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This book is now on my want list!

GGA Bondage - Stealing Beauty (Injury to Face) Here's the most disturbing GGA bondage category. I call it "Stealing Beauty." Others might call it "Injury to Face." The concept is, a pretty girl is being held against her will, and she's being threatened by disfigurement of her face. It could be a knife, branding, fire or (the most chilling to me), acid. I've included a couple of Wonder Woman silver age comics as they are good examples of the category. I find these covers to be the most chilling of all the GGA bondage categories.

I love these 2 comics. I'd agree this would be a category but are these the only 2 examples?

I've never seen this one before ... wow this one is chilling!

GGA Bondage - Branding Okay now we get to the really demented categories. There are 2 in my list of categories, and this is the first one, branding. So the concept is, you've got a pretty girl, she's tied up, and you're going to brand her. How demented is that? If anything, pulps were more demented than comics. It makes you wonder what was going on in the heads of comic and pulp creators back in the golden age. This text from the recent C-Link auction (or maybe it was C-Connect) describes it pretty well:

Yeah I've got a few of those too.

I hope you keep posting. Always one of my favorite reads.

Have you checked out GPA and Ebay? I think your comic is only worth about $300-$400. And stores will have to buy it for less, as they would have to sell it for about that.

Ugh! Lost this one on C-Link last night. I placed a high bid and went to bed thinking I had it in the bag. Then I woke up with the news that I lost with the next increment bid. Oh well, congrats to the winner, you got a really sweet comic.

take at 10% off: Fightin' Marines 14 - Matt Baker art, reprints 1st appearance of Canteen Kate, 1st Charlton issue. Reader $30

Re-slabs and CGC Customer Service Recently I sent some books into CGC for re-slabbing. These first 2 I dropped and the slab cracked. I'm always worried that CGC will see the cracks and downgrade the comics, and I suppose they will if there's apparent substantial damage. But these 2 came back the same grade. Both are special to me. The one on the right is, of course, the first appearance of Torchy. And for the one on the left, first it's a Dave Nakayama cover (a modern artist I really like), and I have the original cover art. This next one I sent in because the label did not identify this as the 1st appearance of Omaha the Cat Dancer. When I submitted it for reslabbing, I taped a piece of paper to the original slab, asking that they include the Omaha first appearance note. I had some anxiety about whether they would, because there are a few editions of this book. But, CGC did include the note, as you can see. I'll say that I've always gotten good customer service from CGC. I find the CGC customer service both responsive and helpful (and reasonable). This last one I was most worried about being downgraded. It's the Mile High copy Junie Prom 5, one of my all-time favorite covers. Somehow, since I bought the book from @Ricksneatstuff, a piece of hair got into the slab. Worse, a little bug got into the slab too. I have no idea how this happened, as they definitely were not there when I got the book from Rick. I was worried that the bug might have caused damage to the book. But thank goodness, it came back the same grade. (Once again, thanks CGC!) I'm going to avoid something like this happening again in the future by putting this slab in Mylar. By the way, the cover of Junie 5 has always reminded me of Cindy 37, which is much more highly regarded and more expensive. I like Junie better, but I do see why most people like Cindy 37 better (the greytone really adds to the art). In fact, a lot of people aren't even aware of Junie 5, I don't think. Something I've thought about ... Cindy came out in November 1949. Junie was a few months earlier, April 1949. Was it possible that the cover of Cindy was based on Junie?

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Golden Age GGA Bondage - Girl with Arched Back I call this category "Girl with arched back." Often the damsel is tied to something (like a wheel or a stone block), but other times she's in other kinds of distress. Blackhawk 20 and Rangers 14 are two of my all-time favorite covers. There are some repeats from comics I've recently showed, but that's because some comics fit into multiple categories.

I love the Dark Mysteries!

GGA Bondage - Hands Tied Above Head Another recurring cover theme in golden age bondage is the damsel in distress with her hands tied above her head. This is similar to "hands tied to a pole" but not all covers have a pole. What's interesting is how many of the covers seem swipes of each other (like Atomic #1 and Planet #34).

Moving Things Around In the Comic Room Art is hard to display because it's so big. For a couple years now I've displayed Betty's Bath (S/N by Dave Stevens) and Janesko's Sitting Pretty poster (signed) on the door of my comic room. Recently I added these shelves right next to the door. But I messed up measuring things, so the shelves were a tad too big and I couldn't close the door because of the posters. I could have modified the shelves, but I decided to move the posters instead. In their place, I'm now displaying some of my favorite comics on the door. They're displayed in cool black CGC frames that I bought cheap from a boardie who was looking to get rid of them. I bought all he had, 10 of them. Last September (I remember because it was the first weekend of the new NFL season), I used 6 of the frames to build a wall of Marvel keys. For almost a year I didn't know what to do with the other 4 and I was like the boardie, thinking how to get rid of them. Now I wish I had a few more to display more comics on the door. Thanks for reading.

Bob, I haven't even gotten to the really crazy themes yet. Just wait ....

Love those restored books! Keep them coming!

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GGA Bondage Themes - Tied To a Pole If you're a collector of golden age GGA bondage covers, you start seeing themes. Like the one I posted above, "girl tied to wheel." Another common theme is "girl tied to pole." Below are examples from my collection. By the way, you might think it strange that I think about these themes. I do it because I like organizing my collection. The same way I like entering new purchases into ComicBase (the database program I use), and putting them in mylar with backing boards, and displaying them or putting them in long boxes. Also I find that defining themes helps me target what to buy next. Without this organization and focus, my collection gets to be too haphazard and I waste money on stuff I get tired off. Life was a lot easier when I was a title collector -- I just kept buying comics of a title I was collecting until I completed the title. But now that I've transitioned to being a cover collector (and also a keys collector), there's a risk that my collection will get unfocused and too much of a mishmash. So nowadays, when I'm considering whether to buy a comic, something I consider is whether it fits in one of the themes I'm collecting. If it doesn't, then that's a strike against buying it.

I use comicbase www.comicbase.com they have covers, price updates every week, and you can get on your iphone or via the web. I've been using this software for over 10 years

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This is incredibly cool! I'm a big Dennis fan.