Since I'm a complete idiot and never really thought of it, it was just today that I realized I had an image of the Mile high/Edgar church Marvel Comics #1 sitting not a foot away from my left elbow as I type this. Yeah, John Verzyl let Ernst Gerber photograph his books for the Guide, which means the Marvel Mystery run pictured is the Church run.
Which means this:
…is one of the most valuable books in the whole wide world.
I can't get a scan of the book from the inside, since it's against the spine, so this shot from the cover will have to do. It's good enough 🙂
John said it had excellent registration, and it appears that it does, being one of the most attractive copies of the book I've seen. Obviously the scan is too small and too cropped to guess at condition, but it's still nice to be able to give it a once over.