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14 hours ago, fifties said:

Can't beat that particular pair, RM, so how about these?

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What's so gruesome about that? It's in perfectly good taste. It's not like it shows the neck dripping blood or the neck of the body is seen to be bloody.

:hi: Bill ................ http://www.thecomicbooks.com/gaines.html

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2 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

What's so gruesome about that? It's in perfectly good taste. It's not like it shows the neck dripping blood or the neck of the body is seen to be bloody.

:hi: Bill ................ http://www.thecomicbooks.com/gaines.html

Never said it was gruesome; just another representation of a babe losing her head... ;)

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10 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

This post is titled: "I bought a book at San Diego Comic Con without leaving my house!"

The story begins back on Dec. 9, 2017, with my not getting a ticket for SDCC. No surprise there. O.o

Fortunately, some of the boardies were clever enough to score tickets. (thumbsu

Which meant that they attended SDCC, and importantly, took WALL PHOTOS. :)

I have to single out @n2wdw, who first put me on the right path. In addition to his having the best comic cave ever, he took lots of wall photos and posted them on the boards. Here is one of his photos from the July 23, 2018 installment of his Tales of the Comic Book Room:

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Can you guess which book caught my eye? No, not the Three Stooges, as funny as they are! And I'm not really a Hedgehog kind of collector. hm

So the next step in my quest (feel free just to scroll to the end if you can't stand the suspense) was to contact Terry @TerrysComics and inquire about the book. I sent Terry an email. The very next day I received the disastrous email reply that the book had been SOLD at SDCC! :whatthe:

Figuring my path had led to a dead end, I contented myself with soothing my sorrows in the CGC Forum sales threads. 

Plucking my way through the threads, I happened upon the sales thread that @Nikelspot had recently launched. Idly reading through the thread, suddenly, lo and behold, there was the book! The very book! A few PMs later, I was the proud owner of the book. It's a bit the worse for wear since it hit the newsstand in 1940, but it is among the hardest of the early books in this title to find, in any kind of grade, and still has pretty great colors.

So special thanks to n2wdw, Terry, and Nik for helping me bring this home from SDCC without ever leaving my house!!!

 

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Great story.  But what a failure on my part!  I took that picture but didn't even notice the comic, as I would have asked Terry about it.  Probably I was more focused on Sonic.  But I'm happy you got it.

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