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Don and Maggie copy to Don and Maggie copy

Every issue is like that, with some nicely done art - if a touch minimalist - and some pages that look very unfinished and poorly executed. Point Five suggested that the difference might be due to a lack of reference pictures for some and I can imagine some of the panels in the better page above being based on other illustrations. (BTW: I like the new avatar!)

I just got another issue of Silver Flash. This series had some excellent covers. Virgil Reilly's kinda scratchy style continues to grow on me. I do like the layout of this page. Whereas the great space war perhaps lacks a little in its execution...

Manhattan project to Donald Duck's atom bomb

To WWI pilot

Sticking with tanks

Fits to ritz to err....

Still going here, and up to #1825. My LCS tells me that sales are falling and the demographic is of the older type though, so who knows how much longer it will go.

I prefer idea B. The character you're introducing should be in the foreground. I also prefer the way the diagonals work in that one, drawing your eye towards the middle (helped by Pinstripe pointing).

I managed to buy what must be one of the worst Crippins from heritage recently. Was listed as a VG, but in practice is a 1.0. Thoroughly trashed due to completely rusted staples. This book has had an extended period of poor storage.

That Tillie is a very pretty copy of an early FC.

Speed to speed

One meat market to another

Redhead to head read

glasses to magnifying glass

If my memory is working properly this was once owned by boardie @Mmehdy

Appropriately pentadactyl claws to inappropriately pentadactyl claws

Newsreel reporter to Extra!

I've been quite enjoying the series so far, but I'm not going to try to defend episode 5. That was a train wreck.

Candle to candle

Top hat to top hat

Another lovely book. That's a very odd defect on the bottom edge. The angle of the page bottom seems to change either side of it. (I even put a ruler on my monitor to make sure it wasn't an optical illusion. How sad is that? ) More speculation from me, but I wonder if it's a bite from a faulty printer blade rather than one of Mickey's clan? Also, is there a small stain on the cover directly below the woman's hair and 1cm up from the bottom edge? And on the bc edge around the same spot. Hard to grade this one without knowing how CGC might look on the 'bite', but maybe 6.5 from me.

I grade that at WOW. Without the flaws you pointed out I'd say 7.5 With them I think 6.0 or maybe 6.5 is possible. That stain doesn't wrinkle the paper or show much (if at all) on the other side. I've seen marks like that on old cover stock. They sometimes have no obvious moisture damage at all, and I've even wondered if they are simply uneven bleaching of the stock.