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Thanks BZ - I love this one.

Scrooge and I corresponded with Norman's son, David, several years ago and he generously supplied lots of biographical info about his father. Link Thanks - that's fascinating stuff! The transition from highly regarded pulp cover artist to lowly magazine illustrator must have been a painful one for him and his contemporaries.

Stunning!

Was posting some Norman Saunders covers in another thread here: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=4657844&fpart=9 Decided to use the search function to see what had already been posted on him and found nothing! I remember Pat putting up his copy of the Golden Amazon. Wondered if you BZ, or you Pat had any pulps or paperbacks with Saunders covers? Here is one:

..or for Dark Horse to publish more facsimiles! I was delighted when they did this one. The artwork is in places quite stunning.

It wouldnt surprise me if some of them just dont exist in high grade. What we need is some eneterpising soul to find a warehouse full of file copies!

I do miss them but at least they are in safe hands!

This one is hardly ever seen. Does it have Baker inside do you know?

Yes, I recognised it instantly!

It wasnt me either - I gave up the ghost well before it hit three figures! I was quietly astonished to see it hit four hundred, though it's a very tough book and that's a great copy. About five years back there were bidding wars on Ebay for Baker romance. I wont mention hois name but there was one guy who was going out of town and was going to miss the end of about a dozen Ebay auctions of later St John issues/ He put enormous bids on ach one - we are talking four figures here - only to find angry biddrs bidding up and up and up. Pretty soon we were all getting involved - those of us around at the time, though I'm sure Richard and Joanna were too wise and generally civilised to do so! Bids reached astronomical proportions up to $900 and more. I actually got an email from him asking me not to bid any higher. I got the impression his bids might have been around $2000... Other bidding wars followed for a few years - ir's why I sold most of mine!

It's 8.5 with WHITE pages. I submitted this one, myself, so I got to see it raw, and it's a super fresh copy with snow white pages (appropriately). Thanks for the industrial strength repro, Rick! (thumbs u You showed it me a year or two back but not such a terrific scan. Am I mistaken or didnt you pick it up trawling a local comic mart? Anyway, not sure anyone could follow that! I only have a few to choose from these days, but here is Bob Overstreet's copy of DS #25 (as was the #27):

This is one of my faves...

A sequence of "popping" Jumbos:

More pop

Yup! This one is rarely seen with bold reds. There may be just a touch too much contrast and saturation in ths scan but not much! ..and i'd like to know if anyone has a copy of this one with really deep reds!

Bold colors are more important to me than technical grade with Fiction House. Care to show us a few of the elite Kelly? I'll go first. Here are a couple of "unreal" copies I've posted before! The intense colors give a vivid sense of enormous space, light and motion: ..and this is the deepest color I've seen on this particular issue, which I think is fairly scarce anyway.

Is that the copy just sold on Heritage that I forgot to bid on? I forget. Sorry Sean, couldnt resist that - yes it is the Heritage copy. I loaded my bid a day or two early and no-one overtook me, but it was a dead heat so I paid every cent I thought it was worth. I see lots of copies of this issue, but very few with the deep colors and it really needs them, being, for me, one of the more prosaic covers. Not that anyone should care, but it also completes a run from #12 to #30. (Still need 9 out of the first 11 though!)