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Originally Posted by clydepepper
Our 'native bias' aside, anyone want to share their feelings on which is the greater 'Holy Grail' - this Comic Book or the Gretsky Wagner?
I don't know how many original copies of the Comic Book have survived and I've heard at least four different totals for the Wagner. Input Requested.
The Gretsky Wagner card has long been assumed to be, by far, the Wagner in the best condition, but we have already heard of one Comic Book that may be better than this one.
The Wagner is 27-29 years older. Aside from that, what are your opinions?
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Depends on how you look at it. Action #1 had a HUGE impact on comic books in general, and super-hero comics in particular. To say there wouldn't be super-hero comics without Action #1 is a bit of a stretch (like saying there wouldn't be PCs without IBM or MS), but it did effectively jump-start the genre, which in turn jump-started the huge wave of comics in general. Right comic at the right time. Anywhere in the world you could easily find someone who knows who Superman is. Action #1 had a bigger impact to the overall culture.
No one could reasonably see the Wagner card (or Wagner) causing the same impact.
Now if you are talking specifically about COLLECTING, that's open for debate.
So I would offer that those card collectors seeing the Wagner as a "holy grail" rather than a copy of Action #1 are more "collecting niche nerds" than comic collectors.
