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*spoon* Winters to *spoon* Tracy.

I may go if CGC is doing on-site grading. If not, I will probably skip it. I went to the 1st one in the Renaissance Center in 1988, and I went to the 2001 show. Those are the only two I've been to. Chris Foss and Ed Jaster were the only two dealers at the 2001 show with any high-grade GA material. (I bought a Mile High Wow from Ed.) There is so much good material available in the online auctions now that it's hard to get excited about a convention. I was planning to go a couple of years ago, but then I found out that admission was $35, and I almost had a coronary. Adam West is the only guest I remember from '01. I didn't stand in line to get his autograph, but I saw him in the men's room. (He was 72, apparently, but he didn't look it; he could have passed for 52.)

I've never cared about first appearances. (I care about #1 issues even less; they're often the most common issues from a run because so many people save #1s.) That said, here's a 1st appearance from my collection: the first appearance of Maximilian O'Leary (Sargon the Sorcerer's apprentice).

Carnivorous plant to carnivorous plant.

I would not delete anything. The only reason why he would want your comment deleted is if he intends to deceive someone else about the status of his piece when he tries to sell it. He sounds like a conscienceless con artist to me. He may have believed what he was saying originally, but now that you have provided proof, there is no legitimate reason for him to still be sticking to his untenable position.

These Australian reprints are in pretty rough shape, but they were a lot cheaper than an airline ticket to Australia to look for better copies.

Timely bad girl in a yellow dress to Timely good girl in a yellow dress.

Bucky swinging from a rope ladder to Bucky dangling from a rope.

He'd better be nimble, or he won't be having any kids. Fire to fire.

Burning torch to burning candle.

Disembodied arms to disembodied head.

What are your thoughts on this one? Bedrock had it in the Whitman list, too, but CGC didn't designate it a Whitman cover.

I think they'll do the same think with cream areas. This book has pages that were white or close to it except for some light tanning along the top edge, so the book came back cream-to-off-white. The pages are significantly nicer than those in other books that I've had come back as cream-to-off-white, but there's no way to tell that from looking at the slab or even the notes. It would be nice if the notes had a little more clarity on things like that. (I actually thought the tanning was light enough to get an off-white-to-white designation; I'm pretty sure I've had books with entire pages as dark as the tanned area come back off-white.)

Psychopathic woman trying to gratify herself by killing a terrified shark that is trying to escape and poses no danger to non-psychopathic woman who takes no pleasure in killing prepared to defend herself against an aggressive shark.

You're probably not bipolar. A bipolar person has no control during a manic episode and might easily get into a bidding war and pay, say, $10K for a $1K book. That's the kind of financial recklessness that can lead to suicide once the manic episode is over. According to the NIH, between 25% and 60% of bipolar people attempt suicide at least once, and between 4% and 19% ultimately succeed.