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Oh I know, Art. My grammatical analysis post was more recollection from junior high/high school days and living under the watchful eye of a grammar Nazi. No essay was safe I still love you, Mom

It's supposed to be "Coppers (that are) heating/selling well on eBay" The apostrophe is superfluous. "Copper's (that is, Copper is) heating/selling well on eBay" would just be a declarative statement about the general state of the Copper Age market, without discussing individual books. Minutiae. You guys are killing me with this. Correct use of punctuation can be annoying. Or is incorrect use of punctuation can be annoying? My mom was a grammar teacher so I got hammered with proper grammar etiquette growing up. Some of it stuck - one of my pet peeves is the misuse of your and you're; their, there, and they're; to and too; and so on. Not to say I don't make those mistakes myself and auto-correct nowadays doesn't help but I try to watch it because I think she is still looking over my shoulder And I never understood why the heck we were taught how to diagram a sentence. Someone's cruel joke who couldn't quite make it as a mathematician and ended up as an English professor, maybe And to bring the thread back around - I still can't believe how some of these books are fetching such crazy prices. I no longer try to keep up. More power to the sellers and luck to the buyers that some of those comics may actually retain some value.

Art I think it still too early but usually November of each year. Bart doesn't come on here much but you might call (Bart Bush) or message at his store - Atomik Pop 2. Here is the facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Atomik-Pop-Oklahoma-City/113282058696184

I remember doing that with Thor 337 and Spidey 252. There was a neighborhood grocery store nearby and I picked up several copies. I've sent in the best and they all came back as 9.8s (3 thors and 2 Spideys). Scans in spoiler. I have a few others that are borderline 9.8. I remember when I bought them, I didn't hand them to the checker or put them on the belt - I was anal even back then I was able to pick up some Directs also and have them in 9.8 as well. That was a fun time for me. I dropped out of collecting a few years later and stayed on 20+ year hiatus.

Thanks to a fellow boardie I was able to add this one.

Those eyes are freaking me out! What eyes? And you know it is pre-1959 with a 48 star flag. Really neat book.

This is contrary to the basic laws of economics. What you are saying does not exist. Supply and demand are inseparable. They are two sides of the same coin. If you don't believe that, your argument is with the laws of economics, not me. RMA is on target. It is supply AND demand, not supply OR demand.

I fell for this every time I saw it on the cover in the 70s -

I had never seen them before, Bruce. I enjoyed reading them this afternoon, even though they were written some years ago.

Those articles are from 2006. Just curious if Bruce or anyone has compared current census numbers. It would be interesting to see which books are still more rare. And I know I could do it myself but my curiosity doesn't outweigh my laziness. I did pick one as it is currently "hot" - Ms. Marvel #1. In the article, part 2, there (5) 9.8s. Now there are 65 which includes 59 blue, 1 GLOD, and 5 SS.