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All Hero Comics #1 (Fawcett Publications, 1943). CGC 4.5 universal. OW-W pages. 1st appearance of Banshee O'Brien. Sole issue, like a very few other one-offs. Only 28 universal on census. $495

Adventure Comics #260 (DC, 1959) (origin Aquaman). CGC 4.0 universal. OW-W pages. $155.

Hope the New Year is treating you all well! A mix of GA and SA titles, all CGC graded for this batch. This sales thread will remain active until 11:59 pm EST on Sunday, 1/19/20. GENERAL RULES No Probation List or Hall of Shame members. The first "take it" posted in the sales thread wins, trumping any pending or even finalized private message (“PM”) deals that have not yet been acknowledged in the sales thread either by me or you. If we reach a deal via PM, I will try to indicate books are sold in the sales thread within a reasonable time, but feel free to mark the book as “taken via PM” if I have not already done so. Payment by check or money order is preferred for all sale totals, but for sales totaling less than $1,000, PayPal will be accepted if you need to use it. I expect to send an “invoice” PM within a day of a take, but please feel free to PM if you think I overlooked something. Please send payment within ten calendar days of my sending you the invoice, or I reserve the right to deem the transaction cancelled as of the expiration of that ten-day period. SHIPMENT I only ship to North America. I will try to ship within two business days of receiving payment (e.g., the date a check clears). In the United States, $10 for raw and $18 for graded in any quantity, using USPS priority with signature. For Canada, $15 for raw and $25 for graded in any quantity. No returns on CGC graded books. If you need more info/pix, please ask. I will accept returns on raw book(s) for a full refund minus shipping within 10 days of your receipt of the book(s), so long as the buyers pays return shipping and returns the book(s) to me in the same condition as when originally sent. BOOKS OFFERED • Adventure Comics #260 (DC, 1959) (origin Aquaman). CGC 4.0 universal. OW-W pages. $155 • All Hero Comics #1 (Fawcett Publications, 1943). CGC 4.5 universal. OW-W pages. $495 [NOT AVAILABLE] • Amazing Spider-Man #26 (Marvel, 1965). CGC 3.0 universal. OW pages. $65 • Amazing Spider-Man #42 (Marvel, 1966). CGC 5.5 universal. OW-W pages. $135 • The Avengers #2 (Marvel, 1963). CGC 6.0 universal. OW pages. $450 [NOT AVAILABLE] • Fantastic Four #55 (Marvel, 1966). CGC 8.5 universal. OW-W pages. $395 [NOT AVAILABLE] • Sad Sack's Army Life Parade #1 (Harvey Publications, 1963) ("File Copy"). CGC 9.2 universal. OW-W pages. $75 • Silver Surfer #11 (Marvel, 1969). CGC 9.4 universal. OW-W pages. $595 [NOT AVAILABLE] • Thunder Agents #1 (Tower Comics, 1965). CGC 9.2 universal. OW-W pages. $350 [NOT AVAILABLE] • X-Men #95 (Marvel, 1975). CGC 7.5 universal. OW-W pages. $95 • Zap Comix #1 (3rd Printing) (Apex Novelties, 1967) (Kevin Michael McFadden collection). CGC 9.6 universal. OW pages. $100 [SOLD]

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Sad how lonely some of these books can be, so my last post of the night. This book also appears to be pretty hard to find. Clue Comics v2 #1 (Hillman Periodicals, 1947). Only 6 in CGC Census! A 9.2, 9.0, this 8.0 and a 5.5, 5.0, and 2.5! All my slabs above are CGC btw. Just looks better w/o the top!

Look! Mere human heroes! How dare they think they could go up against the enhanced or mutated or even non-human superheroes that were cropping up at the time! Humans' last stand against the new wave of superheroes. Anyway, only 16 universal plus 1 restored on census, with the highest graded being this 9.0 book, sole Denver pedigree. So I assume impossible to find in near mint, let alone better, for now.

And now this book. Getting a lot of mileage out of this one! Used it to post to three threads recently--the Lev Gleason Pub thread, the looming menace in cover thread, and now this one! only 13 universal and most 8.5 or above, so few nice cover books to go around for anything but real money!

Ten universal on the census, none higher than 7.5. I am a stamp collector, and this book's existence shocked even me...a STAMPS comic book! Really! Apparently very hard to find in anything but very low grades.

I figure history's most popular hermit should be represented in this thread!

Just one more (watching a game!) for now.

Well, Spidey isn't actually menacing here....but what a loomer

My lone LGP book. Experimented with metallic ink on the cover!

Hi. at 20% off. 🤓

Victorian Age, 1841-1896: The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck with first-ever English language comic book printed by Tilt & Bogues in London in 1841, or some focus on the reprint using the same plates of that book that appeared in New York in a newspaper supplement titled Brother Jonathan Extra No. IX (September 14, 1842). Back then London (England in general, actually) was way more important to us than now, with popular items in England (books, clothes, devices/machines, etc., you name it) invariably finding there way to America, so I would go with the Tilt/Bogues London version, the undisputed progenitor of the NY version. If we would rather turn a blind eye to England's significance/influence at that time, arguably could use 1842 for the reprint NY version as the start of this Age. Platinum Age, 1897-1937: Yellow Kid Golden Age, 1938-1947 or so: Action Comics #1 Atomic Age, 1948 or so -1955: post-war, sci-fi, and horror. So many worthy keys. Where to start. Silver Age, 1956: Showcase #4 Bronze Age, 1970-1984: Green Lantern Arrow 76, Superman 231, Conan the Barbarian #1, Jimmy Olsen 133. So many worthy keys. Where to start. MODERN AGE, 1985-present: TOO LONG, so appears to have been broken down as follows: Copper Age, 1985-1991?: Secret Wars? I dunno. Extreme Age, 1992-1998?: something must have started this too Movie Age, 1998 - present?: Blade, Marvel's first successful attempt at a movie, which apparently led to X-Men movies and other comic book movies, continuing to this day and beyond.

As per PMs, I have agreed to let BorderlineHoarder take the Batman 19.

I didn't get Batman 19 actually. Mr. Roberts beat me to it.