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tth2's trip down memory lane

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adamstrange

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Tim,

 

If the JLA#33 was your "found money" book because you couldn't recall buying it - you must've been buying WAAAAY too many books at that time! lol

I'm honestly still scratching my head about that one. My memory is generally pretty good about acquisitions, and I genuinely have no memory of ever buying it! When I pulled out my box of JLAs to pack them up for shipment, I was literally like ???:o when I came across it. I then spent a while poring through old records, invoices, etc. trying to figure out when and who I bought it from. Even when I found a receipt, I was still like ???

 

My worse was finding a box of slabs that I had completely forgotten that I owned. :blush:

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Forgot you had? What was in them? Were they empty?

 

:o

 

It was a box of slabbed books and in a few cases they were books I was looking for as I knew I had purchased them but in others I didn't remember about them until I opened the box.

 

It was all just GA pedigrees. Nothing important. :insane:

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tth2

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Just realized I skipped 2 later JLAs that I sold to our own Rick Kent. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

 

The #78 was purchased off eBay from Vincent Wong/tkg2627 back in early 2002, while the #54 was purchased raw from Bob Storm in the pre-CGC days.

 

JLA78.jpg

 

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Just realized I skipped 2 later JLAs that I sold to our own Rick Kent. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

 

JLA78.jpg

 

JLA54.jpg

 

.....same Bat time, same Bat channel ? GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

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tth2

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.....same Bat time, same Bat channel ?

Indeed.

 

Leading off today is a really underrated issue, #25. Even I tend to underrate it as I always forget to list it among the tougher books to find in NM. It almost never comes up in NM, so I was delighted when I was able to win it at a very reasonable price on Heritage in 2007.

 

jla25.jpg

 

 

#21, on the other hand, is most definitely not underrated. A real fan favorite, and why not, since it's the first JSA cross-over, kicking off what would consistently be the most popular JLA storylines during the 1960s. This book is a real key, and the only reason it doesn't go for a lot more is that there are a ton of NM and thereabouts copies out there. Surprisingly as of this date not a single copy in 9.6 or higher, not even the PC copy. This is one of the other few slabbed books I purchased from Bob Storm, all the way back in 2002. I remember talking to him as he was about to leave the house to go to work--maybe I got a relatively good deal because he was trying to get rid of me!

 

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Just realized I skipped 2 later JLAs that I sold to our own Rick Kent. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

 

JLA54.jpg

 

.....same Bat time, same Bat channel ? GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

Green River copy?

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Green River copy?

Dunno, never identified it as such and the date stamp seems to be of a different color than the GR books I've seen, which tend to be reddish.

 

Hue was hard to tell from the scan -- if it doesn't match what you had seen on other GRs then it's safe to think it isn't.

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Green River copy?

Dunno, never identified it as such and the date stamp seems to be of a different color than the GR books I've seen, which tend to be reddish.

 

Hue was hard to tell from the scan -- if it doesn't match what you had seen on other GRs then it's safe to think it isn't.

 

the "M" doesn't look right either.

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tth2

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Tim,

 

What made you hold on to the #22 for so long? Was it because it was a key issue? Never thought of going to auction with it in the past couple of years?

I've never owned a #22. Which is one of the most difficult issues to find in NM.

 

One weird thing is that with the early JSA cross-overs, which ran over 2 issues (#21 and #22, and #29 and #30), one half is fairly easy to find in high grade (#21 and #30) and the other half is extremely hard to find in high grade (#22 and #29).

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Green River copy?

Dunno, never identified it as such and the date stamp seems to be of a different color than the GR books I've seen, which tend to be reddish.

 

Hue was hard to tell from the scan -- if it doesn't match what you had seen on other GRs then it's safe to think it isn't.

 

the "M" doesn't look right either.

I also don't believe the JLA#54 to be a GR.

 

1. Although the collection manifest lists one copy of JLA#54, it was originally graded by Craig Beles as a VF and then by Hauser & Haack as VF/NM.

 

2. The stamp font type is inconsistent with the stamper used by the pharmacy (University United Drug).

 

3. The stamp on the JLA#54 includes the year (1967). Authentic GRs do not include the year as part of the stamp post 1966.

 

2c

 

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Just realized I skipped 2 later JLAs that I sold to our own Rick Kent. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

 

The #78 was purchased off eBay from Vincent Wong/tkg2627 back in early 2002, while the #54 was purchased raw from Bob Storm in the pre-CGC days.

 

Uh Tim, I don't know how to say this....but the only reason I bought your #54 was because I thought it was a GR. You know how I swoon over the peds! But now that I know it's just a lowly non-descript random filler that's an embarrassment to the rest of my set, could you take it back? Please?!

 

Rick

 

:boo:

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tth2

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Oops! Sorry, I meant the #21.

I did sell the #21 along with most of the rest of my JLAs on Heritage. However, I knew who the buyer was, as the buyer had bought some of the books I had sold on Heritage previously, and when the buyer needed to raise some cash, I ended up buying back a few of the books, including the JLA #21 and the Western Penn B&B 34. And now the #21 is with you! :applause:

 

Although I have managed to acquire a #22 in a 9.4

(worship)

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Just realized I skipped 2 later JLAs that I sold to our own Rick Kent. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

 

The #78 was purchased off eBay from Vincent Wong/tkg2627 back in early 2002, while the #54 was purchased raw from Bob Storm in the pre-CGC days.

 

Uh Tim, I don't know how to say this....but the only reason I bought your #54 was because I thought it was a GR. You know how I swoon over the peds! But now that I know it's just a lowly non-descript random filler that's an embarrassment to the rest of my set, could you take it back? Please?!

 

Rick

 

:boo:

No refunds of CGC`d books. :sumo:

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