Hepcat

Great stuff! Three genres in one post.

What does it matter to those with the 9.8's if there are more 9.9's out there all of a sudden? They still have their comic (or comics) which they bought because they loved and wanted the comic, right? .... Uh ..., right?

Which is a perfectly logical and legitimate question. There's no way such a miswrapped book should be graded that high.

I got most of my Northlands from Motor City Comics as well. The oldest Northland I have though is my Showcase 24 cover dated February 1960 and that seems to be an outlier with respect to age. Here anyway are my Northland Mystery in Space comics: The #99 was graded VF/NM while the rest were graded NM-.

All 26 non-romance comics that DC released in April 1963 ran a version of this "The Swing is to DC!" ad: Each comic pictured a different mix of four titles and each of the 26 comics appeared in at least one ad. Since each ad featured different genres as well as titles, I can't find a single ad in which I have all four comics pictured. The best I can do is three. From the ad above I have these: Nice pre-1966 copies of the Fox and the Crow are incredibly difficult to find.

I can't find any indication of "key" issues beyond #1. But I see that A Date with Judy was also a radio series that ran between 1941 and 1950. And a daytime A Date with Judy ran weekly on Saturdays on ABC from 2 June 1951 to 23 February 1952 and then a primetime version with a different cast ran on ABC from 10 July 1952 to 30 September 1953.

Interesting! None of my Bethlehem Tales of the Unexpected or Adventures of the Fly which begin with 1960 issues display that stamp.

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You're right.

The only way this would stop is if Ebay charged some sort of a listing fee that was a percentage of the BIN price.

You're absolutely correct on both points. It's always been about extracting higher prices from gullible collectors and now "investors".

All three of my Northland Atom comics are graded NM-:

Being able to sell off one's undercopies is always nice!

Rex!

While I don't have many Mohawk Valley copies, I quite like the ones I do. I posted a Brave and the Bold 32 previously. Here's another one:

The wicked Catwoman is the queen of catfights (at least in my collection): I love that that Superpussycat picture. It's absolutely precious!

But whyever then did you encase those beauties in plastic coffins? I've bought pedigreed copies not because I thought the designation gave them special status but simply because they were nice enough to fit into my collection . That being said I seem to have acquired dozens of pedigreed comics over the years.

Five more from my collection: Dallas Stephens copy Dallas Stephens copy

Show us your puppies! I'll start with just one but it's a good one!

My copies: Neither is a pedigree to my knowledge.

No, it's not a pedigree to my knowledge. I may have bought it from Harley Yee 20-25 years ago but I really don't remember.

Nightshade Ted Kord Blue Beetle

Hand?! I'll give you a hand then:

Not being a movie buff, I didn't know until now that A Date with Judy was a 1948 flick starring Elizabeth Taylor among others: I had nothing but a vague recollection of the comic. Now I'd like to acquire a few issues anyway of the title for my collection.

Truth! But is there something else to be said about that Our Fighting Forces 32?