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Thanks! I'm definitely enjoying it so far!

Thank you all for your help with this one! Those tears and chunks missing drive me a little nuts since it's such a nice-looking book otherwise. I really appreciate your expertise!

Hi All, Thanks for your help in estimating a grade for this! The colors are bright, and the spine is solid with no splits or staple pulls. The right edge of the front cover is missing some pieces, with two pieces of tape, both of which are holding together tears. There doesn't seem to be any ripplling or waviness. I'm grateful for any suggestions on approximate grade! Thanks in advance!

Beautiful!

I'm definitely looking at these a lot more!

Super cool cover on that one!

Thanks!

Totally! This wasn't on my radar before, but when I saw the cover, I couldn't take my eyes off it. Some great perspective with the up-close face melting and the mirror.

Thanks! It's my first issue in this title, and so far, I'm loving it

Whatever way I go when it's finally my time, I really hope it doesn't involve acid to the face:) Recent local pick-up:

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Take please!

That cover is fearsome! Nice:)

"I really expected a bit more from the forum?" Can you say what you were expecting? You asked, essentially, a hypothetical question, received several replies within a day offering suggestions, and you are disappointed? I'm confused.

Agreed. This sounds like a candidate for the eBay blocked users list

Yes, that's how it's supposed to work, but you're right, that doesn't mean it always goes that way. And not paying the claim is just outrageous, especially with the cost. With some of my insured shipments, they haven't paid the claim because it's still "in transit" - 3 weeks after it was shipped. smdh Good luck. USPS is a monstrosity to deal with, and it sucks having to go through this with them.

This is not at all to deny the problems with the USPS. I posted elsewhere just some of my more recent frustrations, and I wish you luck with yours. This is solely in response to the question, "what are we paying for?" with registered mail. Admittedly, this was sometime ago, but in college, I worked for a company that loaded mail for USPS, FedEx, and UPS on to planes for delivery. On the USPS shift, we would receive 2-4 semi trucks a night loaded with carts of mail to then reload into bins that would go on the planes. Usually the mail was in bags grouped by airport, so we just sorted it, tossed it in the bins, etc. We weren't intentionally rough with packages, but yeah, things fell, and the bags provided no protection. Hardly ever saw a driver or any USPS employees. Registered mail was different. When registered mail was on the truck, the gate of the trailer was locked and clipped with a plastic tag. (Most trucks we received weren't even locked.) A USPS employee who was following the truck to our warehouse had to cut the plastic tag and log the time he did it, and keep the tab to turn in later. We weren't allowed to touch that tag or lock. The registered mail itself was in a hard plastic red case, and for sure, that employee watched us the entire time load the case into one of the bins, then instead of letting us fill the bin up, which we would normally do, we had to lock it up, and he would put one of those plastic tags through the lock again and record all the times in a log book. Then, he waited til the bin itself got transferred put to the tarmac and loaded on the plane, again recording everything in a log book. I'm not saying that stuff doesn't get lost or other problems or that complaints with USPS are unjustified. Just trying to help share what I saw about the difference between regular priority (what we usually shipped) and registered. With priority, there was very little oversight or protection for packages. The only safety was how well you packed your stuff. With registered, that red case was never out of view of a guy whose sole job it was to make sure it got where it needed to go. That's what the cost is for - and what makes it so frustrating that something still got lost.

It was definitely an eye-popping list. I was searching the sales just on a whim when I saw it and couldn't believe it. The estate company didn't have much of an idea of what they had there. When we were looking through the collection, I know they were fielding a ton of calls about it. At one point, the head person with the estate company came in to tell the other staff that they couldn't open the All Star 8 anymore to answer questions about the condition, and I was thinking "Good idea," given the way they were manhandling it.

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This is a straight longshot, but I'm hoping someone can tell me what happened to "the one that got away." In April 2019, an estate sale in West Allis, Wisconsin, featured an original owner collection of mostly GA. The original listing is here: https://www.estatesales.net/WI/West-Allis/53214/2183139. The current page has removed most of the pictures, but there were about 250 GA books, and it was a great-looking haul with a mix of horror, hero, and romance. An All-Star 8 was up for grabs, separate from the rest of the collection. The remaining books were sold in a closed-bid auction. Here are some of the books: Action 37, 60, 73, 126, 129, 130 All-Flash 1, 9, 16 All Star 4, 44 All Winners 7 Batman 25, 46, 50 (2 copies) Captain America 20 and 70 Exposed 3, 4 Firehair 1 Flash Comics 27, 39, 57 Forbidden Worlds 21 Golden Arrow 1 Green Lama 5 Journey into Fear 13 Journey into Mystery 8 Menace 2 Phantom lady 21 Planet Comics 9 Sensation Comics 87 Spy Smasher 1, 6 Terrifying Tales 13 Thrilling 18 Victory Comics 2 Wonder Woman 32 (2 copies) Yellowjacket Comics 1 This was my first try at an estate sale collection, and I drove with a buddy out to see it. As you can imagine, it was amazing walking into that room and getting hit with that smell of vintage books. (Almost as amazing as watching some of the staff handle these comics like they were stacks of 90s X-Men. At one point, one of the guys literally grabbed a stack of about 15 with the Flash and Actions and knocked them on the table on end like a sheaf of papers. Then another staff person nearly tore a corner off All Flash 1 while opening it From what the estate folks said, the collection belonged to a man who bought the comics with his brother when they were younger and then just kept them in a couple boxes in the garage ever since. Needless to say, I put in a bid and didn't get it, and I'd be lying to say if I said I hadn't thought about it a lot of times since. The condition wasn't great for a lot of the books (water stains, chews, what you'd expect from seventy years in a Wisconsin garage) but man, what a collection! So, my question: did anyone else hear about this one or know what happened to it? I'm not trying to be nosey, so if someone on here is the buyer, my apologies for prying. But I'm just curious where that collection ended up.

After seeing ec's cover above this post, I'm thinking he's throwing the only weapon left...a green snake with VD

Thanks for sharing the interiors. Those are even better than the cover!

Split or not, that is a cool cover!

estatesales.net is pretty good, but yes, there's been very little (of anything good, anyway) for a while. If you can find local estate sales companies in your area, many of them have email listservs you can get on.