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You have a gift for understatement, Mr. Strange.

TLS ice to TLS iced out.

The ComicConnect auctions last so long that they could wait a few weeks after the auction starts before posting scans, and it wouldn't make any difference.

This article is about hand-written song lyrics, but could the case be relevant for golden-age comic books with sordid histories? For instance, the old-hoard Crippen books were allegedly stolen. Could Crippen's heirs try to reclaim those books? And what about the D.C. ashcans; weren't there questions about how those entered the marketplace? https://www.clickondetroit.com/entertainment/2024/02/21/an-unusual-criminal-case-over-handwritten-lyrics-to-hotel-california-goes-to-trial-wednesday/

Web of Evil creep in a torn red shirt to Web of Evil creep in a torn red shirt.

Hot lead to molten metal.

Ka'a'nga recsuing Ann to Ann rescuing Ka'a'nga.

Thanks! That thread must be where I heard about them. My memory needed refreshing; I'm at that age, I guess.

Don't some of the buttons have an "easel back" that allows them to be stood up for display? I thought that I read that somewhere, but I'm not sure exactly what an easel-back would look like.

It does take some time for books to show up, right? Maybe it was JUST graded (i.e., this month).

Dr. Neff, Ghost Breaker to Grimm, Ghost Doctor.

Bingo. I only collect GA, and $100 doesn't buy much of anything in the GA world. (I have a few $50–$100 GA books that I like just fine, but I wouldn't be able to find 300 books in that price range that I would want.) You can only spend so much time looking at one book, so buying one $30,000 book wouldn't be much fun, either. 3 $10,000 books would be my next choice.

I guess the consensus was that each issue contained the same contents as other copies of that issue? I am surprised that CGC slabbed a 324-page book; I don't remember seeing anything else that thick slabbed. Are the Gift Comics the GA comics with the highest page counts? If not, what comics top those? ETA: I just found this thread that showed a slabbed trade paperback, so I guess the slabs can get pretty thick.

Lost Valley with Venus, Goddess of Love to Lost Valley with Mars, God of War.

That one is creepy as ----!

I'm now the proud owner of that book, and @Bat-Hound's photo doesn't do it justice. I've picked up a few other white-pagers since last posting, too. This one isn't a recent pick-up, but I had it slabbed recently:

That's how it usually goes, LOL.

No, I was referring to my initial post.

I was referring to people who are in the hobby only for profit (or aspirations of profit). I probably should have heeded the sage advice not to feed the trolls.

I don't buy books to sell, I buy them to keep. I have nothing but pity for people who collect for profit because I know that they lack the ability to just relax and enjoy the hobby.

I've typically used the E. Gerber versions of the Mylar products; they were always less expensive than the comparable Bill Cole versions. https://www.egerber.com/ ETA: It's been many years since I actually compared prices, so I don't know whether the E. Gerber products are still cheaper.

Dangerous woman to dangerous women.

I looked at that auction but skipped bidding because of the grading company that was used.

Love with a vegetation-covered hat to love with a foliage-emblazoned blouse.

I'd like to see some kind of study showing the correlation between page color and suppleness. From what I've seen, the correlation is fairly high. I've occasionally had books with darker pages than o/w that were supple. What I noticed was that those pages were uniformly dark, suggesting that the paper stock may have been darker to begin with (or that some chemical process was at work other that the typical process that causes tanning). Any time I've had a book with a halo of tanning around the edges, a certain degree of stiffness was noticeable in the tanned area.