#5477282 - 02/25/1211:20 PMWhat Are the Rarest Centaur Books?
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With the recent Billy Wright books attracting a lot of attention to the early Centaurs and how some of them never shows up in the marketplace, I was wondering if there is a consensus on the rarest Centaur books out there?
I know that Win (CentaurMan) had his Windex scarcity list of Centaur books out there a few years ago. That was an excellent run of posts that we had there for awhile, but my search skills on these boards are almost at zero. It would also be good to see if this scarcity index should be adjusted with some of the books that have made their way into the marketplace in the interim. As a result, a link to this previous thread would be greatly appreciated.
I know that Overstreet has designated some of the Centaurs as rare in the price guide, but from his listing, they would appear more a case of rarity relative to demand since virtually all of them are from the later Centaur super-hero time period. These would include the more in-demand books such as A-Man #5 (this book can't truly be rare) and Funny Pages V4 #1 which both should be a lot easier to find than the much earlier Star Comics #3 which OS has also designated as rare.
Of interest is the Funny Picture Stories #7 which Overstreet has now designated as rare just a couple of years ago and has now broken it out accordingly in terms of price. Any reason why OS would select this particular issue from out of the blue when the much more widely acknowledged ones such as the A-Man #26, early KDF's, and Star/Star Ranger Comics seems to be talked about much more here on the boards?
Would any of the board members here like to share their opinions as to the rarest Centaur books out there? Hopefully, we'll hear from some of the long-term prominent Centaur collectors such as Win, Ryan, Jon Berk, etc. on this topic.
There is a Centaur titled "Khaki Comics" from 1941. The cover is the same as Stars and Stripes #2, also from 1941. The only time I have personally seen a copy was at a Mound City auction last year. I couldn't look at the interiors as it was CGC slabbed and graded as a 2.0.
I couldn't be there on the day of the auction and left a significant bid, but found out it ended up going for somewhere around $1500 (I think).
It is not in Overstreet and not in Gerber. It is listed on the GCD site, but it sounds like their only information was from a listing on eBay.
I don't know much about it. It is pictured in CGC's gallery and is the only copy listed.
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Interesting. Not even a cover price. A giveaway?
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There's a similar book with an AMF cover that was unique. I can't recall details now, I think Mark Wilson turned it up. I had a chance to buy it back in the 90s, but passed. The FPS laundry giveaway is very rare. I'd wager the Khaki Komics is a remaindered/rebound thing, and not published by Centaur, but that's only a guess.
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There's a similar book with an AMF cover that was unique. I can't recall details now, I think Mark Wilson turned it up. I had a chance to buy it back in the 90s, but passed. The FPS laundry giveaway is very rare. I'd wager the Khaki Komics is a remaindered/rebound thing, and not published by Centaur, but that's only a guess.
Being a Centuar collector myself I have saved Win's WINdex ratings whenever possible. Here are the KDF & FP WINdex lists. The higher the number, the harder to find that issue.
The toughest issues of KDF are, in approximate order:
v1#10 (the toughest) v1#9 (brutal as well)
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v2#1 v1#11 v1#8 #22 v2#4 v2#7 #21
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v2#8 v2#2 v2#6 #20 #19 #18 #23
There are 6 others that are tricky to varying degrees, depending on your luck at the time
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#24 v2#9 (these are the only two that I would consider easy)
Here's my Funny Pages "Windex" ranking for scarcity (higher is tougher):
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