telerites

House of Horror to Diary of Horror (and roped female to chained female)

Frustrated teen to frustrated man all cuz of a dame

Doing the Slim Whitman ala Dr. Strangelove (riding the bomb bondaged to freelancing)

Gold Medal to Gold Medal

Yep. Actually the Ray and Black Condor reprints that Alan Light did with Fine's art got me hooked on GA and Lou Fine especially. I always thought the E. Lectron moniker was so cool too. Great Planet as I said above - rivets are not always easy to come by.

Very nice - rivets Electron (screen name), an homage to Lou Fine? When did you change it?

When I see artists like Zolnerowich and others from that era with such great talent, it depresses me to think how little they were paid. I know "funny book" creators were not highly thought of in the art/media industry but goodness, these folks had great talent and invested hours of sweat and time with the ever-present deadline. With all that, they were proud of their work and it showed. It seems like artists from 70s on produced assembly line artwork with relatively un-unique styles and they even get the benefit of owning their art and creations unlike the artists of yore. Zolne is one of my favs.

Wrestling a bear to a Championship Wrestler

As mentioned a few posts up, comparing high demand GA books to high demand SA books is not always the best. No doubt scads more ASM 1 exist than Bats or Supes 1. Perhaps looking at JLA 1 would be more appropriate in comparing growth percentages. In any event, the market demand determines the value. I think it is no go wrong investment book that will continue to grow in value and am happy I picked up both a AF 15 and ASM 1 some time ago. As to what the growth rate may be, I have no idea but feel pretty safe if I ever do sell mine, I will see a decent ROI.

Tale of Thrills to a Tale of Horror

I know there are who dislike stamps but I am on the other side and like them, even neatly written ones. Finally found one with my birthdate a few years ago.

Strange Crime Cases to Western Crime Cases

Invoice sent

I would love to spring on it but just not a good time for me. It is a lovely book with a great cover and great colors.

That Spy Smasher is beautiful. So tempting.

Gladiators again

HusTruck cured 62% of cancer, CAK built a 400 square foot fire pit. No contest.....CAK!!! Lest we forget CapFreak. Major negative chutzpah for a youngun' My grail search is his silver spoon.

Best thing to do is post the before the book is posted or better yet before the sales thread is created

Two colossal creatures battling yet again

From Gambling with Satan to Spray Painting with Satan

More Spy Smashing Lockdown

Masked Detective to Masked Marvel

Well that was inevitable. Ken, such a great book. Congrats guys.

Well, according to the post from up above, it sounds as though some of them did not have his name on the books at all: Not sure though if those would then be the ones with the mid "c's" on them? I did miss that, thanks. I picked up the mid-Cs from the pedigree site but it wasn't clear to me if all had one of those but apparently none were noted with an RM stamp.

The more I think about it, I like this. Always assign the Blue label and the Blue Label grade. Somewhere show the Qualified grade.Maybe the Blue Label comments could be designed like a double cover with two grades.In summary, eliminate the Green Label altogether, nobody likes it anyway. The Blue Label should clearly state the Qualified defect. Thanks Bob. I have been spouting this for a while not that my voice or opinion mean anything but when I got the book below back from one of my submissions a long time back, I thought this method would the best. My other thought is if no change, then contact the submitter to offer them the choice of GLOD or Blue and what each grade would be so you could make the most informed choice. Now on the book below, I would have to resubmit and ask for a blue without knowing exactly what the Blue grade would be. I assume it would be a 5.5 or 6.0 but when I subbed it, I didn't realize I had a choice but even if I did without knowing the corresponding grade, it would have made the choice difficult (although a Blue is much more appealing in almost circumstance due to the stigma of the green.)