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Russ Heath's linework is awesome. Great thread.

Luis Dominguez is one of my favorite illustrators. His DC covers are the best.

A few of my favorite Adams covers:

One of my favorites of the run for sure. Great LD cover.

Great books everyone. Some of my favorite acquisitions of 2021:

Got this from Heritage in December to round out a great year of collecting:

Nice. Phenomenal achievement!

(thumbs u

Worldwide Comics has a CGC 9.6 copy on their site.

You just have your finger on the pulse of the collecting community don't you? Thanks for the info. Good for Bob.

bobcat.enterprises Awesome grading or sometimes under grading that was flying semi-under the radar years ago. Then the cat got out of the bag. Sometimes offers slabs. Extremely nice guy with impeccable service. I totally wish he would put up those last few SSWSs I need to complete my Registry set.

I meant 6. I saw a slabbed copy recently, but it went for way more than I wanted to pay.

Totally with you on this one. They have been crawling out of the woodwork lately and besides the 9.8 that just got put back on the market (I think it was the old one) were tough to find even raw in high grade. I have two VF+ copies of this one - one from Superworld and one from bobcat. I am content with those. Lucky to get a bobcat NM- of this one. Paid through the nose though. Not super high grade, but I bought a CGC 9.0 of 5 for $50 3 1/2 years ago. Bought a CGC 9.0 of 36 for $26 a few months before the 5. I think both were eBay. I have had a hard time getting a nice WWT 7. I have seen 158 slabbed a lot and was lucky to get some raw bobcats of the GIC issues you mention. OAAW 241 is another that has eluded me, seems like a decent number of them in the census. Anyway, it is interesting to see the issues each collector has problems getting. I'd love another Rosa type collection to hit the market. I don't really care about the name per se, but quality later Bronze is so hard to find raw and costly to grade on your own.

I have the CGC 9.4 204 and it appears there is a CGC 9.6 out there as well. I personally think the lack of slabbed copies corresponds to the relative lack of interest in the title and low sales figures for the non-keys. Grading costs are up, listing sites get a cut, etc., - it just may not be worth it for most dealers to CGC most of this latter day bronze or copper war stuff. Now, I am not talking about raw stuff, just graded books. Although, I will say I also look for raw copies of SSWS issues I need to complete my registry set and have not come across NM or NM+ examples for about 6 books. And I have actively been collecting that specific set for years in both slabbed and raw forms. SSWS 192 and 193 do not even have a single issue graded and many later issues only have one or two issues slabbed. Valiantman's Census for SSWS 151-204

It's going for the slab registry/OCD that keeps me collecting honestly. Otherwise, I'd quickly get beater reading copies to go with Showcase Presents reprints and be done with it all. I do have quite a few raws for all the war titles, just not everything. I did pay through the nose and picked up some Oakland and non-pedigree DC War on eBay about a year and a half ago from a single seller. The high grade raw stuff is almost as costly as the slabbed in some cases.