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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All-American Comics #16 CGC GD 2.0 1st Green Lantern!

Winning bid: US $8,456.00 Seller: qualitycomix ( 1266 )
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I've decided to sell a lot of the lower number Green Lanterns I've got on eBay. Why?

Well, I want to buy a nicer GL #1 and a Showcase #22 before the prices get too frothy and I hate spending "real" money on comics, so out the door they go. Some nice books there, but I'd much rather have the big keys right now. Hopefully I can source both in the grades I want soon after the above sales go through.

Can't wait for the real thing? Here's a fan-made version to tide you over:

Instead, it was just a silver age Green Lantern #1 listed by Mile High Comics for $873.60.

EightHundredSeventyThreeDollars&SixtyCents!

Considering I just bought a raw GD copy for $140, that might be a little high.

GPA reports the 12 month Fine average as $861. So, for only twelve dollars MORE you could hit the BIN on GD copy. What a treat that would be.

Both of those numbers are well below Overstreet, by the way, so it's not like this book is tearing up the charts at the moment (which is probably why I'm buying them- they seem like a real bargain to me.*)

In case you were wondering the GD price for the Golden Age Green Lantern #1 is, in fact, $3000, so there's really no reason in the world (even looking at the wrong book in Overstreet) for this book to be listed so high.

*it's true. Kane art throughout, great covers and the #1 is a year older than FF #1.

These both arrived today:

Yes, a GD- (according to Heritage, at least) Green Lantern #1 next to a gorgeous Pacific Coast Green Lantern 42. Quite a pair.

I'll be reading the GL #1 tonight.

I won two books on Sunday night for roughly the same price:

Green Lantern #1 (DC, 1960) Condition: GD-

and

Green Lantern #42 CGC 9.2 Pacific Coast

I'm happy with both purchases. I've never actually owned a Green Lantern #1. That won't be my last copy, of course. I'm going to need a high grade copy to round out the run I've started working on, so there's be something a little more expensive in my future. Still I love #1s and keys so even a beater GL #1 is nice to have.

I just picked up this book. I've started looking at Silver Age Green Lanterns again. I feel like I'm in a little bit of a race against time with them because talk persists about a Green Lantern movie. Hopefully I'll be able to do my run (1-89 + the Showcase books) before they blow up.

Obviously this isn't a "pure" best sampling since I bought these with a discerning eye and obviously assumed these books would grade pretty well to send them in in the first place, but it's still interesting to compare the Heritage raw grades versus the CGC grades for some of the books in my latest submission (which came back this morning):

House of Mystery #186 and 189 Group (DC, 1970) Condition: Average VF

Came back: House of Mystery #189 CGC 8.5

Firehair Comics #10 Mile High pedigree (Fiction House, 1951) Condition: VF-

Came back: Firehair Comics #10 CGC 6.5

Green Lantern #12 (DC, 1962) Condition: FN/VF

Came back: Green Lantern #12 CGC 7.5

Green Lantern #14 (DC, 1962) Condition: VF-

Came back: Green Lantern #14 CGC 7.5

Green Lantern #16 (DC, 1962) Condition: FN/VF

Came back: Green Lantern #16 CGC 7.5

Green Lantern Group (#59 (FN/VF))

Came back: Green Lantern #59 CGC 8.5

The only one I'm disappointed in is the House of Mystery. I thought it was at least 9.0. Otherwise, I'm pleased with this submission.

In case you're wondering, I'll be posting the rest of the books later on today.