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but why would anyone slab a 7.0 from the 70s...... on purpose???

yknow, that a pretty sweet looking 5.0!

needs a bit more red... but anyway. Hey Hook, why diont you take a shot at it?

maybe like this as a quick stab at it.

Boy does anyone else here want to vote for a re-color of this cover?? It could havebeen so much more dramatic, and dark, instead of a sky blue cave ceiling?

lotta blue painting on the spine...

whats cool about this thread is that CGC was supposed mean th eend of Pedigree status bevcause it would elevate the grade over provenance. It made sense finally that a no-name 9.6 would sell for more than a Pedigree 9.4. But, as wee see, Pedigrees are as strong as ever, if not stronger in their appeal to us collectors. interesting turn of events!

awwww, cut it out, yer making me blush!! Compared to your book parade of pleasure Im humbled...

looks like John Forte's inks.... but I dont know. I agree, very nicely drawn anatomy and foreshortening.

Id love to see what PCE would price it at since he has so many other lesser DC keys for staggering prices on his site..

yeah... we are (ummm) discussing it as we speak. But I think Ive put it to rest now....

sooo, someone mentioned B&B#25, so I dug mine out and figured Id post it here. Its the best I was ever offerred, or ever seen, but, as hard as it is to find, I have to think there are a few more out there in comparable or better shape buried somewhere. This copy's problems are in the upper left corner and spine edge. Otherwise its glossy, and very solid with clean sharp edges.

Adam - - were you there that weekend? for the gallery opening AND the library feeding frenzy?

but not THE Metallo, the villain, right? Didnt this one also appear in Adventure?

yeah... we still call that NM right? and has everyone noticed how many of these copies of Geppis big books had work done to them? Or were they Overstreet's copies...I cant remember!

they made huge piles of books to buy, but as you know, they only ended up with the ones that were priced the next morning. As things go with Geppi sometimes, a deal for the stacks of other comics they pulled just never got done... Geppi has a lot of irons in the fire and time is short before he gets pulled in another direction.

When I read DILEMMA above my first reaction was it was spelled wrong too! I always pictured and used an 'n' in there. Its very interesting that there are soo many of us who do this, especially in light of the excerpts posted of teachers drumming (or was it drumning?) it into their heads in school. We should alert WIlliam Safire to dig into the derivation of this red herring spelling.

thanks. I always wondered who he was...

who is that Archie artist? hes my favorite...

I was turned off by the angular scratchy Marvel artwork. It was very different from the Curt Swan style clean and bright DC stuff. But the stories were a breath of fresh air. True continuity from issue to issue, and then title to title as everybody started crossing over with everyone else. Marvel had reinvented superhero comics and eventually DC had to swallow its pride and follow suit.

it also shows the tip of the iceberg of how many nice SA DCs are out there unslabbed, perhaps.... I agree with many that when all is said and done, DCs will always be harder to find than early Marvels.... but clearly there are many DCs sitting quietly in mylars still....

yeah, whats the BIG GUN???

THATS usually the best approach. A fawning asss=kissing letter gets their attention in a good way.

you fold in the large flap into the box. then the other two sides (the smaller sides. now flip it all over so you can reach inside the open top to get at these folded in flaps. lift up the largest on (on top of the 2 small ones) to free up the side flaps (the 2 small ones) so that they come up next to the short sides of the actual box. when that are up all the way, it frees up the large flap to lay down flat and it become the bottom of the box held in place by the side flaps. as you get better, try to do it fast and cleanly so you dont add any folds to the pre-folded boxes, thereby weakening them. that WAS haed to type...

The PC JIMs apparently did not include copies of 83,85, or 86. The PCEI grading system ranks, as increasing grades: NM, NM+,NM++,NM/M. Here is how some of the books were graded by CGC: 90 VF+ = CGC 7.0 (They absolutely hammered it for pre-Marvel chipping) 115 NM++ = CGC 9.4 116 NM++ = CGC 9.4 117 NM++ = CGC 9.4 118 NM = CGC 8.5 (Another hammer job, this one for a very small spine scuff) 119 NM++ = CGC 9.2 122 NM/M = CGC 9.6 124 NM++ = CGC 9.4 127 NM+ = CGC 9.2 and from Beltan: 89 NM++ = CGC 9.6 93 NM++ = CGC 9.4 Not too shabby, eh? thanx... and nope, not too shabby at all! I was depressed by the prices, too. Where's my time machine?