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Bought several SA books and all were as advertised (even got an extra bonus). Thanks Bill - looking forward to your next thread!

As I read this, it is the third thread from the top. If you have a third book to offer, and it would also be at 33K, I think we should all go the the horse track for some serious betting.

Exactly what I wrote when I PM'd for the books I wanted. I pictured these on the spinner racks, albeit many with that middle "bend" that comes from pawing through them front-to-back in case there was another book you were looking for that was hiding. Childhood memories don't recall them looking as nice as these though.

Thor 130,131,132,145,148,150 and 'Tec 329,333 per PM. Thanks!

I once tried out this so-called "countersign of the Capt. Tootsie Secret Legion" on some girls at a bar to see if they were members. Security is still looking for me.

No, no... Jonah Hex is actually pretty good (always wanted Eastwood to play him in a movie). The "hex" here refers to some forgettable Dr. Strange wannabe from the mind of Clive Barker.

Pffft. I'm not wasting my dough on 80's drek. I'm gonna hold out for quality and wait for them to bring out their 90's boxes of Kid 'N Play, Samurai Cat or Hokum and Hex before I write out some checks.

It was CLink and it was a five-figure total, which makes for more random digits in the equation to hazard a correct under-guess. My usual experience is someone(s) just places a wad and leaves me in the dust, inheriting a rather strange ending bid total. Still, I left the possibility open for it being a legit ending and as you note, there's a good possibility there's nothing to it.

As others have noted, if the auction house does indeed practice this "business model," I'd like to see it easier to find on their rules. I don't expect it would be plastered in large letters but I'd not want to need a microscope to find it either. I've had two incidents in the last few years where the end winning bid was right at my highest bid. The first one I was bidding "live" and had some back/forth with other bidders (one would assume) so it was/could have been the usual scenario. The second involved my putting in a higher amount and leaving as I could not be there at the end. When I tuned in one last time with about an hour to go I was just a couple of hundred away from being outbid, and since I really wanted the book at the condition offered I upped the "hidden" bid to not lose it for a few hundred. I did add a very specific, very odd dollar amount that would have taken into account a snipe for the usual round figures within budgetary range, but darn if it didn't go the distance at the very last second with every single penny of my odd amount consumed. I mean... it could have been legit, but usually when some other "real" person wants it they will overshoot by a bunch, which will then cause their winning bid to have their own odd ending figures. But to precisely guess my hidden amount and bid with such accuracy in one final swoop that it wasn't surpassed but completely used? As I said, it could have been legit but...but... it could also be sour grapes that I didn't get it at the lower cost or have had at least $3-8 left over. I mean leave me some bus fare at least.

This right here. I've read and re-read every Marvel SA superhero key "live" as it were (right off the shelves) starting from around ASM #14 on, but of course back then we didn't know they were "keys" rather just the next installment in their respective ongoing sagas. I remember buying my first GA Cap (number was in the 50s) and reading that one very carefully since I had to pay the outlandish price of $100.00. Wanted to see what all the hoopla was about. Visually different of course, but to the comic book nose it was also a new sensation since all the "SA" books had that newsstand smell.

Meh. ToS #39 9.0? ST #110 9.2? TTA #27 9.0? ASM #1 9.2? Stop holding back... When are the good books going to be posted?

Thank you. It's only an eggspression though.

I remember you subtly implying this over the course of some sales as you would try to put the price out of reach and (probably) breathe a sigh of relief when it made it through the month. Also on another note, I agree with @gunsmokin: Who are those questioning queefs? I've got someone that wants to meet them...

These boards wouldn't be the same without your interaction, comments and monthly sales - and this coming from someone who only knows you from here. As for all others, there are comments from "not your business" to much stronger words to give them but I'd say that a return to normalcy is great and is what everyone here was hoping would happen after your stroke. That that includes one of your happier pasttimes, which happens to be a comic book hobby, which happens to entail buying, selling, reading and enjoying... so?

It could also be that the unethical "rotten apple in the barrel" is the son, who does not want the conversation brought up "with his father or anyone associated with the auction." My guess is that this might lead to a dismissal as his ethics may not be in tune with an honest, ground-roots company. At the least, it may lead to a stern lecture and shameful disappointment from an otherwise uninformed father. I know that if some unsavory activity I had done were to be presented before my father I would be ashamed, but then again that pre-supposes that this generation still feels such emotions.

Uatu the beatnik says "hold my beer."

C'mon now... there are scores of lousy "can't fail to miss" books of all eras. I resist allowing this thread to die. Created by Byrne, the Great Lakes Avengers, which included Dinah Soar, Big Bertha, Doorman and Flatman (all are actual superhero names) incredibly didn't catch on. And these were "good" core members. A Pulp Fiction gimp-like recruit named Leather Boy was turned down, though to be fair he had no super powers and thought it was a fetish group. You can't make this stuff up. Actually I guess you can, but it doesn't sell.

A fashion icon with those wispy sleeves, he could control bees (with his favorite named "Michael"). If it had only been ants, they would have had something.

I think Neal was great but...

This guy just missed being as popular as a different Siegel and Shuster creation

Plot twist: She kissed him like that once before the "stallion of steel" transformed into a human. But the less said about that the better.