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I am happy for the seller. It always makes me nervous to see listings like this - just wide open and spread out for photos. Makes me wonder how much additional damage is caused, albeit unintentionally, during the photo stage of the listing.

Anybody else get a nice Fox book with a missing CF? Ugh, c'est la vie.

Trickle down effect from everybody wanting to be a YouTube star and going, in detail, about how they source books. It does make me happy for some of the mom and pop auction houses and consigners though

Not Pulps or Paperbacks, per say - but does anyone have any familiarity with this? It is a c. 1945 treasury sized WWII internal publication from AFPAC (US Army Forces Pacific): MAPTALK Supplement - Japanese Information Training Subject Number Three". Approx. 20 pages with illustrations - none of the artwork is signed. Really neat and hoping someone might have some knowledge on these or may have seen these before. Thanks.

This is all just so fantastic! Thank you so very much. I will reach out to Allan. Really appreciate the help!

I'd thought that as a potential too but looks like Fletcher Hanks would have been in his 50's in the early 1940s,I think the guy in the photo is younger unfortunately. Thanks for the help!

Thanks! I am hoping so

These are part of a small collection of photos I recently obtained. Thought I would share them and solicit help for a possible ID. These would have belonged to a man by the name of Joe Mihal. There was a great pamphlet in the lot. Dated March 1941 - lists him as the President of "The Society of Inkslingers". Anybody know anything about this society? Note the Bill Boynansky (of Captain Flight) reference on page seven in the last photo.I think it is just a great find... No last names on any of the photos unfortunately. The rest of the photos are here: https://imgur.com/a/uGBzX5Z

Thanks for the #29!

I have really enjoyed reading this thread. It is great to see all perspectives. I'm not very active on here but sharing my perspective as it is one of the newer to the hobby younger guys. I have been around comics, ephemera, and collectibles of all kinds all of my life – I come from a long line of collectors, dealers and traders of all things cool and unique. Although I’ve only recently turned to GA as a serious long term investment... In addition to my 9-5 I do resell just about anything and everything that is of collectible value, but I rarely sell my GA comics. I like them too much, and to me, there doesn’t seem to be market quite like the supply/demand that is GA. Sure, there will be down turns here and there - but I think the prices will continue to rise for a few reasons. 1.) The current high prices are the norm for newer folks. To new buyers (I will put myself in this category), we simply don’t know what it was like to get the prices of old… That perspective is important, as many who want to get into the hobby don’t have any other option but to pay up. 2.) I feel like the new-to-the-hobby folks putting money in GA are doing so because of a conscious decision to want a tangible object from the past. The condition is not as necessarily as important as the desire to want an actual item in a world that continues to progress towards digital. I think that the desire to own something “real” has morphed the "key / classic" cover, into that of “any cover” for most new members of the community. To me, this explains the rise in prices across the board. As an example – A new to the hobby friend of mine could not be happier with his very bland and run of the mill copy of a 1944 World’s Finest… Which he paid up for... 3.) Fractional ownership will continue to elevate the prices of true grails and high grade books. I think that this is sad, but it could be a very real scenario going forward. Investment companies will gladly drive prices up to sell shares of a “piece” of that Tec 27 – so that average Joe’s in a very digital world can feel like they have a portion of something that they’d otherwise never touch. 4.) Other collectible avenues are over-saturated in part because of manufactured scarcity vs actual rarity. For those who understand sports cards, the market appears to once again be headed towards over-saturation, as a “1 of 1” has become common place in that hobby. Sports Cards folks, and collectors in other avenues, will continue to turn toward comics because of the desire for a actual rarity. For what it’s worth there are plenty of deals that are still out there. I think that this is an unspoken knowledge for many folks in this forum who know how to find things. Adapting, getting creative, and finding ways to get that purchase price per/book down as low as possible is what allows average guys like me to get our foot in the door with some mild success here and there.

Really Happy with this one

One of my favorites from a recent original owner lot.

