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Yes I am missing one. Unfortunately I am also missing the book.

Pictures within pictures, for kids who know how to look. Or doctors who know how to look. what a ridiculous premise. takes a pervert to spot a (imaginary) pervert? It is in the case of that book "What a ridiculous p*n*s".

We jammed that door closed, locked it and threw away the key. There's a story I heard years ago about Heinrich Schliemann, the discoverer of Troy. At one point, he convinced himself that he had dug up Agamemnon's skull. His assistants gave him many good reasons why the skull was unlikely to be Agamemnon's. Finally, in exasperation, he said: "If it isn't Agamemnon's skull, whose skull is it?" Echoing, Schliemann, if Baker didn't draw the cover for Romantic Confessions 6, who did?! Seriously, I don't know much about the community of romance artists in the 1950s (apart from what I've read in the Baker book), but it sure looks as if there must have been some who were doing their best to copy Baker. I also looked at the copies of Lovelorn currently up on eBay and there are a few others that seem Bakerish (as Overstreet might put it) right down to the webbed fingers. Picasso once said, "I am a magpie. I take the ideas of others - but improve upon them." We say "Bakerish" because in retrospect he is the artist we most admire. But the tropes and idioms of romance comics would have existed without him, though in the hands of lesser artists. What?! Without Baker there is nothing! Michael, You realize you are close to being banned from this thread! I'm an iconoclast by nature.

We jammed that door closed, locked it and threw away the key. There's a story I heard years ago about Heinrich Schliemann, the discoverer of Troy. At one point, he convinced himself that he had dug up Agamemnon's skull. His assistants gave him many good reasons why the skull was unlikely to be Agamemnon's. Finally, in exasperation, he said: "If it isn't Agamemnon's skull, whose skull is it?" Echoing, Schliemann, if Baker didn't draw the cover for Romantic Confessions 6, who did?! Seriously, I don't know much about the community of romance artists in the 1950s (apart from what I've read in the Baker book), but it sure looks as if there must have been some who were doing their best to copy Baker. I also looked at the copies of Lovelorn currently up on eBay and there are a few others that seem Bakerish (as Overstreet might put it) right down to the webbed fingers. Picasso once said, "I am a magpie. I take the ideas of others - but improve upon them." We say "Bakerish" because in retrospect he is the artist we most admire. But the tropes and idioms of romance comics would have existed without him, though in the hands of lesser artists.

Have any of the Church Baker's been graded? I can't recall seeing one. The Church TR's 1,2 and 3 were sold on Heritage, raw, years ago.Then they were CGC'd and sold on ComicConnect years later. The CGC grades were significantly lower than Heritage's grades. I think the St John romance were among the books Edgar was forced to pick up second hand and were not up to the same standard as those he bought newsstand fresh.

That's why they should call is "The great unwashed."

Too few fatal femmes

I'm gonna be aggressive. Sounds like handbags at dawn.

Sharp!

I'm sure you are right about that - and given the way the Iger shop appeared to operate, perhaps we may never know for sure which books he may have contributed to in some degree - layouts, etc. And some of the ones he did for - Atlas? - disappoint - barely recognizable, as if his heart wasn't in it, unless what I am distantly recalling were heavily over-inked by clumsier hands? So maybe there are things by him which have yet to be identified, because tey dont look like him at all..... Do you happen to know his first published work? Is it a Fiction House book?

Fixed that for ya Do you have any of those early issues Jimmy? ComicConnect sold a 9.2 copy of #11 for a very large sum I recall. No I don't .... but I'm BUYING Hmm, cant quite say why, call it instinct if you will, but I'm beginning to form the suspicion that you may actually be buying these...but naahh, what am I thinking? ME?? No, I'm too busy trying to buy Namoras and Sun Girls

Cookevillle's are nice

Good to have you back - Happy Easter!

Good eye Billy!

Fixed that for ya Do you have any of those early issues Jimmy? ComicConnect sold a 9.2 copy of #11 for a very large sum I recall. No I don't .... but I'm BUYING Hmm, cant quite say why, call it instinct if you will, but I'm beginning to form the suspicion that you may actually be buying these...but naahh, what am I thinking?

Fixed that for ya Do you have any of those early issues Jimmy? ComicConnect sold a 9.2 copy of #11 for a very large sum I recall.

Hmmm - I tell you what, I'll sell the T5 back to GAtor, and you can trade him that back for the Batman #1 he sold you. Then I'll sell the Four Favorites back to Harley and you can buy it back from him and sell it to Jimmy. Then you sell your new Thrilling #38 back to C'link and they can flip it back to Mark Austin who bought it from me off Ebay and he sells that back to me. And then I sell my upgrade back to C'link and you and Jimmy can fight over it. Then I could ask all the people who bought the Catmans from me that I got from GAtor so I could sell them back to him. Then you could buy the Catman #15 from GAtor, only he'd make you buy the whole set on account of how many people want it.Then you could sell all the issues you don't need back to the people I bought them back from. And then I could buy back all the Jumbos, Jungles and Fights I sold to cheetah and Mr Bedrock, and I'd be back where I started before I joined the Boards! It's all so simple really.

Yes, you are! But I think you're cool anyways.

..and a relatively scarce issue as I recall.

I think you did pretty well on that Thrilling, Russ. I got a nosebleed and a migraine on the upgrade. Also hives. And poison ivy.

Scarce I reckon Actually I think this is my old copy, but it was raw when I had it. Yes sir,haven't seen many of this issue. Funny how the books get around sometimes.You of course have my old Terrific 5 and I believe you own this one as well.It used to be mine once upon a time. If you have any more like that I'll be your huckleberry! Dont tell Jimmy.

Red rotunda?