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My daughter's Christmas present just landed

I'll second that!

This might be in Comcav's mailbox by now, but it is cool

Baker to Baker

Here ya go....while we're at, other pin-ups from the issue, and the first page of Josie's debut:

I guess someone better dig out that Betty in a towel pin-up page...

It IS a great book, though ...

This makes sense. Consider Dell's experience putting out Lobo almost 20 years later, in 1965. Supposedly they printed about 200,000 copies of Lobo #1 and were receiving whole cases back from distributors refusing to distribute it. Actual sales from the few who did totaled about 10-15,000, the story goes. Not hard to imagine a similar experience in 1947. I Have seen one really ratty copy offered; I recall it went on eBay a couple years ago maybe. $500 opening bid, and one bid took it, IIRC. I really wanted it but remember thinking from pix and description that it was just too deteriorated for a book I wanted to handle and keep for a good while.

Calling Dr. Love...

Outlaws to fugitives

My first thought when I saw this today was, "How the heck do I not have one of these already?" Fixed!

Long overdue

Heartwarming, ain't I?

NOT a page 2 thread...fixing that with today's acquisitions...

Landed these today

It was one of those days where you're just happy to part with the cash. The two Atlas Seaboards complete my collection of that company's comics output, save for Vicki #2-4. I just hate ponying up for retooled Tippy Teens, but eventually I will. (It's a cool little slice of comics history that I have been chipping away at, at my convenience, hardly been a priority.) But both Lobos and some Matt Baker in the same deal, that makes me happy!

He has an LCS in a small town, lots of younger collectors who are into card games as well. For a while, he liked having the Spidey up as eye candy, but once the regulars got to check it out he was willing to part with it for a small stack of lower price point books that would net him as much but move faster given his crowd. Perfect circumstances to make it work out

AND I should also point out that Patriot6, Cliff R and OdinsSecrets are responsible for this recent purchase....in a recent gold and silver sales thread, I offered one SA issue of B&V, leading immediately to the aforementioned Usual (Archie) Suspects asking if any more were coming....the answer was actually No, but rather than give it, I scoured my boxes and found a few late bronze/early copper Cheryl Blossom appearances, so I offered them. In trying to figure out how much to ask for an Everything's Archie #113, I stumbled across this, half the art from the "Archie the Barbarian" story in that issue. I really wanted page 4, but I figured what the heck. Thanks guys! (I even mean it!)

Thanks to Patriot6 for pointing me to this thread Here's a DeCarlo Josie and the Pussycats story I picked up years ago:

You're right, guys. I've seen a couple DD #1's with the last (non-story) page missing that were slabbed in a green label. Noticed them in Heritage results when I was trying to guesstimate value of a DD#1, same page missing, for a friend who had traded for one. Called CGC and asked and I recall they said it could go either way, .5 blue or green label with apparent grade, but I do note call the exact reasons for which they make the call. But the short answer is yes.

Interesting. Not to derail the OP question, but did they say what they do use?

Self-stick bags reek of late '90's crapola. The very sight of them makes me irrational.

Where, oh where might I find that???

Yeah, unless Matt is in contact with a different guy in the same general region. But it sounds similar.

There's also #48, first red and gold armor, so it's the beginning of the classic Iron Man look.