nochips

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Thor 128 Green River, VF/VF+ White pages

If anyone has any more White Mountain Avengers let me know!!!!!!!!!!!

I really wanted those Avengers. I have to get the graders notes, they look incredible in person. Why the 9.4 grade? Maybe page quality? Hard to say?

Fantastic Four # 43 Green River, VF+. Bone White pages.

White Mountain Avengers 15, Sweet.

Here is the White Mountain Avengers 14. I just picked it up.

Tales to Astonish 66 Big Apple. VF+ Can someone add the image for me? I can never get it to work~!

SALI...Come On SAY IT, or spell it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cap 109, RAW Oakland White pages

Nochips, that's a beautiful TTA. While I've seen alot of GA Big Apple books for sale here and there, this is one of the few Silver Agers I've come across. Are there full runs of early Silver Age Marvels and DCs from the Big Apple collection? Anyone seen others, and are they as nice as this TTA? Enquiring minds want to know! I wish I knew where to find a run of something Big Apple silver age. I rarely see them. I bought a few TTAs and I am I quite pleased at the preservation of the books I have. Not sure how the other runs were stored, maybe someone knows?

I picked up some Big Apple Tales To Astonish books as well. Killer copies to say the least.

Here goes ST 127 BC

One More.. Strange Tales 127 Pacific Coast, 9.0, Qualified. Piece off the lower back cover.

Here goes: Tales of Suspense 64 Boston Copy. RAW!!!!

No thanks needed. I strung you out, gave you a fix and sent you on your way. I see that you are a real "pedigree junkie" now. See if you can bring some others into the fold........................

Haspel told me he thought he could identify them...he said they have more gloss, whiter pages, and nicer colors than he's ever seen on any other Silver age books. He said he can identify San Franciscos in almost exactly the same way--they exhibit a higher degree of preservation than any other pedigree. I dunno, though...he knows a lot more than I do, but I can't imagine you wouldn't mis-identify some books using that technique. No list as of yet--not to say it's impossible to compile one with a bunch of work. The original owner consigned them to a shop in her hometown and the shop sold most of the comics off before Hauser got to them...the ones Hauser got hadn't been given over to the shop yet for consignment. I think the idea of the pedigree designation only came a few years later after Hauser and/or Brulato submitted theirs to CGC. San Francisco books have some marking on them. Not all of them, but most of them. The reason CGC doesn't always discuss these markings is to prevent fraud. People have been known to duplicate some markings to pass one over now and then. Mark Haspell knows what he is looking for. He can spot a pedigree. The original owner died during WW2. Some people have claimed to have books from the collection but they are printed after the mans death. How did the man buy a book from the grave?? This is a trick even Houdini could not perform?? I know a lot about these types of things. I try and keep some of them to myself. I look for these pedigrees at shows and on ebay. I have found a few over the years. Sometimes I am the only one who noticed, other times I am fighting to get the book at a top price. Two or so years ago someone had a "missing" Marvel Mystery Mile High on ebay. A few people saw it and went after it. Other people just skipped on by and went to the next lot. I saw a San Francisco Worlds Finest go on ebay as well. Went cheap from what I remember. I saw it after the sale. I missed that one. CGC did as well. The book was slabbed and had the Frisco markings on it. It did not have a pedigree on the label. I am certain the buyer had it sent back in for a regrade. CGC does not always catch a pedigree. If Mark Haspell gets to look at it, maybe. Many books go right past him and get graded by others as nice high grade books. They miss a few here and there. He always looks at the known, declared, pedigrees, he does not always look at the high grade books. A frind of mine had a Top Notch Frisco that he sent it for slabbing. CGC called him and told him it was a pedigree. He didn't know. They informed him.

Not "supposedly" - it's true. Now is all this going to be in Matt Nelson's Pedigree Book? This is how bad rumors start. Are you implying Matt Nelson had a sex change, became the curator of a Marvel museum and wrote a book about it? Can I get that at Amazon.com?? Just kidding Matt. We all love ya!

If you have a TEC 27 missing a centerfold and you toss it in and the book grades a good, what's it worth??? If it's a VG, with a loose centerfold, what's it worth?? $3000.00 is nothing to complete that book. If I had a copy missing the centerfold I would have bought it right away.