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Avon No. 128 - "Ten Nights of Love" - a collection of ten short stories with a terrific romantic cover. VG+ only minor wear on a tight copy. SOLD

Popular Library No. 232 – “The Key” by Patricia Wentworth. A nice design device showing the assailant in the mirror! VG- with spine slant and moderate cover wear. $12 $10

Popular Library No. 291 – “The Wrath and the Wind” by Alexander Key. A nice George Rozen GGA cover. VG copy with some soiling and creasing and a small bit of paper loss right edge by the sailor’s scarf. $10

Pocket Books No. 245 - “The Four of Hearts” by Ellery Queen. First printing. VG, light wear with a spine crease and nice tight binding with white pages. $12 $10

Dell No. 280 - “Counterfeit Wife” by Brett Halliday. A very cool cover by legendary Dell stalwart, Gerald Gregg. Clean VG+ copy with very minor wear and light reading creases. $15 $12

First up we have a serviceable copy of Avon No. 177 - “Midsummer Passion” by Erskine Caldwell. A nice clean VG+ copy with minor edgewear and some rubbing to the spine. SOLD

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Greetings, I’m going to list some vintage paperbacks first and perhaps some other oddball paper and magazines. I'll try to list perhaps ten books or so every few days. Shipping starts at $5 for 1-3 paperbacks Media Mail for the domestic United States, and additional books at cost. Larger items like comics and magazines I will ship USPS Ground Advantage or Priority depending on your preference. I will ship to Canada and overseas, but you will have to wait for a quote for shipping. Payment by PayPal, checks or money orders. Returns accepted up to two weeks after receiving your books – just PM me and let me know if you have a concern. First “take” or in thread trumps any private messages and offers. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!!

And if it were ever cracked out, the chance of ever folding that piece back without it splitting off is small.

Ughh. That was painful. Most of the resolutions were cursory and linear, but at least there wasn’t a UFO this time. For someone who can craft such interesting characters, it was the fumble at the one-yard line to cap a long drive that I cautioned my wife earlier in the season (or as many times as she’d tolerate it).

Did Roger Hargreaves draw this? They look just like Mr. Men.

Thank you! Those are EXACTLY my two chief points as well, to the letter!

Call me crazy, but it looks like Ditko doing Baker.

Strangely, the first issue had the DC logo, and then it didn’t for a long time. Then they carried a National logo but not the Superman ‘DC’ logo we’re accustomed to; instead, it read “National Romance Group” with a heart in the bullseye logo instead of the DC initials. I think it was well into the 12-cent era when the title started carrying the regular logo.

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Don’t throw out stuff like this… yet.

You’re dismissing the reality that many fields of collecting have crashed and won’t likely ever come back: Hummels, souvenir spoons, Jim Beam bottles, toy soldiers, magazine ads, collector’s plates, depression glass, Shawnee pottery - along with most dolls, most Beanie Babies, most Happy Meal toys, most Little Golden books, most old newspapers, most sheet music - the list goes on and on. You might find the demographic argument “tired” but that doesn’t diminish its reality. Sure, the trillionaire who corners the world market on computer-generated beef might someday buy the Church copy of Superman 1 for $100,000,000 or whatever because money means nothing to them, but if you think enough kids who are in diapers right now who will never buy a comic off a spinner rack will somehow spend money en masse on relics from their grandparents heyday, then your opinion is based mostly on faith. Even within comics themselves, we’ve seen the collapse of numerous segments - Classics Illustrated anyone? Average Harvey comics sell now for less than forty years ago, so do Roy Rogers and Johnny Mack Brown. Run collectors are fewer and fewer. There are many other examples. Postcards are dying as we speak. Shows that were robust even ten years ago are now withering. You’ll barely see anyone without grey hair. There was a price surge when those people cashed out their IRA’s and a few new people came into the hobby out of curiosity (and soon left). As prices rose, resistance set in, then collectors literally started dying off, and prices plummeted except for the dealers who refuse to accept the reality and basically travel from show to show much like a museum. Guess what I haven’t seen at those shows recently? Kids. Kids that never received nor sent a postcard. Those same kids never bought a comic off a spinner rack, nor will their kids. What’s going to happen to grandma and grandpa’s shoeboxes of postcards from their trips to Florida or the Petrified Forest? Those kids will throw them in the recycling bin. Even the estate sale hucksters will mostly fail to get $10 for the box unless there’s a couple Tuck Halloween cards in there.

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Unless it’s just a major coincidence that two scammers cross paths inadvertently…

But the book is being offered raw currently, so it’s quite likely it was cracked out of the 7.5 blue holder and manipulated.

That’s a pretty apropos analogy: they do remind me somewhat of single panel gags like Marmaduke or The Far Side.