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Jealous, but I just don't have that sort of cash right now. Great book! Thanks Andy. My only dilemma now will be whether to crack it out or keep it entombed Or count the days until you trade it to me.

Nice book, but upon studying it, I now wonder why Wonder Woman was fighting in World War I when the book came out fairly early in the US's involvement in World War II. As i understand it, at the beginning of the war American troops were under-equipped and ill-prepared for the fight. They were using horses and their gear was leftover WWI stuff. So, actually, it may be accurate for the start of the conflict.

Jealous, but I just don't have that sort of cash right now. Great book!

This book is underappreciated as far as I'm concerned.

I love this book... Wish I could find a copy this nice... Me too!

Let me know when you price the Boy 7, Subby 13 and MM 40.

my goal was to only buy "inventory" for the upcoming convention season, but I kept finding myself saying "I need this one for me" so quite a few are going into my collection box...but cool group shots nonetheless... So which ones are you keeping?

I think we all did, except for one...

Look what I got in the mail today! I think I might switch to WWII covers...

If that's the Sunday one I'm glad I didn't keep bidding! I console myself with this:

Nice!

Wow. That's a book I hope to own a copy of one day.

What site is it that lets you know about the estate sales?

Well, it's hard to follow those nice Caps... Still, I'm slowly but surely picking off the Heroics I need...

My budget cap in 1979 was $50. But my spending was split between baseball cards and comics and I always figured why get one GA DC when you could get 5 early Marvels and still have money left for some Topps multi-packs or Wacky packages?

That's the key, I think. At least for me. I'm not a dealer. But I found myself rebagging some bronze yesterday and I stopped and stared for a while at my copy of Marvel Feature #4. It's maybe VF at best, but I could remember where I bought it and when, who from, why I wanted it and how hard it was to find a decent copy, etc. etc. And it triggered the same feeling of 'at last I have found you' euphoria that I got when I pulled it out of the bin at a store in San Francisco in the 90's. If the books never lose their appeal it doesn't matter what they are. The value is something much more dare I say spiritual than just their investment potential. And so you have to measure maybe how many "wins" the book supplies you, I think. Money? Check. Excitement? Check. Cultural value? Check. Personal victory? Check. Commoditizing collectibles has the very real danger of being soulless otherwise. Silver age Marvel keys, Gold mega keys, bronze nothing in mid-grade--it doesn't matter as long as there is fire in the acquisition and retention of said collectible.

That might be a clue.

I've been pretty quiet lately but I couldn't pass this one up even if it is a little outside my normal preferences...

That's a run I considered trying to get for a while.

I mean if, you know, having two is such a burden and all...