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Lou Ferstadt cover to Lou Ferstadt cover.

Cat in a mask to bear in a cat costume. No comic to grade to comic that would be graded 9.2 if it were part of the Promise Collection.

Anthropomorphic pig to a man with a porcine face.

Tiny dude to two diminutive pumpkin worshippers.

Fiction House Fall 1952 to Fiction House Winter 1952–1953.

Fiction House 9.2 to Fiction House 9.2.

Green mask to green wall.

I agree; either the scans or notes (or both) must make a significant upgrade a foregone conclusion, otherwise it would be very difficult to understand that result on what is a common and not-especially-sought-after book.

Long term, no. Right now, yes—because of all the hype around the ped. Even books that you'd normally have a hard time giving away for free are selling for $1,000 a pop and up if the label reads, "The Promise Collection."

Evil green dude to evil green dude.

Collision to near collision interrupted by an abduction.

Crime to Crime.

Reading a book to failing to read a sign.

Of course I respect your opinion—as I respect all differing opinions—but even among the other artists who drew for EC (as Kamen occasionally did), Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, and Graham Ingels were all several orders of magnitude better at producing GGA than Kamen. Dan Zolnerowich, Alex Schomburg, and Maurice Whitman all produced better GGA than Kamen ever thought about producing. Kamen wouldn't even make my top twenty. His female figures only had two facial expressions: 1) angrily constipated and 2) a look of surprise and confusion as if someone had just poked them in the butthole with popsicle.

"Other than Jack Kamen"? I personally don't find Kamen's GGA to be particularly good. There are quite a few artists whose work I prefer.

This is slightly off topic, but does anyone know who printed the counterfeit Cerebus #1s? I don't really collect BA books, but I'm curious because back in the day I heard that it was somebody in Michigan (which is where I'm from).

The Claw with yellow skin to the Claw with green skin.

I seem to recall that they had a "San Francisco" pedigree notation on a Fiction House book with a cover date well past 1945, which is when the San Francisco pedigree is widely acknowledged to have ended. As for the Bethlehem books, it's tough to know. If fakes were put into circulation, it probably happened around the time the pedigree surfaced, when there was some buzz around the collection.

GGA is in the eye of the beholder, but in my eye these qualify:

Early Famous Funnies cover to late Famous Funnies interior.

The story is that the Dentist put fake Mile High coding on a number of Hawkeye books in order to sell them for Mile High prices. Allegedly, Steve Geppi intervened, ripped the dentist a new *spoon*, and attempted to get the books with fake coding out of circulation. I don't know where the books reside now; maybe Geppi has them. Maybe some of them are still out there.

Negligee to diaper.

Scantily clad redhead to scantily clad redhead.

Many of the Promise Collection books have rat chews. I wonder whether we'll ever see the most severely chewed ones.