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Lovely copy!

Which issue of Our Army at War has the word balloon free short of the corn fed American G.I. and his young German counterpart fighting over a little puppy with all three ending up dead?

I agree! Capt. Storm is way underrated and a real person_without_enough_empathy to find in high grade.

always loved the CC stories, this is my best copy: Very nice copy!! The 33 is just as tough as the 31 IMO. I'm a huge fan of the Cave Carson books!

The Flash 109 looks like a Fine to me. The others look to be of somewhat lower grade.

Collectors buy the books. They may also break the book out from the case in which it's entombed. Investor/speculators just buy the label.

Oh, say it ain't so Aardvark! That would be an issue from 1960!

Thanks for the interesting commentary! It's always cool when people are able to say that they started buying these issues back in the single-digits or teens, and these older issues have particular personal significance to them. I don't think I deserve the compliment since half of what I said was actually an outright lie. It was actually JLA #8, "Justice League for Sale", that was the first JLA issue I ever read and which together with GL #11 left what turned out to be a lifelong impression upon me. JLA #14 was the first JLA issue I ever bought as a kid. Nonetheless, I'll get out my camera and see if I can post some random bits of my comic collection, including some old Green Lantern, JLA, Flash, Aquaman, Atom, Hawkman, Wonder Woman, Tales of the Unexpected, Fly, Black Cat, funny animal, Drag Cartoons, etc. I already posted pictures of my comic/magazine and model cabinets in the "Got a comic room??? Showcase it here!" thread about eighteen months ago: My Comic Cabinet My Model Cabinet Then there's my bubble gum cards, hockey, CFL, baseball, non-sport, etc.- my milk and pop bottle collections, and small collection of other assorted board games, Kenner Presto Sparkle Paint Sets, Hasbro Marble Mazes....

I suppose they may be roughly equivalent to CGC's 8.5 - but my grading aesthetics differ from theirs: 1. I penalize for miscutting on the left edge. I don't like to see a white border on the edge, particularly if this border is at all toned. That just makes a book look old to me. 2. I'm pretty tough on yellowing. I do like my whites bright. 2. I'm generally quite tough on staple and spine wear. 3. I don't penalize as much for other little nicks in other areas of the book as does CGC. I'm more of an overall "eye appeal" type of fellow while CGC seems to "count" defects/blemishes and deduct points according to a preset schedule.

I'm still trying to find a copy of #47 that's up to my quality standards. One of the problems is that with the checkerboard graphic that DC used at the time at the top of the book, any type of yellowing/toning makes the book look "old". I'm also looking to upgrade my copy of #77. My present one isn't white enough.

Certainly with respect to cover artwork I'd disagree here. I much prefer the cover art from about issue 11 to 39 where Murphy Anderson(?) inked Gil Kane's pencils to some of the later covers where it appears to me that Gil Kane inked his own pencils.

Green Lantern #11 is a very high nostalgia book for me because it was the first Green Lantern comic I ever read. That and JLA #14 with the Atom joining the Justice League were the two comics which hooked me on the DC superhero universe for life.

That #4 provides an excellent example of a defect I hate for which CGC does not penalize - the miscut left edge which leaves white showing along the spine. Miscutting of ths sort leaves any comic that isn't the brightest white look old.

Mine may be a minority opinion but I really hate that cover. I think it's Gil Kane's worst Green Lantern cover. Green Lantern looks all wrong. I dislike it so much that it was my lowest priority among early Lantern issues but three or so years ago I bought a copy anyway when I ran across a particularly pristine copy.

That's perhaps my all-time favourite Green Lantern cover, perhaps/partially because it was the first Green Lantern I actually bought as a kid. I'm leaning toward upgrading my existing copy which I acquired perhaps twenty years ago because of a minor 'defect". I get pickier and pickier over the years and drive myself crazy that way.

All slabbed 9.0's? How are you collecting them?

How could he have been so heartless?

It's sad that Mike won't post until and unless insulted though....

Here it is:

Three questions for all you World's Finest aficionados: 1. Did Supergirl ever make an appearance? 2. Did Krypto ever meet Ace the Bat-Hound? 3. Did Batwoman ever succeed in luring Superman instead of Batman into her boudoir? She was always pretty determined when she set her sights on a superhero:

Now I understand: .

Which explains why you've got only five posts on this forum! I'm glad my post forced you into the open. At least now we can all thank you for the excellent job you've been doing creating a very useful site, and then vilify you personally for any errors we find of course!

House of Comics: I don't understand what you're trying to say.

And the Superman and Batman runs are so long and tough you never get done - which is why World's Finest only rarely makes it to the front burner.

It must be my server that's the problem then.