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It's gong to be a great Fall season on TV, that's for sure. Even the Marvel guys and gals are in for a treat, with Daredevil coming to Netflix. And I'm sure they are going to up the ante on Shield. But Flash is what I'm waiting to see

Speaking of which, here's a nice mid-grade copy http://comics.ha.com/itm/miscellaneous/coming-soon-/p/7099-82019.s

By the way, in case anyone missed this. The Don Maggie Thompson copy of #37 was resold through Heritage for $11,500 on 9/11/2014! Granted its a white-pager and the highest graded but that's almost triple the hammer price it sold for in November of 2013. That's quite a jump! It is nice to see DCs finally starting to get some love. I wish I had.bought more to invest in. Showcase 4's were a steal a few years ago. Maybe still are.. It'll be interesting to see what effect the tv series has - if it's any good that is Bob

I did. I am working on the possibility of buying a collection and I need to build my war chest per se. That and the fact my set is mostly 6-7's and it made more sense it go to a person who's grade goals are higher. How altruistic of me huh?

By the numbers, Showcase #4: September-October 1956 Fantastic Four #1: November 1961 - years later . . . you talking about popularity maybe?

It sure would

I understand, but your set is one of the best from 1-104, with books beyond where many of us (who start from "1") have ventured. You seem to be well on your way toward achieving your goal, and some of the books you've bought to date prove you're no lightweight. I think if you stick to it, you will get there and then be thinking, hey I'm going to upgrade this and that.

I wrote and heard from Gemma a few weeks ago that the split in 2 Showcase registry sets are in the cue to be addressed, here is her response: I'm not sure how they'd handle it - leave the 1-104 registry set and just add 2 new ones or split the existing one - which I don't know how they'd do that since folks are already in the old set - but I guess we will see. People like our own Sam-I-am could have 2 top registry sets instead of the one given the depth of his set. I put my set on obscure as I am doing a lot of swaps. I'm not a playa anyway - not even close to sets like roulette44 (Joey) and Sam. Keep checking for the new split-Showcase sets! Bob

'It's not easy' is an understatement. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy.

Great list! Add: Showcase 17 -- Mystery in Space 53 Showcase 30 -- Aquaman 1 Just did - Thanks (thumbs u Teen Titans also had Showcase #59 (although I didn't check which was first) Looking on the bright side of this however, folks who like to collect keys can also build a Showcase set. It's not easy, but it's a lot fun

Ava-who? Hi Dan! Hey brotha!!! Party on!

I an beginning to think that thought has to be relooked at by comic book historians. The golden age Jay Garrick Flash last made an appearance in All-Star Comics 57 which was 1951,while the new silver age Barry Allen Flash made is debut just 5 years later in Showcase 4 in 1956. I am no longer buying that a whole generation of people would forget their favorite hero in 5 years. That`s like someone forgetting all about James Cameron`s Avatar which came out in 2009 five years later in 2014! Baby Boomers, there was a huge new generation of little kids for whom the new DC's were new comics. They saw these new characters and didn't know about the older ones. Maybe their parents had read comics, maybe not...they might have been busy with WWII. I was a boomer-baby - born 1956 - stated reading comics in about 1963. I didn't even know the GA heroes existed until they started to bring them back in appearances in JLA, Green Lantern and Flash.

Free enterprise, I'm just saying . . .

Ava-who? Hi Dan!

But don't forget they were already losing readers by then - the next generation skipped superheros mostly and romance, humor, westerns, horror and science fiction took over for a while. By virtue of the loss of this readers who were there when the superhero craze started, I think the gap between then and the silver age is wider as a result. It's like if we were already seeing Avatar 10 in the movies, which we'd all probably be tired of by now, hence far fewer of us would go see it then did the first one.

