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Even back in the 70s, you never saw this book in any condition. It just wasn't that common. I'm amazed there are any copies in 9.8, with or without work. That's beautiful. Congrats

So, you don’t think #4 is censorship, even if it is coordinated across multiple platforms, while a publisher yanks the books at issue and booksellers and libraries pull them off the shelves? And, at the same time one of the online sellers prevents anyone from establishing alternate online platforms that might compete and provide other viewpoints? That’s a very small number of parties that can pull books, thoughts, political thought etc.

The entire situation is fraught with absurd danger to both free speech and the dissemination of ideas. I have always thought comic creators and the CBLDF carried things too far, but this is the perfect example of the dangers of allowing any censorship What happens if anyone throws a label of racism at any major work of literature? Does every online platform start purging book sales? Say someone claims Ayn Rand’s works are inherently racist because merit and ability trumps all else, and race bears no consideration. Do Facebook, Amazon, etc band the sale of these books? I don’t really give a about Rand, but that is pretty scary Think of Seuss as a test run. It can only get worse. (Just to be clear, it could be any other “....ist”, for that matter)

What's the cliche about monopolies--its not the fact that a company is a monopoly that is illegal, it's how they use that monopoly power. Using it to ban books or ideas on their platforms may be within their rights, but using it to ban them on other platforms and inhibiting the ability of others to create a competing platform, is outrageous. Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter have long ago crossed the line from private companies into quasi public institutions and should likely be treated as radio and television are. Can you imagine if in the 1920's, ONE company monopolized radio and prevented all others from going live. The country would be much worse off for it, and much less free. This is essentially what is happening here.

I haven't read this entire thread, so my apologies if I'm rehashing anything or am missing the main point here. Is ebay within their right to ban the sales of these books on their site, sure. The problem is that these actions turn into a freaking disease. This morning a woman in MA listed 4 of the 6 Geisel books on MA Marketplace Facebook page for a ridiculous price. Within two hours the listing was taken down by Facebook. Can the same standard applied to ebay apply to Facebook, which is even more of an individual to individual forum? Maybe. But there is no denying that there's a risk that ideas, both good and bad can be censored and kept from people by a few powerful parties. Who decides what's good and bad? It's a slippery slope. I sure as heck don't want ebay or Facebook to decide.

Ok, I think I’m real sad. Then again, after disappearing for over a year (2?), I probably have no right to feel anything. Anyway, I come back to Bob having sold off his pf’s. Wow. I am shocked every time someone I have watched collect for decades sells off. Sounds like you did well. Congrats.

I’ll take 43 at 30% off

Wow. I can't believe the pf's that have been uncovered in the 10 months since I've logged in. Some truly gorgeous copies. In that time, I've only managed to pick up 4. The first three are from WW Chicago, and the last from NYCC. I was particularly psyched about the Wyatt Earp. Sadly, the time I spend hunting for books at shows has gone down dramatically. Hopefully this year will be better..

I do believe his backpack on the show was yellow and blue. I thought it was an odd selection at the time. I also had to explain the name to my wife, who was thoroughly confused between the Flash, Quicksilver, and the Whizzer.

Thanks. I've probably told the story before. The 158 was from one of Chuck's sales, before he realized that high grade westerns had any real demand. Got it for a song--the cost of slabbing, maybe a bit more. The next sale, I bought a bunch of slabs from him, and they mysteriously went out of stock a week later and couldn't be shipped. They later reappeared on the site. On the 162. at the start of the 3rd NYCC, I walked over to Al Stoltz's booth and he announced he had something for me. Said he pulled it out of a box and couldn't believe it. Went right to CGC. Unpressed, essentially perfect as is. Just a gorgeous book.

Yeah, I know.. Not an official PF. To me, though, it's got the design elements and it's even a 20c cover.

Hopefully this pic is better than the one I posted years ago.

At one point, Barton was hoping for some nicer photos of some Western pf's I had posted crappy photos of years ago. Here's one:

Yeah, I did. They claim there’s a stain on it. No way. Backs super clean also.

More off the living room floor.

Great copy of one of my favorite childhood issues. Loved the first 10 issues of MTU

Wow. In 40 years of collecting and going through decades old inventory, I've never seen that. I think there's probably other environmental stuff going on to cause that kind of reaction. Between a job, a business, and three kids, I don't have time to re-bag every book. So, here's a real puzzler. I sub very few books. Found this at WW Philly about 10 years ago, $5 box. Not only did I and multiple boardees look at it, but so did some of the tighter-grading dealers we know. Thought it was an easy 9.2, maybe a 9.4. Somewhere there's a magical "stain" no one can see. Oh yeah, one of my all time PF and Kane covers.

I think these may be more victims of the great photobucket massacre. My apologies if they've been posted before (I have a vague recollection of the Bob commenting on the Jungle Action before).

OK, some more Chicago books (I think), going back to 2007 or so. Including another copy of SME 4. This copy has to have the best production quality of any copy of this issue I've ever seen. No ink issues, no transfer and super glossy. Too bad it spent most of it's life mistreated in a long box of unwanted reprints. I'm fairly sure I never scanned this, since I didn't even remember I had it.

Tulips have never recovered. Or Big Little Books. Or Stamps.

Goregeous, but I meant 77 and 79. Seriously, it looks like you'd get a paper cut handling it. Unreal copy.

I've been looking for nice Young Love's 97 and 99 for a long time. Greggy?

Just looked back through the thread and noticed how many photobucket images are missing after the update. Real shame. Then I noticed on of my links was now broken. I wish people could edit those posts, but there's no option to do so. Here's my lame attempt to recover some great images. From Boston 2016

The real matter becomes an issue because the con is sponsoring these events and, if you’re an industry professional or an aspiring one, most of the reason you go to cons is to meet other professionals and make connections These connections often turn into jobs. It’s not just a social matter for people in this position In fact, certain groups have pointed this problem out in condemning exclusionary organizations and events that do not include minorities or women. Go figure

That WMD is fantastic. Here's another batch from my living room. I don't think I've scanned these before-pretty sure they're more Wizard Chicago books.