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These are late Timelys, see? Not early Atlas - 'cos David said so! [May as well post my mini run this time.]

Note to self: must get me a Merryweather scanner! Great looking scans - pity about the books though - dont you have any nice ones?

Very pretty David!

I especially like that cover. It's very mysterious Yes, they look more like rockets than gargoyles! But the interior art is beautiful!

That is one cool book Gator if you like that, then you should really like this that's the Mile High 9.4 copy to the right...the one to the left is on its way to xavier logan, but I wanted a "group shot" first Nice looking CDNP #24 under there, just casually lying around!

How many copies do you have?

Is that a PACKBACK joke?

Thanks Walter - just about completed the rivet run now, barring a few desired upgrades!

That whole run from #30 to #46 just leapt out at me when I first looked at the photojournal. They are all greaty arent they? Let's shift the focus a little with Planet Comics, and let's begin at the beginning. Not exactly the Denver copy, but my first ever copy of #1 and I cant tell you how delighted I am!

I did. And then I violated that rule on that first page when I posted a Strange Adventures. Screw da rulz! We want pretty pitchurs!

Ahhhhh, the infamous cover where the femme fatale is somehow topless when viewed from the back! That's a great copy of an awesome book. Nice pick up, Alanna. (thumbs u Thanks guys - probably overpaid, but just too pretty to pass up!

For some reason I find this picture rather moving...

Pay no attention, Jeff! Bill's just jealous - and so am I!

A tough book, for sure. Is this the unrestored VF copy that Richie Muchin listed on ebay recently? Richie and I had several polite conversations about a couple of books. In the end, I kept these two and sent one back for a refund, and the prices I ultimately paid were more in the VG range. (thumbs u [Did anyone note that our dear friends at Metro have listed low grade copies of Venus #17-#19.at - shall we say - very ambitious prices?]

Welcome to the boards! These are very pretty!

Recent pick ups:

Some recent pick ups:

Nice Frazetta in the background. Would that have been the original or a poster? The way its set up sure makes it look like an original. And check out that ash tray on the table in front of him. Smoking on the convention floor My how times have changed Nice thread David! [Wish I had a shirt like that one!]

Unique.

By way of contrast - and returning to the subject of spot blacks, here is Al Williamson (a far more richly talented illustrator than Doolin) on masterful form in "The Beautiful Beast" (House of Mystery #185), which feels like an anachronism, very much in the EC house style of two decades earlier. The story is actually a retelling of a pre-code horror story. A no-prize to anyone who can identify it. (One clue, it's not an EC!)

That's an interesting point, Alan, especially considering what he would eventually do! It's all about line with Doolin, which made him perfectly suited to Fiction House's hi-color style. His line was clean, precise, in a way, unobtrusive. He made the most of relatively limited gifts.

I see why you might think I was referring to zip-a-tone! Actually spotting blacks is an old term which refers to the use of blacks to create a sense of balance, mood, light, shadow - and even color! - in the absence of color itself. Whereas four color art tends to depend more on line to do the heavy lifting. Here is a link: http://stephendestefano.blogspot.com/2006/12/spotting-blacks-part-1.html

BZ - Dark Horse published a reprint of It Rhymes with Lust in 2007. Sorry for the blurry pics - camera in one hand and digest in the other! This may be heresy (pace Joanna!), but while Baker is a master draftsman, with an graceful, gracile line, he is not comparatively versed in the use of spot blacks in the way that, say Reed Crandall displayed!

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