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On 3/21/2024 at 11:27 AM, EastEnd1 said:

This is my recollection too... numerous videos of people being "shocked" that they'd gotten PLODs for simply "cleaning" the book with these techniques.  This is the thread I was thinking of covering this topic...

https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/520982-problems-with-cgc-grading-a-cleaned-and-pressed-book-with-a-purple-label-my-thoughts/#comments 

It's good to know that they're catching it some of the time—although I suspect that it's often missed.

Have you heard anything to suggest that CGC can detect light-only lightening? I don't know of any way that they could do that.

On 3/21/2024 at 6:43 AM, Courageous Cat said:

very very strong results.22 blows me away. great cover and tough book, but 2.5....damnnnn

Nothing surprises me because many collectors have little to no impulse control. If they want a book, they want it now, and they don't care if they overpay.

On 3/21/2024 at 3:11 AM, Gotham Kid said:

I'll be a bidder and hope to win it at 70

I'd stay away from it until CGC starts differentiating between the original and the two early reprints. That house of cards has to fall eventually.

On 3/20/2024 at 9:24 PM, buttock said:

CGC is absolutely treating this as restoration with a PLOD.  It's not always detected, but when it is it gets a purple label.  

Using blue light with peroxide may be considered restoration in theory, but as I understand it, it's only detectable if someone messes up and blisters the paper—so there are presumably many, many blue-label books out there that have had this treatment.

Blue light is also being used without peroxide, i.e., blue light only. I don't believe that that is detectable at all. If it's used on non-white areas, it will cause fading, but CGC can't detect fading, anyway (unless it's severe). I don't think that CGC has ever claimed to be able to detect light-only whitening.

On 3/20/2024 at 1:27 PM, EastEnd1 said:

I thought CGC was treating this technique with PLODs.  There were a number of vidoes that were posted about it maybe summer of last year?

No, that treatment will not result in a PLOD. I don't even think CGC can detect it.

The latest technique is using blue light to lighten comic book covers, especially the white parts of the covers. (I have no idea whether that was done to this comic.)

CGC isn't treating it as restoration, probably because they don't have a way to detect it.

Here's one video on it:

On 3/19/2024 at 11:07 PM, thehumantorch said:

The harder it is to find the more satisfaction you experience when you find it.  

The most fun I had collecting was digging through unsorted boxes of comic books at used book stores and antique stores as a kid before I even knew that comic book conventions or dedicated comic books stores existed.

Bolshevik branding iron to Nazi branding iron.

Joe P. back to G. I. Joe.

On 3/18/2024 at 12:11 PM, sfcityduck said:

*". . . and a few Varga girls" showing he had pretty normal WWII young teen boy attitudes;

 

*  His mom wanted him to become a Baptist preacher and was a little disturbed he was a comic fanatic (if only Wertham had known!)

He would have fit right in with Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert.

Standing in water to submerged.

On 3/17/2024 at 8:55 PM, batman_fan said:

A few I was watching/bidding on.  Made someone pay a lot more for one of them.

Those were all very strong results, but this one is especially shocking. When I looked at it, my first thought was, "They gave a 6.0 to a book with that big of a stain?" Sure enough, it used to be a 4.5.

I wonder how many of these books went to people who knew Jon personally and wanted to own the books for that reason. It's hard to understand those prices otherwise.

On 3/17/2024 at 7:14 PM, lou_fine said:

Did you win this one here as it went for the bargain basement pittance of a price of just a tad over $12K with the 15% BP juice tossed in there?

I was not a bidder (except for maybe a $1 or $5 tracking bid). It went far beyond my initial guess. In an auction like this one, with many of Jon's personal friends bidding, etc., it was able to command a very strong price, but I think that the pool of prospective buyers would likely be small on any given day. I'm too risk averse to ever buy something like that unless it were to stay really cheap—but it's a treat just to see one that nice.

(I wonder if a boardie bought it! I'd love to see it cracked out.)

Gal with a pistol to gal with a whistle.

On 3/17/2024 at 4:55 PM, lou_fine said:

[L]ooks like the action and bids have really picked up on the comic book lots, especially for the late Jon Berk copies at least.

This is one that I'm watching. It's not exactly in my wheelhouse, but I'm curious to see what it'll sell for. For people interested in the history of the hobby, it's an important proto-comic, and you don't see copies pop up every day.

Two cloaked baddies with a rifle, a sword, and two daggers to two cloaked baddies with a dagger and a pistol between them.

1944 Master to 1944 Master.

L. B. Cole Star Publications to L. B. Cole Star Publications.

Novelty Press to Novelty Press.

Baker fire cover to Baker water cover.

Patriotic superhero with one big star on his cape to patriotic superhero with myriad little stars on his cape.

Oversized Timely character to oversized Dell character.

Japanese paratrooper firing at Subby but missing to American paratrooper firing at Japanese combatant and not missing.

On 3/10/2024 at 3:18 PM, OtherEric said:

Fair enough; although I don't think Bob Bolling did either.  I could be wrong on that point, I frequently am.

According to his Wikipedia page, Bolling started freelancing for Archie Comics in '54. If that's true, then he just barely squeaks in as a pre-code artist. Since it's Wikipedia, it may or may not be true.

On 3/10/2024 at 3:04 PM, OtherEric said:

I just realized one more creator from the 50's who we do still have with us:  Arnold Roth, who is better known as a cartoonist than for his comic book work, but did stuff on Kurtzman's Trump, Humbug, and Help.

Yes, but I don't think that he did any comic book work in the pre-code era.