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I did the same 🤣

I've posted this before, many years ago I bought this book and after reading the issue (shockingly reading books I buy) found this receipt at the last page of the story. Obviously used as a book mark but the original owner never read the letters page. Always curious what the purchaser bought for the 24 cents? Bright side, with the receipt I can at least take off 15 cents as I didn't get the receipt of the $25? Buying off Lone Star to get that removed for the price realized if I ever sell and calculate the tax I have to pay 🤪

Here's my spinner rack of birthday books I'm still hunting down issues not found yet. Strange month for me. I'm a second child so all the cool books are for my month, second Blue Beast, second Jonah Hex, second Tomb of Dracula, Second Werewolf by night. Think there's a pattern forming here 🤣

I help out at a comic book store and a elderly gentleman popped into the store to drop off more books to sell on consignment. In the early 70s he was buying books off a distributor for roughly 12c each so bought multiples of books. He told me he sometimes bought ten and up to fifty copies of a single book. So these bronze are not rare. Maybe in grade. He did drop off I think two copies of the Strange Tales 169. he did drop off two copies of Green Lantern 87, he has three more copies at home. Five copies of Swamp Thing 3, three copies seem to have a orange cover and two are regular red cover. They seem to be minimum 8.5-9.4 as they sit on some books. I was a little horrified to hear as he was going through some books, he noticed some had the white mis-wrapped cover with the ad page on the back showing the white on the spine. Thinking they were worth less he thru them out into the recycle bin. Have no clue how many or what issues he tossed out. Told him they are worth the same so no more throwing books out. Now this is one elderly gentleman with a few thousand uncirculated books, how many more are out there with 60s and 70s books that maybe in grade. More discoveries in the wild I think for the next ten years. He also bought magazines in boxes that have never been opened. There's a Savage tales 1 he dropped off that looks to be in vf+ too.

I was buying books off two lcs in 2022. I stayed away from Marvels and found the DCs were priced comfortable for me. Batman 189 $125 plus Washington sales tax. From another store I bought a Detective 14 in low grade priced at $500 plus tax. Thinking if I didn't want to keep it I could always get my money back. Then I traded a graded under copy of X-Men 94 4.0 white pages and $200 for this Superman thinking it would be cool to have a single digit copy. Then I bought this HOS 92 for $400 plus tax thinking this copy in this grade probably sells for $900 at the time. Not sure what they go for now. So I've been buying except the Marvel books. If Marvel prices slip down I'll get some of those. And all books bought from lcs. So I've been having fun collecting while watching astronomical prices being realized for Marvels during that time.

Blackhawk published in Australia 1948 Newspaper print covers.

Calendar comic published in Australia, newspaper print covers.

There's way too much ct down that spine for removal. Bright side, at least he isn't playing around with a major golden age key from DC or Timely

I haven't bought a flash comic in years, I get distracted collecting other books but I'm always got my eye out for any bargains. I think it's because I bought these years ago and all up my Flash's cost me roughly $300 U.S and because I picked them up cheap I've not invested a lot to keep hunting and I'm easily distracted by other collecting goals when it comes to comics.

Bought this back in 2011 in Brisbane off H.A. when nice books didn't need to cost the collector large amounts of money. Miss those days. I mainly collect the Rogues and there were a few in this lot.

I just read about this book. I think I'd cut out the whole page and just send it in for a NG grade label stating Hulk 180, 1st cameo appearance of Wolverine with wolverine missing in the page just for a laugh.

Then there's the classic 3rd wheel covers. A couple together and a jilted lover in the front or in the background. My favorite so far in the 3rd wheel covers is not a silver age but a bronze age. If only I can find a really nice grade copy because it's just, we'll see for yourself.

Two of my favorite covers so far in the silver age. A Karen cover and the crush you in my arms cover.

If you're asking about the new spinner rack. I got it through my lcs. They got it through Diamond distribution. Diamond doesn't have it in stock though they get it in from someone else when ordered. It cost me about $260 and my lcs let me buy it at their cost price which was nice of them. 👍

I thought infinity gauntlet, the first one was a good team up of characters. I was even waiting each month for the next installment and that was rare for any comic for me at the time

Does the first gen have 13 covers like the original first gen or am I rambling?

TTA 73 use to be hard to get. When I got this 9.2 copy there were only three 9.4s and none higher. With more copies graded and the use of pressing there's a few 9.6s now.

In the past, us collectors didn't need a grading company to tell us what a pedigree was. Books in collections were given pedigree status where the collectors and the market for them accepted them. There has been one collection of books that CGC said is a pedigree and I'm very doubtful of that. Also across the street that grading company issued a collection as a pedigree and I have a raw copy in the bronze age which has quite a bit of aging on the cover and I'm personally think it's dubious to call those set of books a pedigree. With that said I didn't pay a premium for the book. If a silver age collection is deemed a pedigree and the collection has books up past the 90s and Jim lees X-Men. Then all those books are from the pedigree collection as whether the collector bought them off a news stand, comic book store whatever. As long as it's a ORIGINAL collection of books then all books are from the pedigree.

I just looked at my TTA pedigrees and 11 of the 28 have white pages. A few of the off-white to white page books are in a older label. These are silver age pedigrees and I bought them at the time because silver age pedigrees were worth the same as a non pedigree in the same grade. So I thought it was a free bonus myself so why I bought them. The white page books come from the following pedigrees. Boston, Rocky mountain, Susha news and Twin cities. There's no bonus to registry points for pedigrees. And if the OP isn't trying to put together a run of pedigrees and just likes to get a 9.8. Your 9.8 white page non pedigree sounds like a sweet book and I'd call victory and not look at another copy.