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Going into the fire to coming out of the fire.

Cat-man silencing underpaid laborers to Namor rescuing unpaid laborers.

Ganging up on a cat to ganging up on a Cat-Man.

Bullied cat to bullied cat.

Otto Binder to character created by Otto Messmer.

I like #6, but I've always preferred #4. I acquired a copy through Greg Manning Auctions back in 2001 and still own it. I can't really articulate a reason for the preference except to say that #6 just never wowed me the way #4 did.

Acid reflex to hot flashes.

I think it would be a 9.2. It wouldn't be penalized for the distibutor coding, but it would be penalized for the other defects listed.

I'm still trying to forget how I skipped going after an 8.0 with nice pages back in 2000 or 2001. I think it sold for $40K on the nose. (I basically would have had to blow my entire life savings on it, and I wasn't courageous enough to do that.) It's much more common than most of the other GA keys, but the MCU seems to be leaving DCs in the dust, so I guess that trumps the high census numbers.

You forgot to mention that the Eagle book was featured on one of the catalogs. That probably earned it quite a bit of extra attention, including some bids by newbies who thought that if it was on the cover of the catalog, it must be an important book. I prefer old-label books because I dislike pressing, but most expensive old-label books that are upgradable have probably already been upgraded. That comic is probably the nicest existing copy, but the 9.6 grade was generous. People talk about old-label goodness, but my own experience has been that grading was somewhat inconsistent in the early days, with just as many loosely-graded books as tightly-graded books.

That's what I like to see—an autograph on a photo where it belongs instead of ruining a comic book!

Everett sub to Everett SUBterranean home.

They used to have a $10,000 credit card limit. At one time CConnect was not charging anything extra for credit card payments, so if somebody paid by credit card, the seller ended up getting slightly less money. I guess some sellers of books in the $2,501–$10,000 range complained. Those sellers lost some bidders (including me, in some cases) because of that change, but they must think that they come out ahead overall. CConnect has told me that larger credit card payments might be allowed for an additional 3% fee, but I recommend checking with them before bidding.

Higher prices have brought tons of copies out of the woodwork, so I think that those books are overvalued even at that price. I never thought that those books were rare, but the census has proved that they're even more common than I had realized. I used to think #216 was a bit scarce. Nope.

L. B. Cole did a PILE of covers. A few of them a fantastic, most of them are good but not great, and some are just plain mediocre. To me, the ones that include close-ups human faces often fall into the mediocre category. In that ISR #1 above, the guy's face just doesn't look quite right: the lips look a little weird, the eyes seem a little off, etc. Cole did a little better with the woman's face, but I don't think naturalistic human faces were his strong suit. The faces on the TTLR #8 don't require as much detail because they're not as close up, so Cole was able to get by on that one.

I'm not sure how I'd grade that. Are there any grades lower than 0.5? I don't think I could justify giving it a 0.5. It's somewhere in between 0.5 and the baggy of Action 1 dust that CConnect auctioned off a while back.

Underwater struggle to underwater struggle.

Just like Nelson Rockefeller . . .

Those quality differences are really overrated. If the story is good enough to keep my interest, I couldn't care less about the picture quality. It isn't even something I notice. I enjoy listening to radio shows, too, like "The Shadow" and Arch Oboler's "Lights Out," and those don't even have pictures.

I haven't been to a movie theater in over 10 years. I hadn't enjoyed many of the movies that I had gone to in the five years before that. Other audience members' cell phones were what ruined movies for me. People's phone screens were continually lighting up during movies and distracting me—taking me out of the movie, so to speak. I very much doubt that I will ever go to another movie. Whenever there's a movie that I want to see, I wait until my local library has the DVD in stock. If they don't buy a copy of a particular movie, I can get almost any used DVD on Amazon or eBay for less than the cost of a movie ticket.

Sidekick in danger to sidekick helping for once.

Fatal shooting to fatal shooting.

DC Green hat and red mask cover to DC green hat and red nose cover.