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L.B. Cole cover thread! Post your favorites by the master!
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DrNikolai

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An odd duck for my first post, but I just started getting interested in Golden Age & stumbled across L.B. Cole. Begging for kindness here. 
  
I came across this one which is totally out of the usual genres that Cole has done. It's probably found in both the war & religious genres. Maybe not as bad as his odd-duck Catman cover, but an interesting one nonetheless. Your thoughts?

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On 1/12/2022 at 6:03 PM, cgabederp said:

An odd duck for my first post, but I just started getting interested in Golden Age & stumbled across L.B. Cole. Begging for kindness here. 
  
I came across this one which is totally out of the usual genres that Cole has done. It's probably found in both the war & religious genres. Maybe not as bad as his odd-duck Catman cover, but an interesting one nonetheless. Your thoughts?

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All L.B. Cole books are cool, to me.  Welcome to the boards!  (thumbsu

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On 1/12/2022 at 4:03 PM, cgabederp said:

An odd duck for my first post, but I just started getting interested in Golden Age & stumbled across L.B. Cole. Begging for kindness here. 
  
I came across this one which is totally out of the usual genres that Cole has done. It's probably found in both the war & religious genres. Maybe not as bad as his odd-duck Catman cover, but an interesting one nonetheless. Your thoughts?

LB-ChapAtWar.jpg

This book is harder than heck to get, the toughest of the tough Living Bible run.  A rare Cole book to be sure.

I know who's got the 7.0 and it aint going anywhere - so you've got a lock on this one.  A very very nice looking 6.0, btw.  You get a no prize for a great first post to the boards!    :cheers:

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On 1/12/2022 at 7:03 PM, cgabederp said:

An odd duck for my first post, but I just started getting interested in Golden Age & stumbled across L.B. Cole. Begging for kindness here. 
  
I came across this one which is totally out of the usual genres that Cole has done. It's probably found in both the war & religious genres. Maybe not as bad as his odd-duck Catman cover, but an interesting one nonetheless. Your thoughts?

LB-ChapAtWar.jpg

Very nice! A famous story that I first became aware of back eons ago when I collected stamps.

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On 1/12/2022 at 4:03 PM, cgabederp said:

An odd duck for my first post, but I just started getting interested in Golden Age & stumbled across L.B. Cole. Begging for kindness here. 
  
I came across this one which is totally out of the usual genres that Cole has done. It's probably found in both the war & religious genres. Maybe not as bad as his odd-duck Catman cover, but an interesting one nonetheless. Your thoughts?

LB-ChapAtWar.jpg

Very cool and underrated LB Cole cover. Has been overlooked for years because of it’s religious nature. I have always found it interesting and compelling. Just looking at the faces of the 4 men. Resigned to their fate. Bravery, that I could never imagine. True story and this book compelled me to research and read about.

And welcome to the boards and your contribution! 

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On 1/12/2022 at 7:03 PM, cgabederp said:

An odd duck for my first post, but I just started getting interested in Golden Age & stumbled across L.B. Cole. Begging for kindness here. 
  
I came across this one which is totally out of the usual genres that Cole has done. It's probably found in both the war & religious genres. Maybe not as bad as his odd-duck Catman cover, but an interesting one nonetheless. Your thoughts?

LB-ChapAtWar.jpg

Great book!  I'm thinking of slabbing mine soon, likely a bit lower than yours.  Now go find the other 2 issues!  :)   Welcome to the boards! 

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On 1/11/2022 at 10:52 AM, october said:

Someone got a decent deal on the Blue Bolt 105. It was undergraded at a raw 5.0 and went for the same price as the recent graded 4.0. 

The black inks look pretty washed-out on the MCS copy, IMO. Funky production error.  2c 

 

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On 1/13/2022 at 5:43 PM, Point Five said:

The black inks look pretty washed-out on the MCS copy, IMO. Funky production error.  2c 

 

Whoever won, congrats.  It's a great book, but I tend to put color strike above other variables on most books, so if I were paying $7k, I would have preferred the 4.0 on clink.  But not to take away from this copy, it is still a very cool book.

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On 1/13/2022 at 9:09 PM, RedGiant said:

Whoever won, congrats.  It's a great book, but I tend to put color strike above other variables on most books, so if I were paying $7k, I would have preferred the 4.0 on clink.  But not to take away from this copy, it is still a very cool book.

Yep! All this. (thumbsu

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On 1/13/2022 at 6:43 PM, Point Five said:

The black inks look pretty washed-out on the MCS copy, IMO. Funky production error.  2c 

 

MCS usually shows images that are lighter than the actual book.  I think that must be due to scanner error.  Whenever I buy a book from them I just assume the colors will be a little darker.  So, even with a printing color error, the book might look better in hand than the scan shows.

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On 1/13/2022 at 8:20 PM, Point Five said:
On 1/13/2022 at 8:09 PM, RedGiant said:

Whoever won, congrats.  It's a great book, but I tend to put color strike above other variables on most books, so if I were paying $7k, I would have preferred the 4.0 on clink.  But not to take away from this copy, it is still a very cool book.

Yep! All this. (thumbsu

In any event, that's a lot of Blue Bolt 105s in a short amount of time.

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On 1/13/2022 at 10:49 AM, pmpknface said:

Great book!  I'm thinking of slabbing mine soon, likely a bit lower than yours.  Now go find the other 2 issues!  :)   Welcome to the boards! 

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome -- and the info on this book! I wasn't sure if it really was an LB Cole since I don't know of other religious books he's done (aside from the other 2 issues of Living Bible). Seems that it's the "low-key", underappreciated LB Cole treasure.
 
The 6.0 I posted isn't mine - I was following it on an auction (though I wish it was mine)! I actually have one that isn't slabbed, inherited from an old pastor friend who collected comics from different periods. It's got a couple tears on the back cover & missing a few pieces of the last story (doesn't affect the story overall). Debating if I should either scan or take photos of the surviving pages to preserve the stories before I consider slabbing it -- even though it will probably fetch maybe between a 2.0-3.0 on CGC, spine ticks small tears, & wrinkles galore.
 
Don't let the double-bagging fool you. It does present well though.

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On 1/15/2022 at 5:58 PM, cgabederp said:

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome -- and the info on this book! I wasn't sure if it really was an LB Cole since I don't know of other religious books he's done (aside from the other 2 issues of Living Bible). Seems that it's the "low-key", underappreciated LB Cole treasure.
 
The 6.0 I posted isn't mine - I was following it on an auction (though I wish it was mine)! I actually have one that isn't slabbed, inherited from an old pastor friend who collected comics from different periods. It's got a couple tears on the back cover & missing a few pieces of the last story (doesn't affect the story overall). Debating if I should either scan or take photos of the surviving pages to preserve the stories before I consider slabbing it -- even though it will probably fetch maybe between a 2.0-3.0 on CGC, spine ticks small tears, & wrinkles galore.
 
Don't let the double-bagging fool you. It does present well though.

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Now I NEED this book. Dang FOMO!

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