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I just added one of the most important Golden Age comics to my collection: O Globo Juvenil Mensal #32 from 1943. The cover of this comic is insane, doing something completely unprecedented by showing the Human Torch walking side by side with Superman, establishing the first crossover between National (future DC) and Timely (Marvel), 30 years before anything like this appeared in an American publication. This is the first known DC/Marvel crossover, and the Grand Comics Database identifies it as “The Earliest Timely & National Cross Over known to exist Globally.”

What impresses me the most is its extreme rarity, easily surpassing Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27 and even Marvel Comics #1. I’ve talked to major collectors in Brazil, and many of them have never even seen one in person. There are only 7 copies in the census and another 4 in private collections, one of them being mine.

The more I research this issue, the more impressed I become. I’d even go as far as saying that, with the right recognition, it could make the list of the Top 100 Golden Age grails worldwide. This isn’t just an American reprint, but something genuinely unique that was legally produced under the laws and contracts of 1940s Brazil.

It’s an absolute grail. The craziest Golden Age comic I’ve ever had the privilege of owning.

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