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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.

The high-grade copies seem to be selling for high prices. I can't help but think that a small number of devotees must be bidding against one another. I can't imagine that very many collectors would be interested in that title.

Sax to tuba.

It's just a li'l ol' bindery tear . . . nothing a few dabs of wheat paste couldn't mend. The Mile High books have proved that comics with wheat paste at the top and bottom of the spine can still get universal labels, so just CPR it (Crack, Paste, Re-submit).

Torch facing a foe with high-tech gadgetry to same.

Cosmic Aeroplane to Cosmic Aeroplane.

The cover art reminded me of Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," so I checked, and sure enough, that's what it is! Weird Science-Fantasy to Fantastic Worlds and Al to Alex.

Dust shadow to shadows in a dusty old house.

Yes, after posting, I looked at the admission prices and decided I couldn't justify going. I just don't think that there would be enough high-grade GA books.

It may be a good strategy, but it seems like it would require a substantial time commitment to learn about moderns. I would have had no idea that the two Hulks were anything but dollar-bin books.

Bike book to bike back cover ad.

Broken boards to broken boards.

Woman in blue to woman in blue.