damonwad

It ought to feel like Toth ... http://www.comics.org/issue/9411/cover/4/ Busted! Nice catch Scrooge. I'll still take both though.

Thanks for the compliment, but my "high grade" is your "barely acceptable" and I'm getting less picky as I get older. Great information as usual, Doc. Sign me up for an advance copy if you ever decide to write a romance collecting book. I'll definitely be on the lookout for more issues of True Life Secrets (and other Charlton's).

Thanks and your right, the JIUW has a nice little Ditko 4 pager.

I enjoyed it (the tattoo is temporary). All the stories are decently drawn by Cappello but the themes are not the normal romance fare. *Brother and sister fall in love (he breaks it off when he finds out). *Woman doesn't tell a terminally ill man he's really going to live. *Woman asks the readers if she should let a former lover freeze to death in the snow or help him. *Woman with temp tattoo poses in bikini for a painting, she refuses the artists advances and he dies trying to kill her. Great stuff.

It's a beaut alright. Thanks. I never really gave Charlton a second look until seeing some of the books Dr. Love and others have been posting. Some real gems there.

It does. In fact, it's hard to imagine from what perspective you would see stars filling the doorway like that. Still I love Cole romance covers. I can't think of a logical reason either. Maybe it's intended to be a sci-fi/romance crossover. I think it's supposed to be snow. I can't believe I never thought of that. Especially with an L.B. Cole cover.

Thanks Jayman and I know I would have bought that book when I was a kid (if my parents would have let me).

I knew I had to have a copy of this as soon as I saw Dr. Love post his a while ago. One of my favorite romance covers.

It does. In fact, it's hard to imagine from what perspective you would see stars filling the doorway like that. Still I love Cole romance covers. I can't think of a logical reason either. Maybe it's intended to be a sci-fi/romance crossover.

The doorway filled with stars makes it look like the house is flying through space.

I guess somebody has to follow Rick Starr's awesome books. Two Heath covers and a Burgos.

Another great cover on the GIC 80. Hopefully you'll post the after pics if you go the resto route.

I leave town for a few days and come back to see another bunch of great books. You obviously have the adamstrange eye for quality. I love everything about that Cowboy Love #29. Just a beautiful cover. Though, with as many great books you have in your collection, it's amazing you can even pick a top 5.

Great to see the original owner westerns Marty.

One of the great Western covers of any era or company. Maneely did like to use washed out backgrounds to aid in contrast, especially on his western covers, but I don't know if he pioneered the technique. It is a great way to make foreground action pop. I did a few quick searches and couldn't find a Maneely example of this background technique as early as the Crandall cover (March 1953). I noticed he used it heavily in 1955 and 1956 though. I'd be curious to know who did pioneer the technique.

I'm pretty sure the last comic convention I attended was the 1993 San Diego Con (maybe a couple of Holiday Inn type cons in the mid 90's). I'd like to make it up to Seattle this year to see what I've been missing, and you'll think my books look great... at a distance.

Another bunch of great books. Love the Toth AAW #111 and the Billy the Kid (which I hadn't seen before). The first thing I thought of when I saw the Crandall cover was Maneely and the first thing I thought of when you posted the Blazing West was how similar the scene was to the Crack Western. One guys in for a tougher landing though. Both of these have been on my want list for a while so it looks like I'm going to have to start going to shows again before you get all the good ones .

There are some great covers in that Toth run and this is one of my favorites. Congrats on getting such a nice looking copy. It's not often that you can see an adamstrage book and get a copy for yourself that doesn't look like dog food in comparison. Looking forward to someday reading the Toth/Kanigher Johnny Thunder stories.

I like this Severin cover a lot. I'm glad there aren't any word balloons. Severin did do some nice post-code covers, Caught has a couple interesting ones as well. Thanks, I'll check those out. Also, I agree with your previous post. I love the Crime genre and Atlas comics in general but I don't think I have any Atlas Crime book that is on my want list just because of a great cover. I have plenty from Horror, War, Western and Romance though.

I like this Severin cover a lot. I'm glad there aren't any word balloons.

I agree. I love seeing work from the more obscure Atlas artists. Hidden gems all over the place.

A great bunch of Cole's there and this one would probably be in my L.B. top ten. A really nice looking copy too.

Nice book. Anyone eating pink eggs deserves to get kicked in the face.

You are so right.

Thanks for the info. I only collected X-Men, Spidey, etc... pre internet days, so I can only imagine how tough it must have been to find obscure titles like this. .... it's hard for me to imagine you collecting mainstream Marvel.... but I guess we all did at one time. I must confess, though...... I'll always get excited when I run across a nice copy of a '63 Marvel ....I still wonder what Black Rider Rides Again # 2 would have looked like, but it was a victim of the implosion and it's contents were salted into other titles like Gunsmoke Western. GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u I definitely would love to have seen Black Rider Rides Again #2. I'll always love the early Marvels but I try to limit my collecting to books guaranteed to go down in guide every year . Sometimes though, I get tempted to start picking up some Fine range readers just to relive my collecting youth. I'm afraid I won't be able to stop once I start though.