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DukeDog!!!! What's this "debating it" stuff? What's this "might be another girl" stuff? Do you not see the.........

Different bidding strokes for different bidder folks. Some people want to put in their highest bid early so they don't have to wait around to find out if they'll get the item. Some people snipe, some don't have the time or patience or aren't willing to use a sniping service. Some like the fun of bidding and jockeying for high bid position. Who knows what each bidder is thinking? Who knows what eeeeeeevil lurks in the hearts of comic fanboy child-men (a descriptor that includes myself)? As long as they're not shills or future non-paying bidders (NPB's), or up to other sorts of shenanigans, I don't personally care. One very practical reason to put some solid bids on a book early is to make sure the seller doesn't get an "outside of eBay offer" and cancel the auction, or just cancel out of fear of a pathetically low hammer price. This doesn't seem to happen as much as it used to, but I can recall several instances where I was watching an item I wanted, the item sat at a low price, and then a few days into the auction the seller shut down the auction. I emailed the seller to say, "What happened? I wanted to bid on that!" and the seller replied, "I don't see you in the bidder's list. If you wanted to bid, you should have bid." This sort of thing happened more often before people became aware of sniping practices, etc., but putting in some decent bids does seem to prevent auctions from being shut down. If an item has no bids at all, at least one bid will make the seller know there's interest in the item. I think it also makes it harder for the seller to cancel. An item that sits un-bid can be canceled by the seller with no consequences from eBay. Yes, that is another reason people drive up bids early -- to make it look like a fish swarm and scare away other bidders. Definitely. And that does work some of the time. It can probably backfire too, depending on the psychology of whoever's watching. But if a $700 item is already up to $500+ early, a lot of the people who might have bid in the $700 range might assume that they don't have a chance and forget to stick around for the end of the auction, or blow off setting an automatic snipe. Occasionally when I see a desirable book that I can't really afford to go after, I'll go ahead and place a bid in the range of what I estimate to be its 1/2-value or 2/3-value, just because I know if I actually won the book at that price, it would be a score. I rarely win such auctions that way, but it's fun to be involved in the early bidding, and then you get an email notification after the auction ends that tells you what the comic sold for, instead of having to look it up in your Watchlist (this is especially helpful if your Watchlist tends to get filled, as mine does).

One of the better GGA/headlights covers, overlooked by many because it's on such an obscure title. The cover art reminds me of the style of art seen on Harvey publications, etc.

Good thing Sun Girl is on the case!

Cool your ice-skating heels? I hope it turns up... Maybe he's waiting to find out if Alice Kelley awareness will blossom and make the books more valuable.

Such a slam-dunk that I just bought a copy. I sticky-noted it just now in your honor. The search for other Dimples Dollface covers continues.... P.S. If the Sweetheart Diary #8 comic isn't a slam dunk, then it's at least an alley-oop.

While searching the net, I found about half a dozen more b&w studio photos of Miss Kelley, including a couple of sweet cheesecake shots. Hey 29dukedog! I think I found a couple more Alice Kelley comics! Popular Romance #15 Sweetheart Diary #8 Just an FYI, but on the last page of your album, the woman with the high-cut bangs looks more like Bettie Page to me than Ms. Kelley!

"Classic Tiny Man cover." Great photo cover and also like the tiny man on a string in the YR #12. I'll have to read that one some day. I'm trying to figure out the logistics of how they consummate their love... I'll keep my theories to myself though.

Earls wife has a great rack. She can break really well too. Whatta pool shark!

This is a blond or lighter-brown-haired woman, isn't it?

I think it is possible this is a different model who is very similar to Alice Kelley.

This one looks very Al Feldstein! Is it a panel from a Sunny or Junior comic?

Awesome!

Two weeks and no item isn't automatically a bad seller on the same level of full-on scammers and shillers. It could be a procrastinating shipper problem. He should have communicated though.

I want to see this movie "Against All Flags" now, just for Dollface Dimples. But also, the preview voice-overs are pretty funny: During a shot panning across a harem of pretty women in skimpy outfits, the narrator says: "A lot of beautiful girls, with nothing much on.....their minds..." Then when we see Dollface Dimples, he says: "Alice Kelley as the princess who had never seen a man before!" Then she kisses him, heaving a sigh as if a whole new world of sensual experience is opening to her.

Wow, this is impressive, amazing, and bittersweet too. I am sorry to hear she has already left the planet. It would have been really nice to try to contact her collectively and tell her how much comic collectors appreciate her cover art after all these years. I would hope she would have found that sweet, as opposed to weird or disturbing or something. I imagine she would have. I scanned through the Gerber journals hoping to find some more examples of her on romance comics, but I think we may have reached maximum Alice Kelley discovery for the time being. I am glad we have done this and hope it is remembered by romance-comic collectors. With any luck, "Alice Kelley cover" will become its own special designation and the value of these comics will skyrocket, because -- dimples, of course. Again, I applaud the effort to figure out who she is! Really kind of a one-of-a-kind CGC boards experience here. Her covers always were in my subconscious but I never took the time to let the connection play out with more than a few seconds of thought. Now that I have, thanks to others here, it's really cool. She has this unique, charming, robust, wholesome, sexy, womanly look to her. That's great that she made some progress in a Hollywood career. She got billing in that linked movie right after Anthony Quinn. Nothing to sneeze at there. In terms of some of the other comics where it could be her, or could be somebody else, I think it's best to leave them in the "maybe" category and not draw conclusions. There does seem to be the possibility of another brunette, round-faced model also turning up at the same time she did. Or maybe it IS her and some camera shots capture her unique dimply look, and some don't. Whatever the case, certain images are much more in the "slam dunk" category than others. Hats off to Alice Amanda Kelley.

They're a little swamped right now with "oops we got hacked" stuff.

Some additional information on this eBay shiller that board member Bio-Rupp first caught and alerted us to in this thread. At that point, his eBay I.D. and his Forum I.D. were the same....iwalktheline76....and his eBay shill account was identified by eBay's system then as....f***k. Since he was caught, he has changed all three of these in an attempt to conceal what was revealed in the earlier thread. * His main eBay account located here was just changed from iwalktheline76 to comicsbeyond. * His eBay shill account now shows up as _***a instead of f***k in the feedback he left for his main account...which indicates he changed it as well. * His forum name was also changed here from iwalktheline76 to IntoAnother. Good follow-up.

CONTENDER: Romantic Western #3 Pluses: Great smile. Even the horse is smiling. Eyes, nose, cheeks, hair etc. seem to match. Minuses: Dimples?

CONTENDER: Romance Trail #6 Pluses: Everything! A wholesome, healthy farmer's daughter! Minuses: Dimples hard to see. This is a strong contender in my book.

CONTENDER: New Romances #5 Pluses: Dark, well-coiffed hair; rounded face, cute nose, dark eyebrows, hint of dimples, winning smile Minuses: Not able to get a good look at her crush-inducing eyes

A few more possible finds here.... (We need to keep a running list of the "definite" and the "maybe" covers featuring her. Better yet, we need to find out who she is. Maybe she's still out there somewhere.) CONTENDER: Love Mystery #3 Pluses: Rounded face, slightly cleft chin, dark eyes, dark eyebrows, cute nose. Minuses: Lacks her usual glowing sweetness.

I can see a few similarities there... Ohhh, Dollface Dimples, how you enchant thee.

Yeah, this model has less impressive dimple action. (Everything else about her is (thumbs u ) . I feel more loyalty toward Ms. Dollface Dimples. Note that the two images on the right appear to be the same photo flipped around and retouched! Or at least from the same photo shoot.

Yeah too bad about the creases. Without them....