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After selling for $585 on eBay, the book is now available for $1,195 on CLink, still listed as Catman 24.

Tombstones to tombstones.

Yellow outfit with skirt to yellow outfit to skirt.

Fire to fire.

Don Rico art to Don Rico story, cover, and art.

Thayre myte ownly bee wun Dan inn thu woorld whooz spelyng iz thayt baad, sow thayre's howp!

Three superheroes together on a front cover to three anthropomorphic animals together on a back cover.

I didn't start wearing reading glasses until a few years ago, but I collect comic books, and I used to be a mechanical engineer, so I have to admit that I check two of the biggest "nerd" boxes.

I would tend to agree, but I would guess that even in that era comic books were more popular with males. If we look at pedigree collections where the original owner was known, the vast majority of original owners were males. And you're right, @Telegan, by the mid 80s only the nerdiest of the nerdy males were collecting comics. I attend local cons in the Detroit area throughout the late 80s and I never saw a girl or woman at any of them buying comics with the exception of mothers buying comics for their sons.

Rising sun flag with the correct number of rays to rising sun tattoo with an incorrect number of rays.

Whop on the head back to whack in the jaw.

I don't have this one in hand yet, but I think this guy must be the owner. The hometown is right, and the age is about right. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192178030/robert-henry-maris

Cap with hanging ball to Cap with hanging Bucky.

Red skull to green skull.

Buck-toothed redhead to buck-toothed chipmunk.

Is that actually a comic book, or are the contents primarily text with accompanying illustrations? It looks more like a pulp than a comic.

Butt to the face to butt to the face.

Wasn't Jimmy Olsen supposed to be a teenager in the comic books? Larson looked 35 in the TV show. ETA: I just looked him up. I guess he was 24 when the show started and 30 when it ended.

I only have one Russ Heath cover. It's OK, but looking through this thread, I can say without reservation that his war covers were better. I guess that's where he eventually found his groove.

I can't believe that nobody has posted a Judy Canova comic book yet! I don't own one (sadly), but I was hoping to see one on this thread.

Jumbo 165 to Jumbo 156 and chain to whip.

For a long time I've been wanting to go about building an "artist type set" where I have at least one comic book representing each known GA cover artist. It isn't something I will be able to complete in one year or even ten, but I do hope to add some books with covers by artists who aren't represented in my collection yet.

The turn-around times on economy-tier books are very long. If you send it in, you won't see it for many months. To be honest with you, most people only slab low-grade books in order to help sell them. Putting it into a 2-mil Mylite with a fullback and some microchamber paper would probably preserve it just as well as putting it into a slab.

The books of his that I looked at were priced so high that I don't even look at his listings any more. (There are quite a few sellers on eBay whose listings I just scroll past.)

Let me guess . . . you want to buy one of his books, but you're hoping to get it for something less than the 500% of FMV that he's asking on eBay?