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Supine bondage by Axis creeps from Germany to supine bondage by Axis creeps from Japan.

My thoughts are, that book is all about the cover; I'm not sure there'd be a market for it unless someone wants to marry it to a cover. (As for an actual dollar value, I admit I have no idea.)

Red mask to red cape. (I'm not sure why a demon needs a cape. Does he get cold easily?)

Many of them have probably heard of the Beatles because they have grandparents who are fans and still listen to the music. However, I was wrong about the Space Jam movie leading to recognition of the Warner Bros. characters. They still don't know who Bugs Bunny is.

was blind . . .

Generally speaking, it seems like the low-to-mid-grade books stand a better chance of making gains the second time around because people weren't falling all over themselves to acquire those the way they were with the high-grade copies. Unlike the high-grade books, most of the mid-grade books look like they were graded within reason, too—a bit softly, maybe, but within CGC's normal variation.

Short, bald child to short, bald man.

Animal-skin headgear to animal-skin headgear.

I think that it's probably a 3.5.

You are correct, sir. I just received a postcard about it in the mail.

Throttling on the cover of a comic with Quinlan art to throttling on a Quinlan cover.

Let me guess—you had both of those in the secret stash that you only pull out when your wife is in the mood but little Dean needs a pick-me-up?

I'm tutoring a student who is also studying karate. I mentioned Bruce Lee to him the other day, and he had no idea who that was. He had never heard of Chuck Norris, either. (I'm sure there must be newer martial arts guys that I've never heard of.)

Why would you post the clapping emoji for that? Are you applauding the fact that there are cognitively impaired people in the world who have money to spend on comic books because you're hoping that they'll buy yours some day?

His Better/Nedor covers were much less detailed than his covers for Timely. Was he paid significantly less for those covers? I'm curious to know what would account for the vast differences in effort.

I have seen books on the WorldWide website show up as "sold" or "sale pending" around the time they showed up in one of CLink's auctions. One of these books "sold" in a CLink auction only to miraculously be in Ritter's possession soon afterward despite never being listed for sale on his site again.

Not for his comic book work, though.

I agree. Barks and C. C. Beck both had great interior art—and great stories in Barks' case—but their covers really didn't stand out. (Many of Beck's covers were as boring as all get out.)

It would depend on whether there were a surviving writer to assist him. So far as I know, most of those guys were only artists, not artists and writers. I think Kirby is the only one of those who was known for both writing and artwork, but his GA artwork was not great. Some of the most talented guys from that era who could write and draw, such as Alex Raymond, primarily did strip work, not original comic book work. Carl Barks, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Cole, and Will Eisner come to mind as creators who both wrote and illustrated original comic book material. I'm sure that others here could name many more. Out of those, it would be down to Barks or Eisner. I will defer making an actual decision until that scenario presents itself in real life.

That issue has always had much, much higher demand than the other ones you mentioned. It isn't rare in terms of the number of copies that exist, but it's one of those books that collectors hang onto, so I'm not surprised that a couple of impatient collectors would be competing for it aggressively. Also, with C-Link's sniping format, bidders sometimes take books pretty high on the first day in order to discourage last-minute sniper bids. I think it's a way of telling the snipers, "Go find some other books to target! You won't be getting a deal on this one."

Someone bid $132 for that copy???? All I can say is, "Oy, vey!" (and I'm not even Jewish).

Uncanny Tales to Uncanny Tales.

The Web to tangled in a web.

@Phill the Governor Since you mentioned tears, I should point out that there were some high grade books in the Promise Collection with worse ones than the Tec 166, but they didn't get a 9.6 grade. Tiny edge tears are fairly common in the 8.0–9.0 range, but the tears on these two appear to be bigger than what I've seen above the FINE range. As for the Tec 166, I wouldn't grade it above 9.0 based on the cumulative defects I can see in the scan, mainly the spine ticks and the tear. I wouldn't grade it down for the shadows because CGC has always been lenient with those even in high grades.

Let me put it to you this way: When this collection first surfaced, I really wanted to go after a couple of Promise books, but I could not find a single book from my want list that was accurately graded. I could not even find one from my want list that was only one increment above what I would have given it. I settled for the Bomber because it's a tough book and it's right in my wheelhouse, but I can't deny the soft grading. In comparing it to my other books, I have to start looking at 8.0s and 8.5s to find comparable books.