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  1. There is no doubt that Bob had a lot of facts and stories rattling around his brain about comics, fandom, and their history. And some were really helpful. He and I had a long chat about Dave Wigransky a few years back. It was the only time I ever talked to him. He was pleasant and curious and we shared info. I will not forget his disappointment when I told him Wigransky had talked to Richard Kyle and Ron Graham back in the early 60s. He could not believe he didn’t know and he lamented that their knowledge of Wigransky was lost because no one connected the dots until after they had died. He knew both of them and it was clear he felt the loss of that opportunity. With that I can deeply sympathize.
  2. Misplaced dot clearly was the earlier part of the print run because the misplaced dot was in the pre-Batman 1 house ad based on the cover proof. The notion that the misplaced dot was misplaced after DC first ran a bunch of no dot copies fails the old Occam's razor test. That would be an absurd coincidence.
  3. I mostly got outbid on what I saw as the best books. My preference is for a grade above 7.0 and off-white or better page quality or books that are really historically interesting or rare. Going in my eyes were on: *Supergear (price was superhigh) * the pre-Action 1 trio (MF 31, NA 26, Det. 15 in that order - and just didn't seem worth it but I regret not going harder at the MF 31 which came first) * the Triumph lot (just missed it while on a call - insufficiently_thoughtful_person! Buyer scored hugely!) Before the auction started, I had ruled out the Flash ashcan, CCA comic, S&S Science Fiction fanzine (coolest thing in the auction), the final Superman poster lot as hard for me to justify pricewise, and apparently so did everyone else except for the CCA book. I hope Ivan pops the other three into auctions with GA superhero books where I think they will sell. What I ended up with was modest, but fit my criteria perfectly. CGC 8.0 ow-white and full of DC history. Back in the 40s, DC sought to fight off critics of comics as being insufficiently educational or literary by creating an "advisory board" of folks who would suggest content to DC. One of them was the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature - Pearl S. Buck for "The Good Earth" about life in China. She was very concerned with promoting racial and ethnic tolerance and she clearly had an impact on DC because World's Finest and Comic Calvacade for a while carried a back-up which promoted those values: Johnny Everyman. The first Johnny Everyman story was entitled "The Camera of Mei Lan" coming out in WF 15 (Fall 1944). That story was reprinted in a promotional comic which, according to the Indicia, was put out jointly by DC and the "East and West Association - Pearl S. Buck, President." So this is the only GA (maybe all ages) comic I know of inspired and jointly published by a Nobel Prize winner for literature, and it concerns the topic which made her famous - life in China. Pretty cool. Especially, since my newly acquired copy is only 1 of 2 on the Census with the other copy, a CGC 8.5, having only cream-ow page quality which makes me like my copy much better. Plus, it is a steal at the price for a 1944 DC comic in CGC 8.0 ow-w: I don't know if there are many copies of this unencapsulated, but I don't care. It's a cool piece which embodies some great history relating to my Wertham/CCA collecting interests that I picked up for not a lot at all. P.S. This banner appeared in a number of DC books of the 1940s: Turns out, Pearl Buck may have plotted the story I just acquired. Jack Schiff ultimately wrote the dialogue, but this article is really interesting on that point: Anyone know any other comic stories written by winners of the Nobel Prize for literature? I don't think Bob Dylan has turned his hand to comics.
  4. Someone else just got one also from PBA. Thought it might be you, but saw you already have one. Did you see the CCA book in that auction?
  5. I thought some of the strongest prices were on beater, restored, and conserved copies. Lots of shallow water demand for these books. Like this one I thought got a great price:
  6. The catalogs for this sale are fantastic. Kudos to Ivan for that. And I'm not saying that just because he quoted me and others from posts on this site.
  7. I thought there were a LOT of strong prices. But there were a few deals to be had, and I'm glad I got one.
  8. It needs to be sold with the Flash GA comics. Likewise, Ivan needs to put the S&S Science Fiction fanzine "Superman" issue previously owned by Otto Binder and Dick Lupoff and signed by S&S with the Superman GA comics.
  9. I have heard of the "Pay Copy" of MC 1 which is a Nov. copy. But I have seen "checking copy" stamped on other GA comics.
  10. The catalogues by Ivan for these auctions are great, they provide GPA info, Gerber scarcity, prior prices, CGC census populations, notable aspects of the issue, and they liberally mine this site for information. And I'm not saying that just because I was quoted for one description (as were other posters on this site on other lots).