Green Lantern 76 Appreciation Club 2 2

[littledoom]

Such a seminal book in comics lore .. I know there's many collectors out there who treasure their copies.. so just thought I'd give this it's own thread for the Neal Adams & Dennis O'Neil lovers 

 

 

[OtherEric]

Not one but TWO people wrote on my copy...

I think, when I bought this back around '90, it was a personal record for how much I had ever spent on a single comic.  $15, if I recall correctly.

[littledoom]

18 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

Not one but TWO people wrote on my copy...

I think, when I bought this back around '90, it was a personal record for how much I had ever spent on a single comic.  $15, if I recall correctly.

so awesome!

[jimjum12]

9 hours ago, OtherEric said:

Not one but TWO people wrote on my copy...

I think, when I bought this back around '90, it was a personal record for how much I had ever spent on a single comic.  $15, if I recall correctly.

One of my favorite comics of all time …. I was going insane from plans and schemes of how to scrape up the money to swing Axmen's 9.4 copy a few weeks ago.... if only I had one of the early stimulus checks …  GOD BLESS....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[ADAMANTIUM]

I bought this early on when I got back into collecting. @oakman29 and @kav kind of raved about it, so I had to get a copy, they too get a shout out in my registry description with my copy  

I should probably bother to take a better pic, but I'm ok for now  

[kav]

I donated my copy to Kneel Atoms back in the 70s.  wish i had it.

[jcjames]

A few years ago, my LCS owner gave this one to me for free, for being a loyal customer. 

A tad bit used but no major tears or stains and it is complete.

Not bad... for nothing! 

 

Edited May 1, 2020 by jcjames

[littledoom]

10 minutes ago, jcjames said:

A few years ago, my LCS owner gave this one to me for free, for being a loyal customer. 

A tad bit used but no major tears or stains and it is complete.

Not bad... for nothing! 

 

What a grand gesture!!

[Gotham Kid]

GL76 has hit rock bottom. I recall when 9.4s would sell for 10K easy and 9.6s sold for like 30K several years back...

Last night a 9.6 sold for under $7400 on ComicLink

https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp&id=1421192

 

Edited August 27, 2020 by Gotham Kid

[littledoom]

11 minutes ago, Gotham Kid said:

GL76 has hit rock bottom. I recall when 9.4s would sell for 10K easy and 9.6s sold for like 30K several years back...

Last night a 9.6 sold for under $7400 on ComicLink

https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp&id=1421192

 

every dog has its day

Edited August 27, 2020 by littledoom

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[justin]

I love this book and always wanted one signed by Neal Adams. I traded my 7.5 for this 5.0 SS.
One thing that stands out to me on this book In general is that in order to get the logo to be properly centered, you need to have a white strip down the spine side otherwise the L in Lantern is too close to the spine and the W in Arrow is too far away from the right edge. Weird.

Edited August 30, 2020 by justin

[Popeyeak49]

GL 76 was the first back issue I ever purchased after my Uncle introduced me to comic book collecting. I purchased this raw about 35 years ago and recently had it graded. It isn’t high grade but it’s one of my favorites. 

[ADAMANTIUM]

1 minute ago, Popeyeak49 said:

GL 76 was the first back issue I ever purchased after my Uncle introduced me to comic book collecting. I purchased this raw about 35 years ago and recently had it graded. It isn’t high grade but it’s one of my favorites. 

and it has a story  I have noted the first I have had slabbed, first submitted for yellow label, first I bought already graded  I cherish and still have all of them

It's worth noting my GL #76 is also a 6.5, and I'm happy with it too!

[comicartfan]

Back in the early days of CGC (2003 range) I had the first 9.4 graded copy. I got it raw and it was a great copy. Apparently from what I heard, Jason Ewert got it and altered it to a 9.8 

Anyway, I grabbed this one from My Comic Shop about a year or so ago for a decent price. 

[FoggyNelson]

I can appreciate GL 76 ‼️‼️‼️👍👍👍😷 great comic book👏👏

[Randall Ries]

[EC Star&Bar]

You may have heard something to this effect before, but Neal Adams had some comments related to why the series was cancelled.  This may not be accurate, but still interesting. He claims that for some "art" issues like his and Steranko's (X-Men, SHIELD) around that time, distributors were selling cases to speculators of sorts, in unethical transactions.  Since fewer copies were reaching newsstands, sales were not registering as they should have -- so the lower sales numbers doomed the series.

I have to question how that type of activity would've affected accounting -- I mean how would those transactions affect the reported "unsold," did the case copies get reported as such?

Edited September 17, 2020 by EC Star&Bar

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[pickycollector]