comicnoir

A very long time since I added a Matt Baker romance comic to my collection, but this is one I couldnt resist. It's an outsized issue which gives his artwork plenty of room to breath, and there are four masterfully rendered stories inside. As for the cover, I think it's one of the best in the run. As for scarcity? This is the first copy I've seen in 20 years of searching!

 

 

 

Now where's that Baker thread got to?

Ah, you were the winner. That went for nice. I was bidding on that, my copy is low grade.

Congratulations.

Here are a few from my collection.

 

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Pardon my ignorance...but what's a Real Life Picture Magazine? Is that some sort of variant?

Yes, it's the Lost Valley copy. Yes, it's still unslabbed.

 

 

31 is nice, but I'll take GGA over gore, any day.

Oh baby.

I got the pm (thnx Darth).

Sounds like a classic case of someone off their meds.

You have to feel sorry sometimes.

Please pm if possible.

Just back from CGC:

 

 

You never see a Fight 38, especially looking like that.

besides did they even have zip a tone back then? thought it wasn't in widespread use til the 70s? ( I could be wrong)

Everett was using it as early as the first Sub-Mariner story in Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly and Marvel #1.

Actually, Everett was using something I believe was called crafttint board. The drawing was done on a special board that had a texture that was made visible with a chemical applied with brush.

Roy Crane used it all the time on Buz Sawyer.

BZ - Dark Horse published a reprint of It Rhymes with Lust in 2007. Sorry for the blurry pics - camera in one hand and digest in the other! This may be heresy (pace Joanna!), but while Baker is a master draftsman, with an graceful, gracile line, he is not comparatively versed in the use of spot blacks in the way that, say Reed Crandall displayed!

Nice job with the one-handed pics! I need to get the Dark Horse reprint. Those are some vintage female poses by Baker. Interesting about the spot blacks. I've also heard it referred to as zip-a-tone. It's kind of 3-D!

Zip-tone is shading film used to create half-tone effects. They are in dot, hatch and cross-hatch patterns.The film is cut and placed on artwork with the excess then cut off.

Spot blacks are solid blacks laid down with brush and india ink. .

Really? Damn, that's even on my saved search list.

I got lucky. It was a 3 day auction that ended at a weird time. The last copy I saw was on ComicConnect, slabbed 4.0. It went for 3X what I paid for this.

That's awesome....you should sell it to me

I got it on ebay last month. Went for cheap.

In all seriousness, I'm a huge Archie fan. I have complete runs of Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Reggie, Katy Keene, Ginger, Wilbur, Suzie...

 

Complete runs?! This is how you've spent your young life?

 

Even I needed a hobby!

I think I'd have to get reincarnated to get those runs.

In all seriousness, I'm a huge Archie fan. I have complete runs of Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Reggie, Katy Keene, Ginger, Wilbur, Suzie...

Complete runs?! This is how you've spent your young life?

With WR #3 being as ultra scarce as it is, you might just have the highest grade copy in existence. (BTW, I just checked and saw that Beerbohm still has those books listed in his eBay store...)

 

 

 

Not likely. I just checked and there's a 7.0 out there. The bottom edge on this copy probably keeps it under that.

Robert still has them listed on ebay. I'm glad you talked him down. He probably paid nothing for them.

My last purchase from Jerry Weist.

Won this bad boy tonight. I can finally say, I am finished with buying comics for a long, long time!

 

Congratulations!

This one took forever to find. It's difficult to find high grade in this issue. There were a couple for sale on ComicConnect a year or two back but I wasn't aggressive enough in bidding. So, I'm happy to have this low grade copy. I think you really have to be happy with low grades in order to even attempt to be a completist in the St. John run.

 

It wouldnt surprise me if some of them just dont exist in high grade. What we need is some eneterpising soul to find a warehouse full of file copies!

The Crippen copy is beautiful. I bid on it on Heritage 6 years ago and lost. A year later I saw it in Steve Ritter's bin at a show, along with other Crippen Bakers I got outbid on. Didn't buy, I thought his price was too high. Regret it of course.

Hmmm...maybe Steve was my under-bidder on the CL26.

I know you've got your copy. A serious collector it would seem, might spend time here. Then again they might be shy.

 

Are you the eBayer that won this copy for four hundred and some-odd dollars? If so, nice score. I've never seen a higher grade copy.

Yes I'm the one. Paid more than I budgeted for. Now the question is who was the under-bidder? Is (s)he here on the boards?

Baker was the master of body language and gesture.

From Dearborne last fall.

Doing my share to keep this thread going.

picked this up a while back...tropical gal and all

Nice. Never seen that one before. Pedigree too.

Fantastic book. The brown is amazing.