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Batman #49. From Heritage. As soon as I took it out of the bag it was obviously trimmed. Still waiting a week later to get authorization to return the book. Top to bottom does not even measure 10 inches (see ruler). The trimming was not mentioned in the description. Need to be careful with raw books even from the big auction houses. Placed it next to an untrimmed Batman #44 for comparison.

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I am not sure they ever made a volume with issues 22-34. It was an inexact science. I believe most had two separate bound volumes but often the numbers were slightly off. For example one had bound issues 35-45 and the other 35-46. There was one bound volume with SOME of the issues from 22-34. There was some brittleness and the issues were out of order and incomplete. They were 21,26,31,33-45 and out of order when bound. Would be curious if one does exist. The number of issues per bound volume also varied. The earlier issues typically had more issues per volume. In extreme cases some have just 1 issue bound. The Master Comics 1-6 were posted earlier in the thread. Here they are again. Hope that answers your questions.

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Least Friendly Auction Houses for tracking and segregating Golden Age and back cover scans In 2023 it should be a simple matter to log onto an auction house website and select to view ONLY Golden Age comics, track them and be able to view back cover scans. Both Heritage and ComicConnect post scans of both the front and back covers. In contrast ComicLink only posts the front cover (sometimes with a request they will send back cover scans, but this is not consistent and is time consuming on both ends). Overall, I have found Heritage is probably the most user friendly to use. ComicLInk is probably the least friendly, and ComicConnect is somewhere in the middle. ComicLink Focused auctions separate out Golden Age, but their Featured Auctions only separate by publisher. More importantly ComicLink does not have a tracking feature. The only way to "track" an item is to bid on the item so it can be tracked. My work around because I refuse to bid just to track an item is: open a word file the day the auction opens and make a list of the issues I want to follow and then bid the last day of the auction. Still have to waste my time going through items I have no interest in such as multiple copies of Amazing Spiderman 129 and Hulk 181. As prices go beyond what I think is reasonable I just delete the item from my word file so the last day of the auction I have a compact list. This is much more cumbersome than just enabling a tracking feature. In contrast, on Heritage because they make tracking so easy, I will add extra items to be tracked and sometimes end up buying them (more business for Heritage). ComicConnect does not enable the segregation of Golden Age but does have a tracking feature (that is more cumbersome to use than Heritage because it takes 2 clicks to track vs one click on Heritage). The issue here is in their larger auctions going through 1000 items is time consuming (because I cannot separate out just Golden Age) and I probably miss a few items as I am forced to wade through gobs of books in which I have no interest. I have returned raw books to all three (main reason was inaccurate description such as missing page(s) or did not list significant defects such as cover completely split). The easiest for returns was Heritage. Of course, each business of course can promote their books in the way they see fit. I have bought from all and all are professional. However, at least on my end I buy more from Auction Houses when I can easily find the books I want (separate out the Golden Age), I am able to track them and view back cover scans. Interested in other opinions.

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