comicnoir

They took them from me.

My sister had a small collection of romance comics. While I bought Spider-man and X-men, I would sneak into her room and read her comics, which I found titallating. I liked looking at drawings of girls. I stop thinking of comics and start entering my so called adult life and somewhere down the line started collecting back issues of Marvels and DC's etc. I heard about Baker and the infamous cover to PL 17 and decided to look for examples of his work which led me to his St. John's output. Not easy to find, I began picking them up haphazardly, until I saw the prices starting to rise. I first saw the cover to Seven Seas 4 in a book on GGA. The book had a Baker section. I went bananas and had to find a copy. Took 5 years. That was 10 years ago. First saw CL 25 in the cover gallery to Romance Without Tears. Went bananas. Had to get one. Took a long time. Kind of miss those days of discovery.

I'm adding to my existing thread. Wartime Romances #18 Scarce last issue. Baker cover and very nice interior. 3.5/4.0 probably 3.5. All attached and present. $400.00 shipped.

I did storyboards on the first X-men movie.

Hi Andy, I waited until the package arrived. I make it into a ritual like when I was a kid at Christmas, taking the book out, not quite seeing the grade, a tease. Most of the time I'm elated, but there are letdowns.

Thanks everybody. It really is a terrific catch.

Single highest graded.

This just arrived.

Looks like mistermystery was the winner of both books. Thanks to everyone who made this one fast sales thread.

My Private Life 16, 1950 4.5/5.0 Strong colours, nice presenting with non breaking horizontal creases through middle of book. Pressing candidate. $250.00 shipped.

Fox Giant Romantic Thrills nn 1950 132 pages. Very tough Giant. Vg condition with chip at bottom right corner. Spine is full and complete, rare with these 132 pagers. $350.00 shipped.

That's what I always thought.

Okay, I've said this before, the PL figure is Baker lifted and flipped from a panel in, I believe but I'll have to check, PL 15. The background is done by an unknown, maybe Kamen.

I'm afraid they hypnotize me.

I've owned 3 copies. Wish I still had them. Can you believe this copy didn't sell here at $60.00?

Too bad you weren't here 7 years ago. Congratulations on finding my old thread though. Should have kept them both.

Maybe that TR14 deserved the price it got. I always thought it was a classic cover, but low grade copies never went for much. It appeared in good/very good here and there. Sold mine on the boards long time ago for little. Rather than think the market is going to crash, it's time to realize if you want quality, you've got to pony up. TR14 is a great book and deserves a place in the pantheon of classic covers. Certain Baker covers are only going to keep going up. Here's my copy.

Wow!

I always thought there was an MH copy of Pep 22.

And the Seven Seas 6 went for $25K.

Thought I'd seen it around these parts.

Speaking of Giant Comics Editions.