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7.0 13 to 8.0 13; Japanese baddies to Japanese baddies.

I haven't been to a movie theater in at least 7 years. People's continuous lighting up of their cell phones ruined that experience for me. Bane was a boring character and would have been no matter who played the role. The Dark Knight Rises would have been completely forgettable if not for Marion Cotillard and the sub-plot involving Talia Al Ghul.

Marion Cotillard as Talia al Ghul and Liam Neeson as Ra's al Ghul might be my top 2. Many of the villains seem too campy on screen.

Frightened woman in yellow dress to frightening woman in yellow dress.

I'm 47, and when I went to a comic auction in person a few years ago, I was one of the youngest bidders. Some guys were around my age; not many were younger. I think @Detroit MIke was there. If he was who I think, then he might have been the only GA bidder there who was younger than I was (judging from his looks; I don't know his actual age).

May Tec to June Tec.

I wouldn't count on that loophole being around forever.

Bucky bound to Bucky bound.

Growing up around it is never enough. Comic books don't play the same role for today's kids that they did for kids from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Nothing lasts forever. Comic books had their day in the sun.

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.