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It's a lovely book. It's too bad the page quality dropped, though. It was graded as a 5.0 on 7/1//2004 according to the website. I thought pages were judged more harshly back then, but maybe that wasn't always the case. (I suppose it's possible it wasn't stored properly, but one would hope a WDC&S #1 would be pampered.)

Hey, if that one counts as a Christmas cover, I guess this one does, too.

BLB has been cast into the outer darkness but I did find a lot of the stuff he posted in this thread to be interesting. Of course, there were other threads .... Link to the thread that "cast" Bob out? I've wondered where he was. I'm pretty sure the mods poofed it. What was the crime? Brief summary is fine. summary: tread lightly in the pulps section of his ebay store. Maybe the strangest thing about that imbroglio is that, as I remember, it actually was resolved. I'd describe it more as an intervention fraught with complications. The last thing I remember reading from Bob was a simple Happy Thanksgiving message: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7211165Post7211165 I believe it may have been a response to this thread, but I'm not positive: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7206638&fpart=1

First time looking at this thread. I'd grade the book F/VF (5.0) based on what I see. (I haven't looked at the grade yet.)

The Women's Room by Marilyn French & The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. I just finished a relatively short book on the works of Hieronymous Bosch.

My biggest issue with eBay is sellers' pulling of items if the bidding isn't to their liking. I've wasted a lot of time following books that ended up getting pulled. Sparkle City doesn't do that, but their lead buyer is a guy named Greg Jortner, and some of what I've read about his business practices leave a bad taste in my mouth: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7262266&fpart=1 In fairness to Sparkle City, I had no issues when I bought a book in one of their eBay auctions back in 2012. I just don't like the idea of putting money in Jortner's pocket.

Vancouvers. Folks don't pay enough attention to this ped. Every copy I've ever owned has been a white paged 9.6/9.8 Lost valleys had a great variety and selection of titles, esp 1930s issues. Don't hear folks talk about that ped as much. What about Palo Altos? Very nice 1950s ped. One more Rick- as for quality, are the Central Valleys underrated? Thx again (thumbs u Not underrated at all. In fact they are applauded for their high level of preservation. There are just so few "key" type books that the ped is not more applauded. But they sold for huge premiums so definitely not underrated imo (thumbs u Gator, did many of the Lost Valleys have rusty staples? It seems like I've seen what looked like rust stains on some of them, which must have come from other books in the stacks, when they were up for sale.

I'm 40, and I'd say Batman had already topped Superman by the time my generation reached comic-collecting age, but fairly recently. People just a few years older than I am dug the Christopher Reeve/Margot Kidder Superman movies. Those were Superman's last hurrah.

What do you mean by digitally renewed? Have they been cleaned up, recolored, etc.? Many books in the public domain are already available to read for free in a browser on the Comic Book + site. What are you offering beyond what they do? http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=1346

I picked this one up a while ago, but I never posted it in this thread.

Im seriously intrigued by the social rules that might exist in this little community. Was the 15x price near fair market value or was it a gouging? How does the fact that you were the one that sold it to him affect what the price should be (really I want to know). Is the expectation here in this community that the original seller should get some sort of discount/best price vs what the new seller is asking (lets assume the seller is asking market). I'm curious about this as well. What if you buy a book, that might be a high price at the time, but the book significantly spikes in popularity and the FMV really jumps? Are you supposed to give the original seller a deal, or sell for a fair market price? I would think that you should sell for a fair price in the present market. Only seems fair imo. Is the seller actually asking market? Did the books really increase in value 15X over the past 2 years? There are some very greedy sellers who price books extremely high & just wait for a sucker. I just refuse to do business with those people. If the book really has skyrocketed in value, you don't have a right to expect a bargain. Was the guy actually looking to sell the book? I have a select few books that I wouldn't sell for any real-world price (nobody's going to offer me $50K for a $5K book, so that sort of hypothetical situation isn't worth discussing), but I have many more books that I plan to keep but which I would sell if somebody offered me a really strong price, say 2X or 3X fair market value. So maybe that's the situation with this seller--he actually likes the book and wants to keep it but is willing to sell it if he can get a phenomenal price.

I just got these back from CGC. The Catman 25 is the Selkirk copy (which I've posted before raw). The New Funnies 72 looks nicer than the one 9.6 I saw online some time ago, but the grade is probably accurate. The 9.6 was probably a little over-graded.

Well, I thought the turn-around time for standard tier was 15 days, but my books that were received 7/14 are still at verified, 18 days later.

I like the artwork on this one from Fight Comics No. 21:

Congratulations on finishing the S&K run! I tried to find a different Cookeville Cap so I could sell you my #10, but I kept striking out. (I specifically wanted one that was 8.0 or better w/ Off-white or better pages.)

Tough book great cover.Enjoy! It is tough. Only the Church and Larson copies grade higher than this one! That book's on my want list, too. I had no idea there were so few mid/high-grade copies around. I guess I'd better be prepared to compromise on the grade.

Cool books so far! But if Steve A. posts his, you guys will be in tears.

Great book... I was the one who 'bought' the Menace 11 (8.0, Northford.) However, after I paid they decided not to sell it to me. I'm really sorry to hear that. I had a feeling that they were going to do that to me with the Menace #3 as well, considering they pulled the same thing on two of my previous four invoices, so I called them first thing the following morning to make sure that they would run my credit card. I guess I got lucky this time....... I called them the next day as well. First I was told I was all set, and in fact they said I was lucky to be first because they'd had a number of inquiries about the 11. A week or so went by and then I got the 'sorry Charlie' email from them. So I called them. I wasn't happy. And the boys at Metro find it so incredulous that the collecting community considers them such individual_without_enough_empathys. I wonder why Joe Smjekel is consigning all his books to Heritage after buying them off ComicConnect. I'm still waiting for them to relist all their Church copies that Fishler personally promised me he would relist. Happened to me on an Action #14 years ago. This is all very enlightening. It tells me Metro needs to drop a few notches down my list of sources. (I've spent more with them than with anyone else over the past few years.)

That is a good cover! I'm partial to Catman, so here's mine:

This is my favorite non-Planet Zolnerowich cover (and I don't own any Zolnerowich Planets).

Here's my favorite Maurice Whitman cover:

Matt Baker is one of my favorites, too, but my favorite Baker cover is Seven Seas #4. (I like animals, so I prefer to believe that South Seas Girl is just going to scare the shark away with that knife.)

I recently read the Henry James novella "The Turn of the Screw," and now I'm reading a short story by him called "The Jolly Corner" in the same anthology.