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Attractive doesn't have to equal hypersexualized and objectified. Baker's women were drawn as attractive but naturalistic in a way that does not seem disrespectful or dehumanizing. I can't say the same about Feldstein's women.

You may be right. I would have to look them over to see whether there are any exceptions.

I've never read any of the war stories, so I'll have to check them out. I have to admit that Al Feldstein is a bit of an enigma to me. Judging from the E.C. stories while he was editor, he must have been very progressive, yet some of his pre-E.C. covers seem to have depicted women as sex objects. Maybe women's issues hadn't come to the fore yet.

The Spirit was a newspaper strip! And yes, the EC stories were quite good; I've read most of the sci-fi and horror stories in reprints. (The sci-fi stories were actually a little better than the horror stories.)

I see eBay dealers slabbing FAIR 1.0 copies of funny-animal books, etc. I don't get it.

If I were focused on the stories instead of the art, I think my focus would be on Bronze Age material. As much as I enjoy GA cover art, most of the stories are a little unsophisticated by today's standards. Actually, the serial newspaper strips generally had some of the best comic writing in that era. People say that Barks's stories were quite good, too, so there were exceptions.

Holy mackerel! I thought slabbing fees maxed out at $3K. I'm glad I don't swim in that end of the pool.

The Shark to a shark.

Novelty Press to Novelty Press.

I didn't imply that the Vancouver books weren't nice comics. However, the Namora #1 is an example of a Vancouver book that sold for less the second time around.

Well, I think my collection was worth $100K pre-Covid. It's probably worth a little more now (in part because I've continued to buy). I really don't know whether prices will stay where they are when all the smoke clears. It's a weird time to be living in.

I think that he bought quite a few books through Greg Manning Auctions in 2000 and 2001 and sold the books in 2002 and 2003. I can't swear to that, but that's the way I remember it. Did GPA exist back then? I think prices were down across the board from 2003—2006 versus 1999—2002. I was on a long break after 2002, and I remember coming back and looking at old auction results and thinking that I had picked a terrible time to step away from the hobby.

Harry Anderson to Harry Anderson.

Namora #1 comes to mind.

You may be right. I was thinking of the horror books specifically.

Horse to horse.

Thanks for the information! I wonder whether CGC will eventually recognize the Cape Cod collection considering that they recently acknowledged the Eldon and Harold Curtis collections.

Is that really his focus? (I'm not sure whether you're joking.) This copy probably went to an L. B. Cole completist. If it was an upgrade, maybe the buyer's undercopy will show up on HA soon.

That's a book that probably doesn't get slabbed very often because the guide value is low. There may be other comparable copies out there. If $1,200 wasn't enough to snag it, then you shouldn't lose any sleep over not being the buyer. There's always another book.

Not quite. I've been collecting since the mid 80s, and I don't remember anything but awe when the Mile High books started to circulate amongst "regular" collectors. The GA White Mountain books were praised as very fresh. People were surprised by the AF15 sale because it was a Silver-Age book. We have seen at least two pedigrees where some buyers took huge losses when they re-sold: Billy Wright and Vancouver. The market has since "caught up," but it took a while. Money would have been better spent elsewhere. Besides, I very much doubt that you've seen another case where the criticism of a pedigree was rooted in how overgraded the books were. Many people couldn't afford the Mile Highs, for instance, but there was universal acknowledgement that they were in a league of their own. The Promise books are not. You might think that they were if you looked at the grades, but at some point people will actually start to look at the books.

I remember when I turned down a NM, white-paged copy for $700 because guide was $350. Talk about regret.

I still can't wrap my brain around the grades that some of these Promise books have gotten. I never thought that I would see high-grade books with rat chews! Take a close look at the lower right-hand corner on this Mary Marvel #6: https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/mary-marvel-comics-6-double-cover-the-promise-collection-pedigree-fawcett-publications-1946-cgc-nm-92-white-pages/a/7248-96095.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515#

It will be interesting to see what Promise books are selling for in a couple of years, after the hype has died down. I suspect that sellers who try to cash out via the no-reserve-auction route will end up taking some hefty losses, but we'll see.

If you view comics as investments, then your advice is understandable. I couldn't care less about investing in comics. I only buy comics for the cover art; first appearances don't interest me.

30 to 30.