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Medieval ax to medieval sword.

Pete and ten-gallon-hat-guy should both be with the kind of women who can fart to the tune of "Oh Susanna" and spit chewing tobacco through the holes where their missing teeth used to be. Sometimes life doesn't make sense.

I should probably know who those people are. Is the dude on the right from Saturday Night Live? I have no clue who the woman is.

Anything can happen in a comic book, but in the real world, the dorky dude in the ten-gallon-hat wouldn't stand a chance with a woman who looked like that.

Gagged to gagged.

Underground to underground.

Sure-Fire to Fire.

Lottie C.?

I hadn't heard anything about it changing (prior to Chaz's comment above). I've never heard of 130Point.

I am sure that that was true as of a few years ago. I have seen it with books that I've sold and books that I've purchased. It's possible that it has changed in the last couple of years because technology changes all the time.

You may be listing books with reasonable prices, but many sellers do not. It isn't unusual for eBay sellers to list books for many times what they are worth. That's especially true for raw books for which there is really no demand at all. I routinely see books that I would expect to see in the $3 bin at my local LCS priced at $50 or $100 on eBay. I don't usually bother offering less that 50%. If a seller is asking more than twice what I think a book is worth, I just figure the seller is delusional or not really motivated to sell. Even with pricier books, it isn't unusual to see absurd asking prices. I've seen $5,000 books priced at $50,000; I've seen PLODs or GLOD priced just like they were blue-label books, etc. Maybe there are inexperienced buyers out there who will pull the trigger on books like that, but most of the time the books just sit there for years. Speaking of best offers, one thing to note is that when a book has a make-offer feature enabled and the seller accepts the offer, the book will show up in GPA as having sold for the asking price. So if a book is listed at $2,000 OBO and sells at $1,000, it will show up in GPA as a $2,000 sale. That's why you have to take GPA sales from eBay with a grain of salt. If you are pricing your books based on GPA, make sure that you aren't relying on GPA eBay sales, because some of those may not even be real sales. Aside from the best-offer issue, some eBay dealers use different shenanigans to try to get fake sales into GPA.

It looks like the parents were Ray M. Phillips (b. 1897 or 1898) and Emma R. Phillps (b. 1900 or 1901). I saw one possible death Record for Ray (but the name is too common to be sure), but nothing at all for Emma. I thought that if either parent had survived into the internet era, there might be an online obituary that mentioned Dwayne. It seems like he just "poofed" after 1950—so I guess he died, moved overseas, or went into the CIA .

That's great information! It's too bad that Ray died so young if that's him (and it probably is). The comic was from 1945, so Dwayne would have been a bit old for it. That might be why it survived in such good shape. (I'm surprised it made it through the U.S. mail as an 8.5—and a tightly graded 8.5 at that.) "Dwayne's ambition is to be a dentist (no doubt because he can delight in making people suffer)." Some things never change. Unfortunately, most of the times when I've been unable to find a record that a person is living, and I've also been unable to find a death record, it has meant that the person died many years ago (oftentimes even before the SSA's master file was created in 1962), but hopefully Dwayne is the exception.

It was around $40 including tax and shipping from Europe.

Blonde shedding a crocodile tear to blonde shedding a genuine tear.

I think The Arrow is the guy the kid hooks. So basically The Arrow is a middle-aged man who hangs around under fishing docks, on playgrounds, and outside toy shops in order to orchestrate encounters with young boys. Got it.

You guys have some books with unusual names, which makes it easier. I think I'd be hard pressed to track down this guy. I bought the book about 35 years ago at a local convention, so there's a good chance he was from southeast Michigan. If anyone wants to take a crack at it, be my guest. I might be able to track down these kids since I have their address:

No head to disembodied head.

Crocodile to alligator.

Russ Heath cover to Russ Heath cover.

Wild guess, Creig Flessel