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Which surprises me. I know Sup 1 is the scarcest of the three, but its mostly reprints. Before the hate mail comes in, please know I’m the insufficiently_thoughtful_person who sold his 5 years ago for what they were then going for: not much.

Gator had said above he thought a Bat 1 2.5 = Cap 1 3.0. Given the page quality issue on the Bat 1 you just pointed out, it seems more like a Bat 1.5 w normal page quality = a Cap 3.5. At least this week. And it could be that some of the Cap 1 fervor went instead toward the high grade MMMCs

Bat 1 2.0 brittle brought $96k in Heritage. Cap 1 3.5 off white to white brought $104k Next auction it may go the other way . . .

Thanks. I didn’t know. I just dropped the winning bid on one! Well, MAYBE the winning bid. Ok, it’s probably not going to win without a little update from time to time.

That, or I was smoking too many crack rocks at the time

It wasn’t there when I bought my 8.0, is all I know. That was maybe a year ago

A 9.0 just arrived on the census, which also might be a factor

That’s messed up

That looks like a warehouse find

His first Timely work(and as far as I can tell, his first published work in comics) . . .

This is from one of the many stories writabout Stan Lee’s passing: In 1939, Lee got a job as a gofer for $8 a week at Marvel predecessor Timely Comics. Two years later, for Kirby and Joe Simon's Captain America No. 3, he wrote a two-page story titled "The Traitor's Revenge!" that was used as text filler to qualify the company for the inexpensive magazine mailing rate. He used the pen name Stan Lee.

I’m sorry, I don’t know. Maybe some of the DC guys could help us out here?

This close-up is focusing on the corner crease, right?

This flies in the face of the notion that CGC was tougher in their early days . . .

You should just give those to me since I’m such a great friggin’ guy

Ok, I’ve read Cap 7, and Red Skull just pops back in again complaining that everyone keeps underestimating him and leaving him for dead and everyone will soon regret their mistake. No further elaboration, and same stuff as in Cap 3, really. So it must be in later issues that the origin story is fleshed out. Since Maxon’s name is only mentioned in Cap 1, and never in Cap 3, the later origin story(whenever that might have been published) could just as easily have identified the first true Red Skull to be in Cap 3. But again, that paragon of wisdom, Wikipedia says the later origins point to Cap 7 as the first true Red Skull. Not sure this all makes sense; I fear I am obsessing again.

Ok, I should be working, but my comic obsession is such that I’m trying to figure out when the true Red Skull was first introduced. After much research, I’ve fallen back on that epitome of wisdom known as Wikipedia. There is FASCINATING information in there I never knew: such as when Simon and Kirby first created Captain America, they received death threats and needed protection from the wingnuts out there. How anyone could protest the punching of Hitler is beyond me, but I guess “nationalism” was a thing back then, just as it appears to be a thing with the current political administration. But I digress . . . It appears as though the real Red Skull appeared in Cap 7. Overstreet just notes it as another “Red Skull app” without any further elaboration. Stay tuned: I’m going to Cap 7 next, and will post the pertinent page . . .

Well that’s a good question. If you look at Cap 3, it appears as though its the same guy as in 1. I’m perplexed too.

Sure looks to me to be the same book. Having just gone thru something similar, my guess is someone cracked it out and tried to press it into a 9.2, but missed. Maybe the presser dropped the book(looks like the lower left corner is slightly more rounded on the 8.5). Or Maybe it was the last book of the day and the grader was in a hurry and went low

I agree. But this is where the encapsulation process throws a wrench in the works. It’s the cover we see, not the content. I like the cover of Cap 1 better, which I can lovingly gaze at all day every day, but I like the interior of Bat 1 better, which I’ll never get to stare at and fondle. Its a conundrum!

So cool. Unfortunately no Timely or DC, I guess because those publishers are still active and took steps to copyright their early materials

I fear you may be right

This will likely be an unpopular POV, but I am tired of all the Romance comics. I don’t understand the attraction.

Sorry that happened. It’s a great book