Collectable offers fractional ownership with the Sports Immortals collection. There are many companies that have capitalized on this in the sports collectibles world. Dibbs offers a pretty streamlined platform for graded cards.

Thanks for that - I should have clarified. The bottom images are two known Kane works for comparative purposes only. I pulled them from the web - the only art on this program is the front cover. Sorry for not noting that!

This is a 1933 Class Program from DeWitt Clinton High School (Kane c/o '33). It is an 8 page leaflet that outlines events for the night's activities. I had hoped that the artist would be credited in the program, but unfortunately they are not. Are there any early Kane art experts here? I do see vague similarities to some of his early characters like Hiram Hick. Shading technique and lettering similarities as well, although I'm certainly not jumping to any conclusions. Thanks Kyle

A coverless Batman #2 that was also missing the first wrap. It was in a stack of time period ephemera at a non-comic sale for $1. Page #3 of the book (my front cover) doesn't look like a Batman book at all, it was the only comic in the stack. Heart skipped a beat when I opened it up.

That MS5 has to be an anomaly. Remember it only takes two people to drive a bidding war.

I am jealous of the fun it must be for you to be making these discoveries. I love coverless lots.

Was the interior of the Flash #17 in this lot? The seller had the covers only in a separate lot I was bidding on. I was curious if the rest of the book was in here.

Nice recent estate sale pickup. Both coverless and missing the first wrap, but otherwise complete with CF's attached. Flash #2 and Mystery Men #7. There were also some nice early baseball magazine covers and other sports related ephemera in the boxed lot. Happy to rescue them.

Arrived back from 34230 earlier this afternoon.

First app Nightshade and Marksman, origin and first app Blue Lady. Nine on census.

I did not realize that - Thanks for sharing. I think I will reach out to HiBid to share the information, just so many red flags. The auctioneer doesn't even accept payment through HiBid and note that they don't accept Amex. Here's a paragraph pulled from a David Bowie blog where someone spent £3000 on a forgery. "Parr prefers bank transfer only in his transactions but by a stroke of luck the successful businessman had been allowed on this occasion to purchase the. painting by American Express and was able to claim a refund back from the credit card company. Needless to say, Parr made the whole return transaction as difficult as possible and under his guise of Samantha Brown sent several emails in his familiar illiterate, aggressive style." https://davidbowieautograph.com/blog/f/kristen-leigh-auctions-simon-parr

I'm not sure if I am posting in the right area, still relatively new to the forum - but wanted to get the word out before someone makes a costly mistake. There are a series of high grade GA books currently being offered at auction on the Hibid website - the auction is set for early April. They include: Punch Comics #9 7.5, Shield-Wizard #6 9.0, Popular Comics #61 9.6 (Mile High), Startling Comics #46 (9.4) and more. I looked into this UK based auctioneer and they are operating under a relatively new business name. Their old operation was under the name Simon Parr Auctions. A google search of this company will provide you with a wealth of bad reviews and fraudulent items including fake OA on multiple platforms. According to Autograph magazine, Simon Parr was removed form liveauctioneers. The scans that they are using in these lots are direct swipes from scans of the past auctions. For example - Their offering of the Punch #9 shows an image displaying the old CGC label. This image was taken from the Heritage Apr. 3, 2004 sale. You can see that that book was re-slabbed at some point between 2004 and 2018 if you have the ability to look into it, and by the time that book was sold on ComicConnect in 2018 it had a new label. The current auction listing shows the old label image of that book, Heritage's 2004 photo. https://hibid.com/lot/85600846/punch-comics--9--chesler--1944- I hope this post gets in front of the right eyes and that people do their homework on this auction house before bidding. I am operating on a pure hunch but a lot of evidence suggests this would be a bad bid. Kyle

Thank you! Great book and awesome story.... I love the hunt - have been in a few situations where an opportunity like that presents itself and it's best just to grab the whole thing and look at it later!