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Thank you, now I got it! ☺

I'm not sure what you're implying here. You're saying in German: "I think that you are correct. Wilhelm Ute isn't as bad as Mark Wilson." Is your posting directed at me since it's written in German? Do you - or does Robot Man - think that I am Wilhelm Ute? FWIW I am not Wilhelm Ute. I know the reports about him (correct spelling is Uthe, I think) here on these boards and on some German boards. I don't know him personally and I've never dealt with him. FWIW, I'm in my forties and I posted a picture of myself in a Barks thread and one more in this year's Happy New Year thread. Once again, I'm not sure whether there was any underlying message meant to be intended with your post. Never mind. Now back to HA.

Hi, may I chime in with a question for western comic experts, please. Do you know of any comic book adaptions of John Ford's 1948 "3 Godfathers" (John Wayne)? Any help would be much appreciated. Apparently, there's nothing to be found on the internet, not even in the "Grand Comics Database".

Not sure if you all got yesterday's email from HA concerning Barry Sandoval coming to Germany at the beginning of June in order to take over a large collection of US comic books going to be on the auction block with HA, since email was written in German only: He also invites other possible conseignors from Germany with books or comic art worth at least $50k in total to contact him for further advice/conseigning and he also offers free evaluation of items. So far I've heard of only one big collection of quite valuable US books in Germany part of that has already been auctioned off by a German auction house from Braunschweig. I've often wondered how many "big books" from the USA might have been collected and might have survived in Germany, albeit via mail-order purchases in the early days of fandom here (1970s). For example, like @Mmehdy has mentioned the other day, he himself rather early had sold some good stuff to European collectors ...

"Comics and Stories" I loved your report about "The Nightingale". You seem to me like a comicbook detective! And Dave's books? I wouldn't be surprised if he'd trashed them in the end or if he'd traded them for beer. But if he'd donated them to the Library of Congress - there's possibly a hint in this thread - I'd be amazed! Please go on.

If I only had a beer now ...

This is unbelievable. @Dave W. & @sfcityduck:

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE! ... from Austria. And thank you for the music in the Golden Age Forum in 2018!

I never knew his name but I dare say I've seen enough ... That thread is just to prove that there were indeed some caretakers in the right place at the right time. A Gentle Madness.

He is creative with all his ads.

Speaking of significance by all accounts you can't forget a Disney book (first Mickey/first Donald) in an overall Top 5, can you?

I wish I ever owned something that actually went UP!

Wow. I'm 6 hrs from Brussels but this is all news to me. Great! I look forward to hearing more from the collection/museum in the near future, too.

Well ... "Anything can be anywhere."

Found abroad or even in Germany?

Umm, cool book!

So I just did the search again and here's the site about the "unseen gold" with one remaining question mark ("Funnies #22"). http://comicrestoration.freeservers.com/feature_unseengold.htm Then there's information on these boards about the original stickers being published in CBM Special Editions #2 - 5 (Sets 1, 4 - 6) and in CBM #74 (Set 2) and #75 (Set 3). So the original sticker sets wouldn't cover all the white spaces (of existing books) anyway, I guess, due to some more recent discoveries. I think I'll proceed with occasionally purchasing the few missing CBMs. A true prize for sure! Congrats!

Corner the market, why not?

Thank you, you're right, of course. I could print out the missing images from internet sources ... It's just so that I'd rather have the original stickers. It's like completing a sticker album ...

Wow, thank you for this report. What an adventure for a collector. That must have been like a "first-hand" experience ... (Limited) choosing from a freshly discovered hoard.

Wow. This cover is especially impressive, I think. Story-telling, colors ...

Oh my. This, obviously, is not a rare book ...

Congrats! That's a wonderful setting for an advanced collector. I like it nonetheless! You can see it wasn't actually read. And the defects ... well, "doesn't affect story"!

There are two Crippen copies of that book?! (check the "D" in the "D") https://comics.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=790+231+52&Nty=1&Ntt=detective+comics+168+crippen&ic10=ArchiveTab-071515

May I ask a follow-up question: What's the best (easiest) way to get the Gerber White Space stickers all at once? Is there a way? I have a few issues of "Comic Book Marketplace" with stickers in them but I'm not planning to buy all the issues with stickers and I wouldn't know which to look for or if they were all published in the magazine in the first place. Any help would be much appreciated!