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  1. buttock
    I did tell you you were wrong, I'm not sure where any coyness comes through there. Mark told me recently how many books they grade a day, and it was a staggering number. I don't recall it exactly, but 5000 books wouldn't take them long at all. My point, along with that of several others, is that 5000 books didn't register as more than a blip for CGC, and although being a little bit more work for Heritage, was probably a slight increase in workflow that they were more than happy to have. A far cry from nearly breaking them.
  2. buttock
    You should ask CGC how many books they grade in a day. This is a drop in the bucket. You're just absolutely wrong on this.
  3. buttock
    I hate this part about collecting. It's always the chase, and you're never fully satisfied. On the other hand, it's always fun.
  4. buttock
    This is proof that people will argue about literally anything on the internet.
  5. buttock
    Can you clarify what you're trying to accomplish with a wet cleaning?
  6. buttock
    Tim hates everyone, so tell Ian not to take it personally.
  7. buttock
    FTFY
  8. buttock
    August 1955. Getting near the end of his great runs on the war stuff for Atlas.
  9. buttock
    July 1955, just the one book. Great almost hyper-realist image.
  10. buttock
    How could you not want this?
  11. buttock
    The chain of miniature skulls makes practical sense as his other bandolier has only 7 rounds (I think those are shells, but I don't know why they have brass on either end. Must be some futuristic special ammunition)
  12. buttock
    There are at least 4 major pedigree quality OO collections going through CGC right now. At least that's what CGC tells me. But I could be wrong because Mitch said there weren't any more out there. And I don't think that includes the 300k collection. You can look on Heritage and see some really nice PCH coming up from a collection labeled the "Feedstore collection", which I assume is one of them.
  13. buttock
    Adding this one to the list.
  14. buttock
    That's a great looking 5.5
  15. buttock
    Matt told me a target date of November, but not absolutely firm.
  16. buttock
    It's exactly what the editors wanted, and it's exactly what the buyers wanted. A big ol' picture of him so they could all show their friends. Artistically it sucks. From a business perspective it was on point.
  17. buttock
    The census has really expanded on a lot of books. At this point, 23 years in, a lot of books that used to never be seen are getting certified. If something remains with fewer than 10 copies, it seems to be genuinely scarce.
  18. buttock
    The pillows are at the head. What looks like the headboard is the footboard. It's a little wonky, but makes more (not complete, but more) sense when you see it. I'm more offended by her face than her leg.
  19. buttock
    It would be out of character for Bob Kane to steal ideas.
  20. buttock
    Yes, thank you for proving my point.
  21. buttock
    You like to argue.
  22. buttock
    Lee wasn't doing well without Kirby. Kirby wasn't doing well without Lee. Lee & Kirby get together and reinvent the universe. Kirby leaves and he and Lee both come down to earth. Seems like, as is true in many cases, that the two of them together were greater than the sum of the parts. Both sides want credit for their contributions, and in their minds they both have an argument. But I've read enough on both sides to see that both of them contributed, and none of it occurred in a vacuum. Even if one of them came up with a character, that was probably at the end of a process of multiple conversations. So while, yes, the final crystallization was from one or the other; both parties had a role in development.
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    If you continue to narrow down the date range arbitrarily, then yes, the number of stories will also go down. My point was that he returned in 1956 and from that time until Maneely's death he did a lot of work. But from his RETURN (there's no other word for it) in 1956, he did a story in Battleground 14, Astonishing 56, Strange Tales of the Unusual 7, Quick Trigger Western 16, Two Gun Western 12, My Own Romance 62, Gunsmoke Western 47, and all of the stories in Yellow Claw 2, 3, & 4, and Black Rider Returns where he was essentially assigned characters. So he's got 22 stories spread out over the 18 or so months preceding Joe Maneely's death after having not done anything for the preceding 15 years, but you're going to say that this body of work doesn't count as a return until 1 month later? Maybe there was some refinement of the contract for exclusivity or something that you could say counts as an official welcome or something (I don't know, just spitballing). But to say that he didn't return in 1956 is just wrong.
  24. buttock
    He did 21 stories in 1956-7, 14 of which were in 1957. That's not really 'almost no'. Stretching it to early 1958 he did war, sci-fi/fantasy, western, thriller/hero, and romance.
  25. buttock
    C-1 implies amateur, which likely means bleed through and can't be removed without taking chunks out of the full thickness of the cover. Probably not worth it.