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The top left is one of my favs. There's something about hippos...

I'm not too sure about jiminy cricket, but I can confirm that a boardie did take it home. Nice to know I was bidding in excellent company!

Awesome score! Hopefully you got a great steal on the book. You don't want any steel on that nice book of yours!

Let's just say I'm 99% of the way to the finish line. I hit a last-minute snag, not uncommon in these marathon races. Stay tuned -- you'll hear it here first!

Wow. That so totally stinks. I did some sleuthing on Comic Book Plus. That back cover comes from Wings Comics #3 (Fiction House). So at least the scoundrel was smart enough to use a page from the same publisher. See photos below.

Wow, Spyder! You're killin' it with all these Planet purchases! You must be half way to the finish line by now. Impressive.

Especially after Victor Fox learned in no uncertain terms that the Wonder Man formula wasn't going to work!

Jack is correct, in the sense that the cover has tremendous appeal. But I love the stories, for their wacky GA formula where there was no formula. Here is a way to read the stories without having to unslab your copy: http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=36583 How can you go wrong with pages like this? -->

Red84 was kind enough to show me this book at Wizard World Chicago, and I can confirm that the colors look even better than the photos suggest!

Jack + 1

I would do, and should do, but worry that it might melt into a tattered mess of "0.5" pulp paper as soon as I disentombed the poor fella...

Yeah, it's kind of odd it's in such a large holder. I think maybe because of the spine roll? But it's also definitely an old-school oversize holder, not at all like the newest "Newton" holders.

So now at least we know you still have hair!

My guess is that given the same book, same grade, same slabbing company, being auctioned at roughly the same time, the purchase price will be +/- 10% between CL vs. CC (and probably also HA?). There will always be outliers when 2+ crazed bidders want the same book, and anything can happen with a rare book, but in general it doesn't seem like one of the two auction houses consistently reaps a much larger profit than the other, for a given book. If so, the auction house on the short end of the stick would probably change their auction format.

Yes, but, but... okay, smart guy, what's up with the roentgen radiation girl in a trance, and the swami behind her?

So you're into red boots too, eh, Sqeggs?

You have an eye for color, Jack!

Post #1,500. Seems like a good occasion for this hard-to-find book, cross-posted from the Have a Cigar thread. It was kind of a follow-the-bouncing-ball thing from SDCC to n2wdw to Terry's Comics to Nikelspot to yours truly. I'm on with this book, warts and all!

Great telepathic minds think alike!

Guess he's not an anti-dentite!

Whew! Though it looks like you scored some pretty awesome books yourself. Just goes to show that luck and timing are a big part of collecting these funny books.

This post is titled: "I bought a book at San Diego Comic Con without leaving my house!" The story begins back on Dec. 9, 2017, with my not getting a ticket for SDCC. No surprise there. Fortunately, some of the boardies were clever enough to score tickets. Which meant that they attended SDCC, and importantly, took WALL PHOTOS. I have to single out @n2wdw, who first put me on the right path. In addition to his having the best comic cave ever, he took lots of wall photos and posted them on the boards. Here is one of his photos from the July 23, 2018 installment of his Tales of the Comic Book Room: Can you guess which book caught my eye? No, not the Three Stooges, as funny as they are! And I'm not really a Hedgehog kind of collector. So the next step in my quest (feel free just to scroll to the end if you can't stand the suspense) was to contact Terry @TerrysComics and inquire about the book. I sent Terry an email. The very next day I received the disastrous email reply that the book had been SOLD at SDCC! Figuring my path had led to a dead end, I contented myself with soothing my sorrows in the CGC Forum sales threads. Plucking my way through the threads, I happened upon the sales thread that @Nikelspot had recently launched. Idly reading through the thread, suddenly, lo and behold, there was the book! The very book! A few PMs later, I was the proud owner of the book. It's a bit the worse for wear since it hit the newsstand in 1940, but it is among the hardest of the early books in this title to find, in any kind of grade, and still has pretty great colors. So special thanks to n2wdw, Terry, and Nik for helping me bring this home from SDCC without ever leaving my house!!!

What's so gruesome about that? It's in perfectly good taste. It's not like it shows the neck dripping blood or the neck of the body is seen to be bloody. Bill ................ http://www.thecomicbooks.com/gaines.html

That’s a new one for me. Dark, disturbing, and drop dead awesome all at the same time!

Majestic.