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I grew up in Royal Oak, Michigan, and one of the Catholic churches there—Shrine of the Little Flower—was founded by a Catholic priest named Charles Coughlin who hosted an immensely popular national radio broadcast. His program was anti-Semitic and sympathetic to Nazi Germany; he even received some funding from Nazi Germany. He was finally forced off the air around 1940.

Graveyard to graveyard.

Titillated Woozy to terrified Woozy.

I think that's a stove-top percolator in Tom's camping gear, and the thermoses on the Disney books probably contain coffee.

My gut instincts tell me that micro-trimming is still getting through easily. They would not have caught Ewert if before and after pics of some of the books hadn't surfaced. I would not be surprised if micro-color touch is getting through as well.

14 days? How generous. Nice to know CGC is so dedicated to taking ownership of its mistakes.

Severed heads to disembodied head.

MLJ bare-chested, hooded thug and girl in bondage to MLJ bare-chested thug, hooded hero, and girl in bondage.

It's a cool book, but in what way is it a promotional comic? It looks like it had to be purchased.

It might be legal to shill in person, but it would be a federal crime—wire fraud—to shill bid in an online auction. Texas law doesn't trump federal law.

I love white pagers! But can you please explain what's going on with Señorita Rio's right arm?

It would be 5.0 without the diagonal creasing in the center. With it, my top grade would be 4.5—that's if there are no significant defects that I can't see in the scan.

Lion Boy to Cat-Man.

My concern would be that damage to a case could translate into damage to the book. Just look it over very carefully when you finally receive it. If you don't see any signs of SCS when you compare it to the full-size scans, then no harm, no foul.

Here are some relatively recent pick ups that I haven't posted here

I've slabbed some low-dollar-value books when I had a CGC grading credit that was about to expire, but even I wouldn't have slabbed that.

You're comparing bananas and pomegranates. Punch 12 is a relatively scarce book that has long since established itself as a classic cover/key. As for CoC 19, prices on that book really don't make sense considering how common the book is, but it has become a sought-after book—why I don't know. For random horror books, the gap between highest-graded copies and mid-grade copies remains quite wide.

CGC needs to get better at catching them—and fast!

I don't think so. With these horror books, it's all about having the highest-graded copy to guys paying the insane prices. It may only be a small number of guys competing for the highest-graded copies. If that's the case, it might only take one or two guys dying for prices to collapse. I care more about having white pages than having the highest grade, and fortunately for me these number-in-the-corner guys don't seem to care about page quality, so mid-grade copies with white pages are often still affordable.

Some, maybe. Guys who wait too long are running a risk. The guy with an 8.0 would be better off selling now; once somebody else's 9.0 shows up, his 8.0 will be worth much less. I have no doubt that some collectors who retired from actively buying years ago have never heard of CGC. Others may have heard of it yet have no idea that horror books have skyrocketed the way they have. I took a 10-year break from collecting from 2002 to 2012, but I still had a collection sitting in my closet. How many times do you think I checked comic book prices during that 10-year period? I'll tell you: zero.

I agree; it's just a matter of time.

I think there are a lot of guys who just have no interest in slabbing. Heck, some of the guys who built their collections decades ago have probably never heard of CGC.

I was interested, but not at that price. That 7.5 could easily be surpassed eventually. Mid-grade copies of that issue are common. How rare can high-grade copies really be? My copy of #10 is still the highest-graded copy in the census. I paid $300 for it. My #19 is tied for highest-graded; that one was $180.

The Actions went a little low the first time. I recall that there was very little action (no pun intended) in the first few minutes of one of the Saturday Promise auctions, and with few live bidders the auctioneer burned through the Promise Actions within minutes. Anybody who logged in a few minutes late would have missed the opportunity to bid on them.