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37 is not my favorite either so I never felt like finding a nicer copy.  I think it is that the monster seems too cartoony and the background is pretty blah. I guess they can't all be winners...  but agree the interiors are still amazing.   

Flex, the colors on your 32 are unreal.  Almost seem enhanced compared to some, neon-esqeue even, but that is the fun about these rare color strikes with Fiction House.  The colors on Karl's copy are pretty amazing too.  And can be hard to see some through the slabs, glad you showed the before pic.  I thought I had a scan of my 32 but can't find at the moment so will have to catch up on that one once I have a chance to get it rescanned.  This is so fun seeing everyone's books all at once.  

10 hours ago, Spyder! said:

That date stamp looks really similar to the one on your #22.  Do you know if these 2 books were from the same collection?

They are from the same collection, very observant.  From the sci-fi writer Raymond Miller.  I don't know too much about him but I've seen things written by him in some fanzines.  Earl Shaw sold off a lot of his collection back in 2018.  My copies of 20 (didn't post that one since I upgraded), 22, 28, and 31 are all from his collection.  I think I got about a dozen comics in all, including Fight 13.  He was a fan of trying to do restoration with tape.  

Here is my 31.

58 minutes ago, Professor Chaos said:

I was going to make him/her an offer of the exact amount they paid for it just to mess with him/her, but they might actually accept and I think even 7,656.58 was a little too high for it. 

I literally had exactly the same thought process.  Like word for word.  

I made the same mistake last year on a book that ended up having a repro cover, but it was very hard to tell from the pics.  But once I got in hand it was obvious it was a brand new cover.  A lot of the imperfections I was seeing were actually just scans on the repro cover.  At first the seller, someone quite well known and reputable, tried to assert that I was mistaken, due to it being a somewhat strange cover to begin with.  But once I hit them with a bunch of detailed pics, they conceded and refunded and resold it as a repro cover.  So even major dealers get fooled once in a while.  Hopefully the seller here does the right thing.

Pretty sweet Planet 20 deslabbed 4.0 available over in G/S/B Forum from mustang33guy, if anyone is looking.  

Scratch that, just sold...

2 minutes ago, kelholt said:

I used to own the 9.2 and sold to Cheetah and now Flex has it. I agree with Flex, neither scan do the book justice. It is a beautiful book. 

Here is my 23

Woah stupendous!  Talk about a mic drop book!    

Does it seems to anyone else like they stretch things out too far?  It is fairly difficult to remember to check in on my one or two interesting lots every day for a week and a half.  I think it might be better in a shorter format.  Might explain some of the second week fatigue as well.