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Yeah, but the price includes two years of emails showing dialogue with CGC.

And what was his response about your friend in jail?

Good luck with that. Author Ron Frantz chronicled a similar “Ditko, the Objectivist” anecdote on Bell’s Ditko Looked Up website. According to Frantz, artist Pete Morisi happened upon Ditko in New York in 1967, while dropping off some artwork at Charlton’s office. During the course of their conversation, Ditko discovered Morisi made his living as a police officer and told him he envied the opportunity to arrest criminals.“Ditko’s evolving philosophical views made Morisi feel a little uncomfortable,” Frantz said. “Working as a police officer in the largest city in the world, Morisi had a more realistic opinion about the role of law and order in society, as opposed to the simplistic black and white views expostulated by Rand and her followers. To the best of my knowledge, the two men never spoke again.” https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/2012/05/02/ditko-the-mystery-behind-the-man-article-2002/

Care to explain what is "silicon residue"?

1.0. The cover damage is not bug chew but looks more consistent with moisture damage. Related questions about page quality (slightly brittle? rust from staples?) might knock it down.

6.0. This one needs a dry clean and press. Send it to joeypost.

If this is very important to you, get it pressed and take your chances. You might get a grade improvement. Let us know how it turns out.

You might not like his business model, or view him as an eccentric. But he does give back to his community. https://www.9news.com/video/news/local/storytellers/storytellers-life-in-the-hero-business/73-2473308

Thanks, man. I believe this burglar goes by a moniker. The Moon Knight.

The burglar is gonna be disappointed when he discovers the comics he's stolen don't look as nice as Chuck's stock images he's seen online.

The letter writer must have caught Steve Ditko on a bad day. When I corresponded with Steve, he can be playful at times and reply: "I have no way to go back in time." or the philosophical: "I am always thinking in the now and not back then." But that curt letter with "No answer for your questions." ...that sounds too much like Soup Nazi.

I've seen worse. This reminds me of the time the owner to the original splash page "When The Jungle Sleeps" from Journey into Mystery #83, tore out the corner with the byline "Stan Lee + Steve Ditko" and sold it to another collector, and afterwards the rest of the page was sold at another auction. I'm not convinced any of it has a real signature from Ditko, which makes this butchering more senseless and shameful. So long, historical artifact from a Silver Age key. Before: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/splash-pages/steve-ditko-journey-into-mystery-83-splash-page-1-original-art-marvel-1962-steve-ditko-s-approach-to-fantasy-art-was/a/818-4138.s After: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/steve-ditko-journey-into-mystery-83-splash-page-1-original-art-marvel-1962-/a/7007-92071.s

What an idea. Perhaps I'll buy the "No answer for your questions" SD letter and hide it inside my copy of Mysterious Suspense... featuring...The Question. I wonder if CGC will encapsulate a Ditko letter attached to a back of a comic book for all to see inside a case?

2.0 green Qualified label with the notation "Married Centerfold."

I was working for the ad agency William Douglas McAdams at the time. We had a client who was not satisfied with the "tone" of the marketing materials and we ended up contacting Gerald & Cullen Rapp to help us out; that's where Jack came in.

Did anyone find out whether the CF was in the Tec 27? Nice move by the good samaritan by the way.

The cover to Catman 32 is in my top ten L.B. Cole favorites. I like how the word logo and dingbats appear to be in the middle of the action, no perceived boundaries to the graphic elements.

Nice looking book in the FN range if not for the stains. This book will be knocked down to 5.0-5.5 because of the water tide marks (similar to mine below) depending on how severe.

Ah, you are correct. Coverless gets an automatic NG.

Thank god, the word balloons are still there. Just kidding. I was surprised to see a slabbed book with staples removed get a 2.0. The missing staples are probably not too big a negative to knock it down to NG and will be treated as another missing part. The missing stamp does not affect the story I assume. Your book might grade to a 0.5.

Friends don't let friends drink and bid.

Don't forget to post in the barf bag forum. Those barf bag collectors will go nuts when they see this.

Yes! Those early Miller Daredevils were Krigstein influenced. It was issue 169 that made me take notice. A self-contained masterpiece in one issue.

Thanks. The Mad 1 was signed by Kurtzman and Wood in the summer of 1978 at a convention back when the EC revival was all the rage. Years later I visited Jack Davis at his home studio on St. Simons for business and brought the book with me. For his autograph he used a watercolor or calligraphy brush that I thought was unusual at the time. The Elder and Severin autographs came from their home studios by mail. There was a saga that ensued where the book was lost for some time. After giving up hope, I was surprised to see it turn up in the mail... two years later.