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BTW, just listed: http://www.metropoliscomics.com/load_bookDetails.php?id=438404

That 92 is ggggggreat.

This is most of the ones that have been slabbed if that number is close to true: http://comics.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?Nty=1&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&Ns=Item+Title%7c0&N=52+790+231&Ntt=recil+macon

It's a sweet copy. I bet this one will be great in hand as the reds on the cover look like they're pretty intense.

It's a nice copy at least!

Just call me Spike, Price Spike. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but there are steep spikes all over Daredevil GPA from me in the past 6 months. I'm the proud owner of a Daredevil 60 for $263 Previous high, $135. Which I was probably involved in as well

I had no plan other than the aesthetics and the 9.4 threshold. In hindsight, I would have gone harder at non-pedigree copies of 1-10 and gone harder at books from the 1970s when they became available. Basically choosing between a book from the 1960s and the 70s, it's always better to go for the 1970s book because they're harder. Really though, I don't think it's gone too badly even without a plan.

For this run, I started out with the concept. I've always collected DD and have owned 1-up complete sets a couple of times (1-280 or something when I was in my teens/20s) and 1-100 or so a decade ago. I was never going to be able to do a #1 set kind of thing,even after doug sold his books, but I knew I could do the run in 9.4 so that served as my baseline. I also have a bias toward pedigree books, but so do a lot of other Silver Age collectors so we beat each other up there a little bit... I started with a bunch of Western Penns that came up at Heritage. As for how do I put the run together- with these books 90% I bought slabbed. I actually submit a lot these days (basically once a month this year) building out the copper/modern corner of my collection, but I don't get out to conventions enough to pull silver/bronze copies worth grading. It's too bad because I'm submitting often enough now that I'm getting a very good sense of how books will end up.

I love the book. It's a great copy, whatever the number in the corner says. It's better than at least one and maybe two of the 9.4s that I've seen. I'm psyched and i paid a comfortable price. I bid higher ($3100) for the Twin Cities copy (which has a color breaking crease.) so this book is awesome. That said, and this is where some of the idea that I'm down on the book comes in- to me, the book looks like a 9.3. The kind of book that could get a 9.4 even on a pure resub. I know this fact gets people bent out of shape, but the CGC graders are human and tweener books have to go one way or another. Sometimes they go down. Sometimes they go up. I definitely think (based on the scan) the book could go 9.4 very easily (even without pressable defects). So, that possibility is something that I've been thinking about since I saw the scans. If it doesn't turn out that way that's fine since it's a phenomenal copy. I definitely bought the book and not the label- with the idea that maybe the label is wrong.

Yeah, that's the thing about it. It looks great for a 9.2. For example, I prefer this straight up to the... Western Penn 9.4? I think that's the one with visible spine stress. And for half the price? Still I wonder if it was recently slabbed under the (ever cyclical) current "tite like tigah" cgc regime. If so, that makes your book more so a very technically strict 9.2 grade imho of receiving a lot of books a few weeks, than reading and talking to other recipients of uber tight "fingerprints present" grades. (Did the Western Penn go back to a 9.4? Last I knew it went from a 9.4 when in it left Josh and a 9.6 upon Doug owning it) Wasn't Doug's book a PC (there are two.) Josh sold the higher grade WP copy (there are two) about 9 years ago (listed for 18k?) That's the book with the crappy (for a 9.4) spine. This book came back from CGC a couple of weeks before the auction started so it might be the same thing you saw with your books.

Yeah, that's the thing about it. It looks great for a 9.2. For example, I prefer this straight up to the... Western Penn 9.4? I think that's the one with visible spine stress. And for half the price? Still

I'm excited. I'm cool with it as a 9.2, but I'm hoping it can make the leap. We'll see.

Good to know. For all I know it'll end up being the last book in my set.

I picked up two DDs from the collection and for very cheap. 1) Daredevil #45 VF- 7.5 White Canarsie Collection 2) Daredevil #58 QUALIFIED NM 9.4 White Canarsie Collection (popped staple but for what I paid for it...who cares!) Congrats on that #7! Congrats to both of you! Am just seeing this so thought I would volunteer that I picked two DDs as well, both from the Canarsie Collection: 1) Daredevil #22 cgc 9.6 2) Daredevil #66 cgc 9.4 I'm especially happy with the 22: You got the #66 as well? Congrats! I was the under-bidder on that so I'm happy to see it went to a nice home.

"... And One Cried Murder!"/"Trapped in the tar pits of death" "Once Upon a Time -- The Ox!"/the OX Strikes Again" "HYDRA-And-Seek" "The Origin of Daredevil"

I'm really happy with the price I paid for both the #20 and the #31. I paid the same I've paid for the surrounding numbers which is just wrong as both of those books have been tougher over the past few years. The last... #31? went for like $700 so I feel like I got it for free. The #7 is a great copy and I honestly think it's as good as some of the 9.4s. I didn't bid 9.4 money on it, but I bid what I thought was a fair number for a "9.3" type book. I'll see what it looks like in-hand to see if it's worth sending back in and taking a shot. Even if it's not I think it's a great book for that slot.

And... who scored in the Pedigree auction tonight? I won three, the #20, the #31 and... the #7. I'm really interested in seeing the #7 in hand as it really looks like a 9.4 to me- especially when compared to some of the other #7s out there. The Daredevils in this auction were great, so hopefully everyone scored some beauts. I now need 3.5 books for the full 1-157 set: #1, (.2 points on the #7 in a resub,) #66 and #86. Chapeau to whoever won the #66 today.

It's great info, I can't wait to get everything sorted out. It'll end up taking a couple of weeks in between everything else.

I think it's worth putting on the list with a note, for sure. It's a reprint but he is on the cover.

So awesome. What a funny book to be the last piece of the puzzle. The books in the 60s are super hard, so that part makes sense, but still, you just never know what it will be.

Just this part has been interesting. I'm going to go through and research the books a little bit to identify Matt Murdocks and cameos. I bet 10 of those are Matt Murdock serving as a lawyer for a superhero.

BTW: This is the first 100 appearances, based on the CMCRO list. Amazing Spider-Man 16 9/1/1964 Amazing Spider-Man 18 11/1/1964 journey into mystery 116 5/1/1965 Fantastic Four 39 6/1/1965 Fantastic Four 40 7/1/1965 X-Men 13 9/1/1965 Fantastic Four Annual 3 12/1/1965 Amazing Spider-Man Annual 3 11/1/1966 Amazing Spider-Man 43 12/1/1966 strange tales 156 5/1/1967 Fantastic Four 73 4/1/1968 avengers 60 1/1/1969 Avengers 82 11/1/1970 Iron Man 35 3/1/1971 Iron Man 36 4/1/1971 Hulk 152 6/1/1972 hulk 153 7/1/1972 Avengers 111 5/1/1973 Man Thing 1 1/1/1974 Marvel Two in One 3 5/1/1974 Marvel Team-up 25 9/1/1974 Giant Size Defenders 3 1/1/1975 Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 8 1/1/1975 Thor 233 3/1/1975 X-Men 98 4/1/1976 Iron Man 89 8/1/1976 Ghost Rider 20 10/1/1976 defenders 40 10/1/1976 Marvel Team Up 51 11/1/1976 Marvel Treasury Edition 13 12/1/1976 Iron Fist 11 2/1/1977 Marvel Team Up 56 4/1/1977 Avengers 159 5/1/1977 Marvel Comics Super Special 1 9/1/1977 Marvel Two in One 37 3/1/1978 Marvel Two in One 38 4/1/1978 Human Fly 9 5/1/1978 Marvel two in One 39 5/1/1978 Thor 271 5/1/1978 Marvel two in One 40 6/1/1978 Marvel Team Up 73 9/1/1978 Fantastic Four Annual 13 12/1/1978 Spectacular Spider-Man 26 1/1/1979 Spectacular Spider-Man 27 2/1/1979 Spectacular Spider-Man 28 3/1/1979 Captain America 234 6/1/1979 Captain America 235 7/1/1979 Captain America 236 8/1/1979 avengers 190 12/1/1979 Avengers 191 1/1/1980 Marvel Treasury Edition 25 3/1/1980 Captain America 250 10/1/1980 defenders 88 10/1/1980 defenders 89 11/1/1980 Marvel two in One 69 11/1/1980 defenders 90 12/1/1980 defenders 91 1/1/1981 Amazing Spider-Man 218 7/1/1981 Marvel Team Up 107 7/1/1981 Amazing Spider-Man 219 8/1/1981 Marvel two in One 78 8/1/1981 Marvel Team Up Annual 4 8/1/1981 Rom 23 10/1/1981 Moon Knight 13 11/1/1981 Power Man and Iron Fist 77 1/1/1982 Defenders 103 2/1/1982 Marvel Fanfare 1 3/1/1982 Defenders 104 3/1/1982 Marvel Graphic Novel 1 4/1/1982 Defenders 106 4/1/1982 Fantastic Four 242 5/1/1982 Defenders 107 5/1/1982 Fantastic Four 243 6/1/1982 Contest of Champions 1 6/1/1982 Contest of Champions 2 7/1/1982 Contest of Champions 3 8/1/1982 Marvel Team Up 123 11/1/1982 Dazzler 21 11/1/1982 Incredible Hulk 277 11/1/1982 Incredible Hulk 278 12/1/1982 Incredible Hulk 279 1/1/1983 Marvel two in One 96 2/1/1983 Iron Man 169 4/1/1983 Fantastic Four 255 6/1/1983 Incredible Hulk 293 3/1/1984 Marvel Team Up 140 4/1/1984 Marvel Team Up 141 5/1/1984 Marvel Fanfare 15 7/1/1984 Incredible Hulk 300 10/1/1984 Amazing Spider-Man 267 8/1/1985 Fantastic Four 281 8/1/1985 Secret Wars 2 3 9/1/1985 Marvel Age Annual 1 9/1/1985 Spectacular Spider-Man 107 10/1/1985 Marvel fanfare 23 11/1/1985 Spectacular Spider-Man 108 11/1/1985 Spectacular Spider-Man 109 12/1/1985 Spectacular Spider-Man 110 1/1/1986 Amazing Spider-Man 277 6/1/1986 Marvel fanfare 27 7/1/1986