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Thank you rjpb! Tabloids do require some additional care, but for me their coolness has always outweighed the hassle of storing and preserving them. The issues of Blimp Works really get my blood pumping, as does that all comix issue of EVO you posted! For some reason those all comix issues have all eluded me to this point.

I love tabloids. There I said it.

Robert Williams discusses this issue in this interview, if you haven't seen it already. I think it's interesting seeing the father of LowBrow Art discussing the work of the father of Punk Rock Art. So awesome, had never seen that. Thanks for sharing!!

Yes sir... Well actually the book probably predates the Armadillo World Headquarters by a couple of months, it came out in March of 1970. It was published by the Vulcan Gas Company and the cover art is by Dillo co-founder Jim Franklin.

Some more comix for this lovely thread.

Too cool! Congrats on the purchases! Always loved that Fleener cover.

Watched on the live stream and was pretty impressed by some of the ferocious bidding. Of course it's hard to say when (or even if) a sale with ultra-high-grade copies like this will ever come along again, and perhaps that's why the overall results were so strong. Not too many bargains left to be had, maybe Die Gretchen in 9.6 which I thought was a steal at less than $200. Loved that Safe N' Sound, Doomsday, and Chicago Mirror #3... seriously snazzy books!

Thanks 50 Cent! Not from a collection I bought, just some of the books I picked up over the years. Most are online purchases. I spent many years scouring the internet for deals. The Inahaba, for example, came from Australia; shipping was more than the book, still worth it though. I haven't been buying much for the last five years, but before that I was pretty rabid.

A couple more...

When I first saw that Maus booklet, it took a moment before it registered that what I was looking at was a detached Raw insert inside a CGC case. A strange sight indeed... I think the reason I was at first thrown-off was because--like you--I would think of the booklet as incomplete without the issue it came in... Due to its larger than life format, CGC doesn't grade Raw; but if it did, would a copy of Raw #2 grade as complete if it had the Maus booklet missing? Let's not get started on how CGC would grade the seventh issue of Raw with the deliberately torn cover. To answer your first question: How could it? The Maus booklet is part of the guts of the issue of Raw, if' it's not there it's the same to me as say a Mad Annual missing it's insert, or let's go with UG and compare it to say a Deep 3D without the attached glasses. Now look at the reverse...would you want the glasses without the book or the inserts without the magazines? If both elements are not together you don't have 2 different books, you have 2 different mutilated copies. As far as the second question goes, if you have the correct piece of Raw #7 that fits into the torn section, then you have a mutilated copy, too. AS and Ms. Mouly state in many places that the torn segment should NOT match the torn cover. Therefore, if the piece is incorrect and mounted in the right place, CGC should grade it accordingly like any other comic/magazine.....also since they grade posters now, why don't they use a variant of those containers to slab issues of Raw in? So much confusion and so much beauty....I weep.