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I'm drooling. . . .

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dam60

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That's kind of what I was thinking - bidding the $75K just to say that I bid on that beautiful book, but if I ever got caught with it, I would never be able to scrounge together that kind of cash.

 

DAM

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forget our personal holy grails....this is THE Holy Grail!

 

I feel a few tear coming to my eyes as I look at it. Granted, the copy I had was about a VG or VG- (although who knows what it would have slabbed out to) with no restoration. Even though I ultimately sold it for a profit - darn - still wish I had kept it!

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you SOLD a copy of Action #1? You dont sell ACTION #1...you keep it and treasure it and forget about food and rent and all that other meaningless crapola! laugh.gif

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you SOLD a copy of Action #1? You dont sell ACTION #1...you keep it and treasure it and forget about food and rent and all that other meaningless crapola!

 

Yeah - I KNOW! I KNOW! mad.gifgrin.gifgrin.gifgrin.gif

 

This was back in the 80's. I had the same collector mentality I have now: collect your interest. So ultimately I had this book I KNEW was the most special - read it coutnless times (with no damage!) - but my collecting interests were sufficient to cause me to sell it to further my then-current collection. Which I did and it did. But now? Dagnabbit! Darn! Heck! Shoot! Fudge! You get the idea. frown.gif

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what did you get for it? Thats probably why you want to cry now isnt it? A graded universal VG copy of Action #1 would bring in what....60-80 thousand+?? Im sorry dude, I wont rub it in...I feel your pain...... frown.gif

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How did you get it? Did you pay a bundle or did gramps drop it in your lap? Hopefully you stored it in Mylar and bowed to it and praised it everyday until (sniff) you SOLD it! frown.gif

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How did you get it? Did you pay a bundle or did gramps drop it in your lap? Hopefully you stored it in Mylar and bowed to it and praised it everyday until (sniff) you SOLD it!

 

I paid 30,000 for it and kept it in mylar with an acid-free alkaline buffered backing board (like all my books) and stored it in the same acid-free box my other books were in. You can read the sordid details here:

 

Scroll Up A Bit and You Shall Witness My Shame

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