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[Mr. Lady Luck]

17 hours ago, Electricmastro said:

14-year-old David Wigransky with his library collection of 5,000 comics, including Powerhouse Pepper #2 (Spring, 1948) and Two-Gun Kid #1 (March, 1948):

...aaaand this is why "spine roll" is also known as the Wigransky Effect.

[Comics181]

I’m not sure if they are terrified of the Torch, or whether they realize that the ocean now has a route to flood the tunnel

[scottde]

My latest pickup for my Timely family.  Totally stoked to have this book.  

[Roeburt]

MMC46 

[ft88]

Just got this one back

 

 

[Subby1938]

A question for the more knowledge savey Cap America collectors ( timely ) . Which are the hardest numbers generally to find ? What are the rarest ? I never see many low numbers come up and most any issue costs quite a bit . Hats off to any of you that are gathering a run together . I can’t imagine the effort and money needed for that masterpiece. 

[Primetime]

1 hour ago, Subby1938 said:

A question for the more knowledge savey Cap America collectors ( timely ) . Which are the hardest numbers generally to find ? What are the rarest ? I never see many low numbers come up and most any issue costs quite a bit . Hats off to any of you that are gathering a run together . I can’t imagine the effort and money needed for that masterpiece. 

The first ten Caps have always been somewhat easy for me to locate. I would say the 26-34 range are tougher than the earlier issues. Then the later issues (after issue 70) can be challenging. Overall, I don't think any of the Caps are tough at all. The All Selects, USAs, and All Winners are much tougher than the Cap run overall. 

[Primetime]

4 hours ago, ft88 said:

Just got this one back

 

 

very nice Ed. 

[Cat-Man_America]

9 hours ago, Subby1938 said:

A question for the more knowledge savey Cap America collectors ( timely ) . Which are the hardest numbers generally to find ? What are the rarest ? I never see many low numbers come up and most any issue costs quite a bit . Hats off to any of you that are gathering a run together . I can’t imagine the effort and money needed for that masterpiece. 

Cap #1-10 are the Simon & Kirby issues with 3 & 4 having Cap’s first Alex Schomburg covers.  All are great and highly sought after. Al Avison covers and interior art followed (Cap’s 11-19) with entry into WWII are popular too.  Cap war era books are all popular to varying degrees, especially those with Alex Schomburg covers.  Specific issues like the bomb and flame thrower cover (CA #37) and the holocaust cover (CA #46) tend to sell for a high premium. Hope this helps.  

[Subby1938]

Thank you . It does 

[PatrickinVancouver]

By request, from the Chinatown pedigree. Sorry it’s not a higher quality image. 

[Cat-Man_America]

11 hours ago, PatrickinVancouver said:

By request, from the Chinatown pedigree. Sorry it’s not a higher quality image. 

Beautiful copy! At one time I owned two 9.4 copies, reluctantly decided to sell one, keeping the copy with the best color registration.  

Image quality notwithstanding, the Chinatown copy obviously has superb color registration.  Thanks for sharing! 

[Straw-Man]

new upgrade, olshevsky copy.   uc for sale in forum this afternoon.

[podboy66]

38 minutes ago, Straw-Man said:

new upgrade, olshevsky copy.   uc for sale in forum this afternoon.

cool beans

Billy - you should crack it open and take a picture of George's code for us.

[Timely]

I can do that for ya! Here’s the coding in the Marvel Mystery Comics #37. 

Edited September 5, 2020 by Timely

[Ameri]

Here's his Miss America #5

[Comics181]

1 hour ago, Bart Allen said:

Not so much a recent purchase, but I've got two of these - but this is the lower of the grades due to the coupon been cut out, but I'm simply curious what a 1.0-1.5 would go for (as it seems to be the grade) ~

Cool book, but this is a thread dedicated to Timely Comics

[Bart Allen]

11 minutes ago, Comics181 said:

Cool book, but this is a thread dedicated to Timely Comics

Oh Christ wrong tread - thanks 

[PatrickinVancouver]

Again a Chinatown copy I’ll post more as often as I can. 

[Buzzetta]

Here is my entry to the "First Issue of a Timely Publication" Club... !

And on a more serious note... 

Another book that arrived this week.