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Hey man, if you hang a copy of Gene Autry comics on the wall and play "Back in the Saddle Again," it's like Gene's personally serenading you. You can't put a price on that.

Fanged aliens and a distressed brunette in yellow to a fanged alien with a redhead in yellow who looks more distressed by the hero's fashion sense than by the alien.

Schomburg rendition of pain to Schomburg rendition of pain.

I don't know who Farrah Fawcett is, but I'm a one-woman man, and my Betty Grable pin-up is staying put.

It is! It's driving the prices up. People are pulling their money out of crypto and pumping it into comic books as a hedge against inflation.

Toppling thugs out of a boat to toppling thugs out of a car.

Old-label book featuring a fit, half-naked guy with yellow hair to old-label book featuring an unfit, fully-clothed guy with a yellow sack.

I remember going to see Star Wars at the movies, and I will swear on my grandmother's grave that in was in February of 1979—so more than a year after it came out. It would be unimaginable for a movie to stay in the theaters that long nowadays, but maybe things were different back then.

We need a fourth for bridge.

Front cover with a border and no art to back cover with a border and no text.

I used to do that. Now I just slather myself with Desitin and put an a Depends undergarment. I can pee the night away without ever getting a rash. If it's good enough for June Allyson, it's good enough for me.

Subby and a bald bad guy to Subby and a bald bad guy.

Why are the goal posts at the end of the field instead of on the goal line like they're supposed to be? Why don't any of the stores around here sell 7-Up candy bars? I have the best bent-grass lawn on the block! I met my second wife at an Eddie Cantor concert. I spilled my Tom Collins all over my dungarees.

Ocean waves to ocean waves.

I've seen that cover dozens of times, and I never noticed the message on the chalkboard before. (Did you get that from Quality Comix? I thought I saw that copy on their web site a while back.)

I know that @catrick339will appreciate those Jumbos.

There's still so little collector interest in those strip reprint books that Overstreet's prices seem hard to justify.

How much is CLink paying you to plug their auction? As I looked through the listings, I think there's more for a Silver-Age collector to be excited about than a GA collector, but there appeared to be quite a few more books today than there were just a few days ago when I looked. This one was already there. I remember because my heart broke when I realized that it had cream-to-off-white pages. It's one of very few Facwcetts on my want list. I won't be bidding on this one, but I'll be watching to see how much tolerance Timely collectors have for resto on what is a semi-tough book. This one will be out of my price range, sadly.

Now that prices have increased, more books will probably get slabbed. That will give a better idea of which books are scarce and which are not. More books may shake out as having sought-after covers. You might see books that don't make the cut cooling off after a while.

. . . or possibly aroused.

Did you zoom in on it on the Heritage site? Every book looks like a 9.4 in a thumbnail. I'm not sure what's going on along the spine, but I saw enough defects to keep it below 9.4 even without that issue.

Man firing gun to mouse firing gun.

I bought three of the less expensive ones, two 9.2s and a 6.5. I agreed with the grade on 6.5. The other grades were probably a bit soft, but not too bad because I stayed away from the books that looked too softly graded. Some of them were graded ridiculously softly (9.6s that looked like 8.0s, etc.). I see the soft grading as adding volatility. Some people buy the book, and some people buy the label, so whether these softly-graded books sell for a strong price or a weak price at auction will depend on who shows up to bid on that particular book.

I misunderstood. I thought you meant that the amount paid would be readily available again if the owner were to sell the book—that it would easily sell for the same amount, in other words.