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That might be the biggest "a" I've seen on an Aurora book! (It looks like it's no. 61, not 51, but it's still a good pick up.)

What book is it? Enquiring minds want to know.

Blonde Phantom to Phantom.

Mad inventor to mad inventor.

For the reasons you discussed, I seldom bother with Heritage's Make-An-Offer feature. In one case I made a strong offer on a book an the owner rejected the offer but listed the book in an auction a month or so later. Of course I didn't bid, and the book sold for substantially less than what I had offered.

It could be. I'd be curious to know how many bidders there were (not counting the low-ball bidders). There could be just two guys competing for high-grade copies.

Well, a similar raw copy sold for under $200 in '07, so even $4K would have been a stunning result.

I've been surprised by prices before, but I've never been more shocked than I was by this result tonight. (I wasn't a bidder.) https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/horror/chilling-tales-15-youthful-magazines-1953-cgc-fn-65-off-white-pages/a/122112-17168.s

Love triangle to love triangle.

Judo to Jiu Jitsu.

Fight to Fight.

Unconscious blonde woman in a red dress being carried by an ape to unconscious blonde woman in a red dress being carried by a creep.

Spark O'Leary to Sargon's assistant Maximilian O'Leary.

It might seem illogical for people to be spending so much money on Pokémon cards, etc., but for younger collectors (some of whom are Bitcoin millionaires, Tesla millionaires, etc.), those cards were part of their childhood, and comic books weren't. There's a reason why the money people are shifting out of comic books and into video games and trading cards. Comic books are close to their zenith, whereas Pokémon cards and Nintendo games are on their way up. It's a matter of demographics. I don't begrudge Millennials their hobbies.

Yes, because run building and collecting keys were even higher priorities back then than they are now. (Cover art has become more and more of a focus over the years.)

I would guess that there are a couple dozen out there, but most will be locked in private collections for more than 10 years. I think people are underestimating the ratio of raw books to slabbed books, even for high-grade keys. Slabs are a tiny fraction of the total. Many kick-*** collections were built up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s and are still intact.

Flying Cat-Man to flying Kitten.

Porthole to porthole.

Claw to Claw.

December to Christmas.

Uninvited guest to uninvited guest.

Cremation to imminent vaporization.

Graveyard with an old house in the background to graveyard with an old house in the background.

Tank to Jeep.

That wouldn't be nearly enough of a downgrade. Maybe I'm alone on this, but I would always rather have a VF book with white pages than a 9.8 with off-white pages. I would like to see a ten-point numerical scale for page quality (like the OWL scale but perhaps based on suppleness rather then color) with a rule that the grade of the book could not exceed the page quality. If a book scored 8 out of 10 for page quality, than the highest grade the book could get would be 8.0. If only I ran CGC!