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Thanks, Eric! Added to your stack.

Thanks again, Comical Situations. I'll add these to your stack.

Popular Library No. 451 - Maharajah" by Richard Cargoe. Cover art by Ray Johnson. Poor/Incomplete - missing first several pages Free to anyone who has bought a book in this thread - just claim it!

Ace No. D-283 - "City" by Clifford Simak, 1958. VG- with spine and cover creasing and slight water damage righthand edge of book. $6 for a decent reading copy. SOLD

Graphic Mystery No. 49 - "In Comes Death" by Paul Whelton, 1952. VG condition with some cover creasing and spine wear; small spine split top left. $12 SOLD

Bantam No. 708 - "The Captive Women" by Walter Edmonds, 1949. Cover by Denver Gillen Fine- condition with some minor paper loss around the edges and a slight manufacturing crimp lower spine. $15 SOLD

Bantam No. 258 - "Raiders of the Rimrock" by Luke Short. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Fine- copy. $12

Bantam No. 112 - "Hardcase" by Luke Short. VG+ really clean cover with a minor spine slant and a signature of pages protruding from the spine slightly. $10

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Thanks a lot, Comical Situations!

Avon No. 322 - "Slipping Beauty" by Jerome Weidman. I hesitate to call this GGA, as in "good," but she's glamorous nevertheless... Fine copy with intact lamination and some minor creasing. $20 SOLD

Avon (no number) 26 - "Seven Footprints To Satan" by A Merritt. A classic early Avon! VG/F A clean, tight book with some creasing (mostly lower right) that keeps it from a straight Fine. $25 SOLD

Monarch Books No. 185 - "Eve's Apple" by Ronald Simpson, 1961. Nice GGA cover by Harry Barton. VG condition with some creasing and tiny chip missing URFC. $12 SOLD

Popular Library No. 208 - "The Deputy At Snow Mountain" by Edison Marshall. From the collection of Lance Casebeer, a prominent paperback collector who had one of every American paperback up to at least 1959. VG+ condition, with some transverse cover creases front cover and some paper loss from insects in a few places along the edge of the front cover. $12

Pocket Books No. 943 - "Planet of the Dreamers" by John D. MacDonald. First Pocket printing. VG- some creasing and back cover soiling. $10

Pocket Books No. 1045 - "Science Fiction Terror Tales" anthology, with stories by Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert Heinlein and others. Cover by Stanley Meltzoff. 1st Pocket printing. VG cond. Clean and tight with some spine wear. $12 SOLD

That is sad: nobody should be made to feel good about liquidating their FF’s… Still, as your thread proved, it’s useful to be able to accurately represent and grade books yourself, and you should have no problem moving them at fair prices.

The 80’s did spawn a host of terrific coming-of-age movies.

I recognize a few magazines as well. This is a standout: Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney on the cover of the January 1942 issue of Movie Life.

Knowing very little about what Disney is doing these days, but knowing that there has been a remake of another 80’s movie Roadhouse recently, I thought this thread referred to yet another 80’s remake: this time of the Matthew Modine-led, coming-of-age wrestling flick, Vision Quest.

Lot of eight westerns by various publishers. Good to VG condition except The Border Kid which has a few loose pages and is missing one page. Secret Valley has some lamination peeling right margin. Red River has an indentation and cover tear lower left front cover. $25

Lot of four Dell mapbacks in Good condition with creases and some soiling. No. 301 has a spine roll. $20 SOLD!

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The demographics simply don’t support the trends over the past few decades. Sure, people will point to certain key books in higher grades as continued evidence that prices will just keep on increasing, but do you think there are enough babies in the maternity ward right now who will pay $200 when they’re in their 50’s for a Roy Rogers no. 56, a Richie Rich Gems no. 3, a Betty and Veronica no. 111, or even a Marvel Presents no. 6? We’re talking about kids who will never have read a comic book, let alone bought one off the stand. What else will prop up the hobby? Intellectual properties? Because they will have made the twentieth crappy Ant-Man movie by then?? For vanity’s sake, a mega-wealthy person will buy the Church Action 1 or Allentown Detective 27 for some ridiculous sum, but that’s not going to trickle down to 99.9% of the rest of the hobby. In the near term, comics will do fine, but someday they’re going the way of stamps and Hummels (even if you and I and everyone else here thinks they’re cooler).

Thanks, Changer!