with Action 1), but what do you consider the last GA cover date? The Japanese surrender documents were signed on September 2, 1945, but I'm sure that October issues were already on the stands, and November issues were likely being printed. December issues were probably already finalized, too.

I've only purchased one book from that infamous company, and I probably paid a little more than I would have been willing to pay for a raw copy online. I knew that there was a small risk that the company could miss resto, so I ended up submitting it to CGC. I received a Universal label with the same grade and page quality. I'm not sure why someone would pay more for a raw copy—unless you think the grade was too strict. (Although I've never heard tell of a dealer grading his raw stock more loosely than CGC grades books; every dealer I've encountered grades his raw stock extremely strictly.)

A copy with colors like that might make my favorites list, too! And you're right—I'm positive that we've never done anything even remotely like this before. White pages are everything to me, so my favorites all have white pages. I cannot rank them, so I'll list them in alphabetical order. This is one of the freshest looking GA books I've ever owned. At one point in time this was a highest-graded copy; for all I know, it might still be. This is my only Schomburg cover. This was my first GA book (so far as I know) with a cover drawn by a female artist. This had been on my want list for a while when I finally found a white-paged copy.

Even though I find some of the pedigrees interesting, I wouldn't willingly pay more for a book because of the story. I might pay more accidentally if the underbidder bid me up because of the story, but the story wouldn't affect my personal maximum. At the end of the day, comics are mass-produced items. My goal is to find the nicest, freshest copy I can—and I value page quality far more than grade—pedigree or non-pedigree.

London Beat to Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benetar).

Hold on Loosely to American Woman (mama let me be) (The Guess Who).

They don't. If I pay more for a pedigree book, I'm paying for qualities that the book has: white paper, good gloss, etc. Mile High copies sold for 3–4 times guide because there were much nicer and fresher than all of the other books that dealers were calling near mint. Paying multiples for pedigrees really doesn't make much sense now that we have numerical grading and page quality designations. There could be some qualities not captured by those metrics, but not many, and not for all pedigrees.

Green Onions to Somebody's Watching Me (Rockwell).

Stuck on the Chain Gang to Breathless (Jerry Lee Lewis).

to The Heat of the Moment (Asia).

Heartbreak Hotel to I Want to Hold Your Hand (The Beatles).

Rocket Man to Hound Dog (Elvis Presley).

Window on a house to windows on a truck.

Montana Archie to Vigoda Archie.

FH Oct. to FH Nov.

Superior to Superior.