MrBedrock

While Marvel 9 is THE great battle issue, this one is absolutely number two (and I don't mean do-do). And the cover may be better. It has a little water stain at the top staple...thus a 7.

I've had three nice copies of this book over the years. Sold the San Francisco for alot of dough. Sold the Chicago to my good buddy Steve. And lucked into this one for relatively little.

Well, since Bangzoom has been showing his collection I doubt anyone is even looking at this thread. But he hasn't shown us any Timelys. So, for those of you going through withdrawal...... Got this at San Diego about 8 years ago from a guy walking around with a little stack of silver age. In the middle was this beauty.

Oh, take my word for it Bill....Richard is well on his way STEVE Yeah, maybe the geek part.

A later Fox book. If it weren't for the condition I might not have paid any attention to it. Then I realized it had the origin of One Round Hogan. Woo Hoo!

Thanks all for the little clapping gremlins. BTW I must confess I made a little mistake. I saw flames on the cover of this book and thought it was a Timely so I bought it. Imagine my surprise when there was no Human Torch in it!

Outstanding book Richard.You never mentioned your x-ray vision before..now all the slabbing makes more sense. On this, you are not wrong! Thanks Russell

My LA Wizard pick-up from A-1 Comics. Gotta love the White Pages. I had to put sun glasses on to protect my x-ray vision while reading this baby through all the layers of the CGC holder. Wow!

Ryan, congrats on an AWESOME addition to your comic family. As a friend once said,"If you don't like this, well, you just don't like funny-books!"

I do not pretend to be an expert on this. Get Carey and Evans on that.....I have not bought Timelys in a while...but when I was Daring Mystery 2 "was said" to be the toughest....but mid numbers in Caps and MM may be tough also. Frankly, I love the Daring Mystery 2 and Mystic 2 covers.....Just wonderful covers Red Raven 1 is definitely the hardest Timely key to find. I always thought Daring 2 was the toughest Timely. It was the last issue of that run for me. Mystic 4 was the hardest to find of that run and the CGC census seems to bear that out. USA 11 is a bear to find also. This is also skewed by perspective. I tend to collect in grade and so some books that seem scarce to me (Marvel 3) aren't really that tough to find.

I leave town for one week and look what happens! Pages and pages of incredible stuff to look at. Maybe I should leave town more often. Thanks for sharing all of this B!

i am appreciating all the love for the book big time. thanks, all. We are just sucking up so maybe if you ever let it go one of us (me?) will have a shot at it! In comic collecting there is no love, it's all about the books!

Bill; Great little story and that's a nice looking Mystery Men #1 you got in the Fotress. Which was the better copy and do you remember whatever happened to your two copies of Mystery Men #1? The More Fun copy was the best by far, the bathroom copy was a GD+ if memory serves. I will have to find the old catalog list to verify the MF copy, but I think it was VF+. They both sold at shows, to whom? I don't recall. Wish I had the MF copy back. Actually, Bill, you sold it to me. It was vf+ with a minor amount of resto to the bindery chips and staple reinforcement. Beautiful paper. I sold it to a collector in New York who has since passed it on to someone else. You are quite correct Richard! Thanks for refreshing my old memory. Wish I had that sucker back! You and me both.

Bill; Great little story and that's a nice looking Mystery Men #1 you got in the Fotress. Which was the better copy and do you remember whatever happened to your two copies of Mystery Men #1? The More Fun copy was the best by far, the bathroom copy was a GD+ if memory serves. I will have to find the old catalog list to verify the MF copy, but I think it was VF+. They both sold at shows, to whom? I don't recall. Wish I had the MF copy back. Actually, Bill, you sold it to me. It was vf+ with a minor amount of resto to the bindery chips and staple reinforcement. Beautiful paper. I sold it to a collector in New York who has since passed it on to someone else.

Ain't it a beaut! Attaboy Bill. And five pages of kudos to boot!!!!!

I have to ask: What grade did he give it back then? I don't remember the grade, but the price would have put it at a 10.8! I had to resubmit to get the price that I wanted!!!!!!!

and one more, that just went up on the m.m. pedigree thread. This is the greatest book in the history of geekdom! But you are still a showoff.

Any chance you want to trade back,I've grown tired of the pile of ROM you gave me Aren't you collecting Micronauts now? I know you have a Fighting Yank I've been eyeing.

Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Right, but the back cover could be foxed to death and still get an 8.0....or the front could have a miswrap, poor colors and production bindery tears and get a 9.4. Out of the three, there is no question which one I would choose. Nice to see someone else probably agrees. Hey, that used to be mine I think I traded it to XL as a part of the pile for his Daring Mystery 1. Glad it ended up with you, Mr. B(thumbs up Thanks! It has found a good home. You can visit anytime!

Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Right, but the back cover could be foxed to death and still get an 8.0....or the front could have a miswrap, poor colors and production bindery tears and get a 9.4. Out of the three, there is no question which one I would choose. Nice to see someone else probably agrees. Absolutely. I think we agree that the one thing CGC can never properly take into account is Eye Appeal. I will always take a good looking copy over a structural high grade.

No kidding. Quality would have been better off and a couple $$ richer had they simply used Fine's splashes as covers. In fact, they may well have sold a couple of ten of thousands copies more! We'd probably be paying $10,000 more for each one today!

Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold!

This came from Bachara and the Crowley collection. At one time in the early 80's I bought the Mile High Slam Bang 2 and 3 for $50 each. About a year later I sold them to Bruce Hamilton for $150 each. I made a killing. Darn I wish I had those back!!!!!!! While Slam Bang had a very obscure line-up each issue is a little treasure trove and I would put the covers of 2,3,and 4 up against just about anything that isn't a Timely.

Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp.