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The cabal?

Kind of like owning original art, all one of a kind, 1 of 1.

Generally, those pedigrees are low enough grade on their own due to physical flaws that the writing is a consideration. I do recall the Recil Macon copy of Phantom Lady #17 taking a hit on grade due to writing. I think Recil filled in the coupon on the back cover and that dropped the grade a point or so.

Distro ink starts to become uncommon in the early to mid 80’s as a colored stripe was now printed on the top edge. I saw a newsstand book from 2008 just last week that had distro ink on it! That book was down graded quite a bit. A book from the 70’s with distro ink would not be down graded unless it had excessive distro ink.

Not every thing is that black and white. Writing was widely done on covers from 1930’s-1970’s. An arrival date is perfectly acceptable on a book from 1950, but unheard of on a book from 2010.

Because the amount of writing is quite extensive, probably 10 times the amount that’s on a Mile High. At some point, you have to deduct for writing.

I also noticed the strip was inscribed to somebody famous, an old time movie producer. That was pretty cool!

I was high bidder going into the auction. I guess I had high hopes no one knew about the auction as it wasn’t advertised well whatsoever. I was wrong!

My old copy. Bought it from Harley

Then why not grade it a 9.4? Who cares, right?

Borock said it is not a 9.2

I wasn’t at cgc when it was graded.

It’s basically a qualified grade by mentioning all the writing on the label and calling it a Pay Copy, why? Because if you or I took another 9.2 copy and scribbled all the same stuff on it, it would NEVER EVER be given a 9.2 grade. All the writing is basically being ignored by cgc as a historic piece of comic lore. It’s a killer book, historically significant but as far as grading goes, inaccurately graded unless treated as a qualified, moderately written on Pay Copy. Trace the Pay Copy writing that’s on the cover to a Spawn #1 and see what grade it gets from cgc!

Borock was given a lot of grief over the years giving it a 9.0, nice to see that wasn't warranted after all! Would you buy it as a 9.2 Tom? I would not.

Continental Comics is close by on Devonshire and Balboa (next to Denny’s). That was my lcs from 1987 until I moved in 2004. They are still there.

I have known the Verzyl family VERY well since 1990, even vacationed with them and held John Jr as a baby. I can tell you they have literally 1,000,000 things to sell before they would sell that, literally a million. That is part of the Verzyl legacy, they have no reason to sell. They make more off of the rental homes that they own than most rich people make in a year. Money will not motivate a sale, they have more than enough!

Lois Lane would be the oldest, longest running one!

Maybe he’ll be more upset if you burn a $20 in front of him! Lol

That really needs to be re-inked correctly before it's lost forever!

Is that you and your mustang or just a random pic you put up? Love those old 60's muscle!

Page quality kills it.

If you like Ditko ASM pages, I've got some! https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerydetailsearch.asp?artist=Steve+Ditko&GCat=25394

I can’t believe I was outbid!