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The label says that's a Schomburg cover . . . is it signed? It doesn't look like his work to me. Rocket shell to magic cannon.

Perhaps—but I think that the current run up in prices will prove to be the tipping point for some collectors. I think we'll see some exceptional collections come to market in 2022.

My collection is worth ~100K, and even if it sold for ~150K in this hot market, that isn't life-changing money. If I was somebody who had built a collection in the 70s or 80s that was now worth $5 million plus, the temptation to cash out would be huge. Prices might not stay where they are now. Someone with a 7-figure collection who doesn't sell now could be leaving a lot of money on the table. For someone with no kids, it might not matter, but for someone with kids or grandkids who has the opportunity to change their lives, well . . . it would be tough to justify not selling in this market.

There may be quite a few nice collections out there. Some collectors may keep to themselves. Our own @sartreused to have a fairly nice horror collection (and probably still does).

And it had cream-to-off-white pages. Personally, I would take an 8.0 with white pages over that copy, but most collectors don't seem to care about page quality—I guess because the pages are now hidden inside the slabs.

Yes, even the ones with awful dust shadows and terrible eye appeal—the high-grade ones, anyway.

Fireball from Toro about to burn through a baddie's throat to molten steel about to burn through a baddie's shoulder.

Automobile to automobile.

Colorful paving stones to colorful paving stones.

But that bottom edge . . . how is that page not "BRITTLE"? Is that what passes for "CREAM-TO-OFF-WHITE" these days?

After 20 months, people are going insane with cabin fever and bidding like tomorrow's a rumor. It's a better time to be a seller than a buyer, that's for sure.

Crime to crime.

Well, I'm 47 and definitely wouldn't consider myself a younger collector. I think of younger collectors as the ones who grew up after comic books were no longer ubiquitous—the ones who are more in tune with the DC and Marvel Universes because of the movies and TV shows than because of the comic books themselves. The ones who didn't grow up buying comics off of spinner racks in order to read them. I would think that most collectors under 35 probably fall into that category—maybe even most collectors under 40.

High grade copies come up for sale almost constantly. They're definitely not hard to find in the auctions. The only ones that are even a little bit scarce are the annuals.

The way the guy in skivvies is clinging to other dude leaves that cover open to multiple interpretations. 😁

Lantz to Lantz.

As much as I like the Big Red Cheese, I do think that your point is valid. It may be that older collectors are the ones keeping the prices for the book elevated. Younger collectors may have limited interest. It may not be a top 20 book or even a top 50 book a generation from now. We may get to the point where the only GA books being widely collected are ones that tie in with the current Marvel and DC universes. That will be a sad day for the hobby. For better or worse, some hobbies do fade over time. We can't predict what hobbies will be popular in fifty years. Fifty years ago, how many people would have predicted that collecting tennis shoes would become a major hobby? Maybe collecting COVID masks will be next. That will be what kids of a certain generation will remember most about their childhoods. (There are quite a few different designs out there; I'll bet some people are already collecting them.)

I would have to say that most GA keys fall into that category for me. I couldn't care less about first appearances. I collect comics primarily for the cover art, and few GA keys have above-average cover art.

You both loved it??? I could not even imagine hating a movie more than I hated that one. It had the most inane plot of any movie I have EVER seen, and I can watch almost anything. Different strokes is right, I guess.

To me, the worst thing that a movie can be is boring. The most boring movie I've ever seen is Shoot 'Em Up (2007). I wanted to walk out, but I couldn't because I had gone to see it with two of my roommates. Another incredibly bad movie was The Human Centipede. Some movies are so bad that they're good. The Doom Generation was so bad that I was laughing at parts that weren't supposed to be funny—so I got quite a bit of entertainment value from it.

Early Our Gang to later Our Gang.

Freckle-faced brat to same.

The most obnoxious part is the virtual auctioneer who—is a virtual auctioneer a who?—who always says, "YOU'VE been outbid!" in a tone of voice that sounds like, "Nyah-nyah-nuh-nyah-nyah!" At the same time, the words "YOU ARE NO LONGER WINNING. YOU'VE BEEN OUTBID." show up on the screen (in bold, red letters in all caps, as shown). And at the very same time, the words "ITEM ENDING" are flashing on the screen, and you have about three seconds to decide whether to bid again and be a "winner," or to not bid and be a "loser," forever mocked by the virtual auctioneer. To answer your question, it doesn't matter when you put your proxy bid in, but you might as well wait till the last day in order to reduce the likelihood of being outbid. If you must win a book no matter what, meaning that you're willing to pay $5,000 for a $250 book so that you feel like a "winner," then you should bid live. But if you put in a proxy bid, you run the risk of being outbid by another bidder who is willing to pay $5,000 for a $250 book so that he can feel like a "winner."

Shill bidding is legal in Texas, but shill bidding in an online auction is a federal crime (wire fraud). I don't doubt that some sellers attempt to place shill bids, the law be damned.

Movie stars to tiny stars.