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stagedoorjohnny

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  1. I would tend to agree with this, especially from my perspective which is someone that has been out of the loop for a long period of time. But how many times have we said this after an auction over the last 15 years? And the market continues to march upward. I am truly in awe.
  2. Wow, now this is a book I have rarely seen. Thanks for sharing. This is what I love the most about these boards.
  3. (thumbs u 26-29 are all classic covers, IMHO. But 27 is my fave.
  4. RHG, that Weird 2 is awesome. An incredibly difficult book.
  5. Thanks. Back cover has a corner crunch and a tear. But other than that, that is it.
  6. Anyone have the Windex chart to Star Comics handy? I wonder where this one would fall in scarcity. The only Centaur I currently own, never seen another decent copy available.
  7. In case you Mad aficionados missed it last week, Mad has a new series on the Cartoon Network that premiered last Monday. Second episode is on tonight. Very funny, but way too short at only 15 minutes. It will make you crave for more.
  8. I am constantly on the hunt for Mad 30-80 Gaines File Copies and let's just say it is slim pickings right now in the marketplace. Actually, it has been this way for the last 3 years and counting on these books. But I do love them, they are such a part of Americana.
  9. Yes we did. But that book is worth it. Nice work! (thumbs u
  10. Very cool stuff. Not a big "Centaur-Head", but I do have a couple- Only CGC graded copy (many thanks to Gator): One of two CGC graded, this is the higher of the two:
  11. Nice work, FF. (thumbs u This paragraph above pretty much sums up the simple facts that have always been out there... but seem to be ignored. It's not that complicated and the LoC's response is some affirmation. If only more collectors had this mindset. Nothing worse than squishing all the history out of these older books, especially pedigrees. What a shame, IMHO. And sorry for going off on a tangent with the last comment. I just find a little irony in the LoC's statement. You'd think it would be a collector that would appreciate and accept the specific history of a book, not a conservator.
  12. Were there any other publishers, from your observations, that stood out as using above average paper from a quality standpoint?
  13. That's the tricky part. And that's why pressing GA books scare the living @%#$&* out of me. They're like a box of chocolates...
  14. Better yet, get her to sign up and join in on the conversation! And if she's shy... At the very least, try to get her to read this thread. (thumbs u
  15. Agreed. I really don't have any concern about a book being in a CGC holder if it is properly stored.
  16. I am disputing it in the sense that I don't know the answer. But you have to understand my point of reference: I am a Golden Age collector. I know minimal about any funny book printed past 1945. They are my sole focus and main concern in all these discussions. When I am looking at all this information, it is from that perspective. And I think that makes a big difference in how you look at this whole topic. I do have genuine concern about books from the 1940's being pressed. Not only do you have different and inconsistent manufacturing processes back then, but you also add anywhere from 60-70+ years of storage techniques into the equation. You want to talk about wild cards? And just because the results on pressing one book, with regards to maintaining preservation, were negligible that does not mean you will get similar results on the next book. Every book is so different and had such a different journey to get to today. I get frustrated because I don't think people consider this enough. They extrapolate one book's results to all books. They press a book from 1968 successfully and think it will be similar for a book from 1942. And the scary part for me is that even with all these unknowns out there, it is not slowing down the amounts of Golden Age books being "processed".