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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).

Weird creature with a beak to weird creature with a beak.

Back to Spirit.

American flag on a shirt to American flag on a staff.

Hunt Bowman to Hunt Bowman.

It could be. Hobby Lobby just re-opened as an "essential business" in areas under lockdown. - Here in Michigan, AMC just closed one of their biggest suburban multiplexes. I guess they didn't have high hopes for profitability any time in the near future.

I'll give you $100 for your copy of Dynamic Comics #8. You'd better accept my offer before the book spirals to zero.

For a long time, many horror books went unslabbed because of the low guide values. I don't think we have a clear picture of how scarce or common some of these books are in high grade. I like horror, but I wouldn't buy much at current prices. EC horror is probably the highest-quality material out there, and those books are very affordable in mid grade and even high grade just because there are so many copies out there. Most of the Atlas material has come down in price quite a bit unless you're chasing single-highest-graded copies.