SpeedforceKJ Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 On 12/7/2021 at 4:52 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said: Welcome! Are you just looking for keys, or hoping to put together a run? Planning on reading the stories, or hunting slabs? Focusing on Silver Age, Bronze Age, Copper / Modern Age, or all of the above? Lots of happy hunting to be had depending on your answers. Thank you! Right now with my upcoming PCS to Korea, and move after my tour there, I'm not looking to much into runs at the moment. Keys and Silver age would be my first focus I would say. Also any with great Punisher covers as I'm also a big fan of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sweet Lou 14 Posted December 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 9, 2021 On 12/9/2021 at 9:09 AM, SpeedforceKJ said: Thank you! Right now with my upcoming PCS to Korea, and move after my tour there, I'm not looking to much into runs at the moment. Keys and Silver age would be my first focus I would say. Also any with great Punisher covers as I'm also a big fan of him. OK, let's see how much help I can provide off the top of my head! In the Silver Age, any of the first 10 issues would be great additions to any collection, with #1 obviously the biggest of the bunch and #7 probably the second-most sought after. #3, #4, and #8 feature the first appearances of the Owl, Purple Man, and Stilt-Man respectively. For some reason, #9 is a notably easy book to find in high grade and (at least the last time I checked) is usually a pretty affordable way to get a nice early DD book. People like #12 because IIRC it's the first Silver Age appearance of Ka-Zar. And then there's #16 with its awesome Spidey / DD cover (#17 too, sort of). #18 is the first Gladiator. After that, I'm not sure there are any real Silver Age DD "keys" (it all depends on your definition) but a lot of folks like #30 and #43 because they feature Thor and Captain America, respectively. #37 and #38 have Doctor Doom, and #45 has a nice photo cover that I always liked. In the Bronze Age, #100 is a nice cover and #105 is a bit pricier because it's a Moondragon "key" (whatever!) ... X-Men fans like #111 (1st Silver Samurai) and there are also sellers who try to pump the price of #115 because it contains an ad for Hulk #181 -- I would not recommend paying a premium for that book. The one everybody wants is #131 which is the first Bullseye, and since he also appears in #132 you can go after that one as well. I don't think DD meets the Punisher until the Frank Miller run, which starts with #158. #168 has the first appearance of Elektra, and she "dies" in #181. #183 has the classic cover where the Punisher shoots DD in the stomach. I hope this is useful! Superman2006, Ghost Town, Math Teacher and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nearmint Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 This Heritage buyer can't be happy. He paid $28,800 just a few weeks ago, then another copy in 9.8 sells last night at CL for $10,638... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattTheDuck Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 On 12/9/2021 at 9:32 AM, nearmint said: This Heritage buyer can't be happy. He paid $28,800 just a few weeks ago, then another copy in 9.8 sells last night at CL for $10,638... Hopefully, it was Heritage. electricprune and thewritestuff 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lou 14 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 As I just said above, #9 is relatively common in high grade. Don’t have the census numbers handy but I just know from experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGsimba77 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 On 12/9/2021 at 11:02 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said: People like #12 because IIRC it's the first Silver Age appearance of Ka-Zar. I might include 13 in there as well. Ka-Zar's origin and any book in which Kirby joins Romita is like having Jordan and Bill Russell on same team! Is there any DD with a better cover than 13? Like ever?...16 is noteworthy because it's the first Romita spidey art and I think 12 is considered Romita's kick off to his run CapAm notwithstanding. Sweet Lou 14 and Icculus308win 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icculus308win Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 #12 is pretty tough in 9.4 or above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabidwolf Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 On 12/9/2021 at 9:32 AM, nearmint said: This Heritage buyer can't be happy. He paid $28,800 just a few weeks ago, then another copy in 9.8 sells last night at CL for $10,638... Yup I follow these early dds 9.8 closely for years and years. First 20 DDs in high grade have been moving strong the last year they were pretty dormant for years and years before that was expecting 6-8k on this book because 9s Are very common in 9.6 and even 9.8 in comparison to the other first 19 issues The 28k aside 11k is still a solid price wonder if the 28k played a part in that i am assuming this 28k was collector at that price which means a couple of more grand on top of that for sales tax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SpeedforceKJ Posted December 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2021 Ended up picking this up for my wife’s collection as a gift for Christmas Icculus308win, nmtg9, The Man Without Beer and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icculus308win Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Curb appeal on that book doesn’t remotely look like a 4.0. Nice Christmas gift🤘 SpeedforceKJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedforceKJ Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 On 12/15/2021 at 12:58 PM, Icculus308win said: Curb appeal on that book doesn’t remotely look like a 4.0. Nice Christmas gift🤘 I thought so as well. We're low-mid grade collectors when it comes to keys, so the grade was in our range and the price I picked it up for wasn't bad at all but it just presents so well that I had to jump at it. Icculus308win, Morganmi and MGsimba77 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexanderjk Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Literally lol’d: SpeedforceKJ, nmtg9, Matt1982 and 2 others 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGsimba77 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 On 12/16/2021 at 9:04 PM, alexanderjk said: Literally lol’d: Thought for a second it sold for that price (before scrolling enough to see "best offer") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MGsimba77 Posted January 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 alexanderjk, comic_memories, silverseeker and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH19 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Very cool having a Romita sig on a DD! I would love to have one…and a Colan, too! MGsimba77 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jmg3637 Posted February 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 4, 2022 guess it ight be time yo refresh this thread with some recently recovered scans from my old photobucket account Matt1982, Math Teacher, The Man Without Beer and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KryptoSpidey Posted February 11, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 11, 2022 It took a little while but finally got my DD 1-7 run all uniform in CGC 7.5 OW/W or WHITE... Icculus308win, MGsimba77, cbalroman and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummy Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Very cool run, congrats! Dan KryptoSpidey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaard Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 On 1/4/2022 at 1:56 PM, MGsimba77 said: I've never been a signature chaser, but if I were, I think I would like to have sigs like this one, where you can actually read the name. MGsimba77 and Sweet Lou 14 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
