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It's probably more realistic than what's usually depicted. Most guys I've known who have actually seen combat are unable or unwilling to talk about it.

Fourteen to one hundred plus four times fourteen and a woman who's twice the gal that most women are.

What was your communication with the seller? Did you send the book back for review, or did you request a refund? Once you request a refund, the seller has no obligation to offer the item to you again. However, if the book is being listed at auction in the same slab—without being re-graded—that should tell you everything you need to know about the seller's character.

Octopus back to spider.

#2 to a guy who's so scared that #2 is imminent.

@Heronext Did you request a refund when you sent the book back, or did you send it back to be reviewed? If you didn't ask for a refund, then the book still belongs to you and the dealer had no business sending you a refund check. Am I to understand that this dealer listed the book in a Comiclink auction without having it regraded even though he knew that it had sustained damage in the slab? That's a pretty sleazy dealer.

I bought the book as a 7.5. I had actually thought about bidding on it in the Nic Cage auction in October of 2002 when it was still a 9.2; I wish I had. It was slabbed for that auction with the notation "From the Collection of Nicholas Cage," so the slab shouldn't have been too early. Apparently loose inner wells were a problem at least through mid '02. ETA: This comic can slide all over the place inside the inner well. At some point I will have to drive to Sarasota in order to have it re-holdered (since CGC doesn't do re-holders at cons).

TNT to dynamite.

Yeah, I don't understand the prices that are being paid right now. I don't have much faith in current prices being translated into long-term values—not when I see things like that More Fun 55 sale.

Shield to armor; wizard to magician.

Captain Battle to Captain Battle.

Torch to Torch.

Now how did I know that you'd be into show tunes? Busting though a roadblock to busting through cinder blocks.

Adolescent male sidekick to adolescent male sidekick.

Eyes Without a Face to Rebel Yell.

There are more comic books out there than I could ever buy, so if a book is overpriced as a buy-it-now, then I have no problem passing it by. I do occasionally get carried away while bidding in auctions—which usually results in my being severely depressed for weeks if not months.

Did you stick to bidding on books that you thought were graded accurately, or did you also bid on some books that you thought were over-graded?

I don't know, but I've been collecting slabbed GA books since the middle of 2000, and I have never seen slabbed books that were as over-graded as the books in the Promise Collection. And many collectors, including board members, were paying record prices for 9.6's that should have been 8.0's, 7.0's that should have been 5.5's, etc. I've never seen anything like it. It's like seasoned collectors lost all sense. I collected raw GA books for many years before I got into slabbed books. The grades on the Promise Collection books wouldn't even have been tolerated back in the 80s when dealers' grades were all over the place.

Cole Shark to Dillin Shark.

Schommy sharks to Baker shark.

Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania.

Is Paul Litch still with CGC, or did he leave, too?

Winter 1948 Fiction House to Winter 1949 Fiction House.

Green dress to green ensemble.

Bare-chested baddies to bare-chested baddies; pouring wet cement to spilling molten metal.