Jayman

The two rounded/circles look like what are referred to as "hickeys" in printing - for those who have never heard this term before, for brevity here's a quote from Google: "occurs when a piece of dust or random mote sticks to either the plate or blanket of the offset printing press or the printing medium, which causes an imperfection on the printed page"

Regarding "the dots"; when you're doing 4/C printing, the inks being used are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, as noted. To get the full range of color you see printed, all colors are some percentage of those four inks. A vibrant red might be 0 cyan, 100 magenta, 100 yellow, and 0 black. A vibrant green might be 100 cyan, 0 magenta, 100 yellow, and 0 black. But when we're talking about lighter colors, they're not the full 100% of those inks. But the ink isn't diluted, so to show the lower percentage of the color, solid dots of varying sizes (depending on the percentage) are used to create all of the colors you see. For example, this is a square with three cyan columns at 25%, 50%, and 75%, and four  magenta rows at 0%, 25%, 50%, and 75%.

When it's reproduced in the typical 4/C printing process, it's going to be broken down into solid cyan or magenta, but using dots at varying sizes to replicate the percentage, like this:

And when you mix in percentages of yellow, you get a much wider possibility of colors:

Sheesh - I am getting there  

A week or two and it will be ready . . . 
 

Moving 20,000 comics hurts so poor back - but I cannot complain else the wife wins 
The black lights are in the frame 
Teaser 

Now painted, waiting for the carpet to go down. 

Yes, and need to change the blind to blackout blinds. 
 

My pch grail and my new addition to my collection is Mister Mystery 18. A Bernard Baily s cover and a super creepy one!
 
 

 
 

A book that i like is Creepy 9. Not a golden age book, but a cool Frazetta cover, that makes my collection look better!
 

This is awesome work on your part.  You done good!
I'm not sure it is a good idea to wait on someone who is 20 years behind getting out a book on pedigrees.  You, or someone, should reach out to her and follow up with any questions while that is still a possibility.

My pch grail and my new addition to my collection is Mister Mystery 18. A Bernard Baily s cover and a super creepy one!
 
 

Our intial contact which I haven't read since last September (I had thought it was longer ago than that). 
Good morning Kevin, You have done well in your research! And I can confirm that my uncle, William Clark Holt, Jr. purchased those comic books and when he died, my mother decided to sell the comic books without doing any research on their value (our loss). My uncle had them 'stored' in the dusty basement in open ended wooden crates, and were packed in tightly which helped in their preservation. I'm just glad the mice didn't get to them-they lived on a farm in Salt Lake City. Another interesting 'twist' to this story is that the owner of the Cosmic Aeroplane Store (no longer in business) is a personal friend and his memory is very vivid when my mother sold the comic books to him. His house is like a museum filled to the brim with books of all kinds, rock band posters from the 60's and 70's, collectectable items and more. What do you need from me to help confirm the original ownership of these comic books?

That's about the only detail that I did ask her about. I found her through her mother which of course was Uncle Bill's sister. I only had a first name to go from a family photo I found that had only first names in the little description underneath. In it was a teenage girl.  I figured that would be his niece but at that point I still wasn't sure I had the right guy. I couldnt find her last name for two reasons- Her father's last name wasn't Holt plus she was married by now. I gave up for a few months then I gave it one more shot and found her married name from a family members obituary from the 90's. From there it was easy. It was so cool to hear her initial response to my first message to her which confirmed I had the right man. "You've done your research well" she said. She was very nice but for all she knew I was some creepy scammer so I didn't want to ask her too many questions. 
To answer your question I asked her if her Uncle was an art teacher and she said no. I told her the books have check marks and lines written on many of the pages but she knew nothing about that. I read somewhere that there was tracing paper between the pages of the books at the time they were sold to the bookstore but I didn't think to ask her about that. 
From there I just put Mr. Nelson in contact with her and I haven't spoken to her since. I know he's spoken to her. I'm sure he'll let us know what more he found out soon. Mr. N if you're reading this I'm sorry I couldn't keep it inside any longer, I know you're a very busy guy especially this past year .
I'm pretty sure some people here thought the books did come from someone named W.C. Holt Jr. so it's not like I cracked the Tom Reilly mystery (which by the way I did quite a bit to find any record of Tom and came up empty over and over). I just used the internet for this. It wasn't anywhere near the effort for example member @Karen's Pages put in when researching the Okajima collection. 
  My one and only W.C. Holt Jr book

Fascinating stuff @Professor K!
My only CA book.

Fascinating stuff @Professor K!
My only CA book.

Fascinating stuff @Professor K!
My only CA book.

Fascinating stuff @Professor K!
My only CA book.

What's with the gap down the left side on the #251 and #253 dollar books? ( That do look very harshly graded) 

Some Bronze horror I got back today. Brutal grading on the DC dollar books. 

Another reason I lurked here on the CGC boards. So much knowledge about our hobby.

Hey everyone, I guess the time has come for me to stop keeping this between CGC and myself.  About a year ago I made contact through the innernet with the niece of the original owner of the Cosmic Aeroplane collection. I explained to her what they are and the basics of the Golden age. How most if not all of his comics have survived.  With her permission I connected her with the right folks at CGC. I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes by publically disclosing this information. Hopefully by now she given them more information than she gave me as I thought it best to instead of asking her many questions simply connect her with CGC. She seemed reluctant at first but a few days later she agreed to speak with CGC. I told her it would be nice if her uncle got the recognition he deserves for preserving all those comics. She also told me the owner of the bookstore at the time her mom sold the books is still alive and she is friends with him. 
His name was William Clark Holt Jr. and he was born in 1915 and left us in 1971. Resided in Salt Lake City Utah. His niece remembered the comics well and said he would go to the store every weekend and buy them. Later on after he stopped buying them they were stored in boxes in a basement until he passed away. Sometime not long after her mother, Uncle Bill's sister, sold them to the Cosmic Aeroplane bookstore in Salt Lake City. She told me he was not an art teacher. He joined the US Navy in March 1941 and was wounded at some point after (FDR looks pretty healthy in that photo so I assume he was wounded at some point prior to 1945 as FDR died in April 45).  He worked as a printer in Salt Lake City.  
Thank you Bill. I hope somehow you know your comics are still in good hands.

Designed one of the most iconic costumes in comic history. RIP