damonwad

I see your sig line is down to 1 Silver needed. I thought there were two just yesterday? I'd rather you post your higher grade copies than having to see mine Thanks and you're welcome Saggi. Scrooge, these boards would be a boring place if only high grade copies of comics were shown. I enjoy seeing the "well loved ones". I found a #12 and am down to the last one. I'm usually not such a stickler on the grades but the first 7 or 8 I bought of this run were all high grade so I thought I'd keep it consistent.

Here's another in honor of International Rabbit Day.

Always good to see the Raggedy Ann and Andy's. I especially like this one.

I haven't seen this particular issue before - just beautiful. I agree, really nicely done. The gloomy background works great here and the book would have such a different feel with the typical bright blue sky.

I agree. It's his longest story, iirc. I didn't know that.

Vacation Time is one of my favorite Barks stories.

Cool book. I love Hoover looking up in the corner and the funky page layout. Cagney's definitely one of my favorites. Great movies and iconic scenes (including this one you mentioned).

A cool cover that I never noticed before. A great looking copy too.

That stubble chinned guy gets around. GCD doesn't show any artist info on any of the Farrell war books except for a couple "Iger Shop" notations.

Wow! That's a lot of books they put out that year. 221 is a big chunk out of that though. Hopefully there's no Redskin #8 in that bunch.

Both are nice but I really like the 2 as I got that War Fury feel as well. What I really like are the gun, grenade, knife, matches, letter pages and photo laying around the fallen man. Looks like he decided to have a smoke and read a love letter from home at the wrong time! Thanks, and I agree the personal items are a good touch.

That's a great, subdued Cole cover. Nice looking copy too.

Congrats on finishing the run. I see 3 of these are from 1954. How's that collecting a year of Atlas coming along?

I like them about the same as well and think that the #5 (with the woman) is more on the sappy side. You don't see a dead woman on the cover of a war comic every day so I can give it some leeway. The dead man's pose on the #2 reminded me of Heck's War Fury #1(still on the want list). GCD shows the War Fury cover is dated one month earlier.

A couple Farrell's from the shadows.

And that's a great looking book atomic1950's.

That commie one is great. Even has bloody fingers.

I'd say more than some. Nice group shot.

Crazy, crazy price. Probably went to a guy who has been looking for 5+ years for the right copy, loves pre-code horror and Maurice Whitman art and was tired of this particular hole in his collection. Betting this guy saw the book and decided that, just this one time, he was going to bid to win even though it goes against his somewhat cheap nature because he knows he hasn't had many (any) shots at similar copies despite looking hard. Just guessing. Pure speculation. That will look great on the stairs.

I wonder whether they didn't sell well. The covers seem more attractive to male readers -- who probably weren't buying romance books -- than to female readers -- who were the main buyers of the books. I agree. Check out these covers from 1952 - 1954 to the venerable Love Story Magazine, the long running pulp dating back to 1921. We are well before the "Fabio" era where hunk-age is a de rigueur element on Romance covers. At this stage, the industry still helped the reader project herself onto the main heroine on the cover. Maybe, it simply wasn't wholesome enough and there is too much of a come-and-see me style to the cover combined with the Forbidden that was just enough askew that the main clientele simply didn't want to be associated in any way, shape or form with the package. Knowing that the male client weren't interested in the first place, the title died a quiet death on the newsstands. Interesting analysis and makes sense why the books didn't last long. I'd like to see sales figures of the Untamed/Forbidden titles compared to the more common titles to see what kind of drop off there was.

It started as a rare issue thread and quickly morphed into "Golden Age Romance". Those are nice books and post away.

Nice book. I haven't seen that cover before.

Some Raboy goodness.

Ouch. Not getting that #49 had to hurt. NEWMAN... RICK.....