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Man rendered unable to sire children to man whose hopes and dreams are going down the drain.

Big dolls to little dolls.

Dinosaur in a futuristic environment to the same.

Have you looked at books sold through other venues? I noticed this one on CLink a while back. It sold for $870 on Heritage back on 9/13/21. I would imagine that the seller was pleased to have not had to take too big of a hit.

A couple of the Walter Lantz New Funnies sat unsold on Worldwide's site for a couple of years—at prices that were about half of what they sold for in this auction—until very recently.

Leopard Girl to Tiger Girl.

Sheena in a tree with a knife to Sheena on a vine with a knife.

Jungle boy raising spear to jungle woman raising spear. Elephant raising its trunk to elephant raising its trunk. Red loin cloth to red shirt.

Elephant to elephant.

Spear to spear, knife, bow and arrow, and crumpled rifle.

Smoldering punk to burning match.

Catman right hook to Catman left cross.

Right hook to right hook.

I only own a few horror comics, but I guess this is my favorite out of the ones that I have.

Chinese vegetable to American flowers.

Alliteration to alliteration.

I decided to pick of a couple of Jungles recently.

Nice! It looks like there's a bit of staining on the front cover, and CGC hammers staining, so maybe that made the difference in the grade.

Bean to green.

Nazi plane to Nazi uniforms.

I don't remember your ever having mentioned being married, Dean. Is this a new development? I had the impression that you were at least 50 based on how long you've been collecting. I don't see guys over 50 getting married too often.

Here's an opinion that's sure to be unpopular: Continual discussions that focus on how much comics are selling for make the hobby less enjoyable because I feel like I might as well be on a message board for stock futures or annuities.

Here's a hint: if a dealer asks you how much you want for a book before he'll make you an offer, walk away. That dealer is a sleazeball. Any honest dealer knows way more about the current value of comics than most collectors. An honest dealer can make you a fair offer without needing an asking price from you. Any dealer who insists that you state a dollar amount first is a complete scumbag who is looking for an easy mark to fleece.

Bad guy with sharp teeth to bad guys with sharp teeth and no. 30 to no. 30.

Many of the best-known dealers probably have some people skills and maybe even some integrity (or at least the ability to feign integrity), otherwise they wouldn't be very successful. However, when it comes to small-time dealers, I've noticed that many of them have personalities that would prevent them from finding any kind of success in the corporate world—which is probably why they're self-employed. It isn't as easy to get away with things like amateur resto and trimming these days, but the sleazebags have found other tactics; like getting fake sales into GPA to pump up prices, shill bidding on auction items; buying the top-five graded copies of a scarce book and cracking out the top four and sending in the labels so they can sell the fifth-highest-graded copy as the highest-graded copy, only to turn around and slab the erstwhile fourth-highest-graded copy in order to sell THAT one as the highest graded copy, etc. There are con artists in every hobby and every business, though, so why should comics be an exception? Most people are restrained somewhat by a conscience, but these guys are conscienceless; they're like flesh-eating bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. You can try to mitigate the damage that they do, but you can never really get rid of them.