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A True Collector
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| i have the box in storage and i'll pull the figures at the end of the week and take picture and post them and you can see for yourself. These could be original order numbers but not final print numbers that I have. I know the forms where sent in 2 months before arrival and received one month before the order was reserved. Or what I'm thinking as well it could have been just through that distrubator that those numbers were for there own buys. i'll solve it somehow if I'm work wouldn't be the first time. I would rather it be wrong on something like this anyhow. Jesse James 
Fawcett's entry into the golden age superhero comic book market quickly became among the most popular books available. The first issue of Whiz comics, introducing Captain Marvel, sold over 500,000 copies. By the middle of the decade, Captain Marvel had received a self-titled comic book, Captain Marvel's Adventures, which had a circulation that reached 1.3 million copies per month. This answers that question. so this tells me I was looking at maybe the distrubutars buys during the 80's and 90's and not publication. My Bad!!! learn something everyday. JJ
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Mild Collector
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| I don't believe the moderns will ever appraoch the high values of Golden and Silver Age comics. Partly that is a funciton of the higher quality paper, etc. Scarcity affects value, and the vast majority of comics that I ran across in the 50's and 60's were being read over and over agian, and then traded for another batch some kid down the block bought, then left outside on the picnic table or trashed by Mrs. Cleaver. The ones that weren't thrown in the dump or used by Ozzie to light the charcoal grille for a barbeque on the new patio were, after all, made of pulp that simply disintegrated in the attic or were eaten by hamsters. Value is also partly a funciton of the number of collectors and speculators who buy and bag. Comparatively speaking, there are now many many people saving copies rahter than re-reading, trading, or trashing them. This will result in many many copies of very high grade issues being avaialble on the market when the collectors (or their grandchildren) are ready to part with them. Thus, there will not be anything like the discrepancy between the values of the "near mint' and the merely "good" books that you see today for older runs. But I think inflation will have a greater impact than that projected by batfan. Me, I'm just waiting for the market to come back on my Pet Rocks. Then I'll really cash in. I bought doubles.
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Rabid Collector
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| Spider-man had print runs of over 500,000 all the way up until 1983 when it dropped just below the 500,000 mark and then in 1992 went back over it. Print runs after the year 2000 for ASM are now below 200,000 copies. Famous Funnies reached peak circulation of 400,000 copies in 1955 Sales of Action Comics after #19 were nearly 500,000 copies And yes, Captain Marvel was oddly enough the most popular character at the time and the print runs were nearly 1,000,000 The only reason any of these books are currently valuable is because for one... no one thought they would be valuable, and two, the paper drives during the war gobbled up tons and tons of them, at least the ones that weren't already used to light the fireplace or stove.
  Always looking for Giant-Size Marvels and Extreme High Grade Vampirella's
Savage Sword of Conan Magazines needed VF++ or better: 18, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 55, 61, 98, 129, 132, 134, 141, 143, 145, 151, 171, 179, 191, 192, 194, 196-211, 215, 216, 217, 218, 221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 227, 228, 229, 235
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