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I usually leave the buyer a positive feedback immediately after I finish packaging/shipping the item, because it's easier to do everything at once and make all the seller notifications disappear. Leaving the positive feedback for the buyer gives them a little bit of a buttering-up that, one hopes, puts them in a better frame of mind when they get their item in the mail. Though accurate grading and safe shipping should be good enough for anybody, every little bit of positive communication helps the transaction go smoothly. The idea of leaving a positive comment about somebody just because they bought and paid for something is a little absurd, though. The feedback amounts to: "The buyer paid for item he bought!" which is kind of like giving a kid a cookie because he ate some cake.

That's some impressive shooting! Annie Oakley in the big city?

I love those...

This person has severe emotional problems. Ebay should ban anybody who is this unhinged.

Q. What do you call a girlfriend who gets back at you by purchasing cool comics for you on eBay? A. Your future wife.

If I had a P.O.'d girlfriend who bought comics on my account because she was mad at me, I would (1) go through with the sale instead of making my problem the seller's problem, and (2) DTMFA.

Pines had a habit of assigning #5 to the first issue of many/most of the titles published under their Standard Comics brand emblem, including such 1949-1956 titles as Adventures Into Darkness, Battlefront, Best Romance, Crime Files, Date with Danger, Exciting War, Fantastic Worlds, Gang World, Intimate Love, Jet Fighters, Jetta, Joe Yank, Little Angel, Lost Worlds, Lucy Duck, New Romances, Out of the Shadows, Peter Pig, Popular Romance, Ricky, Roger Dodger, Sniffy the Pup, This is War, Thrilling Romances, Today's Romance, The Unseen, Who is Next, etc). Many/Most means many/most, as there are exceptions to the starting-at-#5 rule. That was probably done to skirt some postal regulation or fee; much like EC would switch title names but keep the numbering got no. I've heard that several publishers did this to make it look like a successful, ongoing title, rather than a "maybe this will work and maybe it won't -- it's just starting so we'll see." (Some also started the ball rolling at #10.) The idea also had to do with marketing to shop owners who weren't sure what to place prominently on their newsstand display. The thinking was that if something is already at #5 or #10, it must be popular enough to put where people can see it.

Thanks. I don't peruse the journals section much (if at all) so this repost is welcome here. Bakerfan has amazing stuff on eBay. I regularly watch his auctions. The big question for me has always been, "If he's such a 'Baker fan,' why is he letting go of this great stuff?" Now you've supplied an answer.

Don't you hate it when you lose your job as soon as the auction clock hits zero? "Hi there, I was down to my last five bucks when I bid on your $475 worth of collectible vintage comical publications. I expected to be paid what my friend Rufus owes me from the large case of tapioca pudding I helped him buy for his underage girlfriend, but Rufus balked after his mother threw him out of the basement of her trailer. Then my dog died from high cholesterol, my girlfriend left me for a traveling puppeteer, and my bicycle got a flat tire on both tires and the handlebars got bent from my cousin Mildred sitting on them on the way back from her holistic-doctor pap smear appointment. Please accept my apology for ruining your auction with my extravagant, spectacular winning bids."

I had my eyes on that. Love the cover.

Which issue is that one? There are a few Fat & Slat comics. This one (not my copy): I thought so. I love that issue. (I've noticed some of the other Fat & Slat comics are also hard to find.)

Wow, I forgot about that other GSP snafu. You'd think they would have figured out how to handle that by now. I guess each individual item has to be individually re-wrapped and lovingly fondled by the competent worker bees in Kentucky, so no reasonable expectation of a combined-shipping discount for you!

I don't know if there's a category for reporting it, or if reporting it would do any good -- but you should report it anyway. That's scummy and misleading.

Yeah, I was sticking to the history. Don't want to taint this area with politics.

In 1960, Goldwater ran in the party primary against Nixon and Rockefeller, but lost. Nixon chose Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as his VP running mate. In 1964, Goldwater ran against LBJ for president, and lost again. However, he lives on in the form of background portraits in nearly every other scene of the movie "Raising Arizona."

Which issue is that one? There are a few Fat & Slat comics.

Love it! Kelly Freas was the man... If I wasn't feeling lazy, I'd try to post a scan of the "good luck" double cover (Nixon/Kennedy) or the one from the late 1960s where Alfred is holding a pin about to pop balloons with different candidates' faces on them.

How did Mary Lynn Rajskub (from "24") go back in time to appear on that comic cover?!

Snagged a foreign Mad issue recently: the Portuguese/Brazilian Mad #69. Here it is, and here are a few pages from the "Playbaby" feature article, which is pretty out-there and probably wouldn't have passed muster for U.S. audiences.

I really like the gloss on that Suzie comic... Here's a women-in-peril cover I got in the mail today. Nearly every issue of this foreign title has a cover along the lines of this:

Does Zakarella count as belonging in this thread? Zakarella is the Portuguese/Brazilian answer to Vampirella. I recently acquired issue #4 in the run.

Woody I joined the boards for serious discussions on comics not this kind of thing. I'm logging off. Aren't you being a little heavy-handed when you bark at us like that?

Why would he report the item as fraudulently listed? Was he over-bid, and then the high bidder retracted? Why are people who have nearly no discretionary income bidding hundreds of dollars on comics? (Scratch that....that's half the comics collectors I know.)

Glad to have found this Millie the Model comic. I don't see it come up for sale often: