Mr. Lady Luck

Are there any other GA covers with Tex Avery style eyes popping out of the head?

Thanks for letting us know about this, Robot Man! I just got off the phone with Terry's Comics and I bought quite a few.

Did he have any issues of Tessie, Millie, Hedy, Gay, Joker or Comedy? (i.e. the blondes)

New arrival

SOLD! Thanks!

The price has been slashed to $1,000 for the entire set!

I have never seen that before Ken. I like it. Me either ... and me, too! What they said

Beautiful!! I agree with you, it is a cool cover and the coloring and patterns of the coloring make it all the more interesting. Here's my copy. Tessie <3

Beautiful!!

Bull-gawk...

I just lowered the price from $1,450 to $1,300 or best offer.

Speaking of eggs, there's also the "Eggbert Gawk"...

I just lowered the price from $1,600 to $1,450 or best offer.

AND HOW!! Haha I totally just wrote a reply that also said "AND HOW!!!"

I'm offering the first four issues of the series JEANIE COMICS as a set for $1,000 or best offer. The series started with issue #13. All are CGC certified. Also, issue #15 is the highest and only graded copy. As a bonus, I'm also throwing in my low grade "reading" copies of issues #14 and #16 so you have a couple issues to enjoy without having to crack open the nice ones. I'm not a professional grader, but these are complete copies that I'm sure would grade at least "Good" and probably a little higher. I will cover the cost of Priority Mail postage. Thanks! My Kudos thread

AND HOW!!

I've always been into the classic GGA... Torchy, Phantom Lady, the key Fox, Fiction House, and Timely gals... later in life, as my tastes in popular art matured, I began to gravitate towards romance and teen humor- two genres I never cared about as a young "fanboy". I'll bet this phenomenon is happening to many other collectors, too, and we are now seeing it reflected in the marketplace. +1 I think these boards have opened my eyes a lot to these. They have, until recently, been priced pretty reasonable but I can see even them starting to get pricey. I'm in the same boat. I've only recently "discovered" the beauty of these teen humor comics. It's a refreshing change from the more traditional GGA that I have collected over the decades.

That's a beauty!

This is helpful info. The first issue is a book length origin story of Millie. I can't tell if the cover and interior artwork are by the same artist. Hopefully someone else can. Here's the cover and some interior pages. Opening splash page That's a beautiful copy, Lotemo! Thanks for sharing. Millie certainly looks a lot more like Millie on the inside than she does on the cover. I don't recognize the interior art at all. I assume it was drawn by creator Ruth Atkinson. The cover is cute in a Patsy Walker sort of way, but I don't think artist Frank Carin knew anything about Millie when he drew it.

According to Wikipedia, Millie the Model "was created by writer-artist Ruth Atkinson, one of the pioneering women cartoonists in comic books. Following this first issue, subsequent early stories were drawn mostly by Timely staffer Mike Sekowsky." I wish to dispute this claim. I do not believe that Mike Sekowsky had anything to do with early Millie. After the first issue, Millie was mostly written and drawn by Ken Bald - who also drew all her covers up until around issue #15 or #16 (shortly before Dan DeCarlo started drawing Millie). I do not have a copy of Millie #1, but the cover art was clearly drawn by Frank Carin (who drew a lot of other early Timely teen titles such as Patsy Walker, Georgie, Tessie the Typist, Gay, Joker, etc). so I'd bet he did the interior artwork as well. With issue #2, Millie's look was re-invented by Ken Bald. Can anyone with more Millie knowledge confirm or deny any of this? Considering the popularity of the title, I'm surprised there isn't a more accurate database of information. Sources like ComicVine are worthless.

I think the spread-eagle-skiing-wipe-out may have been a thing at Marvel/Timely...

Yes, it's possible that "good" can be used in an ironic sense when referring to a gun moll type. So, we have art depicting good girls and art depicting "good" (= bad) girls. Some of the Fox covers have lousy girl art: LGA. The girls are fine, but the art's bad. Which Fox era/genre are you referring to? Any specific covers come to mind? A lot of them! Here's one (not my book -- taken from the HA archives, apologies to the owner!): If the image is that mediochre, I'd say it doesn't qualify. it is neither good art depicting a girl, nor art that depicts girls "good". Perhaps we should start a thread for GA Bad Girl Art, in which "bad" describes the art. Haunted Thrills #1 would be a top candidate... (not my copy)