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Here's another Miss Masque. Her short red skirt makes her my hero.

I saw this on Metro's site. It's not the same copy but has the same store stamp.

Loved following this and your choices were spot-on.

I wondered if that was you who won. Nice haul.

Nice copy Joanna. Do you have an under-copy?

Love that CA 54. Great cover. Gotta look for a copy! Well... McMiles has a copy for sale on the Golden Age thread right now and there are 2 copies on Metro's website. There you go.

That cover could also be seen as a person being blown up by a clock that had a bomb in it. The gear, bolt and other speck could simply be shrapnel form the clock bomb. See, I need to get out more. This is the kind of stuff I think about after spending all day in the house drawing. Crack it open and read the inside story. IT IS A ROBOT! The gore was added for the cover.

Extremely nice!

Baker!

Try posting them again. It's probably a mistake on their part.

Congrats on the Baker Lorna Doone, Joanna!

The dots thing does seem labor intensive. Hard to believe he did that by hand. I'm sure there's some digital way to do it today! It would be hard to digitally do it and get the same effect. Finlay never let the pen nib touch the paper. He held the nib above the paper and the ink would drop, one drip at a time. His method was laborious, but created a beautiful effect. The drops were never uniform, so computers would have a hard time duplicating. That seems hard to believe! This passage from the Book of Virgil Finlay is not only a testament to the skill of Finlay, but a testament to how little you know!

Great cover and one I've been looking for.

May we get a close -up of the #20?

Wow! I've never seen this one.

I can't remember where I read it, it was a long time ago. Might be a fanzine I know longer own. Though It seems unusual, if you hit the paper too many times, it bends the nib. This prevents that from happening. I tried letting a drop of ink hit a piece of paper once. It ain't easy.

The dots thing does seem labor intensive. Hard to believe he did that by hand. I'm sure there's some digital way to do it today! It would be hard to digitally do it and get the same effect. Finlay never let the pen nib touch the paper. He held the nib above the paper and the ink would drop, one drip at a time. His method was laborious, but created a beautiful effect. The drops were never uniform, so computers would have a hard time duplicating.

Not anymore - just a handful of the ones I really like!! I love this cover You have a nice collection. I like how OS refuses to admit this is a Baker cover year after year.

This is the nicest one I've seen of this cover. Really nice! This is one of my favorite covers. I have a beater copy of this one. Have you had it long? Thanks for sharing. I picked it up a couple of years ago. I prefer it to #8. Yes, but #8 has the great reefer story illustrated by Baker.

My latest from Boyd. One of Baker's best covers IMO.

GCD sez "I Was Tired of Being Good" and "Breaking Hearts Was My Hobby". I don't see it in the first one, but 'maybe' the second. This book is on the Baker checklist I copied from Alter Ego some time ago, but not sure how accurate that is. "Being Good", no way in my opinion. "Breaking Hearts" has elements of Baker, might have been victimized by bad inking. I feel that artists were told to imitate Baker- his comics sold. I could see some artist copying from his work under orders from St.John.

None of those examples is Baker.

It's amazing what a complete rip-off the Australian comic is. No originality. I guess they were pressed for time and couldn't be bothered with the fire-escape. Baker was the complete original. The others were just hacks.

I thought the final price was a pretty good deal. WM #4 is tough book to find. Took 4 years to find a copy. First saw a copy from the John McLaughlin collection auctioned on Heritage back in '06. Bid and lost. Been looking until now.

This is the other Weird Mysteries that I need!!! Did you get this one on Ebay? Yes I did.