Dr. Love

My bad Steve. Chalk it up to sour grapes on my part. Enjoy the gorgeous book and that impossible to come by mailer. Love out.

Sweet copy SAC! Where did you get this one? I have a CGC 7.0. Mine too, though this book (1938) is fresh as a daisy and looks much better (has some cover wrinkles and some foxing, that's mainly it) than a 7.0. Just found it in Canada...68 years sitting in the original mailing wrapper. It's unread as the pages are still compressed together. Amazing. STEVE (Luvin' Larson) Steve, found it in Canada - sitting in Stew Silver's living room? I was waiting to bid on it, but if I'm not mistaken, then I guess it was you that sweet talked him into thinking he couldn't do better by letting the auction run it's course. Free world, free market, deep pockets win - but something about that backdoor dealing rubs me the wrong way. I'm old school, you put it up on Ebay, you let it run. If I'm totally off on this and it wasn't you, then accept my apologies in advance, wouldn't be the first time I make an orifice of myself.

hey Jack, I edited out the broken link, one of those things. But now that you've given me an inch, and since Mark got the ball rolling with some of his honeys, I think I'll throw something on here every day. Bump and run.

Great book to own but Overstreet is wrong on the numbers in existence. I see this book surface from time to time. This week alone had two copies surface on eBay. I believe it is still a very scarce book. Agreed. Generally speaking it's hard to find in nice grade, but then nothing will make a sweet book surface faster than big $. And now for your viewing pleasure...nice, eh? Dang these promos are hard to come by, you can't just show up at a convention and pick some up, it's a labor of love. Not that I get a commission from Steve F., but I noticed that Metropolis has a Pycopay up now, $585 for a VF-.

I could bump this topic every day for the next three years - I keep saying I'll scan every promo I've got (1000+) and put up a website for all to enjoy - one day. I'll throw them here from time to time while I'm working on that... this one's a quasi-comic, harder than hen's teeth to find in grade, gotta compete with model train enthusiasts (sheesh - why would anyone collect that junk?) PS sorry guys, I'm editing this to take out the broken link, data issues, the image got blown away into cyberspace

Since romance comics are my thing, I wanted to correct october's statement. There is no question as to which is the first romance comic - it is Young Romance 1, published in September 1947. If a case could be made for a predecessor, it would not be the comic you bought, but instead be the 4 issue run of My Date that Simon & Kirby published right before starting the enormously popular genre with Young Romance. The definitive compilation of romance books was unofficially published in 1998 by Dan Stevenson , greatly helped by Michelle Nolan, Bob Overstreet, and about 30 other industry sources. Romantic Picture Novelettes, among other quasi romance books, is deliberately not included in the listing "as they are not felt to be true Romance Comics:" I'm sure you can figure out why. As far as being hard to find, you could have picked up a 7.0 slabbed Lost Valley pedigreed copy from Heritage this past June for only $107 including the buyer's bump.