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Hi guys, I was going to post in the WTB forum and link to it here, but I thought I'd cut out the middle man. Looking for mid-grade copies of the following (4.0 - 7.0) with nice eye appeal. PLODs and GLODs will certainly be considered. Boy Commandos 13 Fawcett Funny Animals 6 Mad 5, 14, 15 WDC&S 21, 31, 40-43, 45, 48 Weird Science 13(1), 15(3), 16(4), 7, 18 Weird Fantasy 14(2), 15(3), 7 Drop me a PM if you have some of these and we'll talk. Thanks for looking.

He's banned from this site, he's in the Hall of Shame, and there are more tales of woe surrounding him than one can possibly imagine. Not worth reading in the slightest... You might want to get your lawyer to read it...

You mean they don't all look like these guys? I don't look at all like those guys. But I fear that I sound a bit like them...

ALL Australian guys look like that. Except for the ones who look like Chris Hemsworth.

EC New Direction titles don't get a lot of love, but this is a good one:

Here are a couple of great internal pages. This is the main splash: And who wouldn't want to be an air warden?

This one has slipped past me a few times, but I got this nice example on eBay. Liberated from its 8.0 slab.

Who was driving that duck bubble? Maybe Uncle Scrooge was shorting Disney books! Nah, he gave up after that incident with the 1916 quarter.

I thought of you when I saw this and figured you'd have noticed it. That bubble was a little before my time as a born again collector, but it must have been crazy. I have a midgrade WDC&S 37 I paid $330 for that previously sold for $2,700. That's an even bigger multiplier than this copy saw. That said, $15k for that book won't be seen again any time soon.

Oh my! This Heritage listing might be one of the prettiest duck books I've seen in a long while.

I'm not a toy expert, but I know aeroplanes. The blue and silver one is a Bell P-39 Airacobra. First flight 1938, but not into production until 1940 - probably means it's an early 1940s toy. The green one is Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra. You can see a similar toy without paint (and missing the props) here. The red white and blue one might be a Northrop Delta - does it have the right undercarriage legs? I'm curious about the silver one top right. Hard to tell, but might be Lindbergh's Spirit of st Louis? No idea on the orange and silver one. [/aviation geek]

Re taxes: two tips for you. 1) record keeping is key 2) don't take tax tips from the internet (except for this one ) - get professional advice if you need help

A few months back I was kidding in a PM with another boardie that I was doing a deal with that I was going to head to the PL thread with the following plan: Sadly, it seems that my business plan has been copied, although in a more efficient version that goes straight to step 5.

Brian Walker showed it as a full-page picture on p.32 of his excellent first volume, "The Comics Before 1945." I will try and post scans of it and the art later today. If anyone can post it before then, I would appreciate it. Then allow me. It's a great piece (and those two volumes of The Comics are wonderful).

Ooo - very nice! The top census copy can be seen at Heritage here.

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A few - see about eight posts back.

That was after Captain Atom solved the case of the giant ugly baby riding a train... New thread - weird GA covers... ?

Great thread. Don't get on the wrong side of the Grey Domino!

Sounds like a job for the Crimson Comet and his oversized holster:

I thought I'd add some thoughts to this. I got my slabbed 6.5 in hand. Here it is cracked out (yes, we're back to only 3 blue label copies of this book): The overhang at the top, which is the usual state for this book, is rolled back towards the outer edge and there are a few colour breaks as a result. It'd be hard for that not to happen and the book would have to live an especially charmed life. I'd say that it's possible, but pretty unlikely that there'd be a 9.x of this book for that reason.

And a Planet I couldn't resist in a Heritage auction. A two-headed Barney - what's not to like?

Another couple of ducks for the WDC&S run. This one came out of a CGC 5.5 slab. Looking at it raw, I'm not sure I'd grade it that high, though the PQ and colours are really good and it's a nice tight book. So much for the "can only grade 4.0 with a sub crease" school of thought: The eye appeal to $ ratio was so good on this one I couldn't resist. If I'm ever going to complete WDC&S 1 - 100 I'm going to have to compromise a bit on the grades of the more expensive ones, so I'm looking for nicely presenting lower middle grades. An ex bound volume copy, but very neatly removed.

The truly observant among you might've noticed the turtle crawl along a little lately. Here's the 70th and 71st steps: This one hasn't come to live with me yet, but will be liberated from its plastic tomb when it does. Very happy with the eye appeal to $ ratio on this. My second single digit WDC&S.

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