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I think Rafael DeSoto is the cover artist for "Stay Away, Joe" and "H is for Heroin." And, Ray Johnson is possibly the artist for "Don't Push Me Around."

Thanks, I probably shoulda looked that info up in my "Dames, Dolls & Delinquents" book. Makes sense -- Belsarski's colors are brighter and his women more pinup va-voomish. I do appreciate the more muted, brownish palettes of the DeSoto and Johnson covers, which lend themselves to the luridness of the stories. etc.

We were discussing Rudolph Belarski painted paperback covers a while ago in this thread. I had these out the other day and snapped a photo. I think all or most of these are Belarski:

Added a few more beauts from tonight's CLINK auction:

Printed after they'd run out of blue ink?

I posted this in the GA Marketplace thread, and somebody suggested I post it here. So...

A little sloppy....might have to take another photo. I actually threw these out like a deck of cards, and this is how they landed.

Man, that is a fun shot.

Yep, should be posted to the group shot thread (along with his previous superhero pic). I spent a good half hour looking at the auctions (tons of interior pages!)

Thanks, both of you. I will post it to the group shot thread, though I don't want to be too spammy. Glad you enjoyed the interior pages -- even though it is time-consuming, it's really fun and I end up with archival photos of all the great splash pages, favorite panels, and so on.

I just posted a message in the Seller Forum -- located right here on this newfangled clicky link -- about my eBay auctions of Marvel GGA titles (Hedy, Millie, Tessie, etc.). Here's a photo that shows some of what's being auctioned -- thanks for looking!

Remarkably exhaustive list there!

I recently saw an auction of Untamed Love and was struck by the *spoon*-y ness of the cover... a great book!

Spoon-y ness?

Talk about a tough book. It took me four years to find a Good copy. Now after another four I've finally been able to upgrade. Thanks Adam!

Looks like Central America is toast. Ay carumba.

Thanks, Guys. There seems to be very little available on the early career of Matt Fox... many of his Atlas jobs were just the inks but even then he made them his. Here's the first page of a great yarn from Mystery Tales #22 Oct 1954...

His stuff reminds me a bit of Wolverton, though with a style of his own as well. I love his Weird Tales covers.

Here is a threesome of Archie comics that I find....humorous.

This is one of the best of the best... So much going on, and the title lettering is spectacular.

Nice!

If you haven't already, check out my Halloween Auctions! They are ending tonight! There's some TERROR-ific pre-code horror books being offered this year:

 

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Not that it's a big big deal, but I'm pretty sure we're supposed to limit this sort of thing to the Golden-Age Marketplace thread (in this section) and the Marketplace section (a different forum from this one). Otherwise everybody would be posting their sales links in every thread all the time.

Wow, I have never seen that Voodoo cover before (with the giant hands and eyes). I love it!

Wow, two teen age romances 9 showing up in a week. I wonder if this one will go as high as the last one.

TR9

I guess it is a popular time to hold D'ick.

Always fun to show off this one

Ay carumba!

Impressively detailed research!

Not a violent cover but a very cleverly designed one.

 

I think the dog in the upper-right corner is in on it somehow.

Those are so great.

Crime Does Not Pay #43 (January 1946)

Awesome!

Very nice...where did you find the Daring Love?

Gracias you and everybody else (Fuelman....please find another Action #10, I am getting hungry). I found Daring Love on a popular auction website that is renowned for its fees...

Appears to be a nice deal on a Seven Seas 3 from what I can see, if it is indeed an FN...act fast...

What's that you say? Seven Seas #4? Oh.....nevermind.

A few recent pickups... First, a couple of comics that were on my wantlist, Blonde Phantom #12 (#1) and Daring Love #1 (containing the first published work by Steve Ditko):

I'm pretty sure the farmgirl on the Daring Love cover is wearing Wonder Woman's wrist bracelets on her ankles.

Next up, two less-common "bondage" covers from the Avon Publishers: Space Mouse #1, and City of the Living Dead! (#nn -- a one-off).

The bondage on the Living Dead comic is not convincing....looks like the zombie will be out of those ropes in no time, and I don't think the woman's lion-tamer whip is going to be particularly effective. Meanwhile, Space Mouse #1 is really kinky, right up there with Sluggo tying up Nancy on the cover of Sparkler #81.

Well, I finally completed a set of comics on my wantlist -- the Lev Gleason Cruelty Collection. This set of three comics show Charles Biro's art at its most mean-spirited and unintentionally laughable. The comics are Crime and Punishment #2, Crime Does Not Pay #58, and (FBI in Action) Justice #8. Here they are in all their black-hearted glory: