jimbo_7071

I am poor, and Jesus said that you're supposed to give everything that you have to the poor. I'll send you my mailing address via PM so that you can make Jesus happy by having your comic book collection shipped to me.

Big-nosed villain to occasionally-long-nosed protagonist.

Wimpy sidekick to even wimpier sidekick.

Conspicuous consumption dominates the Heritage auctions, that's for sure.

Painting to painted cover.

I don't think anyone should be able to inherit anything. Capitalism only works well if the playing field is level—if everyone starts out with nothing. If you earn aot of money and get rich, great, but your kids shouldn't be able to get rich unless they earn it themselves.

Creepy silhouettes to creepy shadow (and 11 to 11).

Torch, Toro, and Namor all in on the action to Torch and Toro in on the action with Namor in an inset.

I sold my copy of Muggsy Mouse #1 years ago, and it was the only copy I saw until someone offered a very low grade copy on the boards about a year ago. It isn't valuable enough to get slabbed in mid grade, so it's difficult to say how rare it actually is.

I didn't know there were any Gaines file copies from '46. Bill Gaines hadn't even taken over E.C. from his dad at that point. Death of Jesus to Jesus's putative birthday.

No offense, Dom, but that makes you a newbie to many of us. Most of the guys here have collecting (and often dealing in) comic books since the 70s or 80s, and there are several guys here who have been buying and selling since the 1950s. We have one guy who bought his collection of the stands in the 1940s. It's hard to see how someone so new to the hobby would have the breadth of knowledge or connections required to find the quantity and quality of material needed to make an auction a success.

Fawcett superhero book with a horror cover from January 1953 to Fawcett horror book from January 1953.

I have to agree with @GreatCaesarsGhost, @Aman619. This is the Miss Fury #5, graded 8.0 with a 1" tear on the bottom edge, and edge tears are pretty common defects. I've been buying slabbed books since 2000, and this was the first 8.0 I ever saw with a 1" edge tear. I probably would have graded the book a 5.5. I really haven't seen any particularly unusual defects. The Catman 29 had significant wear around the staples, a 3/4" color-breaking vertical stress line along the spine, and noticeable bindery chips at the top and bottom of the spine. The book is a 8.0 all day long, but it's sitting in a 9.6 holder. To be fair, I don't think that all of the books were overgraded that egregiously; that one was one of the worst. However, they received easy grading across the board.

Rocket to missile.

Shakespeare is still popular in college theater arts departments, and most high school students are supposed to read at least one Shakespeare play at some point—here in Michigan, Romeo and Juliet is usually part of the ninth-grade curriculum—but fewer and fewer people can recognize even the most common Shakespeare quotes. If I said to my students, "What a piece of work is man," I doubt whether one in one hundred would catch the reference. ETA: For a while my mother was collecting James Oliver Curwood first editions, and I don't think she ever had to pay more than ten dollars for one. Curwood's books were best sellers in the 1920s.

Yes. It's a little depressing for me because I enjoy collecting niche book—the ones most people have never heard of—and those will likely spiral to zero much sooner than the DC and Timely superhero books. I have to think of whatever money I put into my collection as money spent; I can't count on getting a penny for my collection if I sell it 30 years from now. Collectors who are already in their 60s don't have to worry about that; the hobby will outlast them. It might not outlast those of us in our 40s.

I've never been anywhere close to those thresholds; I guess that's why I didn't know about it.

Super Magician to same.

For the RA&A, the sunlight reflecting off of the forest floor has a similar effect. In the WoE, the light source isn't shown, but the figures are illuminated as if by a lantern in the foregroforeground.

I would be willing to bet that none of the high-school students whom I teach have ever hear of Fu Manchu, Tarzan, Charlie Chaplin, Zorro, Laurel & Hardy, Buck Rogers, or Popeye. Most of the characters from the 1930s would be unknown to them, too. They wouldn't know The Shadow, The Three Stooges, *spoon* Tracy, John Wayne, Doc Savage, The Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon, Li'l Abner, The Phantom, Bob Hope, or Ellery Queen. The only reason they would know the name Joe Louis is that our local Detroit Redwings played in Joe Louis Arena until a few years ago. A while back when I asked around, none of them had ever heard of Bugs Bunny, but I'm guessing that a few of them would know the Warner Bros. characters now because of the recent Space Jam movie.

Unless things have changed recently, 28% is the maximum tax rate for collectibles. Anyone in a lower bracket would pay the lower rate. Granted, selling too much in a given year could kick someone into the higher bracket. I'm not sure where the "3.8% surcharge" is coming from.

I think we'll see quite a bit of "cashing out" over the next few years, but not just because of where prices are. The biggest factor is the age of GA collectors. From what I've seen, most collectors cash out in their 60s. Sure, there are guys like Marty Mann who stay in the hobby much longer, but they're the exception. It makes sense if you think of it in terms of Daniel Levinson's theory on the stages of life. According to Levinson's theory, as people enter their sixties, they begin to reflect on their lives—their accomplishments, the decisions they've made, and so on and so forth. (Men are living about seven years longer now than they were in 1978 when Levinson published that theory, so maybe that stage of life has been pushed back to the late 60s/early 70s.) Collecting comics became massively popular in the 60s and 70s, and many of the best second-owner collections belong to guys who are 60 or over already. Those guys will not be in the hobby forever.

Right uppercut to left hook.

Normal-sized green dudes to one giant green dude.

She may have drawn the Circus & Sue story that's in that issue. It could be her copy—or somebody else might have saved it as a reference of her work. I thought @Ameri might know for certain.