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I'm guessing Lou Fine went allot further in your bracket? Just a guess!

I agree - go with the half time score.

I'm happily surprised that Everett has had such a strong showing throughout. Maybe it was my own perception, but I always felt like he took a back seat to the other big names from that era. I've always been a huge fan of his Atlas work! He did many of my favourite covers to come out of the 50s.

Beautiful book Ryan! GLWS!

I had the same picks. Tough match up for Cole. I personally would have picked him over the other finalist. While I appreciate Baker and Barks, I never collected them, so it was hard to advance them to the final four. But I know allot of people here feel strongly about them.

Take per PM!

I'll give you $8 and a copy of Spawn #1.

Thank you for sharing your story. Unfortunately my mother in law had a similar story with a much different outcome last year. Those anxiety filled nights between hearing "you have cancer" and knowing if it's treatable are like nothing else. And I didn't even go through it, I was just very close to someone who did. I'm really happy too hear it all worked out and your healthy! As for Action 23 - beautiful copy. It came out gorgeous! A nice way to cap off your run!

I recently picked up a coverless More Fun 60. I love early Spectre!

You think so? I feel like once a book gets a purple label people look past the notes and apply a steep discount regardless of the extent of restoration. I'm sure there is more value in books with minor restoration and more buyers, but the discount is still pretty steep.

I wouldn't say I worry about anything. I do wonder what the future will look like for comic books. Will generations younger than myself care about collecting? No idea. I imagine the generations before me had similar questions, but in the end you have to do this for enjoyment of the hobby. Future value will be out of our hands.

Nice cover! GLWS

Boy you guys type allot! But I agree, this is 100% true. I do wonder if this will change as books become more expensive and buyers continue to become more educated. I recently bought a Hulk 1. Really pretty copy that was trimmed with amateur color touch. I've never knowingly bought a restored book (I have bought a few without knowing), but for my price range it was either a pretty restored or beaten to hell unrestored. I don't regret my choice and I'll probably be adding a few more restored big books to my collection in the coming years. That said, I will not undo restoration or otherwise butcher a comic book to increase the value.

I'm not sure I see the correlation between his private collection and his right to have an opinion about the comic book market. If you don't like all his typing, don't read it. I don't have nearly the collection of allot of guys on these boards. I've never even seen an Action comics 1 in person. But I have been around comic books my entire life and activly collecting since I was 18... way before it was cool. The hobby has gone places I never imagined. Access and how / where you buy have modernized. While my collection may not impress allot of the hardened golden age collectors on these boards, my experiences give me perspective that some may be interested in. I could care less about his private collection. He has the right to share what he wants to share. His opinion is backed by experience and perspective that out weigh my own and I think it is short sighted to discount people who don't brag about their collection.

I think I'm going to hang low for a bit and see how the next few months play out. I think some great buying opportunities will present themselves.

All I'll say is, to each their own. Lots of different collectors and lots of different opinions. I personally appreciate Mitch's perspective. He's been doing this since before I was born and at the very least his theories are backed by sound reasoning and experience. Maybe he'll be proven wrong, but without a crystal ball we all run that risk.

I was surprised at some of the prices coming in. I was winning the Tec 2 1.8 until the live auction started. Then I was blown away pretty quickly. Still some great books out there.

So that completes the run for me of strange tales of the unusual. I've slowly been accumulating them over the last 7 or 8 years.

Take!

I think this is a fair point in the short term. If Gilead's treatment works out and by June we are seeing the economy open, allot of GA collectors probably won't be impacted to the degree others are. However, if we go into a prolonged recession a larger segment of people will feel the impact. The other thing is, even people who don't feel their job as at risk may be more cautious with discretionary spending.

You are definitely a collector with more of a pulse on the market than me. There are a handful GA books I track at the big auctions to see where the prices land. I usually come up with a # I feel comfortable spending and hope for a little luck. In the last 5 years or so I've only gotten lucky once (that can be taken a few ways, but unfortunately however you choose to interpret it, it's probably still an accurate statement) The limited books I've been watching seem to have gone a little cheaper than I would have thought. And there are some cool 50s Cole covers on the boards that usually get picked up quick and haven't been. So I'm just sitting tight for now. Seeing how the next few weeks plays out. Heck, I even made it through an "October" sale without buying anything! That's a huge personal achievement for me!

Yeah, I have my personal top 3 and then there are a bunch of great great artists that are hard to choose from. I did leave Ditko off because I think his greatest contributions are SA. I don't consider Schulz because I didn't think of him as a comic book artist and didn't include Barks, but now I'm thinking I should have.

I agree, harder to narrow it to 10 than I thought.

GL with that grail!

I'll be curious to see if anyone posts general trends from Clink and HA to see if prices are starting to come down.