bondtrader54

thanks! lots of discussion on covers. I just looked for #63 on EBAY , highest price and got to browse through pages of every issue that came out in '63. Some of the most mentioned beauts in that year. 15 with the Mad Thinker is such quintessential Kirby. A later cover i appreciate is 59 with the brilliant yellow background behind Black Bolt. Very much in the vein of 46 except that background is red.

my favorite title. I just spent days reading this thread a few pages at a time. I need to look up how to post pics and eventually i'll put up pics here and some other threads. I'm closing in on 65. I never owned a #1. I used to have most issues from 10-70, sold them to buy my wifes engagement ring in 1978. With the coming of EBAY i got into it again in the late 90's. In 2001 with the hi tech crash i needed money and once more sold. I slowly started buying some but only maybe 20 issues now, highest number being low 60's. All really nice grades, a handful slabbed (by me, only buy raw.)

i give it a 9 just for having an intact spine. Annuals from that time had that squared cut that was so difficult to store away.

I don't know what you guys are arguing about. Hulk 181 has a few recent 9.4 sales at $9600 while FF 52 shows sales at $9500 for 9.2. They're already atop one another in pricing.

Instead of picking one or a few books at $800 each i'd say don't go for any hot newer issues. Stay with older proven risers. Second i think that the movies will continue to come which are in large part driving prices. Better movies will drive faster. Surprising to me the FF movies didn't hurt prices. Not sure every character can thrive in the face of a bad movie. Most suggestions here are first appearances. Early DC in better condition i think are rarer. Titles like My Greatest Adventure in better grade are tough finds and somewhat like (not as tough mind you) like the 50's Atlas books. basically i think there are several underappreciated titles. Rip Hunter, Sea Devils, Mystery in Space. Later books in the Marvel universe would be the short lived Inhumans title. Recently a 9.6 Inhumans #1 went for $215 while a raw FF 45 in what looks like a 5 to me went for $213. To me, thats lagging in price. Anyway i think theres merit to the IMPORTANT book school and the scattershot approach. Books like FF 32 or 34 are really low priority books that while not carrying value like others of that age have none the less appreciated. Have fun and good luck.

I'll take a shot. noticible blunting top left. Some creases in spine all minor. Beautiful white back . This can come back 8.5-9. Real pretty book.

from personal experience i was reading comics in the mid 60's so i missed all the early issues of Marvel for the most part. I saved them but i can't say i thought it was collecting until i suddenly had 30 or so in a run. I scoured candy stores that had piles of comics for back copies. As to multiple copies Star Wars1 i grabbed 5 copies off the newstand.

My brother sent away an very beaten up Avengers 4 and got a .5. That book was easily better than this one. I have no clue.

wonderful to see such a gorgeous book of that age. colors are striking. NINE point OH for me.

sad. bright cover. beautiful inside. this could be 8 or 8.5 without the pull. I'd land in the 5 range as is.

I have to agree its sunfade. top of the pile at some point in its life.

What i do see of spine looks nice and square. Older annuals were clearly not made with collecting in mind. They would break down and get all ratty. I have no argument with 8/8.5

man i will look at any SK cover. Considering the age i expect the graders are more forgiving. I can see a 7. That line, while there isn't so terribly obvious to detract much from the book.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ACTION-COMICS-30-SUPERMAN-1940-cgc-7-5-gun-violence-cover/372214838721?hash=item56a9bbb5c1:g:RFoAAOSwytJaFypT Thats a 7.5 recently sold on EBAY. That has tape on the interior back page. i think its fairly comparable.

Not sure i go to 8 as was suggested earlier but minimum of 7. Thats one fine book.

Books from this age get more harshly graded i think because so many 9.8's exist. I think a 7 is about it.

fabulous page color. Really gorgeous book. I have no dispute with 6.5

Well you have rounding lower left corner which i think is the most visible flaw. Slight creases on the cover that look like simply from the book being opened. Page and cover color good. Something going on inside the smoke on the cover? This looks like a 7 to me.

off white

I guess the 100 or so books i have had graded don't give me the experience the other posters have because i see a better book than they do. Some small flaws but only the lower spine scuffing seems to detract from the book. Everything else looks minor to me.At the risk of sounding like an amateur i was thinking 6.5-7 as i scrolled.

3 sounds right. that top staple will be a problem. Choppy but sound looking.

i sold a graded copy a few years ago in a 5.5 and this one isn't much different.

definitely press it. I agree it will move it up. The extra point on such a valuable book ends up being quite a bit of money.

to me the book has far more working for it than against. 6 ran through my mind the whole time. Send it out and you can get anything from 5.5-6.5.

Without belaboring the flaws the book presents nicely. Good color on the cover. I would easily go 5 and if it came back 5.5 it would be no surprise.