fishbone

You are DONE....DONE I say. Say hello to so many awesome books to come, and goodbye to A LOT of $$

beautiful presenting 2.5 , well done

Hold onto and enjoy for years to come!

So so sorry to be reading this about maybe the #1 best dude on these Boards you do not deserve this Rick i truly wish you and your family the best Fish

Nice!

Good luck man I have to say, some of the my favorite covers are between 50 to 100 ?

I had to pick #700 ( and all it’s variants) as the end of my run - so #1 - 700 Can’t handle this variant *#%+ anymore either

Looking back, my old scans were brutal here are my 3 entrants proper

Hey, this is my first E.C. comic ! I’m sure it won’t be my last ?

Why am I falling for Fiction House Here are two new good reasons ?

Love this new auction win!

At that price, the police should be called cause that was a STEAL my friend! And I also did not notice it on CLINK (maybe many many others didn't either, that's why such a great price for the buyer)

Great thread ! I’ve never seen these covers before, spectacular!

me too

I had to get me one of these, my collection just wouldn’t be complete without it

12/14/2015 MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #9, CGC 5.5 FN- $23,583 This was a multiple of guide.

I believe it's the over-exaggeration of their "Asian" physical features as stereotypical for the time -- look at the other "war" covers with Japanese pilots, etc, the features are exaggerated to the point of looking cartoonish/foolish/mocking which, yes, makes one wonder why all WWII depictions are not classified as "racist"

Seriously the way prices have moved just in the last few years anyone could have made good profits with the right choices. 100% correct

excellent point

and with major restoration, 50x that $6000 .................. I don't see any down side however you look at it.

Just reading this and adding another thought: I think another reason to slab big ones might be to "help" family members (heirs) in the event of passing suddenly ...... if it's items that are only thousands, not sure I'd make a big deal about them, but tens or hundreds of thousands, may just make it that much easier to have value established immediately at less cost to the beneficiaries ...........

I honestly don't know how this thread doesn't just close when Rick has answered the question. He is so "in the know", when he answers then I'm good.

I'm working through this thread and only on page 1, so I'm sorry if this gets addressed later in this thread (which I will finish today I hope as it is VERY interesting), but I need to comment here that maybe, just maybe, those that have raw copies of GA keys are very sophisticated collectors. They have done their own resto checks and grading. And they probably know that the big auction houses will take care of the slabbing themselves if or when they were to sell, so there is no urgency to slab for these collectors. Just my 1 cent

Yikes!!

This link is for a 1.0 that sold for just over 4K .........................