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Kind of hard to believe these strips were drawn in 1952. They sure look like Matt's 1946-47 style. But they were syndicated in '52.

The Sid Check art in this book looks a lot like Wood. Check is the poor man's Wallace Wood I guess. Most of the interior art for Avon titles is second rate. But their covers are excellent.

Surely this cover is by Kinstler? Why does JVJ credit Fawcette, and CGC credit no one?

"EC Comics, Summer 1942." Is this the oldest book to carry the "EC Comics" imprimatur?

LOL at the "Bob Kane" signature -- I wonder why that returned for this cover?

"White pages"

Lovecraft's stories tended to not have loads of naked women in them like this cover illustration. Lovecraft in fact considered this kind of thing embarrassing.

Good gracious, are you sure that isn't a Girasol reprint? Surely an original could not look like that.

More evidence that Crime SuspenStories #22 was simply thought of as just another gory EC cover by '70s collectors. #19 was worth more.

Such brilliant use of zip-a-tone.

Craig was really on a roll in 1953-54. Covers that still shock people today!

Indeed that is very suspicious.

$5.00 in 1922 is about $80 in today's dollars. Home Brew was not an amateur publication, otherwise they would not have paid anything. It was a short-lived, regionally-distributed magazine.

$36,000 for Weird Tales #1?

Who is the artist?

Wow -- that's a cover you sure don't see every day!

This cover is just awesome in every way. I just went to eBay and bought a copy. Thank goodness the Elite ignore western comics.

Thank you. Ruth was excellent. Her calligraphy adds a lot of style to the covers.

Whoever did the lettering on FH covers was an excellent artist. Does anyone know his/her name?

Stunning -- and so great to see 9.4 and 9.8 grades to books that deserve to be graded 9.4 and 9.8.

I have to keep saying it. Fiction House covers with no ink fade are simply the best.

Al never said, "I didn't draw it."

And here's Matt's splash interior to PL 14 on the right compared with PL 17. Similar, but her chest is completely different. Splash page to PL 18 is a patented Baker pose. Note her fingers. The story ends with PL on a dock, so perhaps 17's cover was intended for this story. Since Iger assigned different inkers to butcher Matt's pencils in each issue, there isn't a consistently drawn PL in each issue. Sometimes the inking is so bad you can't tell it's Matt's pencils.

And here are a bevy of known Feldstein women from 1947-50 compared with a bevy of known Baker women from roughly the same time frame. In my opinion, the similarities of Al's style to PL 17 are much closer than Baker's. Also, Baker's poses are usually a lot more dynamic than the cover of PL 17.