Professor K

Most of my Silver and Bronze want list is complete so I've been considering looking for some Golden Age books. Thinking one early example of each of the DC and Timely Superhero. While researching the Timely Caps I've noted a few thing: Issue 4 I feel is undervalued. Its got Kirby, Simon, and Lee plus its a Shomburg cover. He drew Cap different for that cover, not with a crazed I'm gonna kill you look on his face. Very pleasing to look at cover. Issue 11 is cool as its not a WWII cover and Cap is drawn bigger than in most. The cover of #17 I think is Avison's best. Awesome horror cover and Cap looks huge and ripped. 20 & 22 are 2 great Syd Shores battlefield covers. 26 of course the return of Shomburg. 29 ,31 ,33 pure awesomeness. 37 seems to be the most popular of the Battlefield covers and goes for crazy money I suppose because the cover seems to depict the defeat of Germany. I'd like to get a Shomburg cover but eyes keep taking me back to issues 17 and 22.

Funny how the first 10 to 15 appearances of Superman and Batman (In Action and Detective) go for huge money, but with Captain America Comics issues 4 to about 50 go for close to the same money with only a few exceptions. Well that 9.4 is up to 410K with 11 days to go.

I definitely see you point. Personally I sold almost all my raw comics over the years and concentrated on key issue slabs mostly so when I'm gone my son can sell them easily and for top dollar. I was really just wondering how it has been stored all these years. So old and such high grade......and so valuable. I have a friend, 66 years old. He started buying comics in the late 50's through the late 70's. He kept them all. He has almost every comic produced from those years aside from the romance titles. (No BS, even obscure stuff). I helped him inventory and organize it over about a 3 year period and what a thrill that was, it was incredible how he missed pretty much no issues in all those years. He just bought every issue of every series every month for all those years. Well my point is that he stored them boxed mostly unbagged in Xerox paper boxes. And man did time do a number on them. He read them all so they had wear. Just sitting in those boxes for decades messed a lot of them up. He has a Detective 33 for example , in a bag since the mid 60's, when he took it out it practically crumbled. Just crazy what time can do to these things even if they aren't handled. I see pedigrees like the Fantucchio collection and can't help but wonder how he handled and stored them to keep them so well preserved. So I wonder how that Action 1 and other high grade Golden books like it are stored in a way in which time doesnt affect them so much, if at all.

If I owned that Dentists copy of Action 1 I might consider getting it graded just for preservation of it. I wonder how it has been stored for the past 30 years or so.

Interesting. I never new about this. So the ad in More Fun 51 came out in the previous issue in which Spectre was introduced in a story. The Detective 27 ad in Action 12 came out the same publishing month as Detective 27, May 1939. Did Action 12 hit the stands Detective 27?

Both Spider-Mans look really nice for the grades

Ok Thank you. I didn't read all 56 pages of comments to see if that was discussed before I commented on the 9.8. I read Timely's and others explanations of how the 9.6 became a 9.8.

What are you talking about?

I think it will land between 900,000 and 1.1 million. Of the two Universal 9.4's that exist I can't find any record of one of them being sold. Just found out there is one 9.8 out there. Thats gotta be the one of the top 4 most valuable comics along with the 2 Action #1 9.0's and the Detective 27 9.2. And since I started writing that previous sentence I just found out that the Cap 1 9.8 used to be a 9.6. How the heck did that happen?

9.4 going up for auction in a few days https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/captain-america-comics-1-san-francisco-pedigree-timely-1941-cgc-nm-94-off-white-to-white-pages/p/7211-83001.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

Ok final bump and price drop for these. Special Marvel Edition 15 9.4 is now $1100.00 free shipping. Strange Tales 178 8.0 is $80.00 Free Shipping. Thank you

I try not to comment on sales threads but heck yeah it looks like at least a 7.0. Nice example.

Thanks I've been reading it wrong for years. your question- I'm not sure, I didn't try that one.

Also I have a Strange Tales 178 CGC 8.0 for 80.00 Free US shipping. I am the original owner of this one.

Hi, I have a real nice Special Marvel Edition 15 CGC 9.4 White pages if anybody's looking for one. This one looks good all around. Graded in 2011 so most likely not pressed. Case is perfect and always bagged/boxed. $1100.00 I'll pay shipping to US. Usual board rules, 1st I'll take it gets it. Paypal or money order only. I ship next day with tracking provided. Thanks

Final price drop before putting it on ebuy. $860.00 Thanks for looking.

Price drop to 875.00 free shipping. As low as I can go. Its been averaging at about 950.00 so far this year. Thanks for looking

Hi, For Sale X-Men 94 CGC 9.0. Looks real nice for the grade. Submitted by me and never pressed. Case is perfect. $900.00 I'll pay boxed priority shipping US only. 1st I'll take it takes it. Paypal or money order only. I ship next day and will provide tracking info. my kudos Thanks

Me too. 1st appearance. And man that 20% buyers premium is crazy, plus probably US sales tax on top of that. Superman 1 5.5 went for 456K. By far the most expensive non 1st appearance around.

Bat 1 went for 175/210 and Cap 1 went for 190/228. So if they were in the same grade Bat 1 would have won by a lot.

So the 3.0 is missing probably 1/6th to 1/4 of one page and it get Greened. The .5 a "Large Piece" of a page and its still Blue. Both comics are missing a part of a page but have different labels. It just seems inconsistent to me how they apply the Green Label. Same with the writing part of it. This one has writing but its blue (and didn't seem to even affect the grade) and this one has writing but its green. Like I said it just seems inconsistent.

I was thinking Everly Brothers not Cars.

What is the exact reason the 3.0 got a Green Label?

Thanks for your time and that very complete answer. Very appreciated.