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Is that actually a comic book (with multi-panel stories, etc?) Or is it a magazine with one-page gag drawings?

The check marks throughout the book are a turn off for me, but I think that the "Checking Copy" notation should be added to the label. The information is of interest to collectors, and it wouldn't hurt anything to include it.

True. I'm surprised that two 9.2s are tied for the highest grade for the #8, though. I would not have guessed that considering how common the issue is.

It's a little outside of my wheelhouse, but I think that you priced it correctly. I'll be surprised if it doesn't sell.

He only had the books a little over 20 years. That's not a long time to own a book. I still think of books that I bought 20 years ago as new purchases because I've had some books for closer to 40 years now. Unfortunately, I took a break from actively collecting in the early 90s and sold my best books a few years later, in '95 (to local dealers at a significant loss). Most of the books I kept were funny animal books that I liked but knew I wouldn't be able to sell. Those are worth about the same as what they were in the 80s. I didn't think very highly of whatever SA material I had. I bought a F/VF or better ASM 15 for $25 in the 80s and sold it to a dealer in a stack of 20 or 30 books in '95. I sold the stack for about half what I paid for the books in it, so I guess you could say that I sold the ASM 15 for about $12.50. Now I'm seeing mid-grade copies of that issue priced at thousands of dollars. (I'm not sure why; it was never even a minimally sought-after issue.)

One female in bondage in the jungle to multiple males in bondage in the jungle.

Why do you think that those books might come to market? Didn't the owner express an intention to keep them for his personal collection? He may prefer to pass them along to his heirs.

Some of what books? I don't know what copy that is.

This is no Barks, but it's still a duck book. I bought it for the back cover.

Nazis in for a world of hurt to one particular Nazi getting his comeuppance.

I would take that one over the Promise copy based on the cover colors. The front cover looks nicer than 6.5. Some defects, like a non-color-breaking subscription crease, could bring the grade down that much without showing up in the scan, though. It's also possible that the book has back cover defects or a loose centerfold, etc. I'm with you on valuing the eye appeal of a book over the grade, but the latter seems to be the primary driver of the price, so some collectors clearly feel differently. I think that those kinds of shenanigans occur with eBay auctions—guys will shill bid a book to get a fake sale into GPA, etc.—and maybe on other venues, too, but I don't think that it would occur with a Promise book being offered for the first time. The consignor of these books is doing just fine without needing to do anything like that. I imagine that buyer's remorse is pretty common with these bidding wars, though. I don't know what would happen if someone bid a book up to $60K+ but didn't pay. Would Heritage litigate, or would they just ban the bidder and re-list the book? (Asking for a friend. ) Would they keep the auction result in their archives even if the sale didn't actually go through?

I just looked at it. The cover colors aren't excitingly good, but Planets are still hot, and it's a 9.8 according to the label, so I won't be too surprised if it bucks the trend of Promise books selling for less the second time around. Inflation has been averaging about 0.717% per month over the past year or so, so the book will need to sell for about $23,900 to match $21,600 in June 2021 dollars.

I've posted this one, but I don't think I've posted it here. It reminded me that a very nice copy of the book had gone missing along with a nice Catman 20. I had hoped that the books would be found quickly. My biggest fear is that someone could have stolen them, found out how much they were worth, panicked, and destroyed them. It's also possible that they could have been misdelivered to somebody who knew absolutely nothing about comics and who cracked them out and gave them to neighborhood kids to read or who simply discarded them. ETA: I'm not sure whether keeping the books would actually be considered theft. My mother used to work for the U. S. Postal Service, and she told me that the addressee on a misaddressed package has no legal obligation to return the contents of the package. She retired many years ago, but she was in a position to know the law on that point back when she was still working. I'm not sure whether the law is still the same or whether it would apply to packages shipped through a private company like FedEx, though.

Planets and Foxes are great, but they're both hot right now, and hot=bubble, so it's a good time to branch out into other publishers. You can't go wrong with the Zip 13.

Musical notes floating at random to musical notes floating in the air.

Flaming to flaming.

I mean, it's Heritage's raw grading, so . . .

Romantic couple plus a third party to same.

The shadow to a shadow.

Gun fire to gun fire.

Sailor cap to pirate cap.

I did not realize that Orson Bean was already famous enough in 1957 to get his name on the cover of Mad Magazine. MAN did he have a long career.

Flames to flames.

No. 26 to no. 26.