I write about a slightly different kind of auction:

Two Items Missing from the Lost Auction Catalog That I Would Bid on if They Were Included

Camp Comics #2 Mile High pedigree (Dell, 1942) CGC NM 9.4 White pages.

I've never seen this book before and the Church copy no less.

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The following are two Silver Age books that I absolutely love.

Green Lantern #1 (DC, 1960) CGC NM 9.4

Green Lantern's recent meteoric rise bums me out. I was buying some Green Lanterns, and then, along came the movie blowing prices up on the really good stuff. Case in point, this book. This exact copy sold for 18,975.00 at Heritage in 2003. Recently, a 9.2 of this book sold for $30,450.00. What does that result mean for this 9.4? Hopefully some crazy number north of $50k.
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Okay, maybe not the only two (you might want an All Star #8, too.) Still, this is a nice duo and Wonder Woman is a hell of a character.

Wonder Woman, to me, is wildly underappreciated by the collector community. Just like Superman and Batman she's been published continually since the 1940s and just like those two she's a huge fixture in current DC continuity.

We just need to get her a movie
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Yeah, it's restored, but who cares? Look at this book:

Not everything needs to be about big record prices. Whoever wins this will be a happy camper.

No, that's not a typo. Yeah, there's a killer #54 in this auction, but take a look at this book:

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Comiclink has a Featured Auction ending this week. Not that they've exactly flown under the radar, but we've all been paying just a little bit of extra attention. Time to give CL some love:

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Had you thought about the first Joker cover recently? I hadn't. Then I saw this beauty:
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Wally Wood Daredevil #7 page 7 Original Art

Rare Silver Age art from one of the greatest comic artists of all time. Only two pages of Wood Daredevil art are on ComicArtFans.com (one being Eric Roberts' cover to #5) and none are from the key issue #7.
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Hopefully I'll be able to get through a few of these before the auction closes. This is such a great auction it deserves attention beyond the obsessive refreshing of the Detective 27 page to see if it's received any new bids.

Anyway, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the story of the Gainers file copies, when Jerry Weist and Bob Overstreet were putting together the books for sale they grouped and ranked the books in sets based on condition. The #1 set was the best, the #2 was second best and so on. Many of these sets have been subsequently broken up, so it's interesting to see one with such a low number come up for sale, complete, with a single owner post-Gaines sale.

As you can see from the grades, these books were truly the cream of the crop. So many 9.6s and 9.8s.
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