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Well, I can't believe that Popular Teenagers 5 made the cut because that one sucks, but other than that I can live with the results.

You'll take a comic dealer's word for something? Dealers must love you!

One thing I question is the first name "Tom." The name really looks more like Allen or something similar. The last name does look like Reilly, but that isn't even certain. The first character could be a P, a stylized L, or something else. Here's a link to the WWII Casualties from California in case anyone has a lot of time on his or her hands and wants to scan the lists for a possible match. A while back, I spent a fair amount of time looking for possible matching census records for the family. That was before the 1950 census was available, so it might be worth another shot. Bob Beerbohm believes that the comic collection originated in Piedmont, California, which is in Alameda County.

No one is talking about eliminating intellectual property rights. Copyright protections are meant to encourage creativity. Copyright protections that last too long stifle creativity. Copyright protections have always expired a certain amount of time after the death of the creator. That allows others to build on and use old works for creative endeavors. Large corporations don't usually die (although some go defunct), which is why it is necessary to have an expiration date based on when a work is first created or published. Right now, the timeframe for copyright protections is excessive.

Open grave to open grave.

They should have entered the public domain a long time ago. The 1998 Copyright Protection Act was yet another example of Congress placing corporate interests above public interest.

Subby foiling Japanese plans to Subby foiling capitalist plans.

I wouldn't assume that the owner of the registry set is lying because collectibles are stolen from time to time. The book may have been stolen, pawned off on a comic shop owner, and auctioned off later. What is the book? Do you have any evidence that the registry set owner is the one who consigned it to the auction?

Rip Carson to Rip Carson.

Tojo being throttled to Hitler being throttled.

Skull on the wall to skull on the wall.

It seems like mid-grade prices have probably cooled, possibly because strong prices have brought so many copies out of the woodwork. Books that weren't considered worthy of slabbing are now getting slabbed. Single-highest-graded copies continue to sell for very strong prices.

I saw the GCD entry but also didn't see any "J. C." Maybe the indexer was looking at a copy with the signature partially cut off (as it is on many copies). I hadn't seen the OA on Heritage. It's interesting that they attributed it to Ernie Schroeder despite the Pelletier signature. It does look like the OA and the cover are both from the same artist. If they are Schroeder's work, I'm curious to know what's behind the signature. Maybe he didn't want to use his German surname since we were at war with Germany—but that seems a bit far fetched.

Chargers to Packers.

I guess you could call this kitty a 'fraidy cat.