Richie Rich #21

I've been collecting RR for several decades now and finding a high grade RR#21 has been nearly impossible. With only 3 copies certified by CGC over the past 10 years it is easily the most difficult to obtain. There are lots of listings for raw low grade ones, but, nothing in high grade. Most other issues have at least 6 or more certified copies.

Issues with 3 certified: #21

Issues with 6 certified: #12, #13, #22

Issues with 8 certified: #14, #24

Issues with 9 certified: #20

In 2003 I bought a huge collection of high grade Harvey Comics (Richie Rich, Casper, Spooky, Little Dot, Little Lotta, Hot Stuff, etc) from Bill Carpenter and he only had a VG copy of RR #21. I knew Quinton Clem (Harveyland) had a certified set of RR including the #21. Over the years I asked him many times to sell it, but, he would never part with it.

I was fortunate to be able to acquire it in a Heritage Sunday Auction last month (Sep 2013). In 2009 when the 9.0 first came on the auction block I'm sure I passed on it thinking Heritage will soon slab another file copy in a higher grade, but, so far, that has never happened. Maybe they are sitting on a pile of them and at some future date will send them off to get certified and sell them or maybe this 9.0 is as high as it gets.

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