GreatCaesarsGhost

Yes, that is a quick start. A bit of a slower start for these 2:

There’s just so many things that set Marvel apart from the others, but the punchy dialogue blew me away as a kid. Here I am 50 years later still amazed at the stuff Thing would say to the Human Torch

I’ve gone back and reread Stan’s first story(which you can read here : https://monomythic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/stan-lee-first-gig-fill-a-couple-of-captain-america-pages/) it’s a very uninspiring story. Hard to know if it’s because it’s his first, and the creative juices flowed more freely later, or because it lacks the “team approach” set out in posts above this one. I suspect it’s a john Lennon/Paul McCartney deal, where they sparked off of each other and the sum was simply greater than the parts. does anyone else know of any stories written solely by Stan? Maybe all of them before the early 60’s Marvel stuff? Anyone have opinions about those?

I hate to hear this. I’ve saved the picture and will be on the lookout.

Have you guys seen this cover less Bat 1 for sale on the Bay? Price seems a bit aggressive, but who even knows anymore https://www.ebay.com/itm/BATMAN-1-1940-GOLDEN-AGE-CGC-AUTHENTICATED-CREAM-TO-OFF-WHITE-PAGES-COMPLETE/164702260365

Looks good. Do you know who Abraham Riesman is?

This is a perfect illustration about how a miswrap doesn’t figure into CGC grading

+1. Not ready to pay the multiples even the quiet little books in the weekly auctions now command

I know I’m a tad late to this party, but how is this only an 8.0??!!

It all ebbs and flows. They’re still running with the big dogs

I did not know that was possible

Buy high and sell low is our motto

It’s addling all our brains

Still looks like him, although I must admit I almost didn’t recognize him without chuck connors wood

+1

. I guess we will all leave a book or 2 for our heirs with a yellow sticky note saying that

Cabin fever and nut baggery

This is a higher price than I thought the book would bring

Not technically Pre Robin, but of interest just the same. Amazing price

That’s a bet I would have taken in 2016. But I guess the writing was on the wall when the 9.4 only went for $50k in 2019.

I thought Cap 13 went low. I darn near ended up with it, by accident

does Solomon Grundy still appear in stories today? How big was he in the silver age? I guess I'm asking simply out of ignorance. To me, this seems like a strong price for a character I've always thought of as a mostly golden age villain.

I remember too when this book broke out. It confounded me then and it confounds me now. (It’s only Krypto, for goodness sake!) The guy who paid the crazy money initially was supposedly Bill Mumy of “Lost In Space” and “Twilight Zone” fame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mumy

I’m in dallas, and I can attest to the misery that’s here. I’m hearing it’s worse in Houston. @MrBedrockhasnt posted since the snowpocalypse began. It’s supposed to start getting better later today

No, I did not. I thought the price was too high. I have no doubt this will be one of those decisions I will regret