Flex Mentallo

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!

Shoal-ly not

Lots of new stuff in my ongoing sales thread Newer listings here More going up later today!

You are killing me with these glorious covers!

as punch 1? as punch 10? Nice books, Billy! Some great cover art, too; Cheslers are under-appreciated, IMO. agreed, obviously. Oooohhh, let's see, I'll take the Scoop #2, Dynamic #8 Yankee #1, #2, #3 and, er #4, plus a dozen bagels with cream cheese.... Billy Parker, Billy Parker... I've heard that name somewhere - got any Timelys?

Pat, do you have every SF book ever published? Re: "Palos of the Dog Star Pack" by J.U. Giesy All-Story Weekly (July 17,1918) I love it when you guys pick each others pockets! Cant tell you how much I am loving these beautiful early All Story covers. As for Grey Morrow - a bit underrated I would say. He did some nice stuff for Marvel:

Reed Crandall did the best work of his career for the Canaveral Press editions of Burroughs - especially the Mars series. I confess I dont own these...yet!

I'd forgotten you were doing that and - who are you, anyway?