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Late 40s Ohio books usually have nicer pages than this one does. I don't think that's a genuine Ohio copy.

If pedigree markings were enough, then Aurora copies would be Mile High copies.

I've always felt like Schomburg was "mailing it in" with most of his non-Timely comic book covers. Maybe the other publishers didn't pay him as much for the work.

Mask to masks.

White horse to cream camel.

Lions to Colts.

Chokehold to outright throttling.

Holy mackerel. That is definitely a case of someone buying the grade, not the book. I cannot believe CGC gave that book a 5.5. It should've been a 3.5 at best. It seems like grades have softened up across the board at CGC since Blackstone took over. I wonder if the same thing has occurred over at NGC. If it has, it might be a deliberate attempt to try to make a quick buck through resubmissions while completely disregarding the impact on the company's reputation. If they have one good year, they may sell the company and let the hapless buyer deal with the long-term fallout. If that what's going on, then it's sort of like what some stock market manipulators have done with pump-and-dump schemes.

Early Sheena to late Sheena.

Are you the consignor?

I bought one book from him years ago (for well above FMV—so I guess he was an effective salesman). He and Chris Foss were the only GA dealers that set up at the Motor City ComicCon the last time I attended. He seemed relatively young, so I'm sorry to hear about his demise.

One would think so, but then I'm reminded of the cases of people trying to recover works of art looted by the Nazis—works that have become far more valuable over time. At first litigation was limited to stolen works, but then it was extended to include works "sold under duress" (which seems somewhat ridiculous to me). Was it ever established who stole the original "D Copies," now known as old-hoard Crippens?

Many people will have already seen the tribute to Ramona Fradon over in Comics General. She died yesterday. Since this list was generated, we've lost Lily Renée; Vic Carrabotta; Al Jaffee; Joe Giella; John Romita, Sr.; and now Ramona Fradon. Larry Lieber is the only one left from that list, along with Angelo Torres, Bob Bolling, and Jules Feiffer, who were mentioned elsewhere in the thread. We're watching an era come to an end.

Lost Atlantis to Lost World.

Maybe, but not necessarily. It could just be that they had similar markings because they came from the same distributor.

That sale seems like an outlier. I would never value any book based on a single very high or very low sale.

My guess is $20—$25K on both books, but it's exactly that—a guess. It all depends on who's bidding on a particular day. D.C. let the character of Plastic Man slip into the public domain, which would have killed profits from tie-in toys, etc., so there was never a major motion picture and never will be one. A streaming-service-era version of a made-for-T.V. movie was released on H.B.O. Max (yawn). I like the character, but comic book speculators don't seem to. Still, if Plastic Man had been featured as the main character on the cover, then it would probably be a $50K book in 8.5.

Sea floor to sea floor.

I think I've seen quite a few Dynamic #10s and Scoop #2s over the years. I don't think either is particularly rare.

Blue sedan to red convertible.

Yep. That sounds like the judgment of someone who thinks a ponytail mullet looks good.

I wasn't even including those. There are plenty of blue-label books out there with glue and color touch on the spine. I guess the latest gimmick is lightening covers with blue light. I don't know whether that can be detected, but if it can be, then it seems pretty clear that it should be considered restoration.

Double-o name (Buckaroo) to double-o name (Cooley).

It isn't because it's a "miniscule" amount—unless you've drunk the Kool-Aid. It's because many of the Church books have glue and color touch on the spine, and CGC didn't want to give all of those Church books purple labels. Many of those books were sitting in the collections of people with undue influence in the hobby—people whose support CGC needed in order to succeed in the early days. Not surprisingly, CGC concocted a justification for giving Universal grades to books with a—ahem—"very minor amount" of glue or color touch. There are plenty of books out there that should be in PLODs, but aren't, @thedagger.

In sports cards, yes. In comic books, not so much.