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Church horror book from 1952 in 8.5 featuring a baddie carrying an unconscious woman to Church horror book from 1952 in 8.5 featuring a baddie carrying an unconscious woman.

I almost bid on this one tonight but changed my mind. I was only interested because I was curious about the cover art attribution. The cover is attributed to Palais, but it's clearly signed Pelletier in the bottom right corner. Is that a pseudonym, or is the attribution incorrect? I couldn't find any comic artist from the 40s named Pelletier.

"Won't Get Fooled Again" to "I Can See for Miles."

Marvel Tales rooftop to Marvel Tales rooftop. (Note: The Grand Comics Database says this is a Harry Anderson cover, not a Bill Everett cover, and I agree.)

Real Secrets to Strange Secret.

It is perplexing. You usually can't give away those Ziff-Davis G. I. Joe Comics, even in high grade.

Hangman on the cover of his own comic to Hangman on the cover of an anthology comic.

Tombstones to tombstones. (Why did the guy bother to wear a necktie for that job?)

Pelican flying in plane to duck flying on rubber.

She can pull down about 6,000 pounds on the lat machine at the gym, I reckon.

Oswald in a boat to Oswald in a boat.

A B is still a good grade, just not great. Mystery Men 10 is a good cover, but much of the credits goes to the colorist. The deep green on the bad guys makes the cover. Simon's line work could be better. Silver Streak 2, Science 4 and Fantastic 7 are pretty good. The others you mentioned don't do much for me.

Yes, anything's possible with two stubborn bidders, and the book is scarce. I'm not wowed by that cover, though. It's just OK. (I'm not too crazy about Joe Simon's draftsmanship; I don't think there's any Joe Simon cover that I'd rate above a B.)

Oil to oil.

Topless male to topless male.

Melting to dissolving.

The ones in my post are from "No-Dot" copies. I don't know about the one that you posted. Some of the "Dot" copies have blurred edges, but none of the "No Dot" copies that I could find had clean edges. The "No-Dot" copies that I was able to find online all had blurred edges.

Most guys hang onto their copies. Can you blame them? It was high on my want list years ago, but I could never find a copy with nice pages, and I've long since been priced out of any copy that isn't a rag.

Astonishing to Astonishing.

I wish I knew how easy it would be for a feature like the dot to break off accidentally. I can envision a situation where the plates were removed from the press because the printers thought that the run was finished, and then maybe they realized that they goofed up and were 100,000 covers short—or maybe D.C. called in a last minute increase to the size of the order—or maybe some covers got ruined and they had to set everything back up to run more covers. Any extra handling of the plates could have led to extra wear and tear, which could account for the missing dot and the ink bleed. Maybe they ran part of the order on Friday, shut down for the weekend, cleaned the old, dried ink off of the plates before they started up again on Monday, and were a little too rough with their cleaning. I have a hard time seeing them interrupt a print run just to address the issue with the dot on a 10-cent funny book.

Yes, that's right—just like I don't pay for admission to a store but might buy hundreds or thousands of dollars on purchases.

Did Bob Kane actually draw that cover? I've read elsewhere that his name often when on work created by artists that he hired.