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That one was a no-brainer for me. The toughest two calls for me were Lou Fine versus C. C. Beck and Creig Flessel versus Irv Novick.

I don't think you can blame the color of the label entirely. I've seen many blue-label books that say, "Very minor amount of color touch on cover" or "Very minor amount of glue on spine of cover". I don't know how much those books are punished in the marketplace, but I won't bid one them, and I'm sure many other collectors won't, either.

One book that looked badly overgraded to me (as I mentioned before) was the Subby 32. It sold for $4,320, which seems like an average price for a 7.0. It was a very strong price for a 5.0, which is what the book should have been graded. I also looked at some of the WDC&S; I thought that some of the 9.2s were MUCH nicer than others.

I thought prices were a little weak on many books, but the Marvel Mystery 71 shocked me. Somebody really wanted that particular copy. I don't think that result will be duplicated any time soon. https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/marvel-mystery-comics-71-timely-1946-cgc-vf-nm-90-white-pages/a/7229-92058.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116

Bald guy with glasses to bald guy with glasses.

I was watching the National Comics 8 in the Sparkle City auction on eBay last night. A few months ago, I would have gone at least $1100 on it, but I decided against bidding once it got close to $900. It ended up selling for around $980. I don't have the appetite for bidding on anything that isn't a grail unless it's dirt cheap.

Cosmic puppets to wooden puppet.

Is that a sarcastic comment? I would expect that lot to sell for around $180-$200.

1 shilling 6 pence to 16.

I was very interested in the Subby 32 until I took a close look at it. How in tarnation is that a 7.0? It looks to me like it had several edge tears that were sealed and then unsealed, with color touch removed around all of them. I know everybody says that the grading process is anonymous and that Heritage doesn't get favorable treatment, but I have a hard time believing that when I see a book like the Subby 32 in a 7.0 holder.

Confronted by enormous aliens to confronted by petite aliens.

Naughty knight to naughty knight.

Baker to Baker.

Schomburg Torch to Schomburg Torch.

I guess this one counts as a funny-animal comic even though it's a mixture of animal and human characters.

Avon to Avon and redhead in a skimpy yellow outfit to redhead in a skimpy yellow outfit.

Big City to flat city.

I don't plan to sell my collection in my lifetime. My collection isn't on the same level as Mitch's, but I wouldn't sell it if were. - Some deals are already starting to show up, so it's a good time to buy want-list items that are hard to find. For anything that isn't hard to find, it makes sense to wait. - I take Mitch's advice to be directed at those who have always planned to sell some items eventually—better to sell now than a year from now. (It might have been best to sell a few months ago, but that ship has sailed.) It doesn't really apply to those of us who expect to die with our collections more or less intact.

These two are sort of funny out of context (scans courtesy of comicbooksplus.com):

I agree with you that people shouldn't be pointing to strong prices realized during the past three weeks as evidence that GA material won't cool off down the road. - Reality hasn't set in yet; people haven't run out of spending money yet. (A lucky few never will, to be sure.) - For one thing, everybody will be paying extra taxes in 2021 and beyond to cover all of the federal giveaways that are happening right now. - My guess is that GA will see a bottom sometime between mid 2021 and mid 2023.

99% might be a little high. I'm 46, and if I live another 40 or 50 years (which might be a little too optimistic in light of the current pandemic), I fully expect my comic book collection to be worth very little by the time anybody inherits it from me. As much as I enjoy the hobby, I recognize that no one under 30 grew up riding his or her bike to the nearest party store to buy comic books off the spinner rack the way I did. I don't expect collecting comic books to still be "a thing" in 50 years.

BBM I hope you don't mean once upon a time, when he was still among the living!

Animal hero in front of a full moon to animal hero in front of a full moon.

Right cross to left cross.

It's difficult to see this pandemic ending without significant effects on the economy, including tax increases and inflation. To make matters worse, medical researchers are learning that about one-fifth of the people who get the coronavirus and recover sustain heart damage. Those people will have increased medical costs for decades (not to mention shorter life expectancies).