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. . . to redhead.

Nice pick up for somebody!

From a hawk's beak to a baddie with a beak.

Tropical paradise to tropical paradise.

Threatening a shark with a knife to threatening a shark with a knife.

to Amazing Painted Cover

She Blinded me with Science - Thomas Dolby.

from Whittington to a cat.

Sax to Tuba and fedora to bowler.

No Particular Place to Go – Chuck Berry

I never said that I don't appreciate the historical context of names and other pedigree markings–I do–but I also grade books down if those markings obtrusive, like the Recil Macon and Okajima books. The value of a book is a separate issue from the grade of a book. To some people, a mid-grade Okajima might be more valuable than a high-grade non-pedigree copy. Don't conflate grade and desirability. (For me, freshness and page quality are more important than grade, anyway.) I agree that date stamps and pedigree markings give a book character, but so do reading creases and clipped coupons–I grade books down for those, too.

The D presumably stands for the distributor, possibly the same distributor as the Edgar Church and Aurora collections. I take the numbers to be dates, 1/6 or possibly 11 6 with no slash and 7/19 (as opposed to copy 7 out of 19, etc.).

Green alien with tentacles to green alien with feet.

I was actively collecting books from '84 through'90, and every dealer I bought from in that era downgraded books heavily if there was writing on the cover, with the exception of unobtrusive pencilled distributor markings. CGC marks books down very heavily for stains; what is writing on the cover but a stain in a special shape? As much as I appreciate the Okajima books, the coded camp books should not be graded the way they are. A book with writing on the cover is not a high-grade book. I suspect that the choice to ignore writing on the covers of books was made in order to add value to collections like Larson and Recil Macon, which would have been heavily penalized otherwise. It reminds me of the decision to allow books with a "very minor amount" of glue or color touch to get universal labels. I don't mind writing that much, but it should be factored into the grade regardless of when it occurred.

It's an extremely common, overvalued issue. There are 875 Universal 9.8s and 255 Signature Series 9.8s in the census. There are probably thousands of raw 9.8s out there. That said, Stan's autograph may eventually have a fixed value, regardless of what it's on. I have no idea what that value will be twenty years from now when he's no longer with us. However, he has autographed many, many comics and continues to do so. so his autograph is by no means scarce.

Bow and arrow to bow and arrow.

This one just came in the mail Another boardie posted his copy over in the Gold forum, and I liked the cover, so I bought one.

Thanks! This book helped me learn to be more flexible about buying mid grade books. I enjoy it just as much as my higher-grade books, and it was much cheaper.

They do have some water resistance; when the Greg Manning basement flooded, many books, including some Mile Highs, were ruined; most of the slabbed books came out unscathed.

I wasn't the owner of the book when the damage occurred; John Verzyl was. I believe he sent it back to CGC in the holder. Matt Nelson handled the removal of the book with an eye towards minimizing the damage.

I've never seen them hide sales data before. (That doesn't mean they haven't done it.) GPA is supposed to be unbiased; if they're participating in this, then they are no longer a reliable source of information.

7 to 8

No 9.6's and only a few 9.4's.

My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels

I'm not sure where yellow stops and orange begins, but I think this one belongs in the yellow column.