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opps, looks like Baker took inspiration from an unsourced artist over at Love Letters #13.

The cover is slightly used toilet paper, but the story is in good shape.

Issues where published a month apart. They deserve to be paired up.

Hand was trembling as I pulled them out of a $5 bin yesterday at a local record\comics\video games show.

Why does this panel look familar?

No statistical evidence for support, but if you eliminate one high roller buyer who may have waited years for the right copy to appear from the market, it's hard to fill that gap with his replacement (speculator) bidder.

The motivation for the topic back then was due in part to CGCs normalizing pressing of comics. There was a large segment of collectors that felt pressing was an unethical practice that would ultimately damage the market value. In hindsight, I assumed the collector market was stagnant and pressing was a price inflating gimmick. Not realizing the impact of the trending superheroes movie industry would effect the demand as greatly as it did. I'm not making any more predictions. Just a question. . . If superhero movie's faulter, will comic values follow?

Wow, that's a going way back.

Nearly 8 years later, I'm curious if any original contributors to the topic have changed their opinion of the topic. Is there market data to confirm or reject the original debate of 2011? I am now ambivalent. My collecting habits are limited to local estate auctions.

Price jumped from $888 this morning to $7000; before it got sniped.

Collecting Detective Comics is what led me to this forum many years ago.

DC: Iconic #14

Magenta was grossly under appreciated in its time zone.

I've always imagined this cover done as wallpaper in some kids bedroom.

Underbidder 😭

Now an encapsulated 9.4.

I still prefer #10

The frantic stash. With performance by Franz Schumann.

I'm making the assumption that removal comes after the owner approves the regrade. Not during the cursory opinion of condition. (Previous post confirms)

Almost. They will not 'come and look at the book', the book has to be submitted to them for evaluation.

Would you buy a PGX book if CGC graders checked it and found no restoration?

How's about a New Years resolution of no more long reposting?