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They could both work. Supes 53 could be the working poor man's Action 1, and More Fun 101 could be the skid row bum's Action 1.

Sword to sword.

What's the connection? Water in the background to water in the background, perhaps?

I assure you that Louise Belcher is quite mistaken. There are Hallowe'en cards. Just ask the Zodiac.

Vigoda to Vigoda.

If you were getting $5 per week as allowance in 1973, your parents were rich. I was getting $1 per week in 1983, and I didn't know anyone in my neighborhood who was getting anywhere close to $5.

Little green dudes to little green dudes.

There are way more than a few. Many people here slab books and submit books to CGC. I think some people here forget that the vast majority of second-owner collections are still raw. There are plenty of guys wo built up second-owner collections in the 60s, 70s, and 80s who basically stopped buying but didn't sell and may never sell. Some of those collections will just be handed down and kept for sentimental value. Even tough it isn't very valuable, I still have the coin collection that my great-great-grandfather put together by saving old and foreign coins that came into his saloon, which he had to close when Prohibition came. With some of these comic collections, the value of them might tempt the heirs to sell whereas the $1,000 I might get for that coin collection wouldn't mean anything compared to the sentimental value. Still, some of those second-owner comic collections might not be sold for decades. For some people, the sentimental value means that they won't sell at any price, especially if they're well off themselves. The one thing that bugs me is that people still refer to Gerber's scarcity index when selling books. It should be obvious at this point that he basically pulled his numbers out of his rear end. Aside from a few books that were legitimately rare and easily identifiable as 9s or 10s, those numbers are basically meaningless. Even some of the white-space books are fairly common. I don't think he looked too hard for them.

Nothing stays hot forever, but the L. B. Cole books haven't cooled off yet. When a book gets hot, it seems like people don't pay much attention to whether the book is common or rare, and they'll compete for every copy that pops ups. As soon as a book starts to cool off, there are more sellers than buyers, and prices can drop fast, especially on lower grade copies. Most of L. B. Cole's books are too common for the current prices to last. A few might be rare in high grade, but I can't think of any that are rare in mid-grade. I used to think that Suspense #4 was on the scarce side, but the strong prices have brought quite a few copies out of the woodwork.

Feeling blowing to Felix about to blow.

Tom & Jerry in their own comic to Tom & Jerry in Our Gang.

Nothing's permanent. The United States won't even last forever. The current financial situation might last for a generation, though. The millennials and their progeny will be fine. It'll be us Gen Xers who will have worse life outcomes than our parents because we had a terrible job market when we finished college in the mid 90s, so we got a late start on home ownership to begin with, and we were just starting to recover from the economic mess of 2008–2010 when this pandemic hit, and now we're too old to start over and have much hope of succeeding. We're basically the throwaway generation.

Yes, I hope so!

A Spawn 1 that is only 0.5? Now that is rare! That book is very tough to find below 9.0!

This is off topic, but what books are getting split into individual pages? Are they books that were missing more than just the cover? I would think that even a coverless but otherwise complete Cap 1 would be worth more than the pages sold individually. (Of course, I could be wrong.) And what if a page has an advertisement on the front of the page but artwork on the back? Will CGC turn it around so that the artwork is facing forward in the case? These are the kinds of deep questions that I ponder in my quiet moments.

I predict that some of these books will sell for even less the next time they go on the block—but we shall see.

Saddle shoes to saddle shoes.

"Hey, Gang!"

Kids' TV, huh? This one's for you, @Marty Mann!

You were right that the dollar value is the determining factor, but the threshold is even lower than you thought: "I see that you have not purchased anything over $1500 since 2013, which is now our value limit for shipping via Ground service. Since this order exceeds that amount, Express delivery service, which has proven to be more reliable than Ground, is required. Thanks, ComicLink Sales Team" So I'll still buy from CLink, but I'll have to make sure I stay under $1,500 in all future auctions.

Can someone please tell me where the name Squa Tront came from? I thought someone in this thread would know if anyone does. A quick Duck-Duck-Go search didn't get me the answer.

I thought I was going to have to buy a bunch of raw Famous Funnies just to get the Connie strip reprints (which I think are underrated). However, I read online that this book is coming: https://www.classiccomicspress.com/pages/connie-sundays I was pleasantly surprised.

Necklace to necklace.

Are any of those guys on the boards? I don't recognize any of them.