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L. B. Cole with a blue background to same.

Earth in the distance to Earth in the distance.

I don't think that they could get the forgery right on the first iteration, but if a forger was in cahoots with an expert, then fine tuning the forgery until all details were correct would be possible. After that, an unlimited supply of fakes could be produced. There could be a couple of guys out there with vintage machinery, vintage paper, and vintage inks already working on the problem.

Red Raiders to Red Mist.

Green grass to green grass.

That Mile High National 7 was the one book in the auction that I was watching (not bidding on—I can't swim in that end of the pool until I find an heiress to marry). I was not surprised by the selling price. It's an old-school book, but I have a soft spot for those. I don't think there's any room for a flipper, so hopefully it went to a collector.

Have it your way.

Hardly. I simply don't believe that every creator-owned copy would necessarily sell for a premium. Many creators don't have much of a following.

Eventually replicating and aging vintage paper and inks will become refined enough that there will be more Action 1s in the census than the 200,000 copies from the original print run.

Two heads nearly removed to two corneas nearly removed.

Woozy to Woozy. (I understand why Plastic Man always wears the same costume, but Woozy isn't a superhero, so why doesn't he ever change his clothes?)

Well, if it's an auction with an online component, then it's a federal crime—wire fraud—and all federal crimes are felonies, so it isn't completely true that it's unregulated, it's just that there's very little enforcement of the regulations.

You're preaching to the choir. About 11 years ago I tried to put in a bid on the Central Valley copy of Planet Comics #4 on CLink, and even though the clock told me that I had 7 seconds left, the bid did not go through in time. (My bid was significantly higher than what the book ended up selling for.)

There's an assumption in your question. You asked, "How much of a premium do creators' personal copies fetch?". The way that question is worded makes it sound like you're taking it for granted that they fetch some sort of premium. Some of them might, but your first question should have been, "Do creators' personal copies fetch a premium?". My answer would have been, "It depends." It depends on the book, it depends on the condition of the book, it depends on what creator owned the book, and it depends on who is buying the book. I wouldn't pay a premium for any creator's personal copy of a comic book—prior ownership of a comic simply doesn't matter to me—but in many cases a collector who admires a particular creator would likely pay a premium for that creator's personal copy of a comic. Prior ownership of a comic clearly does matter to some people. The Larson copies prove that: some board members have stated they they are willing to pay more for those copies because of the backstory even though those comics often have heavy foxing, rust on the staples, or both.

Popping a floaty to popping a tire.

Creeps to crawling—a whole horde of creeps.

FH heroine about to kill a villain with an axe to FH heroine about to kill a villain with a spear.

You can't beat the law to getting a beating from the law.

Younger people are going to be skeptical of this, but I saw Star Wars (now episode IV) in February of 1979 (shortly before I turned five), so at least one theater near me was still running it 21 months after it opened. I don't think it was a discount/second-run theater, either. I can't imagine anything like that occurring now. You mean you didn't immediately fall in love with Jar-Jar Binks like most people did?

Submarine interior to submarine exterior.

I will be shocked if that book comes back 4.5 with that additional damage. 3.5 is probably the best you can hope for.

Super Magic to Super Magician.

Maybe books worth at least X dollars will be in a dedicated auction, with lower-dollar-value books being dispersed amongst the Sunday auctions. That's what Heritage has done before .