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Flex Mentallo

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  1. Dear friend, I'm absolutely gutted to hear this. My best wishes to you and your loved ones, Jimbo. You are one of the best-loved among us. We need you here, and we're all rooting for you on the journey to recovery. Michael
  2. Here's mine. Anyone else in the #26 club? It does seem a tad scarcer than surrounding issues.
  3. Sometimes I envy me too! Then I remember to take my meds, and the feeling goes away.
  4. Betty Page! Sadly, sold mine long ago.
  5. Will CGC holders preserve books indefinitely? Or will high grade unrestored books become scarcer over time? Where might the market be for restored books in, say, 50 years? I've posted this one many times before - but I had no hesitation paying over the mark for it because I knew how rare it is with saturated colors, and I cared not one jot for the resto.
  6. Apart from the rendering, I love the fact that the hunter is evidently stalking a person whose footprints are visible in the snow. Imagine turning around to find a stalking tiger right behind you! "To wait for a tiger is to wait for yourself" Sooyong Park
  7. These late covers remind me of Italian horror movies of the period. This is a great one.
  8. Alternatively, prices might collapse, and a small number of guys will have heart attacks.
  9. This. They are very nice for what they are, and the interior paper at least gives them the feel of a proper comic book. But the covers are too juiced and the colors correspondingly a bit too strong. (The facsimile of Suspense #3 uses a flat, brilliant blue for the background for example.) The ones that look the most convincing tend to have a lot of black in the cover image, such as the Punch #12. Thing! #13, #14, #15 - but even then, the razor sharp edges are a dead giveaway. As for size, they are all the same, so some might correspond to the original proportions, but others will not. Nor do they bend in the same way. And so on...
  10. Anyone above the age of 10 who owned up to collecting comics in the 1970's was a maroon by the standards of the time. ( I recall purchasing a copy of an early pre-UK distribution Adam Strange appearance for the princely sum of £5 from a second hand bookstore in Central London in the late 70's and the fellow art student I was with thought I was absolutely nuts. )
  11. Foggy - even I would look cool in a CGC Holder!
  12. Giant Comics Edition #12 would be up there - and I believe Phantom Lady #17 continues to be attributed to him (although regularly debated)?
  13. If the Church collection were removed from consideration (in an alternate universe where it never existed), I wonder what that would do to the census in terms of highest graded copies. How many Golden Age comics would have a highest graded in the vg/fine range, rather than the NM range?
  14. That's a worthy torch to be the bearer of, I'd say.