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If someone has a relative with the wherewithal to do it, then it can happen. Dean Kamen, Jack's son, was buying quite a bit of his late father's artwork at one point (and may still be doing so).

Amazon Prime Escort Service to Amazon Prime Supper Club.

Rob may want to buy it back himself. I inderstand he's getting pretty good tips in his current role as valet at the local bowling alley; maybe he's saved up enough to be able to afford it.

Was this art from the issue where Cap takes some medication and develops a severe case of gynomastia as a side effect?

Gravity sucks to gravity sucks.

Boater to sailor cap.

I agree that it's in the 3.0—3.5 range. I would probably return it unless they offer you a partial refund. The page quality looks decent in the pictures, so that might be a point in favor of keeping it.

The "Golden Age" is short for the "Golden Age of Superheroes." For me that's June 1938 (Action 1) through Octoer 1945 cover dates (i.e., the books that were on the stands when WWII ended). Superheroes were fading fast by the late 40s. November 1945 through February/March 1955 (pre-code) covers dates are clearly Atom Age. I don't know how to classify CCA-stamped books that pre-date Showcase 4.

Well, I picked up one book today. It was cheap enough this morning that I thought I might get it for guide. Nope.

Hoarding seems to be common. It causes price inflation for the issue being hoarded, but I'm not sure whether it pays off for the hoarder. As soon as the hoarder starts to release copies into the marketplace, prices will start to come back down. There may be some sort of OCD issue at play as opposed to simply a financial incentive.

The only question I have is, are you William Sherwood or Ed Wiley? Heritage says it's from a one-owner collection, but if you're not William Sherwood, then you must be the second owner (at least).

Considering the bath I would take, I will not be selling mine either. If I did, I would have to kill myself, so I might as well wait until death.

I buy slabbed comics because I don't know how to catch things like trimming and cover cleaning reliably. I keep them slabbed because I mainly buy them for the cover art, and I know that they would sell for much less raw than slabbed should I ever decide to sell them.

When prices drop, so do quality offerings. There are always guys who have to sell, estate liquidations, etc., but most collectors are content to lock away their best stuff for years and years rather than letting it go cheap.

I had an unpleasant taste of that when I went to a carnival in the South Dakota back in '93. Suffice to say I no longer play carnival games. (I was 19 at the time and not as good at standing up for myself as I am now; a carny would be ill advised to pull that stunt on me now—but then those guys seem to have a knack for picking easy marks.)

I have heard of FedEx doing that but never USPS. The USPS carrier would be in a lot of trouble for that. You should go to your local post office and ask to speak to the supervisor of the carriers.

I passed on a NM, white-paged copy in 1989 because the dealer wanted $700(?) and guide was $350(?). ETA: I might be wrong about the amounts, but whatever they were, the dealer wanted double guide, and I stubbornly refused to pay above guide for anything.

I recently learned that CGC recently stopped putting microchamber paper inside the front and back covers of vintage books, so I won't be submitting any time soon if ever.

This happened in the old slabs as well. This comic incurred damage before I purchased it in 2013: The image below shows in in its original 2002 slab:

Strategically placed feet to strategically placed hands.

Busting through glass to busting through glass.

This is shocking to me. I've paid to have quite a few books slabbed over the past few years, and I thought I was paying for microchamber paper inside of each cover.

Big bad bird to bird-like baddie.

It is obscene that a book with color touch is not in a PLOD. The significant number of Church books with color touch is the only reason for that. Money talks.