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Very true. He's much more a graphic artist with an eye towards montage and design than an artist per se.' The results were right on point: great eye-catching covers!

What is he wearing on his feet??

I love the finished products, but this guy, as much as anyone, was only as good as his swipe file. Did he render much of anything organically? I recognized this as one of my girlie digests - I don’t know if this is an already established and known swipe… The cover model is Anita Ekberg, by the way.

I’d be very surprised if that’s a legitimate result. There are a lot of shenanigans going on right now in pulps. Jordan Belfort would be proud of some of the “pump and dump” strategies being employed in this newly-hyped field. Unfortunately when some new money comes rushing into a collecting field, there are always going to be big bad actors creating the same sort of FOMO that we just saw unfold in comics over the past four years. Rinse and repeat… At least with NFT’s, the treachery was right up front.

I don’t see how this doesn’t cause a stagnation going forward for the later printings. Who’s going to throw around that kind of money even for a lower grade copy knowing that the asterisk that was perhaps long bubbling under the surface is now front and center for everyone henceforth? At the very least, if you have a June 2nd version, you should take some of the people in this thread out to a really, really nice dinner!

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No joke, consider putting them under your bed even if you need to commission a carpenter to help with some custom cabinetry. There are bedstands online that offer more clearance and sometimes forego a traditional box spring.

In the 70’s, a serious die-hard comic collector could sacrifice and make owning an Action 1 a reality, as it was several times lower in price than an average annual income. Now this example will go for nearly a hundred times the average annual income. That to me is sad. It’s been fully commoditized. Just like the NBA final games or the Super Bowl isn’t necessarily populated with the most rabid fans but rather the richest fans, so too has gone comic collecting.

You have great offerings obviously. Here and elsewhere, it does seem to be a buyer’s market for now. Good luck on the house.

These two are especially awesome! Collectors in the US tend to love the 'glamor girls' on bottles, so that Blue Seal bottle is on our radar too.