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Congrats!

That is awesome cool! I realize about Gerber; I keep the salt shaker next to them. I'm just wondering about anyone else's perspective on Foxholes -- are they common as a 4 suggests and I just don't know it, or are they not seen that often, like I think?

I need a time machine! question about that Foxhole #1 I found -- Gerber says its a 4; seems less common than that to me. Is it just my anecdotal experience, or was Gerber light on that call?

Generally, I have found the same thing you have, but this was the exception to the rule. It was actually a bargain. But it's an outlier. This particular shop specialized in military items; war comics are kind of ancillary acquisitions for them on occasion.

Ok, here it is, finally photographed....BWS on Savage Tales #1 interior

Does this book have its own club? I think it deserves one.

From kids' humor to satire

You're most likely right; the Charltons may be unresurrectable, but they do have their nuggets, if you collect this genre. Soap Opera Love, built around a Jewish-Irish romance, is another bronze Charlton romance gem. Dirt cheap too.

Meskin? Not sure if he was there, but he could knock them off reliably.

Thx! I was stunned to find it in an antiques shop.

Found in the wild!

Found in the wild!

Bam! This. A friend of mine has a copper x-men, 200-something, that is labeled 9.0 but is faded and shriveled looking in the sealed case. CGC did not blow the call; an LCS hung it with window exposure for faaaar too long. He bought it for laughs, curiousity, a reminder that slabs still need care. The big difference that some fear, I suspect, is not knowing that the book was left in the Mylar. Odds are good of course that if it is, its in the same condition as when it's inserted. My mylar'ed books are. But yes handling mistakes can occur. I'm all for the extra protection of slabs for super-valuable stuff but I would be kind of sad to have an ENTIRE collection of books I could not read. As as to the new service, I'm not much interested but not upset. It's a big world, there's room.

I haven't but I have wondered, thanks! I just wish I could block them from my search results when I do not want them since they are not originals. It is kind of a spam when looking for actual collectibles" I'd also like to be able to block selected sellers (Mile High) from my search results.

2nd Thor, to go with Iron Man

Deep-sea divers to Sub-Mariner

AND Timely #7 to Timely #7! Very nice!

This. I'll give a rat's patootie (as a buyer) about 9.6 vs 9.8 when I start seeing 6.8, 5.4 etc. showing up in slabs. I collect comics; the better the grade it's in, the better, sure. Who doesn't prefer them as nice as possible? But I collect comics first, and in best possible grade second. To me, if the book is not inherently important, or for some content-based reason of interest to me, then a high-grade copy is just kind of, "Gee whiz, that's neat."

Torch vs Nazis to Torch vs Japs

Women in green to hawks in black

This thread's theme song is "Smoke on the Water"....in the 60's, Marvel used a deep purple cover color on occasion that when clean and glossy still looks like it's wet off the press to this day. Off the top of my head there's Iron Man #1, ASM#11, DD#7, Strange Tales #'s 135 and 148; Shield #1...let's compile 'em! Please post 'em if ya got 'em! I'll kick us off with my shellheads.

Candle flame to angry dame

Bravo! I thought that might be the other possibility. So you bought the two 181's, kept the AF15, and passed on the other items? From the other books you named in the collection he acquired, I think that was the best move, for what my two cents are worth. An even bigger congrats, I say!

I'm in

The Swamp Girl of Venus to the Beautiful Ruler of the Jungle