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per PM. THANK YOU Don! You and Rick are not making it easy on me right now. I'm supposed to be saving for ECCC.

per PM, Thanks Rickster! @Changer my 1ST BAKER!!!!!! ... uh-oh.

I like silly you.

WW ...again

WW

Congrats @Sqeggs WHAT-A-BOOK

simply can't pass up on this Buscema cover.

Thread crapping desirable or disgusting? @lizards2

per PM, thanks Rick

The tape would potentially cause the book to get a conserved or restored label. It definitely won’t raise the grade. What’s done is done. Definitely an awesome book that looks great though 👍

The book looks really attractive and gives the eye appeal of a VF/NM book. Though the Chip at the Front Bottom Edge Center, and the Tear on the Back Left Edge Center are going to hammer the book a bit. I would say upside shot at 7.5 VF- with a downside shot at 6.5 FN+

Mike ( @n2wdw ) there are definitely some real celebrations here . I am happy to see that the Eerie #25 and Dracula #12 (two difficult books) came inline with estimated grades. A 8.5 Copy of Eerie #25 just sold in December for $200! Not an easy book. Further getting WHITE pages out of a handful of these is a celebration as Magazines typically were not stored as well with cheaper pulp paper. The Dracula Lives #3 and #10 definitely got hammered harder than expectation. In regards to your dilemma around cut-offs with grades that is definitely a personal judgment call. I have found myself over the years willing to accept lower technical grades for higher eye appeal. For me, it's how the book makes me feel. If there is a book I cherish but the defects simply make it un-attractive to me personally I can't buy it. I don't want a copy that takes away from how I feel about the book in general. If I can get a book with it's major defects on the back cover despite the hatchet to the grade I'm all for it and it makes the wallet book (and wife) happier - bounty

This is the scene that takes place daily when @Comcav ‘s Comics are delivered.

per PM Ken . Thank you for the opportunity. Not an-uncommon LB Cole Book by any means. Probably one of the more common. But this one is in fact gorgeous (killer color strike like this is not common) and yes it is centered immaculately. Plus, how can you turn down a Cole, Underwater, with Treasure, a Skeleton, Fish in pattern and an amazing color gradient?

Smart grab, unreal deal, remarkable content in this book

...Where were you...when...October dropped the bomb...Your grand kids will ask.

Detroit Trolley?...

Savage.

1st Jabba the Hutt Prototype in Comics?

Sometimes you just got to shoot a Date at a Gargantus to stop em'.

He changed his handle alias then unfortunately couldn't login afterwards...

I need to ice my back.