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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

Underwater mayhem to underwater mayhem.

All the gold in Bagdad (sic.) to ghoul in a bag, Dad!

Some GA collectors don't like strip reprint books, but the serial strips from the newspapers tended to be better written than most of the stories written strictly for comic books. To get a newspaper serial, an artist/writer had to be the crème de la crème. With some notable exceptions, like ECs, GA stories were mediocre. They were primarily written for children and teenagers, so most of them would not hold an adult's interest for very long. I do occasionally read GA comics just for fun, but most of the time I'm having a chuckle at how wacky some of them were. I haven't read too many recent comics, but the ones that I've checked out haven't held my interest much, either. The best stories I remember reading in comics were some of the Batman story arcs in the early 70s. I haven't found any GA superhero stories that are on par with those. What do you mean by adult-type fare? Are you talking about material for teens and very young adults? I'm sure some pre-code books targeted comic book readers who had outgrown superheroes, but I have a hard time envisioning many 30- or 40-year-olds reading comic books back in the early 50s. I would think that children and teenagers were still the target audience for most of the material that was being published.

He might have some nice material, but his asking prices are quite high.

Intimate to a duo suspected of being intimate

I haven't looked at this edition yet. What I used to like about Overstreet was that he didn't allow values to be overly influenced by books that were "hot" at the moment. I liked that approach because the inflated prices of hot books don't necessarily reflect long-term value. Over the past few years, it has seemed like Bob has been raising guide values on hot books a little too much; it seems like the old caution has been thrown to the wind somewhat.

Three who vanished to one who was found