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Speech bubbles on the cover to speech bubbles on the cover.

Female scientist to female astronaut.

Isn't it amazing how the auction houses have used psychology to manipulate collectors into paying stratospheric prices for books? They've done it with one disingenuous and downright inaccurate word: "win." No one "wins" an auction—somebody pays the most and buys an item, but no one "wins" anything. When I see a boardie say that he "won" something on one of the auction sites I want to puke. But the hucksters have convinced people that being willing to pay the most makes you a "winner." Everybody wants to be a "winner." After all, if you're not a winner, you're a loser—so prices keep going higher. To be clear, I'm not excluding myself; I've fallen for the con often enough; I probably will again; it's hard to fight that nagging voice inside telling you that you'll be a "winner" so long as you're willing to pay more than some other insecure dweeb who also wants to be a "winner."

This comic isn't rare, but only two copies have made it onto this census.

Donald Duck and a castle to Donald Duck and a castle.

This is what I get when I click on them.

I'm not able to see the pictures; maybe others aren't either.

Living marionettes to sentient rag dolls.

I would not pay. I think that there are a lot of shenanigans in these online auctions (starting with auction houses leaving books that sold for strong prices in their databases but scrubbing all records of weak sales, etc.). I don't know whether any of these sites are hack-proof, either.

Japanese paratroopers to American paratrooper clobbering a Japanese soldier.

I picked this one up on HA over the summer. I was scratching my head over how much the books were going for. Before the auction started, I had hoped to pick up several.

Kinstler to Kinstler.

Roman nose on an Everett cover to Roman nose on an Everett cover.

Petting to wetting.

Lost wasn't a bad show. (I watched on DVD years after it ended, so I never got caught up in the hype.) I'm not convinced that the Tim Holt comic inspired the Zodiac. It isn't impossible, but there would be no way to prove it.

Caribou to reindeer.

Wicked blonde on a Torch book to good blonde on a Torch book.

Baddie with his tongue sticking out to baddie with his tongue sticking out.

Scary. That book is obviously very low grade. It does make me wonder, though: Gator, how would CGC grade a book that had a good looking cover but had mold on the interior pages? What's the highest grade you've ever seen a book with mold get?

I knew they weren't perfect, but this interview gives me the impression that they have quite a bit of water resistance.

Hopefully not. They're still in their inner wells, but they've been broken out of their outer wells, so it would be difficult for someone to pass them off as undamaged.

Apologies if this has been posted already. I didn't see anything about it when skimming. Is scroogenightmare on eBay Muck Wilson? It looks like he's selling a bunch of water-damaged CMA, Whiz, and other Fawcett books that were formerly very high grade. Apparently some guy kept his high-grade golden-age books in his basement (gag) and the basement did what basements do, which is flood. I hate seeing this so much that I'm at a loss for words. https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-SAD-COLLECTION-CAPTAIN-MARVEL-ADVENTURES-11-CGC-9-6-but-water-damaged/284106140276