comicnoir

He paid well for this collection. There was a lot of nice stuff... and a lot of not so nice. There was an Adventure 40.

That Big Boy came from a collection I brokered for Harley. A friend passed away suddenly awhile back. He had a lot of giveaways. Harley got most of everything.

You don't wanna. Although it can be good, one feels depleted afterward. Emotionally, financially, or both? BOTH!

You don't wanna. Although it can be good, one feels depleted afterward.

I hope I didn't give the impression that Harley held a gun to my head. He honored his promise by giving me the first crack at it. He told me the grade and the price and asked if I wanted it. I felt if I didn't buy it, he had other potential buyers lined up. It would not have been fair to Harley if I asked him to hold the book for a bit while I tried to make up my mind. So I made a decision quickly and bought it. A few years back he called me out of the blue and said he had two Baker books for sale and asked if I was interested. Again, I felt he was shopping the books around for a quick sale. I asked if he could give me one day to decide, as I was not home at the moment and I had to check my collection when I got home. I got the impression I was not the first person he called. The next day I called him back and bought both books. I could have easily passed on them, but I would have probably regretted it afterwards. Harley's prices may be aggressive, but he has books for sale most others do not. He can continue to sell me books and I will probably buy most of them! That's what happened recently with me. Calls me up and brings over the goods. We're not going for lunch, he wants to know now, or I'll never see them again. Lately he's been buying back books from a guy in my city, books Harley sold him years ago. I'm his first stop. Then they're gone. I felt the gun.

Harley's latest tactic seems to be only give the buyer a few moments to decide. The panic, the rush. You won out on getting a copy that was fixed and graded and cheaper than than the hallucinogenic price he originally asked.

It looks better in the scan then when I saw it. I didn't agree with Harley's grade or price. I'm sure I wasn't the only one. He had to get it graded.

Nice! From Harley? Yup! I saw this when he first got it raw. Called it a 7.5. Then came the sticker shock.

She sure was!

I noticed Overstreet, in the new edition, finally acknowledges Cinderella Love 28 as a Baker cover.

True story SDCC 2005 asking several dealers/looking for Matt Baker OA for sale, one dealer told me; what's the name Matt Baker, Matt Baker? you mean Kyle Baker no Matt Baker oh Golden Age!!! them told me your too young to be collecting Matt Baker. The best dealers are ones who don't know who Matt Baker is, but have some in stock.

Here's an Everett cover from an issue that doesn't show up often. New Brunswick copy.

Recent acquisition.

Avon's 1954 Realistic Romances 15-17 and Romantic Love 20-23 had original covers, Kinstler for all but two. But that's easy to see. Here's the one mystery. It's the book I started off with, the Sparkling Love 1. I went through all of Avon's paperbacks (thanks Scrooge!) and couldn't spot it. But for sure it wasn't original either; it looks like a painted photo cover. From where, though? They had photo services that would provide stock photos for a client. Maybe this was bought from a stock photo provider and never appeared elsewhere.

I am no expert...but looks like Baker to me. Not Baker at all. The girl is taken from a Fox cover, I can't remember which. (paging Dr. Love). Baker never did any work for Fox. Baker never did any romance work for Fox. Yes I meant Fox Romance. After all Fox did publish Phantom Lady.

I am no expert...but looks like Baker to me. Not Baker at all. The girl is taken from a Fox cover, I can't remember which. (paging Dr. Love). Baker never did any work for Fox.

Very nice.

There is so much love here it should on the romance thread.

Both. The first one was pressed.

I have a nice raw copy of this. Always loved the GGA on this but always wondered where the rest of Subby's body went. If this was a tv set, I could understand, but it's just a box.