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This has a special meaning on this board - re: 10 years ago. Board classic! +1

Are you conflating the "DA was offered X" story with the story about how Geppi offered $1M in an ad for a NM Action 1? My memory is getting hazy - what is Geppi or Parrino that put that ad in the OSPG? I believe it was Parrino

Maybe it's the beautiful (putrid) condition of the back cover that makes up for the missing wraps.

I disagree. Regardless of how many new pedigrees are discovered, the book would still be both relevant and valuable with respect to the pedigrees it covers. That is why they should publish it now with whatever pedigrees they have thus far investigated. As others have stated, they can always publish updates or another book later. I think that this inexplicable delay is extremely counter-productive from a marketing standpoint. The intense excitement and interest I initially had when the book was first announced continues to wane with each passing year of delay. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who feels this way. Totally agree that the delay is counter-productive from a marketing standpoint. At this point the continuous delays have completely dampened the initial excitement and enthusiam I had when the book was first mentioned. I hate to say it, but at this point I could really care less if the book is published or not.

I used to own the Wonder Woman #17MH. It is an absolutely stunning book. Wish I still had it.

While you can't see every defect from a scan, I looked at the enlarged scans of that book and cannot imagine why it only received a 9.2

unfortunately I don't seem to have a scan of mine, but I did blow up as clear as I could my 43 from my 1-80 run...it graded a cgc 7.0, but that was highest I ever found (not sure if there are higher graded ones or not) The nicest copy of #43 that I have ever seen is the Mile High which is graded a CGC 7.0. Nothing higher is listed in the census. The Mile High copy is also the copy pictured in the Photo Journal.

Out of the #1-50 run I believe the toughest copy to find in high grade is #43. I don't recall ever seeing a high grade copy of this issue. Anybody ever see one?

Some other issues that you almost never see in the higher grades are #36 and #43 (thumbs u 50-80 are notoriously "impossible" to find in high grade...in fact, they are down right scarce in general... 30-40's are hard too, getting closer to that 1950's DC 'production issues" There's nothing easy about 90 - 99 Highest graded copies so far: 90 6.5 91 7.5 92 8.0 93 9.0 94 8.5 95 7.0 96 8.5 97 9.0 98 7.0 99 8.0 Though there are still some copies that haven't been graded. Great looking copy of #95. Following up on my comments I made the other day concerning #36 and #43 not be being seen in high grade very often, I had a chance to check out the census on #35 through #44 and these are the highest CGC grades: 35-8.5 36-4.5 37-6.0 38-8.0 39-9.2 40-6.0 41-5.5 42-9.0 43-7.0 44-7.5 I expected the highest CGC grades to be low on some of these issues, but not this low.

Some other issues that you almost never see in the higher grades are #36 and #43 (thumbs u

Nice book! Tough issue to find in that condition. (thumbs u

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Holy cow What a sale that was!! Definitely blew away my expectations I remember when that same book was listed on Comiclink approx. 6-7 years ago for 6K. It sat and it sat. How times have changed.

A further little stretch and you could imagine it a NM on the newsstand in '38. Actually that was my original thought, but I didn't post it because it was too obvious.