waaaghboss

Aren't there also a ton more DC silver age keys floating around out there? Supply demand? I found a site and can't, eh, refind it, that showed estimated print runs for the top 50 books for various years in the 1960's. DC books dominated, outselling whatever marvels showed up on the bottom of the list at 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 rations. Marvel didn't seem to get their numbers up until the mid to late 60's. If key books in the 1960-1965 range are looked at, and DC printed 4x as many books on average, won't there still be a higher number of dc keys out there?

I made it to about page 10. Going to make finishing reading this....train-wreck of entertainment... a rainy day project But yah, Cerebus is mostly irrelevant to most people today, but I'd much rather have a Cerebus 1 than be one of the billion people with a hulk 181. Punisher's cooler than wolvie anyway.

Pretty much this, in every single way.

Sometimes the first meaningful appearance matters. I bought both Spidey 2099 and ASM 365 off the rack. I never knew that ASM365 was technically the first appearance until a few weeks ago. If I had to choose one to collect (without speculating on value or reselling) I'd pick 2099 every single time.

Always fun to hear from people who were buying comics in the 60's. I started in 91 with Spidey and cap, and used to wish I could roll up to a magazine rack full of the old 12 centers. Always had a fascination with the silver age books, even then. I still have my silver reprint of ASM 1 that I probably read a hundred times! It's weird now, as i'm nearing a point where books from when I was a kid are about as distant (age-wise) as the silver age was from when I was reading books in the early 90's. If that makes any sense

Sharp! I still find it kinda surprising that people pay $20+ to have a company grade their comics for them, when in my head these are still new books worth under $20. I really need to get with the times! I wonder if this is how guys who read comics in the 60's felt in the early 90's.

I remember way back in the day, key issues were first appearances, and origin stories. Does anyone care about origins anymore?

I just preordered! Is Neal Adams stil alive?

Yah, I could be misremembering, but while it was iconic (was in the posters in Cap 400) I never remember it being a high price. Then again, I haven't seen an early 90's price guide since the early 90's I remember drooling over Cap 332, which was around $10 at the time, but don't remember much else in the 250-400 range being really a stand out. But again I'm going off of a 10 year olds memory from 25+ years ago. I need to hunt down an old copy of Wizard. Its a fantastic cover, and I've wanted one for a long time, might have to jump on one sooner than later. The other one I still feel is a bit undervalued is cap 332. Was my biggest key back in the day.

I dont ever remember it being a particularly valuable or sought after book, but I agree, it has an iconic cover. There's just a ton of them out there and not many people looking for it I guess. I actually was putting offers on graded copies of it not that long ago.

Pretty much. I can't imagine a world where FF1 falls behind ANY hulk book. Ever!

This man is a red-blooded american *salute*

Thanks for the response. Browsing their website, can't see really what they have, but it looks like a sale will be coming up in a few months! All Golden/Silver/Bronze Age and Wall comics: 25% off! I might have to get over on that side of the mountains

Love these covers. What song is it on that Christmas Funnies 5?

Almost always the case for me as well. Actually got lucky last week and came across a small stash at a shop's dollar bin of early 50's little lulus. Hey, I take what I can get sometimes Are there any decent shops in Seattle that anyone knows of?

Oh wow, you re right. The iron sword and has copyright 1989, and the book says it was published in 1986. I'd always assumed they marked the reprints. Thanks!

Exactly. I picked up this book (and several others) in multi-pakcs from K-mart in 1993, and didnt realize it was a reprint until years later (at which point I threw it away, kinda wish I had kept it now). Going through my batbooks, and I still have a Batman 399 that I'm positive came out of those multi-packs, but it doesnt say anywhere in or on it that its a reprint.

They look pretty sharp, got them watched.

Supes 23 no question. That cover is just.....amazing.

I'll have to dig through my old boxes again I recently gave a box of newer books to a friends son, and as I was showing him how to bag then, I found a fun piece of trivia. An archie book from the mid 80s has the girls commenting on Archie Snowsurfing. If I remember right, snowboarding in the mid 80s was still pretty new, and not many people were doing it/aware of it, so it was fun to see it on a archie cover early enough that there wasn't even a set term for it yet.

Haven't really had the chance to sit down and read it yet, but it looks like it takes place at near some place called Hart's Island, and later mention leaving a bar and walking to 130th street. Can't pull out a city name yet, the book's a bit brittle, and looks like some tape was tried to fix it some time ago making is slow going.

It was a series of these BS cash grabs that slowly pushed me out of comics. Supes wasnt dead, we had years of funeral for a friend shenanigins, with who of these 4 mystery heroes might be superman? The Cyborg? John Steel? Some Robot? Or a horrible teenager? Knightfall. Knightquest. Knightsend. The last decade of spider-man is all fake news, the REAL spiderman died around issue 149 and the spidey you all grew up reading was just a clone! Oh lordy.

Exactly. And anything CLOSE to that amount, you need to insure.

Not a pulp per say, but I love the cover and figure this is the best place to share it.

Is there any good resource to compare GA books and how they've grown/depreciated over the last few decades? Other than getting a pile of oversheets and comparing