20th Century Gulliver
Tales to Astonish 40
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Tales to Astonish 40
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Western Penn
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Certification #:
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1107053008
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Yet another tough book from Feb 1963. There are no 9.8s, our WP 9.6 comes from the Western Penn Collection and is tied with two other copies for highest graded. Surfacing in the '90s, much of this collection's history is shrouded in mystery. We know that both a father and his son accumulated the collection from the '60s to '80s, and there was allegedly a cache of Golden Age comics as well that may have been sold earlier (to date only a handful of Tarzans prior to 1961 have been CGC graded). Stuart Friedlander brought the collection to market, and several Silver Age publishers were represented, although Marvel was the predominant company. Known for very high grades and exceptional page quality starting in 1961, the Western Penn copies have been well documented, but do not exhibit any identifying marks.
We acquired our book from a private collector who initially owned a virtuoso run of Western Penns in this title in June 2026.
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