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jimbo_707

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  1. I think you mean, "He made his bed, so now he has to lie in it." Of course, maybe you meant what you typed, but I prefer not to have thoughts like that about Bob.
  2. The man upstairs? Harshen Patel? Jim Halperin? How many flights up are we talking?
  3. I don't see much of a conflict regarding the stamp. The store may not have had it made, but they may have been the ones to stamp the books. They could have gotten the stamp from the parents. If the son (whose given name may not have been Tom) was in the Pacific Theater, he wouldn't have needed his signature stamp. I do doubt Bob's ability to recognize unstamped Reilly books. If the books sold as quickly as he mentioned, most of them would have been in his or his partners' possession for a fairly short period of time. I have a good memory (generally), but I wouldn't be able to recognize an individual copy of a book that I sold even 15 or 20 years ago unless there was something very memorable about it, like a name written on the front cover or a weird mis-cut. The Gilboy markings that some of them bear are not enough by themselves; it's probable that some non-pedigree copies survived from that distributor.
  4. Only the Pep 16 is Novick. Pep 34 is by Bob Fujitani despite what the label says. Zip 32 is by Bob Montana. I guess I didn't look at the label closely enough on the Zip! I like all three, regardless.
  5. Is there a Reilly stamp on the back cover? Any markings on the cover? Not on the cover, but I need to look at the back cover. If there isn't any markings I'm sure I can create some... Next you're going to tell us that you're getting a license to practice dentistry.
  6. These Irv Novick covers are really starting to grow on me.
  7. Even with my small collection, this was tough, and I may also change my mind in five minutes, but here's what I came up with (in alphabetical order):
  8. I like the Buster Braddock in Glaciana cover. Can you tell me how much I should expect to pay for a high-grade copy, should I happen to come across one? I seldom buy non-US comics, so I don't have a good feel for fair-market values of them.
  9. If it's documented that the Bernard photos are MM, then I think you're probably right. The DS cover girl does appear to be the same model as the one in the photos. I think whatever photo was used for the comic cover might have been retouched somewhat.
  10. I honestly don't remember ever seeing that one before.
  11. I agree that you've presented good evidence, but I'm still not certain. I'm not convinced the woman in the color photos and the woman in the black & white photos are the same person. The nose looks different to me. It's entirely possible that Bernard had multiple models wear the same outfit. If he shot some photos of Marilyn Monroe, he may have sought out a look-alike later on for additional poses.
  12. btw that Sweethearts 119 7.0 pictured in that link is gone. As in disappeared from the census. Very interesting. That just means it'll get squished and show up as a 9.2 later on.
  13. Was it ever proved that this in Marilyn Monroe? With as much touching up as they did of photos even back then, it could be anybody. I won't believe it unless I see documentation.
  14. Maybe the guy died, or maybe he's on the road on a buying trip. In the old days it was not uncommon to wait a month or two for a catalog item to arrive.
  15. It's only a 7.5, but this book is tough in high grade, so I'm thrilled to have it.
  16. Your list got me to pondering which of these I might have. I found 3: The Prince and the Pauper #01-654-207 (1322) Beany and Cecil #01-057-209 (1340) Jungle War Stories #01-384-209 (1346) The Prince and the Pauper is a mid-grade copy and the Jungle War Stories is low grade (cover detached). The Beany and Cecil is higher grade though....I'd say in the VF range. I never knew that I might have a missing Four Color!
  17. Can I assume that your congratulations (and your referring to the buyer as a "winner") are tongue-in-cheek? I don't think you'd really congratulate someone for overpaying.
  18. I'm worried about Justin Timberlake. He's had his head under the water far too long. He didn't even come up to look at the cool comics.
  19. Stiff is one of the first terms that comes to mind for me as well when I think of most DC cover artwork. There are select covers I especially like, however, such as Detective 76 (by Robinson), Flash 14 (by Moldoff), and Adventure Comics 46 (by Flessel).
  20. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. I've enjoyed the other Dickens novels I've read, so I thought I'd give this one a go.
  21. What percentage of Larson copies are completely free of both foxing and rust?
  22. For years I thought that was someone else's hand shooting the man till I got an up close view of the reflection in the mirror! I see what you mean; the arm doesn't look quite right. It doesn't look like the elbow of the forearm would be in the same place as the elbow of the upper arm if you followed both off the cover.