jimbo_7071

I'm a Schomburg fan, but I agree that most of his mid-40s covers look similar. I prefer his earlier pulp-like covers (for Mystic, etc.) even though I don't own any, but most of the later covers are still pretty good. I'm not a big fan of his Better/Nedor covers, though. Those are pretty bland for the most part; it appears that he put far more effort into the Timely covers.

Robot Man doesn't adapt to change too well. He's still writing fan mail to that "hot young ingénue" Lillian Gish.

Soles of a bad guy's shoes to soles of a bad guy's shoes.

You must not go on eBay or ComicLink too often!

No. 56 to no. 56.

To socking Nazi.

There are plenty of flippers out there who are complete scum bags, so it wouldn't surprise me if situations like that are examples of shill bidding. I've been $1,000 (FMV) books on ComicLink priced at, say, $5,000 with $4,000 bids. I just think, "Dude, no one is stupid enough to believe that you actually got a $4,000 bid on that $1,000 book." Of course, the seller is hoping will someone who hasn't done his homework will see the books and think, "Duh . . . someone else was willing to pay $4,000, and the seller didn't accept, so the book must be worth more than that." There are quite a few con artists out there, unfortunately. Some of these dirt bags will take two copies of a $100 (FMV) book, price one at $200, and price the other one at $400. They're hoping that a gullible buyer will see the copy priced at $400 and think that he's getting a deal on the one priced at $200. It takes a certain amount of diligence to avoid being conned by these grifters.

Well. there are dealers on eBay who regularly price books at several times what they would be likely to sell for at auction. For instance, $4,000 seems to me like a stiff price for a VF mid-run Super Duck. I can't imagine how they ever sell anything unless they're accepting offers that are a small fraction of their asking prices.

No matter what someone is asking, I never offer more than I have to as an opening offer. There have been times on HA when I've offered $1,000 for books I would have happily paid $2 or $3 thousand for, so if the seller had countered with $3,000, I would have accepted—yet the sellers never even countered with any amount. But if I make an offer on a book, and the seller rejects my offer without countering, then I won't bid on the book if it comes up for auction. I had an offer rejected on one book, and then I saw it offered at auction less than a month later, and I purposefully didn't bid. It ended up selling for substantially less that what I had offered.

Torch and Toro to Torch and Toro.

It depends where you're buying. On ComicLink, people can offer half of your asking price, and there's no way to change that, so I always ask about twice what I actually want for the book because I don't want people to be able to offer me less than what I'm willing to consider.

38 to 39.

Human female in yellow on an alien planet to human female in yellow on an alien planet.

Skipping multiple letters to skipping one letter (to W).

1966? Man alive! That was 8 years before I was even born. No wonder I missed out on all the deals.

I to J.

Bald guy with glasses to bald guy with glasses.

Silicon world to flat world.

Smoking to smoke.

Santa to Santa.

No. 13 to no. 14.

Whiz to Whiz.

Little green men to little green men.

Uncanny Tales to Uncanny Tales.

Almost every company that I know of has had trouble staffing entry level positions over the past year, and I'm sure CGC is no exception. After seeing the way the Promise books were graded, I am assuming that there are quite a few inexperienced graders on staff at this point, and whatever grade comes back on a book basically amounts to the luck of the draw. I am undecided on whether to submit any books because the slabbed grade really doesn't mean as much as it used to.