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I've been mulling the Frazetta discussion over and I think it boils down to this. There are people who want to tell you that he should be considered along the renaissance masters. That over-worship on behalf of a small few does make it seem that he's overrated. The average reasonable person probably puts him more in line with what he really is, i.e. one of the best fantasy artists ever. But when you hear such exaggerated opinions, then they are in fact overrated.

You'd be surprised. I think tth2 has a point that you can't say with certainty. But I'm siding with you that it probably was treated with something more.

If it's surface dirt you can just wipe/rub/scrape it off with a variety of tools.

True. Sometimes this stuff just rubs right off. But this does look more like it would have taken some extra measures, and it would be enough of a concern for me to want to steer clear of it.

One of my colleagues has 4 kids. One went off to college, the other 3 stayed here. He helped them all buy houses with down payments. All 3 still live with him.

I think it's him. If so, then I have no compassion that this happened.

Is that Greg White?

Those are pretty nice!

He would intentionally draw women with overly large breasts because he knew the editor would tell him to reduce the size. Then he could still draw them large, but the editor would sign off.

I would argue that you need to revisit the Atlas stuff. His DC war stuff is fantastic as well, but in a different sense. But there is a good justification for why the Atlas work gets a lot of attention.

I wouldn't call what he's doing the "cutting edge of responsible cleaning". These guys know that treatments are damaging the paper. They even warn about doing it too many times and causing brittleness. He's also selling products (like immacuclean) that aren't adequately tested and other people very deep into this stuff are wary of. And using a water bath... that's been PLOD since day one. Going back to the 1980s when restoration was in its infancy that was considered restoration. It's irreversible.

Some of these prices are hhhhhhhwacky.

Wait until you learn that coin collectors don't spend their coins.

"The Bat Hand"

Consider it a bonus.

4.0

From the article, it isn't really "new" allegations, but rather someone who is raising the same allegations. The only difference is that when it happened to someone else he wasn't too upset, but now that he's found out he was involved he's upset. Seems pretty disingenuous.

18 in 9.8 is a lot.

Is it the corduroy shirt?

Trotsky was Jewish, but he was long ousted -- in part because of that heritage -- by the time any of this rolled around.

There's a 1.5 inch crease/crunch at the bottom of the back cover. Right underneath the little chopper.

Finally finished out this short run of Kirby war books. Compared to the pre-hero monster books these are way tougher.

February 1955. Two of his best covers IMO.

My dad offered it to me around 10 years ago. I loved muscle cars when I was a kid. But in my late 30s, the appeal of all the creature comforts and safety features of modern cars won over. I didn't want to end up with shattered knees from a fender bender. So I just let him sell it. It was a tough decision, but not one I regret.

Violent cover with a guy getting shot while the GI both swears and calls him a racist slur with over the top jingoism. And it's one of the tougher slur covers. It's the total package!