Oh man, those are beautiful! What a brilliant body of work those covers are. They're all great, but the #28 is especially hard to find in good shape, and you have a nice copy there. Thanks for sharing them (thumbs u

In this case,I don't think the pedigree will help much, if at all. I've owned some raw Mohawk Valleys and the insides are very toasty. I remember the PQ as not so much cream but a terrible looking yellow. CR/OW is still an instant pass for me, rare or not. Sorry. Why apologize? I will never complain about having one less bidder to compete against on a big book like this. (thumbs u Unfortunately I don't think it will make much of a difference in the end.... -J. I have about 8 Mohawks, I think 5 are OW/W and 3 CR/OW, and all crisp and beautiful, and not at all a terrible looking yellow. Luck of the draw I suppose. But I hear the owner of this book pressed flowers in between the pages, so best stay away everyone

Speaking of supply and demand - combative numbers SC 4 vs HULK 1 SHOWCASE 4: UNIVERSAL: 211 QUAL: 3 SS: 2 RESTORED: 92 TOTAL GRADED: 308 HULK 1 UNIVERSAL: 725 QUAL: 16 SS: 72 RESTORED: 276 TOTAL GRADED: 1089 Raemarkable difference. However does this indicate scarcity?

. . . and you're absolutely right about Marvel also refreshing GA characters - but the main focus was on the new ones they were creating. They didn't rely as heavily on that GA material in the beginning. In fact Subby was only a guest villain until the late sixties when he got his own book. Even Cap was an early guest appearance and got his own book later on.

Leave it to you Sha, to say it so succinctly. I remember when I bought my friends collection and started to read Spider-Man - I must have been around 14 - I couldn't stop reading them, it was like watching a soap opera like you say, of an exciting teenagers life, which was like a drug you had to have more of it. I was already a DC-head by then, but I knew what everyone was talking about after I started reading Marvels. I can't take that away from them they knew how to pull the heart strings of the demo they were after.

That could be. But I don't think anyone remembered the old versions of the superheros when the new ones were launched. The kids buying them would have been reading these characters exploits for the first time. But I see where you're going, later on the characters Marvel hatched were totally new concepts as opposed to refreshed GA characters, which over time captured the older readers as well as drawing the DC readers to also collect Marvels. To kind of prove how much of an effect the movies have on values, just look at the TTA #13 with the 1st appearance of Groot. There are 5.0 copies that sellers are asking close to $4k for. Did anyone care about this book (except the PCH crowd) until they brought a novel interpretation to the big screen? If DC can start to do this on TV and the big screen, they can begin to build a new generation of fans. I don't think you can EVER count Marvel out of the race, they will figure out a way to give DC a good fight. If the 3rd tier characters continue to be gold mines, they surely have a lot of material to pull from. But they really need to get Spider-Man and FF back, in my opinion, as they are like their Superman and Batman.

No worries man. On the cgc 8.5, I'd be setting the over/under higher than $55-65. But I guess we'll see. This might be a nice copy to get into before the coming explosions truly materialize. How has that new TV show done in the ratings, anyone know? Cheers Joey Cream will hurt it a little. The Pedigree will bump it. You don't see 8.5s around too often and prices for keys have been a little nuts since June. I know of only one other one in 8.5 and now this one. I would be surprised if it broke 70k if you get two bidders that "have to have it". I think we'll see it in the mid 60's at least, but I'm still betting on low 70s. The PQ thing really needs to be addressed at CGC I just got a book that was OW back CR/OW - so who really believes what the label says - and is it really gonna hurt a gorgeous book like this? I think that us DCers have come to accept the CR/OW as something that isn't that big a deal. At least not so critical that it'd hurt such a gorgeous book. But I suppose if it had white pages, we'd all be gushing over that - including me,

This Thunda #1 CGC 9.0 CR/OW is for sale in the market forum. Paypal, time-payments acceptable. Offers welcome Take a look http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8028134#Post8028134 Closed and moved to eBay http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd38/ollerom_photos/THUNDA1CGC90_zpsec211e98.jpg

I have no clue. GPA says it sold for $47,000 back in March 2013, If that was the last sale.

Holy cow that's an amazing spread there! Nice