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COMICS
The Southwestern Convention of comic book fans and collectors nears a close at the Southland Hotel in About 60 delegates from Texas Oklahoma and Dallas. um . Louisiana are on hand for this afternoon's comic-book auction. NMEW Books which feature super- heroes are easily the most popular. And there's some ooot and ahhh's when a couple of vintage Marvel Comic Books are put up for bids. The books sold for ten cents each in the early 1940's. But today's bidding quickly soars past the 20-dollar mark. The books go to Larry Herndon, from Carrollton, for 20-dollars-and-65-cents. Herndon, the convention's chairman, has been collecting comic books for 16 years and values his collection at about two thousand