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Well put.

It has some interesting elements on the periphery, but I don't think the central figure is particularly well drawn...not Cole's best effort. (The pecs look especially odd.) I like the cover but not enough to pay what it's going for these days.

Japanese soldiers falling from their deaths from gun towers to Japanese goons falling to their deaths into molten steel.

Well, the Weird Mysteries #4 is the only one that's ever been on my want list; I'd probably buy a Shocksuspenstories #6, but I wouldn't go above guide on it.

I agree. I think there's an emperor-has-no-clothes element, too. Collectors all jump on the "iconic cover" bandwagon and refuse to admit that a cover is just average. Black Cat Mystery 50 is a good example. For me, the artwork is mediocre. It never would have occurred to me that it would be a sought-after cover if people on the boards hadn't proclaimed it so. Now enough people are on the bandwagon that dissing it like I'm doing now is probably considered blasphemous.

Creepy hand belonging to an unseen ghoul to creepy hands and arms belonging to an unseen ghoul.

I think most of those old supplies and pieces of equipment have already been bought up by the guys who are trying to print "original" Action 1s and Tec 27s.

Baker waterfall cover to Baker underwater cover.

Dell photo cover to Dell photo cover.

I don't get it either. I guess some people consider that a classic cover now? I've never been that Crazy about Lee Elias's artwork; I don't think I've ever had a book with a Lee Elias cover on my want list.

Bandaged arm to bandaged foot.

That's true. Many of the books were highest-graded copies; some had especially sought-after covers. Maybe you could say that classic covers and single-highest-graded copies aren't down, and low-grade readers aren't down because they can't go much lower, but most everything in between may well be down.

The prices tonight wouldn't surprise me that much if there were high-resolution scans and back cover scans. I've seen books that appear to be significantly overgraded sell for very strong prices tonight, so I guess the mantra "Buy the book, not the label" hasn't aged well, either.

Spokane Witchcraft no. 5 . . .

I like and collect PCH books, but one problem with them from an investment standpoint is that they're somewhat interchangeable. There are no iconic characters like Batman or Superman—just random creeps, animated corpses, and monsters and random victims. There are some classic covers but no important books per se.

Quinlan Catman & Kitten to Palais Catman & Kitten.

If that's the case, they should void the auctions for those books if they're consignment items; it's pretty unfair to the consignors. If they're Metro stock, then it isn't as important.

I want to sincerely and publicly apologize to you for not reading and responding to your original post with my third-party objective opinion before Frisco saw your post and was offended. By failing to act in a timely manner, I bungled the situation horrendously. My apologies to you and to those that I've upset by never posting several books in a row and instead helping to set a discriminatory precedent by only posting in response to others' books.

Some guy named Rob from Metro called me once before to ask me about consigning books; I told him in no uncertain terms that I buy my books to keep and that he was not to call me again. Then, a couple of weeks ago, he called me again about consigning books—interrupted me during a conference call for work. I guess they're trying to see just how fast they can lose customers.

Well, one of the highlights of the Cookeville collection was the Cap run, and there was a Cap no. 1. Considering that CGC is giving pedigree status to Silver Age and Bronze Age collections, it makes sense that they would back off on their requirements for GA collections.

The Comic Book Pedigrees web site has three pages of Cookevilles. http://comicpedigrees.com/gallery.php?pedigree_menu=59 The highest grade shown on that site is 9.2, which belongs to the Captain Marvel Adventures 60. Many of the books are still raw, though, and a few of them look like they might have a chance at 9.4 if they aren't penalized for the writing (which they should be but won't be now that the pedigree is recognized).

Bad girl in a red dress to good girl in a red skirt.

How does Continental fit in? These Cat-Men from '42 and '43 both say Continental. I've seen other issues for sale with Et-Es-Go listed as the publisher.

Cat and bird to cat and mice.