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Here's what the Don and Maggie Thompson pedigree copy looks like:

This is what the Massachusetts pedigree copy looked like in an old time slab:

A collaboration with colleagues at Arizona on an experiment performed on the Space Shuttle Discovery, testing a possible mechanism for space flight-induced muscle loss.

Reprints of FF 48-51, with brand new cover art by John Buscema, Sal Buscema, Gil Kane, and Sal once again:

You're right about that. I was thinking more about yesterday's seller, and the bashing they're taking for supposedly having paid $2 million for the TOS.

Your no-prize should be winging its non-way to you any day now.

Eh, a private deal made by Comiclink. Who knows if there was trade involved and what it really changed hands for?

Private sales are sometimes not all cash transactions. In these cases, the selling auctioner/dealer often themself assigns a value to the trade portion of the deal. Who other than the folks at Comiclink really knows what the book sold for earlier?

Final hammer prices, including the buyer's premium: Avengers #1 cgc 9.6 (top 1 of 5).... $432,000 Daredevil #1 cgc 9.8 (top 1 of 3).... $360,000 Journey Into Mystery #85 cgc 9.4 (first Loki, Asgard, and Odin).... $84,000 Justice League of America #1 cgc 9.6 (top 1 of 2).... $348,000 Silver Surfer #1 cgc 9.8 Signed by Stan (top 1 of 1).... $108,000 Strange Tales #110 cgc 9.6 (top 1 of 7).... $150,000 Tales of Suspense #39 cgc 9.8 (top 1 of 1).... $840,000

cheapskate

Good call.

While I have no insight as to what the final sale prices will be for any of these SA keys, based on prior experience with Heritage Signature auctions expect the final prices to be bid up during the live auction portion, some by a lot.

The mega-key SA spectaculars in the Heritage Auction go up for live bidding today. Here's where they currently stand with a few hours to go in the internet-only phase of the bidding: Tales of Suspense #39 cgc 9.8 (top 1 of 1).... $645,000 Avengers #1 cgc 9.6 (top 1 of 5).... $132,000 Daredevil #1 cgc 9.8 (top 1 of 3).... $336,000 Journey Into Mystery #85 cgc 9.4 (first Loki, Asgard, and Odin).... $55,200 Justice League of America #1 cgc 9.6 (top 1 of 2).... $150,000 Silver Surfer #1 cgc 9.8 Signed by Stan (top 1 of 1).... $72,000 Strange Tales #110 cgc 9.6 (top 1 of 7).... $102,000 Nick Fury #1 cgc 9.9 (top 1 of 1).... $9,900 Strange Tales Annual #1 cgc 9.4 (top 1 of 2).... $5,160

While most of my raw picture frame collection was put together over years attending shows, and a very small handful are the copies I bought off the rack and never had slabbed, all of the recent upgrades are books cracked out of slabs. For instance, the FF120 was graded by CGC 9.0 and the Captain Marvel 9.2. With my collecting reduced to the rare picture frame book, I no longer have the want list to look for books at shows or on the Bay. When it ultimately comes time to sell this collection, it won't be done looking for any percentage of FMV of a slabbed counterpart. Instead, I'll take the slabbing fee out of my asking price and provide another discount for selling in bulk lots. Rather than having to sell them as ~275 single books, they'll be grouped into lots either by publication month or title and sold that way. I won't be looking to maximize profit, just to re-coup most of cost.

The wild Wolverton covers alone give the run cool.

Great comic! Nice to see it receive an unrestored blue label.

My recent upgrading is decidedly more modest: