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Action Comics 36! The one-and-only robot cover. This generously-graded slabbed 4.0 copy came up as a BIN on eBay one day...

Action Comics 37! I own many Action Comics in CGC slabs, all numbered sequentially. This is one of them. Bought off eBay at some point.

Action Comics 38! For whatever reason, it's one of the most common early GA Actions. I always liked this cover, and think it's one of the better yellow ones in the run. (There are a plethora of yellow covers coming up.) I won this copy from a ComicConnect auction a few years ago.

>for sale<

If the labels were all blue, and there were just notes re: resto on the label, I'd be much more accepting of restored books. I suspect I'm not alone.

Action Comics 39! The cover that spawned my boards avatar. I made a lowball offer to a guy on eBay for this copy when it was raw, which he countered to. Asked @thedudeif it was a good deal, to which he replied "Are you nuts? Buy it right now." So I did. It was one of a bunch of books that I stupidly consigned through a dealer at a local con around 10 years ago. This was my first CGC interaction of any kind, and for some reason I thought it would be the better way to go. The dealer gives me a smudged carbon copy as a "receipt" which I can barely read. I followed up a few months later when I heard nothing, then a few months after that. Nothing again. There was no way CGC could track it for me without the account info, and I had to take the dealer at his word that he'd actually submitted it, and it wasn't lost or stolen somewhere. 9 months later, after a press and slab, I did finally get the book. I made my own CGC account not long after.

This cover writes it's own dirty jokes.

I am sure they have?

Yeah, I was "collecting on a budget", as ridiculous as that sounds for something that cost what it did, relatively speaking.

Action Comics 40! More WW2 nazi-smashing sweetness. I think I've owned 4 copies of this book over the years, upgrading over and over, from a fair, to a good, to a GVG, and finally to this sweet-looking 4.0 I won off of Heritage. Of all the main auction sites, I have found that Heritage usually had the highest realized prices. Only 2 comics from the entire run were purchased from there, as opposed to a dozen+ from ComicConnect and Comiclink.

Yeah ComicConnect has also gotten *really* spammy with their near-daily emails.

This will be the most expensive website test ever run.

@MrBedrock have you seen any recent trend regarding acceptance / pricing of restored books?

Action Comics 41! I know I say a lot of these are "my favorite covers" but this one really is. It was one of the first I collected back in the early 2000's, on a trip down to the old Metropolis space / movie poster museum. The original copy I bought had a spine roll that hid a tiny punch hole that went through the whole book, so when I decided to slab them all, I sold that copy and upgraded to this one. Still not the best copy, as so many of these have the cover printed offset, showing the white from the back cover as it wraps around the front. I really regret not buying a number of higher grade, better presenting copies that I saw over the years, but I was trying to fill in so many holes in the collection at the time it just never happened. I bought this copy as a BIN off eBay a few years back, and I still have an extra VG copy floating around.

You are currently sorting by "ending soonest", I think, as opposed to title and issue.

Action Comics 42! The 1st appearance of Vigilante, back then a cowboy of some sort? All I remember is the 80s series where he had some kind of motorcycle racing outfit on. And I think he was on Arrow at some point? Who knows. But the black colors and symmetrical layout of this cover are awesome. I "splurged" and went for a 6.5 copy, bought from a dealer off eBay (I forget which).

You'll have to wait until Action 32 for that. And just wait 'til you see the 4-part Action 23 story.

51 and 57 are certainly... less desirable...

Let's post two again and catch up for my lost week. Action Comics 43! The WW2 covers from 40-63 are the most dynamic of the run, and this one's no exception. I suppose Supes could probably take out entire troops of Germans at super speed if he wanted to. Would this guy have even seen Clark coming for him? #doubtful I bought this copy off of a boardie many moons ago. So many I have no record of it.

One of my very favorites

Amazing! Though you're missing a few

Action Comics 44! Another great Nazi cover. This was the second-to-last book I was able to acquire from a ComicConnect auction in 2018 (23 was the last one). I was anxious to finish at that point, so probably over-payed.