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Why would what someone paid be readily available? Assuming the same people bid, the book would sell for one increment above the second underbidder's max. That could be substantially below the original winning bid.

Do you know who owns the Mile High copy of #4? It would be way out of my price range if it ever sold, but I'd enjoy seeing it. I'm not sure whether it's the 9.2 that's in the census or whether it's still raw.

Cool book! I was sort of kidding about it being my all-time favorite—I like way too many covers to be able to name a favorite—but I sheepishly admit that I'm a fan.

I went through a phase when I spent a ton of time playing Crystal Castles, but I think a quarter lasted quite a while. I probably spent more money on pinball than anything else. The game that really chewed up my quarters fast was Dragon's Lair. I was 9 when it came out in '83, and I sucked at it. I didn't spend a ton of money on it because I always got frustrated with it and walked away after a couple of games.

Yes, being in an "all-Baker" auction stacked the deck in its favor. Most books won't have that advantage. Or will they? Maybe Heritage will have an "all-Schomburg" auction, an "all-L. B. Cole" auction, etc. That could be a game-changer for any book.

I just picked this one up on eBay. I hope I got fair price. I bought it in British pounds sterling, and the exchange rate was worse than I realized, plus eBay charged some kind of foreign transaction fee that I didn't know about, so I paid a little more than I had planned. (I thought the exchange rate was pretty close to 1:1, but maybe I was thinking of Euros.)

Taking her breath away to taking their breaths away.

I am middle aged, but I have no idea what a chicken box is. As for the plastic sheet, middle age is 40 to 59, not 70 to 99.

Moon landing to moon landing.

Green-cowled baddie to blue- and purple-cowled baddies.

I'm guessing you didn't buy many Promise books?

No, a page out or a missing back cover would be a deal breaker for me. I'd rather do without a copy at that point. It's true that I could enjoy the cover art on such a copy, but the incompleteness would bother me enough that I wouldn't enjoy owning the book. On the other hand, a low-grade that had most of the defects concentrated on the back cover would be a good compromise for a book that I couldn't afford in high grade.

Maybe, but only to a point. I could never find a suitable copy of Tec 31 back when I could have afforded one. I should have been more flexible, but I still wouldn't want a true beater of a copy. (From what I remember, finding one with nice pages was the biggest issue.) I could maybe go down to 2.0 on a grail, but I wouldn't want a 0.5 or a 1.0. At that point, the eye appeal is so poor that it defeats the purpose of owning the book (which for me is to enjoy the cover art).

This is not a response to the initial prompt, but The Incredible Hulk is one of my favorite shows, and I've actually wondered about that.

40—59 is the normal definition.

To still more . . .

To even more jaw-dropping terror.

Television screen to screen of unknown type.

Target Comics #7 is my all-time favorite cover.

Reeling from a punch to reeling from a punch.

I think that quite a few of them have date stamps. The Bomber Comics #3 that I picked up has a date stamp. It's a little difficult to see because it's on a dark area.

Some of the Actions went for ridiculous prices, but I thought that some of them went for about what I would have expected for an ordinary pedigree. The prices might have been stronger than non-peds, but they didn't fetch the ridiculous Promise multiples. The 106 was a highest-graded copy, so the price seems about right to me. The 98 is in 2nd place behind a 9.8, so the price might have been just a bit high, but it wasn't crazy.

I haven't followed resales closely, either, but I won't be surprised if some books match or beat their original prices. Thousands of Promise books have been auctioned off. Many of them went for absurdly high prices, and those are the ones that we tend to talk about, but some of them flew under the radar. Whether a few books sell higher is more or less irrelevant. It makes more sense to looks at the books collectively. I predict that the Promise books will sell for less the second time around on average. The ones that sell right away—meaning in 2022—might do OK because the hype hasn't died down yet. We're still in the honeymoon phase. I'm more interested in seeing how the values hold up a couple of years down the road when the party's over.

One Disney animated movie icon to another.

Sheldon Mayer to Sheldon Moldoff.