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And other goings-on: https://www.instagram.com/sportscardinvestor/p/C5lDCIlsN3b/

I was just kibitzing with him on Facebook as well. Katy just made the announcement there earlier today. He was very ill for the past several months. Rest in Peace my friend.

My Bat 1 proudly displays its dot!

I have had both versions, and been aware of this for decades. In my mind, it is one press run of 900,000 copies that was released in three traunches, due to insane demand (with ad corrected based on where in the run they were). At the stage of the game when we became aware that all 900,000 were not printed at the exact same time, Superman #1 was already Superman #1, and owning a copy (any copy) was rarified air. There were much more created of the first traunch (nobody cared), less of the second (nobody cared), the least of the third (nobody cared). There are sufficiently few of any surviving. At best they're variants - collect all three! I believe I've read that Superman #2 had two traunches as well, 850,000 then 150,000, though that might have been speculation at that time.

Rest in peace old friend.

It's a Detective book so they're being mysterious?

I've gotta think Supe 5 is a much more valuable book.

You've got the only #8 on the census!

Mail Call! Only 1 on the census

Mail Call!

Mail call! As you all know, I'm a superhero guy, so this is slightly out of my wheelhouse. But, something about this little run from Street & Smith has me picking them up whenever I come across them. I probably have 5 or 6 of them now. This one has a nice bright yellow World War II cover. Pioneer Picture Stories #8, September, 1943. Only one copy in the CGC census. Glad I get to bump my thread back to the top!

Mail call! As you all know, I'm a superhero guy, so this is slightly out of my wheelhouse. But, something about this little run from Street & Smith has me picking them up whenever I come across them. I probably have 5 or 6 of them now. This one has a nice bright yellow World War II cover. Pioneer Picture Stories #8, September, 1943. Only one copy in the CGC census.

Always a no no for me. But my collecting days were over before people started collecting single pages.

I meant why didn't I look in the pre robin tec thread for any convo about the start of the PBA auction!

Thanks. Why didnt I think to look there? Lol

how are the results so far? am i missing the thread where the Bats and Tecs are being discussed?

I do keep my eyes open!

that was definitely the golden era of the golden age!

my top 4 are: Marvel 1 Action 1 Tec 27 Motion Picture Funnies Weekly so, yeah. no wonder i gave up like 25 years ago!

i started reading comics in early 1975, and started collecting shortly thereafter. so i guess i am a relative newcomer to the whole hobby. not sure the term "atom age" (or "atomic age") had been coined yet, but we (myself and any other collectors i knew) never used it. as centaur collectors, and (new) more fun collectors, and (new) adventure collectors, and detective comics collectors, the debut of superman had zero to do with the beginning of the golden age of comics, because all the above titles and companies we collected started with original content in 1935, 1936, 1937 (we had no interest in strip reprints). although the comics we most enjoyed were created prior to the end of World War 2, it is difficult to just say the Golden Age ended right there, with Marvel Mystery, and Cap, and so many other titles still ongoing (yet winding down). That is why we always went with the end of the All Star run as the final ending of the Golden Age. Although that seems a tad late chronologically, it is hard to call All Star 57 anything other than a Golden Age book. An imperfect demarcation point. Anything that came after All Star 57 were "fifties books." That was it. It was just understood that they were not Golden Age anymore. Horror, Crime, Romance, EC, etc., if it came out after All Star 57 it was a "fifties book." There was always some debate as to when the Silver Age began. Was it Showcase #4 (9/10/56)? Was it Detective #225 (11/10/55)? Was it when the CCA stamp first appeared on the cover (early 1955)? I like the content-based arguments better than the CCA argument. The introduction (or re-introduction) of heroes into comics in an ongoing fashion (unlike the Atlas attempts with Subby and Cap and Torch) heralded the Silver Age of Comics (to us). And comics with the CCA stamp could certainly qualify as "fifties books," but could never ever be called a Golden Age comic. So, if the biggest debate was if the Silver Age started in November of 1955 or October of 1956, I think we were doing pretty good on our collective understanding of it all. I always tended to go with the latter date, as the comics circa 1956 always seemed to be more like "fifties books" to me (at least the hero books), than Silver Age books. The "real feel" of the Silver Age hit me with FF #1, some 5 years later. That period between Showcase #4 and FF #1 is a nascent Silver Age trying to find its footing. Maybe like the three year period from New Fun #1 to Action #1, where the newly born Golden Age of Comics was finding its way.

combine either a robert bell bag or a glad bag with cheap tape, and OY

i've peeled so many browning robert bell bags off the comics i no longer have! and some i probably still have, lol. anything good has an acid free back board and a mylite.

I stopped actively collecting before slabbing existed. Problem solved! Lol That being said, I have never submitted anything in my collection for slabbing from any slabbing service.

New Fun in 1935 (I don't consider pre-hero DC Platinum) to generally All Star #57 in early 1950. Silver Age starts some 5 or 6 years later.